Thomas Wills Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Canberra, Australia

Microsoft bot framework and Azure cloud services, express plus applications (android, ios) - systems analyst

Invercargill

 Responsible for contributions to internal research and development projects and client projects Research partnership with Metso PTI and CSIRO QCAT Bond work index testing including dry sizing of product: unsupervised sample preparation, sieve sizing, bond mill operation, WHIMS and Davis tube operation Bond index and HPGR testing for Magnetite dry grinding projects Coauthored paper to be published on Dry Grinding of Magnetite using HPGR Analysis and construction of throughput models for comminution plants Literature reviews of iron ore extraction and steelmaking for ore tracking projects and bornite extraction, mineralogy and occurrence for bornite on-line sensing project

 Responsible for personal plant development projects, and contributions to other team projects Worked under plant and project metallurgists in the lead and zinc concentrator (grinding and flotation) Completed a project regarding validation of a cyclone performance model, and investigation of slimes and topsize reduction at lower operating feed density and pressure to cyclone packs Attended safety and production meetings Assisted in flotation cell bubble sizing and gas holdup measurements Completed unsupervised lab work and sampling for cyclone project – particle sizing, sieving, cyclosizing, laser sizing, sample preparation, wet dry analysis, cyclone sampling and experiment design, liaison with operators and metallurgists and use of physical and distributed control systems, data analysis, reporting and presentation Directly identified opportunity to reduce capital expenditure – proactively investigated sample anomalies and determined incorrect calibration of density gauges, leading to cancellation of a capital works project to remedy mill feed sump solids bias

 Responsible for personal plant development projects, and contributions to other team projects Worked as a member of Reduction Lines 1 and 2 Process Control Team Attended safety and process control meetings Unsupervised electrical and physical measurements on reduction cells, bath temperature and sampling, data analysis, reporting and presentation, liaison with engineers and operators, experiment design Worked on projects regarding; Anode setting accuracy Cell profiling and anode slip Anode rod surfacing Unstable cell causes Cathode voltage drops