Rob is a professional civil / environmental Engineer with nearly 15 years of experience. He is a specialist in the field of water resources and hydrotechnical engineering. Rob joined ARKK because he believes it is the ideal place to build a team focused on what is important to him – exceeding client’s expectations by delivering high-value technical services.
He has had a life-long fascination with dirt and water. Growing up in rural Saskatchewan provided many opportunities to get stuck in the mud and experience droughts and floods, first hand. He never passes up an opportunity to get outside, preferably near a river or lake.
His passion is understanding the client’s needs, wants, and constraints and then working collaboratively to solve problems in a creative, cost-effective manner. He loves working in team environment to take a challenging project from concept to operation.
Dr. Ranjeet Nagare is a hydrogeological engineer with over 18 years of diversified research and industrial experience in providing solutions to groundwater-related technical and regulatory problems. He has worked on several complex multidisciplinary projects in Canada, USA, Germany and south Asia. His Canadian experience includes four years in Ontario and NWT and ten years in the Alberta oil sands. Ranjeet is an expert numerical modeller and a specialist in fields of hydrogeology and wetlands and cold regions hydrology.
Coming from an arid region in India and an agricultural background, Ranjeet was able to witness the role of engineering in water management. This experience was instrumental in him choosing hydrogeology as a profession. Ranjeet actively works on devising innovative solutions in applied hydrogeology and envisions a critical role for engineering in problems of tomorrow. Having practiced hydrogeology in different parts of the world, he appreciates the importance of local knowledge and experience in devising practical solutions for water related problems.
Ranjeet is committed to understanding his client’s needs and constraints in order to develop applied solutions while meeting tight project deadlines and budgets. He is a team player and loves working on challenging multidisciplinary projects in collaborative team environments.
Craig has over 45 years of experience in hydrotechnical engineering. He has managed or conducted assignments ranging from hydrometric/bathymetric survey programs and specialist planning/feasibility studies to detailed design, regulatory permitting, construction inspection and post-construction monitoring on a wide variety of projects in western Canada and Alaska.
Early in his career, Craig was involved in the hydraulic design of dams and hydroelectric power generation facilities. More recent work has been focused in the areas of river engineering, fluvial geomorphology and surface water hydrology and has included projects involving channel stabilization, flood control/flood hazard management, raw water supply, river and floodplain crossings, agricultural/surface mine drainage and fisheries habitat enhancement.
Craig combines state-of-the-art technical expertise with extensive hands-on field experience. In addition to his project-related activities, he has co-authored numerous applied research reports on river hydraulics and presented case history papers on bank erosion, channel shifting and scour/degradation problems at technical conferences.
Philip is a professional geotechnical engineer with over 12 years of industry and research experience. He is an expert slope stability analyst and accomplished numerical modeller, having authored a commercial slope stability application as well as a research program for modelling large deformations.
Originally from Ontario, Phil graduated from McGill University and worked for over ten years in the Alberta oil sands on a diverse range of mining and tailings projects. His pursuit of life long learning then led him to Colombia where he obtained his Masters degree in Geotechnical Engineering while picking up a new language along the way.
Phil joined ARKK because he enjoys collaborating as a team to deliver high quality, innovative, and safe solutions for technically challenging problems. He brings a wealth of experience to the team through his understanding of geotechnical engineering in the oil sands and site history.
Indu Ghuge has a bachelor in software engineering, with eight years of software testing, development and data science experience in areas of banking, telecommunications, e-commerce, insurance and law enforcement. She has worked on complete software development life cycle including implementation of software verification and validation plans, coding, debugging and software testing. This included working in areas of cybersecurity, database management and visualization, web-based application testing, product performance testing and client support.
Coming from rural India, Indu has always managed her professional career while balancing the expectations and responsibilities of family and society that come with the territory. She has done this through continually educating herself in new areas and perseverance. This has prepared and enabled her to progressively take up more professional responsibilities and leadership roles. Indu strives to understand the needs of her clients and focuses on developing applied solutions. She enjoys exploring data to help provide new insights to improve and optimize business operations.
At ARKK, Indu helps Civil and Environmental Engineers and Geoscientists in managing large sets of data through data automation, analytics, and visualization to support engineering and scientific assessments. In the process, she is helping develop smart data systems with an aim to save time and costs required to manage data. In her free time, Indu loves hiking along the North Saskatchewan River and in the Rocky Mountains, bird watching, and experimenting with food in her kitchen.
Abu is a seasoned Geotechnical Engineer with over 20 years of progressively advancing expertise in the oil, gas, and mining industries. His areas of specialization include dam safety management, tailings pond closure, and soft deposit capping, with significant contributions in Alberta’s oil sands and beyond. As Engineer of Record (EOR), Abu has successfully managed a diverse portfolio of five dams, including two out-of-pit tailings dams, two overburden water-retaining dams, and one in-pit tailings dam within the Alberta Oilsands industry.
Abu earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and later completed an M.Eng. in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has led numerous geotechnical investigations, providing critical design recommendations in slope stability, seepage analysis, settlement, and liquefaction assessment.
Abu thrives in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, consistently providing innovative and cost-effective solutions that focus on safety, sustainability, and meeting regulations. Dedicated to lifelong learning, he applies his extensive knowledge and careful attention to detail to solve complex geotechnical challenges with accuracy and efficiency.
Gustavo Padros is a Senior Geotechnical and Structural Engineer with more than 25 years’ experience. He was born and raised in Mexico City, where the soft subsurface conditions and strong earthquakes are a constant challenge for geotechnical engineering projects. He has extensive professional experience in consulting projects, designing and implementing engineering solutions for highway and bridge infrastructure, power transmission and linear pipeline projects.
Gustavo has published 13 technical articles and was Professor Assistant of Foundation Engineering and Structural Engineering courses at the Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Marista in Mexico for 5 years. Delivering a safe, reliable and cost-effective engineering design has always been his work priority. Gustavo believes that if the work is carried out by a group of people working together, sharing the same vision, that any goal is achievable.
