Michael is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer based in Kelowna, BC with 25 years of broad geotechnical investigation and design experience, including analysis and design of soil and rock slopes, rock fall assessments, geotechnical design of shallow and deep foundations, seismic and liquefaction analyses, and geostructure design.

His main areas of practice are transportation and dams.

He has been involved in the investigation, geotechnical analysis and design of major transportation projects throughout western Canada and was the discipline lead for several of these projects. He has participated as the independent geotechnical reviewer in several value analysis and value engineering workshops on highway projects and is familiar with BC MoTI standards, specification and technical circulars.

He has over 14 years’ experience in dam engineering, including undertaking dam safety reviews of existing dams, geotechnical investigations, design and construction supervision of new dams and specialized geotechnical analysis of existing dams and appurtenant structures.

He has successfully completed comprehensive dam safety reviews, design and engineering assessments of over 30 dams in the past 5 years and is very familiar with the requirements of the Canadian Dam Association, Dam Safety Guidelines 2007 (2013 edition) and the BC Dam Safety Regulation.

He is experienced with specialized geotechnical and hydrotechnical modelling software for modelling embankment stability, seismic performance, seepage, settlement, dam breach and inundation such as Geostudio Suite, Slide, Plaxis 2D & 3D, SHAKE, BREACH, and FLO-2D.

He is experienced with specialized geotechnical slope stability, seepage, pile analysis, finite element and seismic modelling software such as Geostudio Suite, Slide, Dips, RocFall, Plaxis 2D & 3D, L-Pile, Group, Repute, D-MOD and DEEPSOIL.