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Education

Experience

  • 2022 - Present
    Intrepid Potash

    Snr Project Engineer

  • 2014 - 2022
    RBT LLC

    Mining & Construction

    • Paste-fill & water-treatment for Northern Star Resources at the Pogo Gold Mine in Alaska
    • NI 43-101 Technical Report & Bankable Feasibiility Study for Vangold Guanojuato Silver Company with Behr Dolbear in Mexico
    • Environmental compliance for Ecology & Environment at Groupe OCP’s Khouribga, Youssoufia & Layounne Phosphate in Morocco
    • Xeras cost analysis for Newmont Eleanor Mine with Undergrund Mine Solutions
    • Dynamic database & intra/internet development with MineCost & CostMine for Gold Fields Exploration
    • Prefeasibility and scoping studies for Midway Gold, ConocoPhillips, InterContinental Potash with Gustavson Assoc
    • Analysis of SOMAT boring geotechnical safe span of the $300 million Detroit River Outfall DRO-2 Redesign and Recovery Project for Inspecsol Engineering & Ric-Man Construction. Shotcrete.
    • Contract management of Barrick’s $5 million gold exploration drift development at Turquoise Ridge Nevada with Harrison Western Construction.
    • Exploration drift rehabilitation feasibility study for the acquisition of the Ferris Haggerty Wyoming copper deposit for Black Range Minerals. Helicopter reconnaissance, geotechnical assessment and ventilation for underground diamond drilling.
    • Sub-contact management support for $10 million US Department of the Interior dam and reservoir construction in Colorado, with HWCC and Weeminuche Construction Authority. Primavera.
    • Scoping studies for the acquisition of $300 million to $1 billion open cut & underground copper-gold deposits in Kyrgyzstan and Nunavut, Canada for Gold Fields Exploration with Coffey Mining using Mincom MineSight.
    • $1 billion Copper Cliff Deep shaft sink Implementation

  • 2018 - 2018
    Mining One Consultants

    Contract Principal Engineer

    Independent JORC & NI 43-101 feasibility studies, geotechnical & infrastructure design, & operational support for international projects.
    • Project management of $100M emerald project in Colombia
    • Real-time collaboration & conferencing across several time zones

  • 2017 - 2018
    GOLD FIELDS

    Contract Project Engineer

    A fast-paced FIFO contract technical services role with a focus on safety and continuous improvement.
    • Reprise and improve inter-departmental infrastructure planning process
    • Reconcile and continuously improvement ore drive & stope design in Vulcan and Deswik
    • Design & schedule underground development, and issue mining instructions
    • Introduce approved, repeatable project management systems and processes
    • Direct contractors in ventilation raiseboring, shaft sinking, pump station construction
    • Administer $200M engineering, construction & earthworks contracts

  • 2011 - 2015
    Energy Fuels Inc

    Technical Services Manager

    Coordinated strategic mine planning & optimization, contract management and project startup from Concept Studies through Trade-off, Feasibility & Implementation of uranium projects.
    • Cashflow models for all ~20 mines & targets in the US, ranking them in terms of Break Even Price, NPV and annual revenues at various Uranium price, schedule & cut-off-grade scenarios. ARCGis, Sherpa, Autocad Civil3D
    • Analyses & board recommendations for acquisitions and divestitures
    • Mine infrastructure designs complete with 3D fabrication & as-built layouts
    • Site management & support, highlighting critical-path schedules, reinforcing HSE culture with site crews.

  • 2003 - 2007
    Thyssen Mining

    Mine Manager, including $12 million shaft and $20 million tunnel installations.

    • Metal and non-metal mining projects in USA. Authority for negotiating and invoicing clients and payment of subcontractors, consultants and vendors.
    • EPC and commercial aspects of a joint venture of international contractors for a $20 million Foundation Coal slope project in Illinois. Financial, technical and commercial assessment and analysis of the project was integral to the board decisions.
    • Site setup, including local infrastructure and accommodation of foreign-speaking workforce. Procured, negotiated, and managed engineering, technical assistance and heavy construction contracts.
    • Coordinated foreign technical experts, remote procurement, consultants, sub-contactors.
    • Implemented regular internal and external status meetings, with the executive and technical management of Thyssen Schachtbau Gruppe Germany, Precision Mine Repair USA and TMCC Canada.
    • Watertable management, groundwater evaluations, cofferdam construction, grout injection.
    • Web-based inventory management database. Conducted frequent international web conferences.
    • $4 million litigation claim analysis, financial risk analysis with TreeAge, exhibit preparation, position formulations, e-discovery coordination with Walstad Law Group.

    Project Manager of $7 million Turquoise Ridge Project, Nevada, responsible for a workforce of 70 underground miners, tradesmen and staff.

  • 2001 - 2003
    RockTek USA

    Project Manager of specialist blasting firm.

    Business development, marketing and R&D strategy for Australian public company with revenues of $20 million.
    • Created promotional videos, presentation materials, trade show program to increase sales of niche products & services.
    • Contributed to site training, including seminars, videos, procedures, materials and examinations. Clients included the National Park Service, Forest Service, Molycorp Inc, Normandy Mining, Phelps Dodge, Stillwater Mining & Getchell Gold.
    • Member of the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce.
    • Federal Acquisition Regulation compliance for U.S. General Services Administration and Department of Defense.

  • 1997 - 2001
    WMC Resources

    Underground Manager of the world’s third largest nickel operation.

    Underground workforce of 150 at the Perseverance sublevel-cave and open-stope nickel mine.
    • Elimination of Fatalities Task Force. Inter-departmental groups to develop practical safe work procedures and safe work analyses that enabled dangerous tasks to be completed accident-free. The Lost Time Injury rate was reduced to the lowest in the mine’s history.
    • Implemented a system of operating cost management that assigns cost accountability to the lowest functional level, with SAP, resulting in economies upwards of 15%.
    • P&L responsibility with a $10 million budget. Responsible for setting new production targets.
    • Oversaw an increase in production of 12% to a sustained 1.3 million tonnes, breaking all previous records.

    As Open Pit Manager Harmony Mine.
    • Implementation of Intellimine GPS tracking and dispatch
    • Introduced a training matrix for site personnel. Personally trained higher technical and systems management functions.

    As Project Engineer, financial justification, programming, management and control of over 26 concurrent projects.
    • Coordinated diverse team of engineers, maintenance, operations, construction, and specialty contractors.
    • Design, construction & commissioning of infrastructure improvements, realizing operating cost reductions in the order of $2 million per year.
    • Permitted, negotiated & managed major engineering, technical and environmental contracts.

    As Production Engineer, pioneered production driller feedback loop system to verify ore boundaries and optimize blasting with Datamine, Surpac, Gemcom, Xpac & Xeras. Ore dilution was reduced by 3%.

  • 1994 - 1997
    NMM, Henty, SRK

    Project Engineer of Paddington, Blair, Mt Morgans, Henty, Yilgarn Star,…

    Construction, mining and government contracts in industrial & precious metals, uranium, coal & mineral sands.
    • Greenfield to startup and production of first ore at the environmentally sensitive Henty gold project that was blind-bored shaft in a World Heritage listed rainforest in Tasmania.
    • Converted supply arrangements from consignment stockpiles to automatic minimum quantity re-ordering using MPAC at Henty. Routine stocktaking duties were reduced resulting in a time saving of over 20 man-hours per month.
    • Implemented a Mineral Balance Sheet, highlighting areas of commercial risk using Gemcom with @Risk to develop optimal mining strategies, with SRK. Assembled comprehensive cost database by interviewing mine staff, plant suppliers, and government agencies.
    • As founding Editor of the Western Australian Mining Club in Perth, created a monthly glossy magazine. Club membership increased by 40% to 1,500.
    • Introduced open-book recording that enabled comparison of client’s daily work log records with our own at the Yilgarn Star mine. The end-of-month payment disputes that had plagued the project were eliminated, invoice aging was reduced by two weeks and the client relationship was improved.
    • Developed a shift hand-over system that caused functional interactions to be communicated between shift personnel, increasing efficiency by up to 600 man-hours per year at Yilgarn Star.
    • Arranged a system of capturing incidental services as dayworks, thereby increasing revenues by 8%.
    As Intern for the Western Australian Mine Manager’s Certificate, worked at 6 different mines as a foreman, shift boss, blaster, equipment operator and miner. Hands-on experience in:
    • room-and pillar, open stope, flatback, cut-and-fill, sub-level-cave, block-cave, open-cut, resue
    • gig, ladder and Alimak rising

  • 1991 - 1994
    London Underground - Jubilee Line Extension Project

    ASE, Jubilee Line, a £2 billion, ten mile, rail tunnel extension.

    Bills of Quantities, tunneling and archeological contracts.
    • Reformed the method of reviewing Bills of Quantities to highlight anomalies, overlaps and gaps.
    • Member of the DoT ocean racing team & rowing squad, competing in France, Belgium and Henley.

  • 1989 - 1992
    Channel Tunnel - Transmanche Link - TML

    Site Engineer, Channel Tunnel, the biggest infrastructure project in Europe.

    Under-sea cross-passages, pump motor rooms and sumps in the 23 mile underwater section of the £15 billion project.
    • Coordinated re-bar and concrete placement of ring beams and tunnel inverts
    • Installation of lattice-girder and NATM shotcrete
    • Placement and grouting of precast steel and concrete tunnel segments
    • Laser and string-line surveying and setting out.
    • Member of the English Channel Tunnel cycle team from London to Paris.

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