Colleen is a geotechnical engineer and Practice Leader with SRK Consulting. She has broad based experience in geotechnical engineering and mine waste geotechnics: including static and seismic design, ground motion studies, liquefaction evaluations, dam safety, and risk evaluations for both dry-stack and conventional dams.
Colleen routinely provides, dam safety reviews, due diligence reviews, risk evaluations and risk mitigation design in accordance with international standards of good practice, including screening level quantitative risk analyses for several portfolios of dams in Brazil. She has provided 3rd party independent risk reviews and /or facilitated risk assessment workshops for several existing and planned conventional and filtered tailings projects in United States, Brazil, Mexico, and Central and South America.
She is currently the technical lead on several large-scale non-conventional filtered tailings storage facility projects in planning phases in Chile. She is currently also serving on the BHP-Rio Tinto Tailings Working group for non-conventional tailings solutions.
