Following a passion for Production Engineering & optimisation, I founded DMS to provide operational & technical assistance to underground mines, alleviating mining industry production pressure, optimising efficiency, and reducing overheads. DMS assists clients by allowing onsite engineers to focus on their day-to-day tasks.- Drill & blast designs, the first and most crucial step to get right.- Drill & blast optimisation project tailored to specific client requirements.- Short-Term planning assistance, providing practical level planning, stope designs and extraction sequencing.- QA/QC reporting & procedure writing designed to protect a mine site and its workers.

Promoted to optimise production output through an overhaul of the drill & blast pratices & short-term processes, ensuring commercial success in terms of safety, production and cost whilst reporting to the Technical Services Superintendent.- Overhaul of the drill & blast standards while educating production and underground technical staff.- Defined and embedded QA/QC standards to ensure safety and productivity of underground drill & blast activities.- Aligned operations with forecasts having prepared and presented weekly & thirteen-week schedules.- Oversaw the transition of mining software and historic records with new procedures matching updated processes.

Finalised underground time with six months of production drilling using Sandvik Solo 5 & DRL431 and five months of development & production charging. Primary duties on surface were to produce stope drill plans, charge plans, tele-remote plans & monthly scheduling for all underground activities.

Role contracted from Bowden Select. Supplied production charge up services to the Granny Smith Gold Mine. Duties included Re-entry of blasted areas, preparing drill holes for explosive loading, loading explosives using ANFO & Emulsion.

Initially employed as a Nipper, transferred to Service Crew and finally Development Charge Up before leaving to start a FIFO role.

Involved in producing a Scoping study and Pre-feasibility study, focused on a copper-silver project in West Africa.Responsibilities included: Cost modelling and exploration, mining and environmental licensing, production planning, presenting progress to the company and compiling a report within a team of employees to supply to the client.