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Brisbane, Australia

Mnt Whaleback Newman

• Developed and improved SAP based maintenance strategies for electrical assets associated with an iron ore processing plant, including LV and HV switchboards (MCCs), drives (VSDs, rotor cubicles), motors, transformers, process instrumentation, and PLCs.• Led the planning and execution of an LV and HV switchboard maintenance program to ensure that the plant electrical distribution system remained reliable and safe to operate.• Provided engineering support to the maintenance execution team for the successful completion of plant maintenance breakdowns, planned shutdowns, and upgrade projects.

Perth And Mnt Whaleback Newman

• Project managed a medium size ($3M) electrical project for the remote switching of HV switchboards. This included scope definition, technical review of project documentation and drawings, risk management, supply management and market engagement, and the management of site execution and commissioning works.• Delivered small site based upgrade projects with the end to end management of the design and installation of new bin radar level detectors, a crusher lubrication system chiller unit, and a train loadout auto-lubrication system. This included producing detailed design calculations, electrical and control drawings, installation scopes of work, and commissioning plans.• Represented Eastern Ridge Mine site with the development and roll-out of a SAP based risk management toolkit to better manage and audit site material risks.• Promoted through the two-year BHP Billiton Foundations for Graduates program.

Conducted research in the area of mining machine automation.• Completed undergraduate thesis, "Online Bucket Volume Estimation for a Wheel Loading Machine", to contribute to research on the automation of wheel loading excavators.• Developed and tested modified bucket volume estimation algorithm with a Matlab software implementation.• Presented undergraduate thesis at the CRCMining 2012 Australian Mining Technology Conference.• Assisted with design and in-field execution of a field trial to gather dig data from operational underground mining wheel loaders.

Brisbane, Australia

Laboratory tutor for 3rd year "Introduction to Control Systems" course, delivering weekly practical experiments and demonstrations to aid students in learning of theoretical concepts.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Systems And Control Engineering

Thesis: "Economic Model Predictive Control for the Demand Side Management of Residential Microgrids" - Undertook an independent 18 month.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering, 1St Class Honours