PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth : 1988 February 20
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : South African
Religion : Christian
Gender : Male
Home language : Xitsonga
Other languages : English, Isizulu, Northern Sotho
Health : Good
Criminal offences : None
Drivers licence : Code 10
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
Last School Attended : Mbhanyele high school
Highest Standard Passed : Grade 12 (Metric)
Year : 2004
Nature of Qualification : Full Exemption
TERTIARY QUALIFICATION
Institution : University of KwaZulu-Natal
Degree : BSC Geological science (Eng. Geology)
Year completed : June 2009
WORK EXPRIENCE
1. Company : Eskom (Kusile Power Station)
Position : Geotechnical Engineer (junior position)
Year : Currently working at Eskom (started 2011)
Responsibility
- Responsible for the Quality inspection, Geotechnical inspection, Review contractor’s method statements, develop instructions to contractors on site and working primarily with all geotechnical issues with the site services contractor. This will involve continuous monitoring of site services activities, slope stability, providing support when remedial works are being performed, and provide monitoring to avoid future remedial works.
- Skills on Core Logging which includes Recovery, Rock Fabric, Joints & General Description
- Inspection of soil compaction
- Inspection and method of piling and designing the pile.
- Inspection of Dams; which include backfilling the embankment, finger drains, Thrust block overflow pipes, spillways and drop shafts.
- Inspection and method which comprises of drilling, trenching/ test pit excavation profiling and sampling, rotary core drilling such as concrete coring.
- Skills on soil testing using CBR, Indicator, slake durability, linear shrinkage, and liquid limit.
- Responsible for monitoring safety and excellent working environment.
2. Company : Eskom (Kusile Power Station)
Position : SHE Rep for Engineering Department
Training : Excavation & Trenches Training, Basic Fire
Extinguisher, Safety management technic Training
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3. Institution : University of KwaZulu-Natal
Position : Mathematics Tutoring
Year : 2009 (6 month)
FIELD EXPERIENCE
- Field skills in rock engineering, which includes excavation and support rock tunnels using Modified Rock Mass Rating for mining (Bieniawski system) and Rock Tunnelling Quality Index, Q (Barton system)
- Field applications of steps required for structurally controlled instability in tunnel. Field and laboratory (practical) skills in mining and evaluation which include modelling and field application methods for rock drilling.
- Skills in advance field mapping of brittle and ductile rocks.
- Field and practical skills and Good understanding of aspects of geohydrology.
COMPUTER LITERACY
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Office Programmes
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Edition
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Operating Systems
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Microsoft Office Power Point
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2003 -2007
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XP Professional, Home Edition
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Microsoft Office Word-processing
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2003-2007
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NT, Millennium Edition
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Microsoft Office Excel
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2003-2007
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MAC-Apple
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Microsoft Office Publisher
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2003-2007
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Vista
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Microsoft Outlook
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2010
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XP Professional, Home Edition
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OTHER IMPORTANT SKILLS ACQUIRED
1 Daily Report writing,
2 Data Capturing and Analysing,
3 Researching (Fieldwork and Internet-Based),
4 Presentation (Written, Oral and Audio-Visual )
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Mbhanyele high school: Best Academic Excellence in Grades 8, 9, 10 and 11
Love Life: 2007 (Creating Community Awareness in Drugs and
HIV/AIDS related Activities)
- Extramural activities : Soccer, Reading, Listening to Music
REFERENCES
Will be provided