Mining Engineer | Project Management | Process OptimizationSummary: Results-oriented mining engineer with a proven track record of leading successful projects and driving efficiency improvements across operations. Skilled in project management, cost reduction strategies, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Proficient in leveraging innovative technologies to optimize mine planning and design.Experience Highlights:Feasibility Study Leadership: Led a proactive team in conducting a compliant Feasibility Study, resulting in a 14% reduction in mining expenses and a 22% cut in capital needs. Integrated mine cost into Life of Mine plans, optimizing financial standing and operational efficiency.Project Engineer Lead: Managed a gold company's Leach Pad Life of Mine (LOM) project, achieving a 28% cost reduction through innovative design. Facilitated cross-disciplinary meetings to enhance collaboration and accountability, meeting goals ahead of schedule.Innovative Solutions: Developed an inventive Leach Pad Stacking Model using MinePlan software, showcasing expertise in leveraging technology for process optimization and client solutions.Training and Development: Created a comprehensive Drill & Blast Training course for surface operations, emphasizing safety, best practices, and advanced techniques. Technical Expertise: Offered tailored blast patterns for a gold mine, optimizing in-pit sequencing, and addressing operational concerns. Provided dragline designs, ramp & pad design, and volumetrics for surface coal mine operations, supporting production enhancement initiatives.Software Proficiency: Showcased expertise in Datamine Software, constructing ultimate pit limits and delivering detailed designs for gold, copper, silver, and iron operations.

• Worked on developing a monthly reconciliation of the haul truck speed model by constructing a monthly haulage network based on proportional good vs. bad weather days to validate if actual is following to plan. Showed the total, loaded, empty cycle times comparison to distance to show variance between them and if the MS Haulage is faster or slower than actual• Recommended an update to the current speed model by comparing total cycle times to correlate with distance. Calculated the impact to operating hours with the new speed restrictions to the current model vs. the base case model• Assisted the Sr. D&B Engineer by layout of blast patterns using MineSight• Developed a monthly report for Time Usage Model to further analyze actual vs. plan. Delay and Standby reconciliation to track KPI’s such as: Availability, Utilization of Availability, Utilization, and Effective Utilization.

Explosives Engineering Intern and Assistant Technical Sales representative for Patriot Powder LLC. Provided sales support for the AXXIS™ electronic detonator system in Western US. Tasked completed during my internship:-Built retail pricing model for Western US using North American explosive manufacturers products.-Formulated a blasting gasbag savings calculator.-Produced State of Wyoming Blaster Training 24-hour course-Developed Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah business plansKnowledge gained from my internship:-The supply chain process of explosives in the Western US-The knowledge and experience of the type of explosives used in coal, gold, and copper.-Built a deeper understanding of what tasked are completed by an Explosives Engineer and what a mine manager needs to know about their mine, blasting holes, and explosive products.

Worked on a team in Instrument and Payload Branch as their Data Analysis Engineer. Was an evaluator for training programs at Goddard Space Flight Center. Created surveys and models to evaluate data collected from training programs to generate Heat Maps in Excel and MATLAB. In this incredible experience at Goddard Space Flight Center, I realized how many small details need to be included for any project to be completed. While many might be stressed on their projects or research you have to find a medium in which works best not only for yourself but for others working with you as well. It is a team effort from beginning to end and the way to get the best out of everyone is constant communication reinforced with feedback.

Explosives, Blasting Internship with BME at Kansanshi Open Pit Copper Mine in Zambia.Learned and implemented the AXXIS™ Blasting Box system using electronic delay detonators by hands on experience in the main pit. Designed blasting patterns using BME's software package BlastMap™ III that showed the energy distribution and direction of blasted rock. While in main pit I was tasked with using the AXXIS™ Leakage/Functionality Tester to identify leakages or short-circuits in the system before a blast and repaired any wires found on the block. As well as, assigned time sequences using AXXIS™ Logger into the AXXIS™ GII detonators. With the blaster foreman I conducted pre-blast checks to identify any errors or extras in our EDD system to help problem solve where the possible issue was on the block. Towards the end of my internship I prepared a final presentation for BME product managers.Knowledge gained during my internship:- The morning meetings attended for safety, planning session for the day with mine managers of First Quantum Minerals has taught me valuable lessons in what it takes to operate a mine safely and efficiently.- Hands on experience with electronic blasting system, electronic delay detonators, and software has helped further my knowledge of explosive industry within mining. - I know how to plan a blast with the drilling parameters and know the cost analysis of how to report how much explosives were used for each shot.- Made short term blast plans and implemented them on the bench with the blasters