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Superior, Arizona, United States

Superior, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Superior, Arizona

• Within a matrix corporate structure, reporting through the Vice President Health, Safety and Environment of Rio Tinto Copper and Diamonds to define, develop and lead the overall strategy and vision for the management of environmental regulatory requirements, including large-scale strategic permitting and approvals for the Rio Tinto Copper and Diamonds portfolio.• Monitor, track and lead the technical understanding and company-wide communication of new and emerging environmental regulations and their impacts on the business.• Working closely with technical and operations teams across the Copper and Diamonds group, develop and define comprehensive environmental and technical risk management strategies and project management tools and systems to maintain compliance and business continuity in a fast-paced and ever changing complex regulatory environment.• Accountability for development and maintenance of strong positive relationships with multiple federal, state and county regulatory agencies with oversight of the mining industry to ensure compliance and business risk management. • Represent Copper and Diamonds projects and operations on industry trade groups, including American Exploration and Mining Association.• Lead all strategic federal and state permits, approvals, leases and right of ways in support of timely implementation of expansions and new development projects with a diverse team of environmental, technical and legal professionals and consultants.

Superior, Arizona

Developed and implemented a successful social, community and government relations strategy toimprove and obtain broad based project support within local and regional communities.• Designed and implemented a newly integrated social, environmental and permitting managementsystem to closely align and foresee community issues early and address before they arise in theregulatory process. • Successfully managed the development of the 120.000TPD Resolution Copper Mine Plan ofOperations (MPO) including obtaining and coordinating public consultation and feedback,community consultation on a new Greenfield tailings location.• Designed and implemented a comprehensive Federal, State and County NEPA and permittingstrategy to facilitate timely construction of an over $6B mining complex. This program includescompletion of multiple plans of operations, NEPA collection agreements, multiple federal agencyengagement, baseline data collection, response to public and agency comments, impacts analysis,mitigation as well as closure/reclamation plans.

Superior, Arizona

In addition to the role of "Manager, Permitting and Approvals" managed all aspects of communityrelations, government affairs and communications for the Resolution Copper project. Thisincluded stakeholder outreach efforts and social investment, while managing a diverse group ofemployees and consultants, including Washington D.C. based lobby groups.• Directed and oversaw all aspects of a Legislative Land Exchange before Congress. This rolerequired extensive engagement with Arizona Congressional delegation and staff, other key senatestaff and committee representatives, which resulted in successful passage of the legislation in theHouse of Representatives.

Superior, Arizona

Managed and implemented a broad based NEPA and permitting strategy to facilitate andsupport timely initiation of permitting.• Built and implemented a permitting organizational structure that integrated legal staff, technicalconsultants, corporate support staff and engineering.Managed federal regulatory compliance with a mine plan of operations to enable collection of exploration, hydrologic and other baseline data in support of the largerResolution Copper mine plan of operations.

Marquette, Michigan

Developed and implemented a strategy to successfully obtain all Federal, State and Countypermits and approvals for a $400M underground mine, concentrator and tailings facility. • Managed multiple public and regulatory agency engagement to incorporate feedback andconsultation on the mine design.• Managed all aspects of state mine permit design changes within a 3-4 month timeframe tofacilitate timely construction of mine facilities and infrastructure.• Lead and developed a diverse group of health, safety, environmental and land employees as wellas numerous contractors and legal staff to secure options for future expansions and implementcorporate health, safety and environmental programs to drive a zero harm culture.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Successfully designed and implemented a strategy to obtain multiple state permits for a majorexpansion of the Bingham Canyon Mine open pit, concentrator and tailings.This work included completion of all baseline data collection and impact assessments for groundwater, geochemistry, surface water and air as well as closure and reclamation.• Managed all aspects of permit compliance (multi-media) for the open pit mine, concentrator andtailings, and Barneys Canyon gold mine as well as groundwater permit compliance and closureand reclamation for the smelter, power plant and refinery.

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Bachelor Of Science, Applied Geoscience

Master Of Science (Msc), Civil And Environmental Engineering