CONTACT INFORMATION:
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
* Mining engineer with more than five years postgraduate experience in CIS and Western Europe
* Graduated at two mining universities: Ukraine and Germany
* Working experience with coal (underground – longwall); gold, bauxite, dolomite, limestone, gypsum, clay, pozzolana – surface mining
* Mine modelling experience with SURPAC
EDUCATION
2002 RWTH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - Aachen, Germany
Graduate of Mining Engineering (Dipl.-Ing., M.Sc.)
1998 NATIONAL MINING UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE – Dnipropetrovs'k
Graduate of Underground Mining Engineering (Mining Eng.)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
08/2008-present Lafarge-Nikolaev Cement/Ukraine
Raw Material Manager within the project "Building a new cement plant"
* total management responsibility for all mining related activities in four quarries (5 millions t ROM), manpower of 150 in four quarries and 27 in stone preparation plant
* production scheduling, drilling and blasting, loading and haulage, budgeting, stone preparation and grade control, negotiation with contractors, pumping, quality management
* projects: full retooling and reequipment of four quarries in the Ukraine up to "Western mining standards", drilling and blasting optimisation, mining of limestone with Surface Miner, optimisation of shovel-truck operation, ripping of gypsum and limestone with hydraulic excavator, percussion mining of gypsum (hydraulic breaker), mobile screening and crushing unit
12/2007-present Lafarge Cement Technical Center Vienna
Mining Engineer - Department "Geology and Mining"
* technical support and optimisation of the Lafarge operations in Russia and Ukraine
* equipment selection, fleet simulation, CAPEX and OPEX estimation, audit, production cost optimisation, production record, calculation of profitability, identifying weak points in production process
* mine modelling, pit design, pit optimisation, bench optimisation, mine infrastructure
* implementation of HSE standards in the Lafarge quarries in Russia and Ukraine
* projects: dewatering of soft overburden, dragline operation in comparison with mobile equipment in overburden stripping, drilling and blasting optimisation
11/2005-11/2007 LHOIST – Limelette, Belgium
Mining Engineer - Lhoist Headquarter department "Geology and Mining"
* green- and brownfield projects in Russia, due diligence, feasibility study
* equipment selection, fleet simulation, CAPEX and OPEX estimation, audit, production cost optimisation, production re-cord, calculation of profitability, identifying weak points in production process
* mine modelling, pit design, pit optimisation, bench optimisation, mine infrastructure
03/2003-10/2005 RHEINKALK HAGEN-HALDEN GMBH–Hagen, Germany (LHOIST Business Unit)
Quarry Manager/COO – Dolomite quarry "Donnerkuhle" (2004-2005)
* total management responsibility for all mining related activities (4 millions t ROM), manpower of 26 in the quarry and 7 in stone preparation plant
* production scheduling, drilling and blasting, loading and haulage, budgeting, stone preparation and quality control, negotiation with contractors, pumping, quality management, mobile screening and crushing unit, "i-kon" electronic detonation
* projects: drilling and blasting optimisation, dolomite dilution and recovery, stone-clay separation, on-line analysers
Assistant-management (2003-2004)
* assistance in all administrative tasks
* projects: sintering of different types of dolomite, operation with secondary fuel at dolomite sintering
SPECIAL TRAINING
* Internal mine modelling training at Lhoist, various occasions
* SURPAC training
* Production management in natural stone industry
* Security adviser in a quarry
* Training for general blasting operations
* Handling electronic detonation system "i-kon" Orica
ACADEMIC WORK AND PROJECTS
October 2002 Degree dissertation
"Operational, technical and economic comparison of hydraulic excavators to shovels at two gold surface mines of Muruntau and Kokpatas in Uzbekistan"; sponsored by "TEREX O&K Mining GmbH"
2002 INSTITUTE OF "MINERAL PROCESSING" Research Assistant
* Working on wet gravity separation techniques and magnetic separation
2000-2002 INSTITUTE OF "SURFACE MINING AND DRILLING" Research Assistant
* Involvement in preliminary surface mine design (cement)
* Lecture preparation on mining methods and techniques
June 1998 Degree dissertation with distinction
"Economic and mine planning for the underground coal mine
"Named after Geroev Kosmosa" with a focus on access, pillar and production optimisation"
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Languages
Russian: mother tongue
German: business fluent
Ukrainian: business fluent
English: advanced
Computer skills Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Mine modelling SURPAC block-modelling, surface design, basic macros,
Pit Optimiser
Blasting Certificate Certificate of Competence according to * 20 of the German Blasting Law which enables the person to handle with and transport explosives, detonator cords and detonators
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