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Barry is a Fellow Chartered Professional Geotechnical Engineer with more than 24 years of experience. He is highly skilled in design review and identifying ways to optimize initial design concepts during tender and construction stages. He has provided innovative and “fit-for-purpose” design solutions and has been responsible for the geotechnical aspects of several major transport infrastructure projects in Australia and internationally. His key projects include the Pacific Highway Upgrade – Varsity Lake to Tugun (QLD, Australia), New England Highway Upgrade – Bolivia Hill (NSW, Australia), New Priok Port Extension (Jakarta, Indonesia), Gateway Upgrade North (QLD, Australia), Ipswich Motorway Upgrade (QLD, Australia), Peninsula Link Victoria (VIC, Australia), Adelaide Desalination Plant (SA, Australia), Taiwan High Speed Rail (Taiwan ROC), and Putrajaya Highway (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

Barry is one of the pioneers championing the application of reliability-based geotechnical design for soft soils engineering internationally, driven by risk assessment, CAPEX and OPEX analysis. During his busy working schedule, Barry also spends time mentoring young engineers and published case studies related technical papers to share his experience with wider industry practitioners. His recent publications focused on the reliability-based geotechnical design (RBGD), back-analysis of the secondary consolidation post construction settlements, instrumented piled foundations, ground improvement solutions and complex hybrid retaining structures / systems. 

Since 2021, Barry has been actively engaged with University Griffith as Industry Fellow and Lead Partner Investigator for multiple federal level grants such as Australian Research Council (ARC) and Innovative Manufacturing CMC. The research is mainly focused on the impact of artificial intelligence and simulation neural networks on soft soils engineering. His main role is to mentor the R&D team prototyping industry solutions throughout the proof-of-concept processes and field applications.