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Senior-level Mining Engineer / Management Executive

Consulting ~ Project Management ~ Health, Safety & Environmental Compliance

Engineering ~ Automation ~ Global Operations~ Public Speaking / Presentations ~ Teaching

• Possess extensive experience in the mining industry with specialization in mine ventilation and refrigeration, occupational health and safety, operations management, revolutionary longwall mining, and risk assessment.
• Demonstrated strengths in mine cost analysis and mine project economics, financial administration, and defining and implementing processes to maximize industry stability and profitability.

         Authored numerous chapters in books and proceedings, technical papers/reports, and more than 100 consultancy reports, internal notes and reviews on all major aspects of mining and ventilation engineering design, evaluation and implementation; extensive list of publications can be provided upon request.

         Served as external examiner of numerous PhD and MSc theses and mentored countless PhD and MSc students throughout their studies.

         Adept at connecting with, educating, influencing and managing people from all cultures and backgrounds.

         Championed successful design and application of continuous miner and longwall dust control systems applied in all continuous miners in South Africa.

         Pioneered size-selective sampling curve in South Africa, earning recognition as the first country to adopt the international harmonization curve.

• Resourcefully planned, coordinated, and implemented mid-gate shaft cooling for AAMC mines.

         Orchestrated AAMC real-time continuous monitoring for NGERS-mandated underground VAM reporting.

         Project-managed Grosvenor 2 Gate road design valued at $390M.

         Directed Grasstree to set record for Australia for achieving 10 MTPA (million tonnes per annum) in ventilation and gas management.

         Received letter of acknowledgement from Anglo s CEO in 2013 for technical expertise and outstanding contributions to settlement and arbitration proceedings.

• Handpicked by Anglo American plc to complete High-Potential Individual Talent Management Program.

         Invited as guest lecturer for Mining Engineering, University of Queensland in 2013.

• Masterminded 50m goaf drainage for underground gas management at gassiest coal mines in 2012.
• Awarded for Best Technical Paper Published in the Journal of the MVSSA, South Africa in 2011/12.
• Elected as President of the Mine Ventilation Society of South Africa, in 2009/2010.

         Acquired, organized and launched First Inertisation System of Fires in Collieries (2005 to 2009).

• Formally recognized by the Anglo American Resource Center for Service Excellence in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
• Won 2003 Anglo American Director s Award for technical excellence in cost models for ventilation design .

Anglo American Coal, Australia and South Africa, Underground Excellence, 2014 to Present

Group Ventilation and Gas Manager

         Recommend and implement process improvements to ventilation, gas, cooling, and occupational health including governance and controls for multiple fatality risk management of fires and/or explosions.

         Identify, recommend and deliver improvements for 16 operations and expansion projects.

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Professional Experience continued

         Foster cohesiveness and collaboration throughout Coal Business Unit to optimize ventilation activities.

         Develop and deploy cutting-edge technology to enhance performance in ventilation area consistent with overall Coal Business Unit strategy.

         Actively support development of health of VOHE (Ventilation and Occupational Hygiene Engineering) discipline across the Coal Business Unit.

Anglo American Metallurgical Coal, Australia, 2010 to 2014

Group Ventilation and Gas Engineer, Resource Development and Operational Excellence

         Performed benchmarking and delivered technical and automation solutions for AAMC longwall mines of the future project, successfully expediting initiative by 100 hours.

         Providing technical guidance and ongoing support in managing multiple hazardous, sponcom (spontaneous combustion)-intensive, 7 km long and gassiest coal mines worldwide.

         Influenced knowledge management and sharing of leading practices via ventilation user forum to achieve and sustain safe and healthy operations.

Anglo American plc, VOHE, Johannesburg, SA, 2008 to 2010

Group / Principal Mining Engineer, Mining & Technology Group Governance, Standards and Assurance

         Proactively advanced energy efficiency in mine ventilation engineering and mine shaft, while enforcing stringent ventilation and refrigeration standards to control fires, explosions, dust and noise.

         Conducted thematic noise and dust (including DPM) reviews at Anglo operations and fastidiously reviewed biofuel applications to improve environmental impact and cost containment.

         Functioned as technical advisor on relevant legal and benchmark technical value solutions and provided global observations on VOHE discipline skills.

VOHE, Anglo American, Johannesburg, SA, 2003 to 2008

Senior Mining Engineer

         Planned, administered, and supervised ventilation design and review services to ensure adherence to highest professional standards for Anglo Coal, Platinum, Base Metals, Ferrous, and DeBeers projects.

         Evaluated and addressed emergent and existing risks to achieve or surpass aggressive goals for safety, billing, budget conformance, and performance management.

Chamber of Mines (CSIR)-Miningtek, Johannesburg, SA, 2001 to 2002

Senior Mining Engineer / Project Leader, Ventilation and Respiratory Protection

         Spearheaded mining and environmental engineering efforts to critically assess and control dust, methane, underground mine ventilation, and refrigeration.

         Oversaw project budget, team members, and resource allocation for projects which included development of Kloppersbos Shearer spray curtain which successfully reduced 60%+ of dust along longwall face.

Kloppersbos Coal, Fires, Dust and Explosions Centre, Chamber of Mines, Pretoria, SA, 1997 to 2001

Mining Engineer

         Led several major ventilation and dust projects, exhibiting proficiency in engineering design, construction and commissioning of dust control systems, risk assessments, environmental control, underground mine ventilation simulation, sampling, instrumentation, and dust measurements.

Generic Mineral Technology Centre for Respirable Dust, Pennsylvania State University USA, 1993 to 1997

Research Assistant Mining Engineering

         Conducted in-depth ventilation surveys, performed dust sampling, prepared comprehensive reports, presented findings, and delivered technical papers at international symposiums and conferences.

Pennsylvania State University, USA, 1995 to 1997

Teaching Assistant Mining Engineering

         Proficiently taught undergraduate classes in AutoCAD, Environmental Sampling and Monitoring, Ore Reserve Estimation and Geo-Statistics.

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Anglo-American Management Development Programme (MDP)

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2005

Ph.D., Mining Engineering, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2004

M.S., Mining Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 1996

B.S., Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology, 1993

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Academic Honors & Awards:

Scholarship Recipient throughout B.Eng., M.Sc. and PhD engineering studies

Outstanding International Student, Pennsylvania State University, 1997

Norman and Ardeth Frisbey International Student Award, Pennsylvania State University, 1996

IEEE Top Student Award, Undergraduate Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology 1993

Top Student, Bachelor of Technology in Mining Engineering, National Institute of Technology 1993

Extraordinary Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2014 to Present

Chartered Professional (CP), Registered Professional Engineer Queensland (RPEQ, Mining), Australia, 2010 to Present

Member, AusIMM The Minerals Institute, 2010 to Present

Anglo Representative, Euromines on Health Exposure Limits, 2009 to Present

Anglo Representative, World Coal Institute on Methane and Mine Safety (UN EPA Committee), 2009 to Present

Member, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc. (SME, USA), 1994 to Present

Statistical Packages:

Minitab 13; SigmaPlot 11.0

Mining and Ventilation Tools:

VUMA, Ventsim, VNETPC, MFIRE; CANVENT; Mine24D (Visual); FRDGE6; SURFER;

Wrote three codes on ventilation network using operations research and graph theory