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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
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Thirty years of diverse mining industry experience in production, management, engineering, marketing and executive level roles. He has served as an engineering consultant to private industry clients and various governmental agencies. He has operated surface and underground mines throughout Pennsylvania as well as being a developer of seven synthetic fuels plants throughout the eastern United States. Responsibilities have included project management, mine design and development, property feasibility studies, equipment evaluations, abandoned mine lands investigations, environmental assessments, computer applications, sales and marketing, and monitoring of active operations to determine compliance with state and federal regulatory programs and overall corporate profitability.
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OBJECTIVE:
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Seeking a senior level executive position with a large mining company or consulting firm.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
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1989 - 2009 Alpine Coal Company, Inc. Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
Mine Manager, Vice President Operations, President
1980 - 1989 Robins and Associates, Inc. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Senior Mining Engineer, District Manager, and Vice President of Engineering
1975 - 1980 Island Creek Coal Company, Tire Hill, Pennsylvania
Underground Laborer, Miner Operator, Surveyor, Engineer Trainee
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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION:
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1980 Bachelor of Science, Mining Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
1981 Continuing Education, Mine Ventilation, Pennsylvania State University
1982 Continuing Education, Slope Stability Analysis, University of Kentucky
1983 Continuing Education, Geologic Computer Modeling, Colorado School of Mines
1984 Continuing Education, Computerized Mine Planning, Colorado School of Mines
1988 Continuing Education, Construction Project Management, Temple University
Mine Foreman (Pennsylvania - No. 3066)
Safety Instructor Qualification
Impoundment Inspector
Miner Competency and Qualification
Bituminous Cutting, Loading, and Drilling Machine Operator
Hazardous Gas Detection Qualification
SELECTED BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE:
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Currently serving as President of Alpine Coal Company, Inc. with overall responsibility for corporate profitability and overseeing the company's operations and marketing as well as new business development.
Client: CoBon Energy, LLC Salt Lake City, Utah
Served as consultant for the development of six (6) IRS Section 29 synthetic fuels plants at locations in West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania at sites operated by CC Pace, Consol Energy and PBS Coals, Inc. Annual production was 12,000,000 tons.
Client: Headwaters, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah
Served as consultant in the development of the company's second commercial IRS Section 29 synthetic fuels plant at Birmingport, Alabama that was sold to and operated by Pacific Corp.
Client: Control Data Corporation Minneapolis, Minnesota
Served as chief industry liaison for the Control Data Corporation's Eastern Mining Technical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Responsibilities involved implementing worldwide technology to various coal companies through an integrated network of mainframe computers.
Client: Enoxy Coal Company, Inc. Buchannon, West Virginia
Completed geologic modeling, equipment simulation, mine planning, scheduling, and complete financial analysis for various mountaintop removal techniques implementing special handling and backfilling methods for acid producing material at the environmentally sensitive Upshur County Complex in West Virginia. Planned production for the four-seam mine exceeds 5,000,000 tons per year.
Client: Electricity Commission of New South Wales, Australia
Assisted in the conceptual mine design for the Port Arthur North Project, near Muswellbrook, New South Wales. Planned production form the mult-seam operation was planned to exceed 11,000,000 tons per year by dragline and truck/shovel mining methods.
Client: Coal Allied Operations Party, Ltd. New South Wales, Australia
Assisted in the preliminary mine design of the Hunter Valley No. 2 multi-seam operation near Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. The project included mine layout, equipment selection, and scheduling for the production of over 4,000,000 tons per year from 15 seams.
Client: Bethlehem Coal Company Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Conducted geologic modeling and pre-mine planning for Bethlehem's seven seam, 2,000 acre High Power Mountain project in Nicholas Count, West Virginia.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Served as Project Analyst for the programmatic environmental impact statement of the National Abandoned Mine Lands Program. Activities included evaluating the System 2000 Database and developing custom software for U.S. Congressional decision-making purposes.
Client: Sierra Coal Company Lexington, Kentucky
Developed geologic models representing general stratographic conditions for regulatory review of operations in a 12 seam 120,000 acre reserve in eastern Kentucky.
Client: A.T. Massey Coal Company Richmond, Virginia
Conducted seminar for over 20 affiliated companies on the practical uses of computer technology for mining engineering and operations.
Client: Bradford Coal Company Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Conducted geologic modeling, truck simulation, blending optimization, mine planning, scheduling, dragline simulation and financial analysis for four contract mines.
Client: Grafton Coal Company Clarksburg, West Virginia
Conducted geologic modeling, product marketability analysis, and developed mine plan scenarios for management review of several proposed surface operations.
Client: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Conducted geologic and hydrologic modeling to access the environmental impacts of a proposed spray irrigation plant for the community of Ickesburg, Pennsylvania.
Client: Arco Coal Company Denver, Colorado
Developed peak flow and various flood elevations to be expected form the contributing watershed for the drainage plan at the Dock's Creek terminal.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Assisted in the subsidence evaluation of Old Ben Coal Company's proposed longwall operation under Rend Lake, Illinois.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Served as Principal Investigator for development of the programmatic environmental impact statement relevant to the National Abandoned Mine Lands Program.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Served as Project Manager for the subsidence investigation and mitigation of the Nelson Jordan Recreational Building in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Participated as Project Manager for the determination of subsidence damage implications to the Friendship Hill National Historic Site in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Client: Office of Surface Mining Washington, DC
Served as Project Engineer for the socioeconomic impact analysis of the Centralia, Pennsylvania Mine Fire Abatement Study.
Client: West Virginia Department of Energy Charleston, West Virginia
Participated as Project Engineer in the abandoned mine lands inventory, site visitation and documentation of all problem areas in the state of West Virginia.
Client: West Virginia Department of Energy Charleston, West Virginia
Participated as Project Engineer for the geotechnical investigation and thermographic analysis of the Ragland Refuse Fire and Landslide.
Client: Ohio Department of Natural Resources Columbus, Ohio
Participated as Project Engineer for the reclamation design of the Bannock gob pile and highwall elimination project.
Client: Sierra Coal Company Lexington, Kentucky
Served as Project Manager for development of two extensive environmental information documents required by the Environmental Protection Agency. The project areas were a 130,000 acre tract in eastern Kentucky and a 30,000 acre tract in West Virginia consisting of over 1,500 and 300 proposed discharge points. The approved permits were the largest ever issued in the United States.
Client: Various Eastern Coal Companies
Developed and/or reviewed over 50 underground mining permits for technical accuracy and regulatory compliance in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and Illinois.
Client: Various Eastern Coal Companies
Developed and/or reviewed over 150 surface mining permit for technical accuracy and regulatory compliance in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois and Georgia.
Client: Various Eastern Coal Companies
Authored and/or reviewed approximately 100 Small Operator's Assistance Program reports in the states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland.
PUBLICATIONS
Evaluation of Methods for Handling and Burial of Toxic Strip Mine Spoil, Rodak, M.J., Tettenburn, F., Office of Surface Mining, June 1982.
Investigation of Problems Arising form Abandoned Mined Lands, Hazard Cause and Effective Determination, Rodak, M.J., Office of Surface Mining, December 1981.
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