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GOAL: Operations or engineering position within an organization that makes use of my leadership ability and technical skills effectively.
EDUCATION
Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado
May 1998 graduate with high honors
Major: BS in Mining Engineering
GPA: 3.7 GPA in Major: 4.0
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Army Commendation Medal 2001
Army Achievement Medal, 1999, 2000
Ranger School Graduate 1999
Airborne School Graduate 1994
EIT certification 1998
Outstanding Mining Engineering Graduate 1998
Colorado Engineering Council Outstanding Graduate 1998
Dean's List (8 semesters)
Ultimate Miner 1996, 1998
ENGINEERING SKILLS
* Training and experience in leadership of groups ranging from 30-150 people.
* Extensive experience in anti-terrorism/force protection planning
* Demonstrated ability to conduct short-term (8 week) and long term (6 month) planning.
* Management of both military and civilian preventative maintenance programs.
* Excellent problem solving ability in time critical situations.
* Helped re-design, fabricate, and install modifications to critical structures and mine equipment.
* Extensive practice in surface and underground surveying, including aerial mapping.
* Completed pre-feasibility study of mine expansion project.
* Experience with AutoCad, MS Excel, MS Access, FORTRAN, networking, MEDS system, Surpac2000, UNIX, TDS surveying software.
WORK EXPERIENCE
July 2001- Tri Resident Office, Alaska District, US Army Corps of Engineers, EAFB, AK
Present Quality Assurance Representative for several construction projects including a $10,500,000 F-15 hangar upgrade. Responsible for contract compliance inspections, mediating disputes regarding design and construction, and facilitating communication between contractors, engineer district, and client organization. Supervised contractor's quality control program, verified submittal for contract compliance, monitored project scheduling, and reported to Resident Engineer on project progress and changes in contract conditions.
May 1998- 562d Engineer Company, 172d Infantry Brigade, U.S. Army, Fort Richardson, AK
July 2001 Platoon leader of the army's only separate, airborne, arctic-equipped combat engineer detachment in the world, responsible for the training, health, and welfare of 36 men and their families, as well as maintaining over $5,000,000 world of weapons, equipment, and real property. Managed a motor pool and monitored preventative maintenance program. Planned and executed training on mobility, counter-mobility, and survivability tasks over a 3-year period. Prepared for deployment in less than 36 hours after notification. Subject matter expert on engineer operations advising the commander of a 600-man parachute infantry task force. Planned, coordinated, and led platoon on 3 overseas airborne operations to Hawaii, Thailand, and Australia as well as 25 major deployments to field training exercises in climates ranging from tropical to sub-arctic.
Aug 1997- Stu Blatner Raiseboring Inc., Golden, CO
May 1998 Work as a general hand, duties including rebuilding of raise-boring machines, cutters, reaming heads, and Magna Flux non-destructive testing of drill pipe, drill stems, and roller stabilizers. Worked with welding, machining, carpentry, automotive mechanics, and construction.
May 1997- Colorado School of Mines Senior Design Project, Golden, CO
December 1998 Completed a pre-feasibility study for an ore body for a molybdenum mine in northern New Mexico, consisted of geo-statistical model of ore body, mine and plant design, conveyor design, equipment selection, draw point layout, drift design, life cycle cost analysis, and preliminary scheduling.
Aug 1996- UNOCAL/ Molycorp - Questa Division, Questa, NM
Aug 1997 One-year intern at an underground, LHD-block cave, molybdenum mine in northern New Mexico. Responsibilities included: ore control, ventilation, design work using AutoCAD R13, surveying, rock bolt testing, preventative maintenance scheduling, equipment purchasing, major engineering projects, tailings impoundment, and mine rescue team captain.
Summer 1996 Edgar Experimental Mine, Idaho Springs, CO
Spring 1996 Taught surface and underground surveying techniques to Mining Engineering students at the Colorado School of Mines. Also worked as a shift boss teaching basic mining techniques as well as the use of a jackleg drill, LHD, overshot mucker, 10-ton locomotive, slusher, and drill jumbo.
Summer 1995 ASARCO Mission Complex, Sahuarita, AZ
and X-mas '95 Heavy truck driver (200-ton), blast crewmember, and engineering intern at open pit copper mine.
August 1994 Colorado School of Mines, Residence Life, Golden, CO
May 1994 Resident Assistant – Thomas Hall, responsible for health and welfare of 25 students and general supervision of building facilities in Residence Hall.
Summer 1993 RMCI Construction Co, Albuquerque, NM
Laborer Foreman. In charge of 4 other laborer charged with concrete formwork, concrete placement, miscellaneous carpentry, surveying, and pipeline installation on a 6 million gallon underground water storage tank project in Bear Canyon.
Summer 1991 MA Mortenson Federal Contracting Group, Patuxent River, MD
Administrative Assistant to Project Manager, Maintained submittals log, contract management, and purchasing agent for a $25 million dollar Hangar construction project.
Spring 1988 Kindler Construction Company, Albuquerque, NM
Summer 1990 General Laborer and Carpenters Apprentice on projects including GMP Insurance building, Munitions Storage Facility Kirkland AFB, Los Lunas Sheriff's station, Lomas Burger King, INTEL Fab 4, Wyoming Animal Hospital, Wyoming NAPA store remodel, Middle Ridge Trail Sandia, Sandia Man Cave, Bernalillo County Courthouse Asbestos abatement and remodel, and other projects.
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