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Profile
Senior process engineer with MBA and thirteen years of experience in the design and application of mineral and tailings processing equipment is searching for a position that will challenge and utilize skill set within the context of a vibrant corporate setting. Possesses keen analytical and problem-solving skills along with a proven technical expertise. Solid project management abilities in tandem with exceptional technical writing and reporting skills allow me to make an immediate and vital contribution to the company.
Education
University of Louisville Louisville, KY
Master of Business Administration 2009
Clemson University Clemson, SC
Bachelor of Science in Biosystems Engineering (with a Natural Resources emphasis) 1998
Minor in Economics
FE Registered
Related Skills and Experience
Tailings Processing Experience
• Expert in the design and application of thickening units such as high-rate or paste-thickeners and other water reclaimation/solids thickening units such as ponds or tank clarifiers.
• Expert in the design and application of tailings dewatering units, such as belt filter presses and plate & frame filter presses.
• Experienced with many different pumping applicatons (centrifugal, positive-displacement, metering, etc.) as well as the associated design choices in pipeline engineering.
• Expert in the application of hydrocyclones for thickening, de-sliming, scavenging, and/or classification.
• Has experience designing and applying separation devices including dense-fluidized-beds in the classification of mineral particles or the removal of deleterious material from competent mineral.
• Identifies proper chemical type and dosage rate for the company’s process equipment, specifically flocculants and coagulants needed for clarification, thickening, and dewatering of sludge and slurry.
• Has extensive experience with mobile or pilot-scale units for many kinds of mineral processing, tailings processing, and ancillary equipment (thickeners, cyclone separators, dewatering screens, belt filter presses, fluidzed-bed classifiers, pneumatic jigs, pumps, and polymer make-down systems).
• Extensive experience calculating and organizing design criteria for process flow sheets including piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID).
• Creates process flow diagrams (PFD) for defining liquid, solids, volumetric, and material balances.
• Has detailed understanding of hydraulic line loss calculations, equipment sizing, and technical specifications.
• Understands many physical phenomena, including hands-on experience with pumping, piping, electrical, controls, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, valve technology, and piping systems.
• Demonstrates a great ability to problem-solve during operation of tailings processing equipment and efficiently trouble-shoots issues that arise in order to resume planned experiments or operation.
Field, Bench-Scale, and Pilot-Scale Experience
• Extensive field engineering experience including gathering data, sampling process flows, direct client contact/communication, and communicating with electricians and mechanics.
• Has conducted thousands of bench-scale experiments in an industrial laboratory setting over the course of thirteen years. Daily experience interpreting those experiments in order to estimate full-scale performance.
• Has completed over forty pilot-scale experiments in support of closely estimating full-scale performance.
• Designs and conducts studies of operational data in support of customer’s production goals. Measures and reports equipment capacity and efficiency with respect to product/waste rates.
• Has travelled domestically and internationally in support of start-up and application of tailings processing equipment including travel to several Carribean sites and one experience as far away as a Siberian coal processing application in Russia.
Work Ethic and Communication
• History of performing work with minimal supervision and is a self-starter.
• Serves as source of technical expertise and primary researcher for current company’s process technologies and equipment applications.
• Develops and manages training sessions on current company’s process equipment. Training sessions have been tailored for their respective audience, ...
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