Ken Boddie Honored for Excellence in Consulting

    WEST END, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, September 23, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ken Boddie, Principal Consultant and National Quality Assurance Manager of Douglas Partners Pty Ltd, has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in quality assessment and control.

Mr. Boddie has 42 years of professional experience, with the last 12 years as a principal and the last 5 years as national quality assurance manager of Douglas Partners Pty Ltd. Throughout his career he has specialised in geotechnical engineering, including slope stability risk assessment, dams and water retention structures, pavement thickness design, settlement of soft soils, deep foundations and geosynthetics; and latterly in quality assessment and control. Now working part-time, his day-to-day consulting responsibilities include peer reviewing technical reports, the training of more junior staff and developing their capabilities within the organisation's guidelines. He maintains responsibility for implementing systems for corrective and preventive action.

Mr. Boddie's consulting experience has been predominantly in geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics, earthworks and related disciplines. He has worked in various offices in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, London, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. In addition, he has worked on and visited projects in Thailand, Libya, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. During this time, he has been involved in a variety of works, including geotechnical and environmental investigation, design, construction monitoring, materials control and sourcing, augmentation and remediation studies, and expert witness testimony. He has held various managerial positions, varying from a specialist in-house consultant, servicing large multidiscipline groups, to branch office manager for specialist geotechnical and environmental companies.

During his 23 years of combined service with Douglas Partners Pty Ltd, Mr. Boddie has been intimately involved with the evolution of the quality assurance system, both as a project and branch manager. In the past five years, he has taken on the role of national quality assessment manager for the company, reporting directly to the DP managing director. Mr. Boddie maintains a working perspective of the operational activities of DP's project management system by providing training and mentoring advice to younger professional staff, and by peer-reviewing technical reports produced by project managers, engineers and scientists in various DP offices on a weekly basis.

Looking back, Mr. Boddie attributes his success to his hard work, diligence and willingness to travel. He became involved in his profession after earning his bachelor's degree, and was inspired by his then advisor of studies, Dr. G.S. Littlejohn.

Mr. Boddie received a Diploma of Photography in 2011 and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from the University of Aberdeen in 1973. In addition to his degree and diploma, he is on the Australian National Professional Engineers Register (NPER) and is a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ). He is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia (MIEAust), the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK and the Australian Geomechanics Society. Mr. Boddie plans to continue passing on his experience to DP's up-and-coming staff as long as circumstances permit.

For more information about Ken Boddie, visit https://au.linkedin.com/pub/ken-boddie/2a/17/b87.

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