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Copiapó, Atacama Region, Chile

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Leader responsible for cultivating and developing the newly added Continuous Improvement function for Kinross Chile.Responsible for:1. Bringing best practices to Chile from Kinross global network to drive efficiency and unlock potential of La Coipa, Maricunga, and Lobo Marte to be a growth engine for Kinross. 2. Implementing debottlenecking analysis.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Responsible for developing new opportunities for Kinross in Alaska and Supply Chain function to support site.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Manage site wide CI, Innovation, and long range strategy programs to improve cash flow onsite.Delivered Results highlight-Project management of Reporting backbone and Dispatch upgrade-Conversion of SAG to AG mill business case-Gil Mine (~120koz over 3 years; >$60M/year spend) Financial model and business case approval-"Back in Black" site wide CI&I.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Operations/CI - Improving cash flow: 1. Drill to Mill Program - Improve how we break rock (Drilling and blasting, crushing, grinding), route ore (heap leach vs. CIP/gravity circuits), and recover ore (pad flow rate and stacking optimization; CIP/gravity recovery levers) through better application of scientific fundamentals, economics-driven decision.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

1. Interim Manager Continuous Improvement (CI) and Innovation (I): 6 months - Toronto; CI&I Analyst 5 months - Toronto.CI: Collaborated with global team to share best practices. Major projects:a. Benchmarking sites' potential for COO focus areas: Drill to Mill and Dispatch optimization. Supported work plans for initiatives at focus sites Paracatu, Bald.

Marblehead, Massachusetts, US

• Stroud is an operations and management consulting firm with a reputation for helping clients achieve rapid, breakthrough results. Results are achieved through a hands on strategic philosophy to improvement developed by.
• Collaborated with a Fortune 500 company to improve a multibillion dollar capital project’s business case by: -Facilitating a client team to identify opportunities to decrease the execution schedule 36 months (60% of.
• Facilitated cross-function client team to deliver >$ 1MM/yr savings at a bitumen upgrader by reducing the power intensity of an air separation unit.
• Demonstrated capability to increase throughput >150% of a potash compaction circuit with existing assets by engineering a particle size distribution model. The results led to a focus on operational improvement instead.

Kingston, On, CA

APSC 100- Project Manager (1 year) Responsible for coordinating a first year half year project to model economics and environmental impact of arc furnace dust recovery and disposal. Project used HSC chemistry software to model dust composition and helped students develop professional communication and organization skills.APSC 100- Problem Analysis Mentor.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Through collaboration with Geology, Blasting, and Ops enhanced the seismology program by enabling use of current and historical data in different operating zones to improve blast performance with regards to timings.
• Redesigned limits for double benching to reduce stripping ratio and performed LOM stockpile analysis to help reduce environmental impact of the Climax Mine using MineSight.
• Aided an in-pit dust suppression study by collaborating with maintenance, metallurgy and mining to determine potential value-add. Performed lab metallurgical tests to determine potential adverse flotation effects.
• Identified opportunities to improve dispatch system by performing a truck cycle time study. Results indicated dispatch had shortcoming preventing idle times and shovel and was inaccurate report speeds on a portion of.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Gained experience performing various metallurgical lab tests including flotation, dry prep, wet screening, filtering, XRF analysis, and sampling.
• Collaborated to conduct two mill crash surveys to understand impact of pebble circulating load and improve the grind circuit's efficiency. Designed lab schedule to effectively collect raw data from two metric tons and.
• Designed and executed a reagent plant trial from lab scale specific mineralogical recovery performance to a full scale plant paired T-test trial. Experiment resulted in further consideration of the reagent.
• Executed a down the bank study to understand relative performance of the roughers with regards to Cu/Mo recovery. Results indicated opportunity to improve performance of the back end of the bank and reoccurring.

Oakville, ON, CA

Summer Camp instructor from May-August each summer teaching kids aged 4-15 sports, leadership, finance, and robotics. Was coordinator and leader of Robotics and Advanced Robotics summer of 2011 and lifeguard for 2010, 2011 summers where I increased the camper retention rate in Robotics from ~60% --> 95%. Gained valuable communication skills and able to.