Career Area: Mine Site Reclamation and Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Degree earned at CU Boulder and year: Bachelor of Science, Environmental Engineering, 2008
Title and name of the company I currently work for: Senior Engineer, Wood PLC
A little about my career path: I held an internship with an engineering company in Boulder during my last year of school. After graduating in 2008 with my BS in environmental engineering, I was hired into a full-time position. I left Boulder a couple years later to spend some time as a “ski bum” in southwestern Colorado, only to land my dream job working on a mine reclamation project in my new home. Since then, I have worked on a number of complex and exciting mine reclamation and water treatment projects, traveling as far as British Columbia and as close as my very own Main Street. These projects have allowed me to wear many hats – from collecting bugs and sampling groundwater wells in the snow to negotiating with clients and presenting designs to the EPA. I have overseen safety and construction, developed environmental investigations, collected samples, interpreted data, and worked collaboratively with diverse teams of people to design, build, and operate water treatment systems across the Western US and Canada. Now, as a new mother, I am learning to juggle the demands of project management with those of baby. It is one more new challenge on this excellent adventure!
List of topics students can ask me about: water treatment design, construction, and operations; environmental investigation and design; engineering-procurement-construction; leadership and “leaning in”; women in engineering; work/life balance; working mom; motherhood