Kevin Ritter
AECOM
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Kevin Ritter, P.E. is a registered professional engineer in the AECOM Denver office’s Mining/Dams Group. He received his BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan in 2008 and his MS degree in geotechnical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech) in 2009. Mr. Ritter has 14 years of experience in geotechnical engineering during which he has been responsible for the analysis, design, and construction of water and mine tailing storage facilities. He has focused on material behavior and shear strength characterization, slope stability evaluation, deformation analyses, inspection, and operations. Mr. Ritter currently represents AECOM as the engineer of record and design engineer for both water and tailings dams where he performs regular dam safety inspections and provides ongoing operational and technical support.
Harry C. Donaghy
AECOM
Geotechnical Engineer
Harry Donaghy is a registered professional engineer for AECOM (Denver) specializing in geotechnical design and analyses of earth dams. He received BS and MS degrees in civil/geotechnical engineering from the University of Kentucky (Go Cats!). During his 4 years of experience with AECOM, he has focused on the seepage and stability analyses of embankment dams. He recently was a lead author of the seepage and slope stability guidance document, developed for the Montana DNRC (https://damsafety.org/reference/seepage-and-slope-stability-modeling-embankment-dams). Harry enjoys living in Denver with his wife and young son.
