Captin of Rock The Boat

Leading the highly experienced team of engineers at Xenith.

Mentoring amazing young mining professionals - allowing me to give back to an industry that I have loved working in for the past 40 years.

Mining Business Development Manager- Working with customers to maximise their equipment investment.- Identifying new opportunities - growing overall business sales & market share- Evaluating new technologies implementation (including autonomous machines, proximity awareness, alternative fuels & ESG factors)- Growing the skill & knowledge level of the mining team members.- Managing & Forecasting future major equipment sales demands, inventory levels and - Project managing large scale equipment tender submissions and delivery programs.

Synergy Mining is a new boutique mining consultancy in the open cut coal field.With the current focus on reducing costs, Synergy offers a very competitive fee structure, combined with a client based focus, to ensure we maximise our clients dollars.My role as principal mining engineer, is to ensure my clients are completely satisfied, through the provision of quality mining engineering solutions at an affordable price.In the current climate, everybody is targeting cost savings and we are no different. At Synergy we have targeted our overheads, so we can pass these savings on to our clients in the form of lower rates.

Supervise and manage a dedicated team of mining industry professionals,Perform a complete range of coal mine planning, design and evaluation processes.Due Diligence & stockmarket reportingIndependent review and reportingOnsite senior staff relief work.Onsite staff training and development

State Mining Manager at busy mining consultancy business

Manage the largest IT support business in the Upper Hunter Valley.Providing total IT services to a broad range of business and domestic clientsImplementing IT change at banks, pubs, real estate agents, doctors, etc.Win and maintain contracts with large companies.Develop new clients, maintain existing clients.Hire, fire and train a great group of young technicians.

Started own consultancy business.Principal Mining Engineer- Working for many major mining houses in the Hunter Valley- Mine Planning & Design- Computer Systems Design- Mange other employees

Senior Mining Engineer- Day to day production planning- Supervise junior engineers- Supervise surveyors- Supervise geologists- Run weekly BBQ

Mining Engineer- Dragline Engineer- Coal Engineer- Shovel Engineer- Drill & Blast Engineer- Project Engineer

Mining Engineer- XPAC Help Desk- XPAC Trainer- Mine Planning Engineer

Graduate Engineer- Working at Mt Lyall Copper Mine- Enabba Mineral Sands

Bit of underground work before I started my graduate position.General labour - air leg mining, shot firing, machine operator.

Vac work at end of 2nd & 3rd year Uni.General underground labour (if you have to ask, you probably wouldn't understand what it means)