Education & Professional Experience:

BSc GEOLOGY and BSc GEOGRAPHY/CARTOGRAPHY Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, Illinois

Profession: GEOLOGIST & Civil Designer (3-D Modeling)

Hazardous Waste Mgmt Training, — Colorado School of Mines — Golden, CO Certificates in: Autocad, CU - Boulder, CO; Microstation/Intergraph, Irvine, CA GPS/GeoExpl., (Trimble); Arc/Info & ArcView, ESRI, Redlands, CA EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Bechtel Corp. USA & Canada (Govt. Services, Mining & Metals and Power Divisions) Sr. Geologist / Civil Designer (Grade 25) (02/2001 – 10/2009)
Perform civil design on Bauxite (Al) projects in So. Amer. & Middle East. Design earthworks, geotechnical, haul roads, railroad and port facilities for sites. Assist geotechnical in nuclear power plant siting for NRC COLA license application at Calvert Cliffs, MD. Experienced in Microstation up to XM since 1993 & AutoCad since 1986.

Yucca MT. PROJECT. – Nevada Test Site, Mercury, NV
(transitioned thru 4 subcontractors below for the US Dept. of Energy)

1. Bechtel/SAIC Co. (BSII) Field Engr. Sr. Civil Designer/ Survey Analyst (Grade 24) (2/2001 – 11/2006)
2. Fluor Daniel Corp. (Fluor Federal Services) Construction & Field Support (4/99 — 2/2001)
3. SAIC (Science Application International Corp.) Sr. Geologist (4/97 — 9/98)
4. MORRISON KNUDSEN CORPORATION (MK) Sr. Subsurface Designer, Field Engr. A/E Title III (5/93 — 6/96)

Provide civil design and field survey data processing support to construction planning and maintenance activities at the Yucca Mt. Site. Responsibility included work package knowledge and controls for all disciplines. Create sketches and final drawings in all work packages for craft projects.
Software programs used: Microstation, AutoCAD, Softdesk, Wildsoft, Starnet, Word, Excel and other office proprietary programs.

Geologist at the Sample Management Facility (SMF) Provided support for surface and underground drilling supervision in tunnels and alcoves. Conventional coring and reverse circulation drilling on surface drill programs. Performed documentation of core samples for interested parties in a QA/QC environment.

Participated in 3 1/2 miles of the Exploratory Subsurface Facility (ESF), 25 ft. Dia. and ECRB 16 ft. Dia. tunnels on the tunnel boring machines (TBM). Functioned as a Title III shift engineer monitoring tunnel and alcove excavation for adherence to design drawings & specifications. As a designer produced Title II engineering design drawings for the subsurface Repository Group on tunnel as-builts. Before construction provided advanced conceptual design layouts, geological, transportation equipment and shaft & ramp drawings. Assist other disciplines in civil, electrical, mechanical and structural drawings and modeling.

(Other positions prior and in between above work at Yucca Mt at the Nevada Test Site. Principally in coal mining and geology in the mining industry as well as hazmat work in UST and groundwater contaminations.)

NYE Co., NV - Dept. of Natural Resources. & Federal Facilities, Pahrump, NV GIS Coordinator
Geographer at the NYE County Waste Repository Project Office (NWRPO) for Yucca Mt., to the Nevada Test Site. Provide support for Early Warning Drilling Program (EWDP), a water monitoring project as well mapping efforts for the County entity.

NORWEST MINE SERVICES, INC. — Salt Lake City, UT Contract Geologist
Field geologist on a coal exploration license in NW Colorado. Core sampling and monitor well installations for a deep underground mine project near Hayden. (Returned to Yucca Mt. Subcontractors.)

GEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT - Littleton/Englewood, CO Geologist/Cartographer
Contract geological and cartographic work. 6 yrs to Meridian Minerals Co, Bull Mt. MT. Recalculate all BN reserves in Western US. Computer mapping, mine plans & sequencing, mineral evaluations, analytical modeling, extensive AutoCAD/DCA mapping services. Design, supervise and permit drilling programs, project management. Perform hazardous waste site assessments, write reports for UST and petrochemical contaminations of groundwater for USPCI, Ryan-Murphy, JR Environmental CO, TX, KS, MI, AZ, NM, UT.

Conducted a 3 month tour in OMAN (Persian Gulf) for United Nations contract as Geological Prospecting & Computer Data Consultant on a mineral/mining project. Trained Arab geologists in AutoCAD drafting, field exploration, mapping, logging, coring and reserve evaluations.

WYOMING FUEL COMPANY (KN ENERGY) — Lakewood, CO Senior Geologist
Mine geologist for New Elk & Golden Eagle mines in Raton Basin, CO. (formerly Allen & Maxwell mines of CF&I). Initiate longwall drilling projects, budget and schedule, core logging, construct mine maps and cross sections, sample analysis & reserve evaluations, surveying. Engaged in coalbed methane testing and degassing wells. Assist in engineering, geotechnical, environmental and hydrological studies on property.

DORCHESTER COAL COMPANY - Grand Junction & Englewood, CO Senior Geologist
Direct exploration & dev. drilling for a Sumitomo joint-venture in the Bookcliffs Colo. The Dorchester/Anchor prospects. Supervise and install deep hydrological wells for Bureau of Mines study on project. Engaged in coalbed methane sampling and core quality analysis. Assist in permitting to BLM/USGS/State Agencies. Map and calculate reserves for the Federal leases.

CARBONERA MINING COMPANY - Grand Junction, CO Coal Geologist
Western slope evaluations, marketing study & reclamation on the abandon Atlas Dirty Devil mine in Southern Utah.

TERA CORPORATION DTC - Englewood, CO Resource Geologist
Energy, coal, lignite and mineral reserve evaluations in Gulf Coast (TX) & West. Monitor Federal Coal leasing programs & evaluate coal tracts for clients. Perform GIS studies and site characterizations for industrial facilities.

INDEPENDENT GEOLOGIST - Littleton, CO. Consulting Geologist
Manage a contractor/USGS coal drilling project (BLM tract delineation studies) near Craig in NW, Colo. Evaluate mineral holdings.

PITTSBURG & MIDWAY COAL MINING COMPANY - Denver, CO; Salt Lake, UT; & Albuquerque,
GULF MINERAL RESOURCES COMPANY - Albuquerque, NM Division Coal Geologist/Sr. Geologist
Mine geologist for two surface mining operations, McKinley & Edna Mines. Perform coring & drilling programs at Paonia & Meeker CO. Geotechnical drilling for UG highwall & silo storage construction. Projects in CO, UT & NM.

CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY - Englewood, CO Project Geologist
Supervise private, federal and state exploration/development coring and drilling projects and property evaluations in Utah, Montana, New Mex. Wyoming; and Danforth Hills, Williams Fork; Bookcliffs, Denver & Raton Basins & Coalmont Colo. Research land ownership and create cartographic maps, calculate reserves and coal quality.

Accomplishments as a coal geologist:

WYOMING FUELS COMPANY in the Raton Basin, Colorado

During mapping of an underground (met) coal mine I detected unusual fault slippages that ran horizontal along the roof line and then down turned into diagonal and measurable fault displacements. The causes were regional thrust pressure from volcanic intrusions of the Spanish Peaks in So. Colorado. This horizontal pressure would produce horizontal cylindrical log shapes in the coal itself that would fall out at room and pillar mining. It gave us critical mapping and trend data as to cleat failures at pillars
I requested underground inseam radar surveys to focus on faults within coal pillars and hand held EMF surveys on the surface to detect fault linements. In conjunction with this I used air photo prints with a video projector at the Denver USGS facilities to define linements with a finely etched glass plate rotated like a polarized lense. The surface traces were transferred to scaled USGS 7 1/2 minute topographic maps. This was done with USGS participation.

In developing underground maps I tracked downward cutting sandstone channels and orientations from higher in the formation that eroded down into the coal beds. This was aided by drafting interbed isopachs and structural contour mapping of individual coal seams. Thick coarse and clean sand bodies would pinch out or compress the coal beds below into rolls which hindered equipment traction and grade in the tunnels.
When I presented these findings to the mine personnel they were able to confirm the presence of sand units while advancing the longwall panels and reported significant pinchouts of coal thickness. This lead to longwall abandonment in certain areas of the reserves.

DORCHESTER COAL COMPANY in the Book Cliffs Region, Colorado

I had a driller decline to abandon an older leaking coal gas well with broken casing at the surface. He wanted $100K for rig insurance. I designed a plan and abandoned the well successfully with stacked (cut & sleeved) 55 gallon empty barrels placed over the excavated casing. I reversed the gas flow by flooding the barrels with a 6 cubic yard sand-cement slurry and sealed the entire borehole. No rig but only a dozer and cement truck were used. (This operation was personally video taped for verification)

I took over a joint-venture drilling program (w/Sumitomo of Japan) that utilized small helicopter lifted core drill rigs in remote locations the previous year. The smaller diameter coal cores were inadequate to get complete physical and chemical analyses.
I planned, ($3M budget) executed and coordinated (36 miles) of rugged road construction and utilized large truck mounted drill rigs to obtain the necessary core size, depth and pad locations. Water transportation being critical due to mountainous terrain and long haul roads, I requested air foam mist injection over mud drilling.
The previous helicopter supported drilling program also purchased several miles of high pressure hose for pumping water to ridge tops at a huge expense.

YUCCA MT (high Level Nuclear Waste Underground Repository) NTS, Nevada

On Yucca Mt project I was employed in the capacity as a geologist taking core samples and processing to the government labs. I worked as a designer making the CAD drawings for tunnel construction. As a Title III A/E shift engineer I worked on monitoring the tunnel excavation for non-conformance of certain materials and construction work. As a survey analyst and field engineer I processed survey data and produced as-builts of utilities for all the disciplines at the job site. This versatility of experience allowed me work many aspects of the project as a valued employee.

PITTSBURG MIDWAY COAL COMPANY in the Williams Fork Fm. Basin Steamboat Springs, Colorado

I was asked by our company President to utilize an experimental high frequency SEISMIC SURVEY for shallow coal beds on one of our mining properties. I selected the 200 ft high wall location at our proposed underground mine shared by a competitor already under their development. Our coal leases were adjoining and we were to pay $500K upfront to them for access or it would be backfilled and reclaimed. I detected a fault complex not supported by one of our geophysical experts that reviewed the data. We layed out two parallel shot lines and processed the results. They produced two dissimilar profiles and they blurred at the ends closest a near vertical cliff. Earlier I requested a soil radon survey led by the geophysist with myself as laborer to initially indicate their presence. I then followed a deep drill closely spaced (25 & 50 foot intervals.) drill hole program to prove physical existence with geophysical logging. Several boreholes finally penetrated between two faults and lost the coal seam and rock intervals completely. The structural offset would cause a longer trans across the fault zone outside of the coal seam to maintain a tunnel gradient. Groundwater leakage into the workings was consequentally admitted by the adjacent coal company after our discovery.
In additional I substantiated the fault scarps by taking silhouette photographs using the late afternoon sun set. It showed the surface expression of faults located at the very hill slope we ran the radon survey over. Needless to say our company saved the $500K and never went underground.

WYOMING FUELS COMPANY in the Raton Basin, Colorado

One of our coal mines mined into a fault (later defined) which instantaneously flooded the workings. Massive amounts of methane gas were generated to defeat the ventilation system and called for evacuation. It took over 5 days before a discovery and investigation could take place as to the cause. I and one superintendant safely re-entered the workings and examined the cave-in and equipment. It was gushing crystal clear water (drinkable) along a shattered and faulted sandstone.
I mobilized a surface drill rig to penetrate the workings and to degas the mine at a tunnel intersection nearby. I also drilled into the fault displacement and the water source for dewatering. Much to my surprise I flared the gas while pumping water from that well. At that time I discovered a coalbed gas field which later was leased to Meridian Oil.