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SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
* Mining engineer with more than five years postgraduate experience
* Graduated at two mining universities: Ukraine and Germany
* Working experience with coal (underground), gold, bauxite, dolomite, limestone, gypsum, clay, pozzolana
* Operational experience: managing four quarries (5 millions t ROM), managing a dolomite open pit (4 millions t ROM), production scheduling, drilling and blasting, loading and haulage, stone preparation and quality control, negotiation with contractors, pumping, quality management, mobile screening and crushing unit, "i-kon" electronic detonation
* Mine planning: mine modelling, pit design, pit optimisation, bench optimisation, mine infrastructure
* Engineering: equipment selection, fleet simulation, CAPEX and OPEX estimation, audit, production cost optimisation, production record, calculation of profitability, identifying weak points in production process
* Management: manpower of 150 in four quarries and 27 in stone preparation plant
* Projects: drilling and blasting optimisation, mining of limestone with Surface Miner, ripping of gypsum and limestone with hydraulc excavator, percussion mining of gypsum (hydraulic hammer), dolomite dilution and recovery, stone-clay separation, sintering of different types of dolomite, operation with secondary fuel at dolomite sintering, online analysers, green- and brownfield projects in Russia
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
06/2008-present Lafarge-Nikolaev Cement/Ukraine
Raw Material Manager
* total management responsibility for all mining related activities in four quarries
12/2007-present Lafarge Cement Technical Center Vienna
Mining Engineer - Department "Geology and Mining"
11/2005-11/2007 LHOIST – Limelette, Belgium
Mining Engineer - Lhoist Headquarter department "Geology and Mining"
* project work in Russia
03/2003-10/2005 RHEINKALK HAGEN-HALDEN GMBH–Hagen, Germany (LHOIST Business Unit)
Quarry Manager – Dolomite open pit "Donnerkuhle" (2004-2005)
* total management responsibility for all mining related activities
Assistant-management (2003-2004)
* Assistance in all administrative tasks
SPECIAL TRAINING
* Internal mine modelling training at present employer, Lhoist, various occasions
* Staff management, 2 days
* SURPAC training, 2 weeks
* Production management in natural stone industry, 3 days
* Security adviser in a quarry, 1 week
* Training for general blasting operations, 1 week
* Handling electronic detonation system "i-kon", 2 days
* Geology in limestone and dolomites, 1 week
* Rheinkalk introduction to limestone, 1 week
* Lhoist introduction, 1 week
* English courses in Business and Technical English
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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