• Develop ESG Australasia business.• Support ESG Solutions clients in Australasia.• Microseismic monitoring system design, implementation and operation.• Advanced geotechnical data analysis (irrespective of particular data acquisition system manufacturer).• Microseismic monitoring system design audit, review and optimisation (irrespective of particular data acquisition system manufacturer).• Senior technical review and advice on any ESG projects and technical development.

Senior technical direction, support and review in the Geomechanics group.- Block and panel and sublevel cave monitoring (cave and extraction level scale).- Open, long-hole and reef stoping monitoring.- Deep mine monitoring- Quantitative cloud-based geomechanical and environmental data analysis.- Innovation in data analysis tools (e.g. passive seismic tomography).- Geophysical monitoring EPCM (microseismic, geotechnical and environmental) in hard - rock underground and mass mining environments (O/P and U.G). Design,commission, operate.- Innovation in monitoring techniques (e.g. wide-aperture surface seismic, fiber optic, time-lapse remote ERI).

Managed team of shallow subsurface geophysicists.- Participated in or managed geophysics projects.- Design, installation and maintenance of seismic and geotechnical monitoring systems.- Mine Seismological consulting.Monitoring systems design (seismic, geotechnical including excavation stability and slope stability): Eight underground mines (block caving and sublevel caving), four open-pit.Management of monitoring systems and databases: Three mines.Velocity model calibration.Gutenberg-Richter hazard analysis.Peak Particle Velocity / Damage calibration.Development of tools and techniques to track stress changes as inferred from seismic parameters.Correlation of stress-related seismic parameters with stress cell and extensometer measurements in near-real-time.Post-firing (re-entry time) analyses.Drawbell firing and seismic activity correlations.Calibration of National Instruments CSIRO Hollow Inclusion Cell measurement system.Guideline development.Geophysics projects:Surface wave seismics (MASW) and seismic refraction: Fifteen projects in New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, New Caledonia covering void delineation, foundation stability, rippability, historic underground workings, stormwater tunnel and sewer alignments, road tunnel and canal alignments. Road pavements.Managed four large Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI) projects (including three-dimensional and cross-hole) for void detection and geotechnical characterisation in Southeast Asia and New Zealand.Ground penetrating radar, electromagnetic induction, magnetometry and microgravity survey management and interpretation.

Projects included:Participated in or managed SASW and Seismic Refraction projects as well as Vibration Monitoring. Design, installation and maintenance of seismic and geotechnical monitoring system. Seismic monitoring and geophysical rockmass characterization during hydraulic fracturing. Designed and implemented iSMS.

Managing the routine processing of large volumes of seismic and activity.Managing the routine processing of large volumes of seismic data and seismic hazard assessment of seismically active deep mines consultation and research. Development of ISO9001 QA procedures.

R&D in mining-induced seismicity: Seismology for rock burst prediction. Application of fundamental physics to mining-induced seismicity. The project involved site studies and data collection from large in-situ seismic monitoring systems at deep-level gold mines and an Australian longwall coal mine.Several automated pattern recognition techniques such as neural networks and genetic algorithms were implemented and investigated.Outcomes of the project included techniques for quantifying seismic pattern recognition using nonparametric statistics, techniques for combining pattern recognition and criticality to time–to-failure analyses of seismic parameters.

Safety in mines research Advisory Committee projects. Seismology for rock burst prediction. Feasibility of using portable of micro seismic monitoring systems to predict goafing in coal mines. Implementation of a mobile, intrinsically safe seismic monitoring system in fiery mines. Additionally, techniques developed in the project “Seismology for rock burst prediction” were applied to the data. The work involved the installation and managing of a microseismic system at a stooping colliery in South Africa.The outcomes of the project demonstrated the feasibility of goaf monitoring using a microseismic system, as well as the existence of recognizable patterns in acoustic emission prior to goafing. The project led to three further projects after I left. Additionally, the project served to directly stimulate the development of the GoafWarn monitoring units trialed in New Zealand in January 2004.

Lecturing first year physics course for students for Engineering and supervision of graduate students.