Kym is a chartered civil engineer with over 35 years specialist experience in bituminous road surfacings. He has enjoyed a successful background transitioning through an Australian State Road Agency, the Australian Road Research Board, an international professional services consultancy, to a position that enabled him to give back to the industry at the Centre for Pavement Engineering Education.
His PhD thesis was the first in Australia on the topic of sprayed sealing, researching the implications of road trains for sprayed seal design. He is the past Chairman of the Australian Standards committee for ‘bitumen and related materials for road making purposes’, a position he held for the last 11 years. At the Centre for Pavement Engineering Education Kym was Executive Manager Training. where he managed and develops the short courses programs concurrently the role of Principal Engineering Advisor for CPEE and teaching students in the CPEE Master of Pavement Technology on-line learning program.
Kym now operates as Neaylon Road Consulting where in addition to continuing postgraduate training for CPEE he also undertakes challenging commissions in the field of bituminous road surfacings, including expert peer review of seal designs and the forensic investigation of road failures resulting in expert opinion reports for the legal teams of plaintiffs or defendants.