Amir Zamanian is the Director of IAPMO Evaluation Services. He oversees IAPMO’s building products ES program.

During more than 15 years prior to joining IAPMO, Mr. Zamanian has held increasingly responsible positions with the California Department of Transportation, various large public works contracting and engineering firms and the County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania - Department of Capital Projects. In a wide variety of projects as a designer, engineer and contractor, he ensured conformance for a wide range of projects.

These assignments have provided Amir with a strong background in coordinating multiple projects with high-expectation performance criteria. These skills assist IAPMO’s building products customers in deriving the most rapid benefit from their formal Evaluation Service reports complying with the International Building Code (IBC). He works with client manufacturing firms in determining their requirement documentation through their adherence to quality management systems and needed management reviews of their systems in order to provide the most efficiently processing of Evaluation Service listings.

He earned a Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering at University of California at Berkeley. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in the States of California and Pennsylvania. 

Juan Gutierrez, P.E is a Product Evaluation Engineer at IAPMO.

He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University.  He is a Registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) in the State of California.

After completing his education, he worked as a shift engineer at a heavy construction company working on the construction of tunnels.  This included coordinating the excavation using tunnel boring machines.