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Louisville, Colorado, United States

• Delivering insights to federal business leaders to scale improve and accelerate business performance and outcomes
• Providing business insights to advise the Marketing and Operations leaders of execution opportunities
• Leading standardization of processes and adoption of data products across the business area to enhance productivity and accelerate transformation
• Orchestrating cross segment business insights and support execution driving standard tools and processes adoption
• Communicating critical needs and enhancement recommendations to corporate leadership to prioritize efforts and drive issue resolution

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Managed a suite of over 70 Power BI reports which drive improvement and efficiency for 300+ users in sales and consulting groups at Microsoft Federal
• Lead discussions between business and engineering groups to gain clarity from ambiguous stakeholder requirements and to negotiate priorities
• Maximized the value of business excellence data with minimal resources by implementing lean, proof of concept solutions for high-priority projects
• Increased revenue of consulting engagements and maximizing consultant utilization by streamlining the resource availability and booking process
• Enabled complex diversity reporting with customized SAP automation scripts
• Managed 4 senior developers across multiple consulting projects”Extraordinary job in a short period of time.” – Director, Sales Excellence

Boulder

• Utilizing the abundant, yet neglected, wealth of data created in the mining industry to enable optimization that extends beyond individual departments and to the entire operation. How do various ore blends impact mill.
• Designed and implemented end-to-end tracking services that enable optimization across multiple production operations and add $20M/year in client revenue
• Consulted global clients to establish priorities, workflows, IT infrastructure and data limitations to customize products and implementation strategies
• Transformed the development cycle of a remote, international product team from a “fire fight” to a customer-focused priority system using Jira
• Utilized Power BI extensively for client facing dashboards, data model prototyping, and internal tracking“… this is my best experience with a software provider…” – Production Supt.

Denver, CO

• Product manager for Maptek's strategic blast management solution, BlastLogic.Drill and blast operations typically consume 20-30% of the mine's operating budget.However, blasting impacts 80% of the downstream processes.
• Developed new business from enterprise solutions and increased the North American market share from 0 to 10% of top tier mining companies
• Configured and implemented enterprise data management systems including training and consulting for cloud and on-premise deployments
• Transformed high volumes of disparate production data into concise 3D and visualizations and dashboards by utilizing SQL and Power BI
• Influenced an Australia-based, software development team to implement specific, critical features for the North American market with the use of Salesforce and Jira

Australia

• Performed relief work and provided drill and blast improvement strategies for various mine sites throughout NSW and QLD.
• Managed risk in challenging conditions including reactive ground, underground workings, highly sensitive environmental sites, fume prone areas, and highly challenging geology
• Introduced seed wave techniques for advanced vibration prediction near unstable highwall and environmentally sensitive areas
• Mentored tech services teams on drill and blast basics and improvements
• Finalized roll out and usage of Aquilla/Minestar drill GPS systems
• Implemented a start to finish D&B management system to assist in efficiency and cost improvements

Newcastle, Australia

• Conducted incident investigations and risk assessments in order to increase the effectiveness of site and contractor safety procedures
• Provided support for a non electric to electronic conversion of a full service contract
• Minimized the effects on the environment and community through the use of advanced vibration modeling and fume mitigation techniques
• Maintained a consistent technical support relationship with three world class, Rio Tinto operations in the Hunter Valley
• Measured and assessed wall control issues in open cut gold mining

Designed, planned, and reported on a $300M dragline fleet with a total stripping capacity of 23M cubic yards per yearLead a group of production engineers the through the capital and early operating phases of a mine expansionAssisted with a six sigma improvement project to improve drag motor efficiencyJustified and tracked an excavator to improve dragline.

Promoted a world class safety culture within drilling, blasting, and other supporting areas at Navajo MineCreated and improved drill and blast designs for overburden and partings ranging in depth from 5 to 130 feet at a multi-seam, open cut, coal mineTracked and reported performance and costs ($15M/year) of drill and blast operationsIncreased operational.

Planned truck loader, rail, and conveyor operations as well as coal blasting in the short and mid-term at a multi-seam, open cut, coal mineContributed to record tons mined of 1.2M in June 2008 Created and reported against several budget targets on a monthly basisAssisted with implementation of an on-line coal analyzerJustified equipment and projects.

Supervised up to 8 contracted employees daily for 80 days without a lost time injuryManaged a $180,000 sediment pond cleanout involving heavy equipment haulage and moderate laborJustified equipment and projects requiring up to $3M in capital

Post-Baccalaureate: Applied Computer Science

Mining And Minerals Engineer, Mining Engineering

Activities and Societies: Burkhart Mining Society, International Society of Explosives Engineers, Center for Enhancement of Engineering.