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East Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• A member of the Business Improvement Team managing and overseeing key BI projects within the Exploration business unit, ensuring they were executed efficiently and within scope. Objectives included selecting project.
• Delivered continuous systems administration support for multiple systems to the Exploration team, ensuring seamless operation and optimizing system performance, which resulted in noticeable increase in safe field.
• Developed and presented training materials for project implementations, enhancing team proficiency and accelerating project onboarding.
• Successfully identified and recruited key project team members, and maintained project governance, leading to a significant improvement in project alignment and execution.
• Established and maintained effective communication with key stakeholders throughout project development, achieving an increase in stakeholder satisfaction and project buy-in.
• Proactively identified and integrated new opportunities and technologies to enhance safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, contributing to a reduction in project costs and improvements in safety metrics.

Perth, Australia

• Supervising/Managing the IGO Field Geophysics Team in the acquisition of MLEM data using High Temperature SQUID's. Expanding the capabilities of the in-house Geophysics team to provide high quality Moving Loop.
• Recruitment of personnel to establish two independent MLEM crews with back-to-back teams, providing continuous field surveying over the field season.
• Implemented the utilisation of the JESSY SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) sensor, vastly improving survey instrumentation sensitivity allowing for deeper anomaly targeting.
• Provided comprehensive 24/7 emergency, mechanical, and technical support to field crews, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.
• Continuous review and development of survey vehicles and equipment, improving reliability and safety whilst reducing downtime.
• Joint recipient of the 2021 IGO Making a Difference Safety Award for the implementation of UTV operations.

Morley WA

• Utilising extensive experience in Geophysical data acquisition and processing to provide specialized planning and execution of complex surveys, and processing gravity, magnetic, and passive seismic data to drive.
• Successfully managed and processed gravity, magnetic, and passive seismic data from multiple national and international field crews, ensuring accurate and timely data acquisition.
• Effectively liaised with clients to develop detailed survey maps, address survey objectives, coordinate access, and ensure compliance with environmental, cultural, and HSE standards.
• Provided comprehensive 24/7 emergency, mechanical, and technical support to field crews, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.
• Prepared and maintained survey field equipment and vehicles, ensuring optimal performance and reliability in the field.
• Streamlined field logistics by efficiently organizing flights, accommodation, fuel, food supplies, and transport of equipment to remote locations, facilitating smooth operations.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• Managing the Western Australian operations of the company and liaising with clients to plan and manage multiple survey projects across Australia and Internationally. Undertaking data QC, processing and imaging of.
• Successfully maintained data quality and project efficiency by proficiently monitoring and processing gravity data from national and international field crews.
• Effectively minimized operational disruptions by providing comprehensive 24/7 emergency, mechanical, and technical support to field crews.
• Streamlined field logistical operations by organizing coordination of flights, accommodation, fuel, food supplies, and equipment transport to remote locations, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
• Contributed to successful completion of surveys by collaborating with clients to develop detailed survey plans and address key objectives, site access issues, environmental and cultural considerations, emergency.
• Delivered clear project overview by compiling and presenting detailed survey operational and data processing reports to clients.

• This position involved organising, preparing and maintaining geophysical surveying equipment for the field crews, including keeping the equipment database up-to-date. Some field surveying was carried out including.
• Maintaining geophysical and survey equipment database.
• Maintenance and repairs to geophysical and survey equipment.
• Preparing geophysical survey equipment and vehicles for field crews.
• Acquiring gravity and TEM data.
• Research and development of geophysical and survey equipment.

• This position involved carrying out field acquisition of gravity data nationally and internationally, as well as training new field staff.Key Responsibilities
• Acquiring gravity data, often in remote areas for long periods of time.
• Establishing gravity and GPS control stations.
• Processing and monitoring field data for quality control.
• Manage several field crews operating on the same survey.
• Training and monitoring new field staff.

• This position involved liaising with pilots to carry out airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys.Key Responsibilities
• Managing aircraft fuel supplies and assisting with aircraft refuelling and maintenance.
• Calibrating magnetometer and radiometric on-board instrumentation.
• Maintaining diurnal base magnetometer integrity.
• Processing and monitoring field data for quality control.

• Seamlessly transitioned from "theory to practice" after successful completion of University studies. Accepted a position as MIMDAS (Mount Isa Mining Distributed Acquisition System) operator, acquiring high quality.
• Field preparation, operation and repairs of survey equipment.
• Processing and monitoring field data for quality control.
• Co-ordinating survey operations.