Experience
Experience at engineering, operational and executive level dam owner experience provides a firm foundation for critical infrastructure advisory. During his tenure at Sunwater, James overhauled the emergency management and response functions, with the revised emergency action plan template subsequently adopted by the Queensland Regulator as best practice.
In 2019, he led Sunwater through the Paradise Dam emergency spillway reduction and detailed risk management where he led the creation of a framework to actively demonstrate, and document discharge of director duties in response to failure risk of a major dam equal to the 2013 flood of record.
James’s experience includes management, or oversight of over 50 dam emergency plan activations including magnitude 5 earthquakes, gate issues, category 5 cyclones, active piping, and extreme flood loading.
James is Chair of the of the ICOLD Technical Committee on Climate Change.
