Benjamin Brown, Pe Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Consultant tasked with installing, configuring, and training on the use of JD Edwards as maintenance tracking system. Assist in developing improvements to AMS's Oracle validated software solutions. Act as a bridge between the IT and operations workspaces.✔ Assisting clients with installing and improving their use of JDE's maintenance modules focused around corrective, preventive, and reactive maintenance. ✔ Advising clients in equipment record creation & maintenance. ✔ Reviewing and suggesting repair part inventory tracking updates.✔ Provide experience in getting the most out of the latest functionality from Oracle such as UDOs and UX1 pages.✔ Creating updated technical documents, configuration guides, and user manuals for Asset Management Solutions' Q58 EAM applications.✔ Generating test scripts, training documents, and leading meetings to validate system configurations.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Activities primarily focus on the capture, simplification, and repeatability of client organizations' maintenance practices through documentation and incorporation of technology. You cannot have a computerized maintenance management system without first having a maintenance management system.✔ Implementing Asset Management Solutions' JD Edwards (JDE) Q58 EAM applications within client systems as well as utilizing JDE's standard CAM applications and UDO functionality✔ Managing remote implementations through a series of sprints and VPN access to improve productivity and reduce client travel expenses✔ Working with OEM suppliers to build lifecycle models and MRO vendors to develop some common specification catalogs. Both to be used as quick wins for organizations looking to improve their maintenance practices.✔ Creating updated technical documents, configuration guides, and user manuals for Asset Management Solutions' Q58 EAM applications.✔ Serving as a bridge between the theoretical, the technical, and the functional aspects of maintenance practices much as I have throughout my 25 years as a miner, a subject matter expert, a business process owner, and a software enthusiast.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Share project managing responsibilities with my wife as we navigate a scheduled sabbatical - a "reboot" break from our careers. The project involves global travel, reconnecting with old friends, visiting family, and learning new skills.Skills learned and strengthened include:✔ International travel planning/scheduling. Planned trips to Morocco, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China, Mongolia, and Russia using a combination of guided trips, individual excursions, and creative flight planning. Coordinate same for friends and family at their request.✔ Blog creation, website management, and marketing. Facebook and Instagram links to the site along with Amazon Affiliate status.✔ Small business budgeting and benefits coordination.✔ Non-fiction travel writing and standard blog posts concerning relevant and irrelevant topics.✔ Photography including proper camera use, Adobe Lightroom editing software, and photo management.✔ Video creation and editing. Previous experience with Camtasia software updated to Adobe Premiere Pro 18.✔ Improved networking skills. Coordinating listening sessions with successful peers and others within their networks to learn what I can contribute to their projects/passions.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

✔ Advocate for asset management technology, best practices, and operational reporting standardization across corporation✔ Lead the corporate Site Optimization Review (SOR) team tasked with effectively recapitalizing old plants in diminished markets✔ Supply expertise and training for all implementations of JD Edwards Maintenance and Inventory modules, managing the item master for the organization and supporting better cash flow administration through robust inventory management✔ Execute fixed asset evaluations of acquisition targets and fixed asset audits, developing new procedures to electronically capture information during site visits✔ Liaise between corporate personnel, field personnel, and auditors, providing facility tours, process explanations, risk outlines, and network facilitation between interest groups✔ Implement an Internet of Things project to investigate tying operating software to MMM’s ERPKey Accomplishments: ✔ Directed and participated in company Capital Audit process, selecting 30+ projects to audit. Audit outcomes resulted in mine planning requirements prior to capital investment in plants.✔ Expanded the use of JDE Enterprise Asset Management from a handful of locations in limited situations to a full bore use of maintenance tracking, preventive maintenance scheduling, and asset cost capture✔ Engaged in task force groups to influence corporate efforts related to automation, energy, asset management, and ecommerce.

Nc And Va

✔ Oversaw production, shipment, staffing, and maintenance scheduling required to produce 0.5-1.7M tons of crushed aggregate yearly in three different truck-based markets (marine limestone and granite)✔ Managed capital and cost budgeting; ensured compliance with safety, environmental, and legal requirements; oversaw community relations✔ Performed mobile equipment preventive and corrective maintenance✔ Developed the company’s first electronic blast report program, resulting in company-wide distribution Key Accomplishments: ✔ Executed project for relocation of Anderson Creek and replacement wetlands, earning Commonwealth of Virginia’s reclamation award in 2004✔ Initiated and completed Virginia’s first Public Private Partnership project with no gradation problems or quantity concerns✔ Opened the Richlands location as a greensite and educated neighbors unfamiliar with the mining process

Bs, Mining & Minerals Engineering

Activities and Societies: Burkhart Mining Society

Mba, Masters Of Business

Graduated with Honors while working full time