Canada
In March 2024, I am very happy to say that quit my geotechnical engineering job after 12 years to be a full time father. Thankfully, my wife is in remission now, but after two bouts of cancer and the birth of our two boys between 2020 and 2023, our perspective on life has changed. I am raising our children while she resumes her already marvelous career. I am thrilled with both our present and future life situation. I currently have a non-practicing status with APEGA. I thank everyone (colleagues, bosses, clients and friends) who I have ever worked with. It's a small world, so I won't say farewell. I have worked as a project engineer on hundreds of geotechnical investigations for residential housing developments, commercial buildings, residential and commercial slope stability, retaining walls, powerlines, power substations, wind farms, solar farms, pipelines, oil and gas facilities, tank farms, landfills, lagoons, communication towers, municipal infrastructure, road construction and bridges. I have worked in Western Canada and in the United States.
Director of Domestic Engineering (Father) and non-practicing professional geotechnical engineer
I was remotely seconded from WSP Canada Inc. to Freeport McMoRan as a geotechnical specialist working for the corporate engineering team. My role was to advise and mitigate the corporate group's geotechnical risk for various international construction projects related to their mining operations. I advised on projects in Indonesia and Arizona during my time here. I truly enjoyed this position and I learned a great deal.