Richard is a Principal Engineer at HARC and a Chartered Professional Civil Engineer with over 15 years’ experience spanning risk and reliability assessment, flood hydrology, dam safety, water resources, and critical infrastructure risk management. He brings deep public and private sector experience, including seven years leading dam safety emergency, flood operations and critical infrastructure resilience planning at Southern Rural Water.
Richard has worked on State and nationally significant dam and hydropower portfolios across Victoria, NSW, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT, delivering dam safety and operational risk assessments, emergency planning, and risk-reduction investigations for some of Australia’s largest and most complex dams. He specialises in the risk and reliability assessment of dams and bulk water infrastructure, integrating engineering judgement, data analytics and systems thinking to support risk-informed decision making, regulatory compliance and resilient operations. Richard has expertise in real-time emergency response and flood operations, hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, flood forecasting and warning systems and has designed, implemented and stress-tested all-hazards risk, incident management and business continuity frameworks for critical water infrastructure.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Victoria and Queensland, a Level 2 Flood Analyst with VICSES, and has delivered guest lectures on operational flood hydrology at Monash University Department of Civil Engineering.
