KCB Congratulates 2024 Associates
July 23, 2024
We are pleased to announce our new Associates for 2024.
ASSOCIATES
Alex Mayot, P.Eng.
Alex is a Geotechnical Engineer with fourteen years of experience in engineering consulting and construction within the infrastructure and resource sectors. He has extensive experience in the operation and management of in-pit and ex-pit tailings storage facilities, pit walls, mine waste dumps, surface water management systems, MSE walls, and haul roads as a consultant and member of the mine operator team. Alex has designed and executed numerous geotechnical and environmental site investigations and characterizations across Canada
Chris Johnson, P.Eng.
Chris is a Geotechnical Engineer with over a decade of experience in the design and construction of hydroelectric dams, roads, railways, bridges and overpass structures, ports, industrial facilities, mines and tunnels. His design experience covers a variety of soil, rock and groundwater conditions. Chris has taken on various roles including field engineer, design lead, project coordinator and project manager where he has been involved in all project stages from conceptual design to detailed design, site investigations and construction.
Diana Alvarez, P.Eng.
Diana Alvarez is a Senior Water Resources Engineer with over eighteen years of international experience in consulting engineering in the areas of hydropower and mining. During her career, she has worked on hydrology and hydraulic water modelling projects for mine sites located in extreme weather environments including arid, tropical and sub-artic, adapting traditional hydraulic designs to the unique conditions of each site. She has led water balance modelling projects throughout the mining lifecycle and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to optimize water management
Jay Johnson, P.Eng.
Jay is a Civil Engineer with twelve years of experience primarily on hydroelectric, highway, railway, mining and industrial building projects. His hydrotechnical design experience includes Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modelling, transient analysis, spillway, tunnel and intake design, river hydraulic analysis, erosion protection, flood routing, flood frequency analysis and energy modelling. Jay is proficient with civil design, construction monitoring, site inspection, project scheduling, quantity/cost estimating and project management.
Nat Gullayanon, P.Eng., P.E., C.P.Eng.
Nat is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer and project manager with twelve years of experience in tailings dam safety and construction, including concept-level to detailed design, performance monitoring, construction support, risk assessment, and dam safety review. He also has experience in geotechnical numerical modelling, advanced site investigation and laboratory testing, and project management. Nat has worked on various projects across Canada, the USA, Ecuador, and Mongolia.
Vicki Nguyen, P.Eng.
Vicki has fourteen years of experience working as a Geotechnical Engineer in Alberta and British Columbia. She has been involved in a wide variety of projects that include tailings dykes, dam facilities, commercial and residential buildings, retaining walls, and transportation infrastructure. As part of these projects, she has completed advanced numerical and deformation modelling, calibrated constitutive model parameters, characterized materials based on relevant data, conducted probabilistic seismic hazard assessments, completed slope stability and seepage modelling, and performed liquefaction assessments.