Employment History
My experience in the mining industry reflects 19 years of “hands on” plant operations, operator training and plant management, from small crushing and grinding operations with limited budgets to large world class ore concentrators.
I operate, train and manage with the safety for personnel and the environment as my #1 priority.
Employment
Dec 00 to Present Kumtor Operating Company, Kyrgyzstan
-Plant operations trainer
-Plant operations supervisor
- Operate all plant equipment
- Train local workforce to operate a 15000 tpd crushing plant, grinding, flotation, carbon strip, CIL, tailings, refinery at high altitude location in a safe and efficient manner.
- Live and work in a remote location in Central Asia working 28 on 28 off schedule
- Scheduling and performing plant maintenance
- Implement safe work procedures and policies
- Manage and supervise metallurgical staff
- Constantly reevaluating and implementing new operating procedures and perameters as conditions change
- Major Plant components at Kumtor:
Gyratory primary crusher 42in.
One 4700 Kw Fuller SAG mill
Two 3700 Kw Fuller ball mills
One M10000 Isa mill, ultra fine grinding mill
Krebs Hydro cyclones
Bulk flotation circuit, Rougher and secondary, Wemco 40 M3 cells
3 High capacity slurry thickeners
9 Carbon in leach gold recovery tanks
Zadra carbon stripping circuit
Electrowinning circuit
Induction furnace gold/silver refinery
Nov 99 to Nov 00 Various mining and maintenance contractors
-Operations and Maintenance
- Operate plant equipment
- Training plant operators
- Performing plant maintenance
Oct 98 to Aug 99 BHP Copper North America Robinson, Ely Nevada
-Plant Group Leader
- Supervise plant operations personnel
- Maintain production and budget levels set by management
- Maintenance planning
- Plant operations in a 50000 tpd copper concentrator to include SAG mills, Ball mills, Tower mills, Floatation, Thickeners, DCS control system
- Ensuring safety procedures and policies are met
Oct 94 to Jul 98 Addwest Minerals, Oatman Arizona
-Mill Foreman/Maintenance Foreman
- Supervise Operations and maintenance personnel
- Train operations personnel
- Maintain production and budget levels set by management
- Maintenance planning and scheduling
- Refinery operations and training
- Plant operations in a 500 tpd gold concentrator to include Rod mills, Ball mills, Carbon stripping, CIL CIP, Thickeners, Tailings
- Purchasing and inventory control for plant equipment
May 88 to Aug 94 Atlas Corporation, Eureka Nevada
-Mill operator
-Mill Foreman
-Mill Gen Foreman
Registrations And Certificates
- Supervisor ticket Central asia
- First aid, CPR
Computer Skills
- Autocad Release 14
- Microsoft Office XP Professional Suite
- Foxboro Plant DCS
- Windows XP
- Mac OS