Professional Staff

Travis Carpenter, P.E.

Senior Geotechnical Consultant

“Kleinschmidt offers a great overall work experience … talented people, interesting projects, and company support for a work-life balance.”


Travis specializes in geotechnical engineering for embankments/dams, commercial developments, environmental remediation sites, and landfills. He has developed and implemented hundreds of geotechnical investigations throughout the U.S. and Canada.  He performs slope stability evaluations and bearing capacity/settlement analyses, and he evaluates and designs stability improvement measures, seepage controls, instrumentation/monitoring plans, shallow foundations, ground improvements, earth anchors, retaining structures, mechanically-stabilized earth walls, pavements, and low-permeability cover systems.

Travis has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an active member of the Maine Geological Survey.