GAC Project, a Subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminum Corporation (EGA), Sangaredi and Kamsar, Guinea. Performed as PMC (Owner’s Team) Area Project Manager responsible for three EPC Packages and three major rail rolling stock and equipment procurements including a $280 million port surface facilities development package, a $42 million contract mining package and a $13 million diesel fuel supply BOOT contract package for the development of a greenfield bauxite mine in Sangaredi, Boké region, Guinea.
Wa'ad Al-Shamal Phosphate Project, Ma’aden Phosphate Corporation, Ras Al-Khair Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Performed as PMC (Owner’s Team) Area Project Manager for three EPC Packages at the Ras Al-Khair Industrial City (RAK) located on the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, a 1.1 Million Tonne per Year Ammonia Plant ($834 million), a Three Million Tonne per year DAP/NPK Production Plant ($599 million) and an, Infrastructure Utilities & Offsites (IU&O) Package($223 million).
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, Copperton Concentrator Fifth Line Expansion Project Prefeasibility & Feasibility Studies, Utah. Project Director for the prefeasibility and feasibility study for an expansion of the existing concentrator, replacement of exiting rougher flotation cells. Project included the expansion/upgrading of crushing, overland conveyor system, ore storage grinding, flotation, reagent handling, and ancillary support systems.
Barrick, Pascua-Lama Project, Chile. Directed the preparation of a Project Feasibility Study Report and other financing and governmental submittals for this gold/silver/copper project located on the Argentina-Chile Border. Project included mine operations, crushing, overland conveyor system, ore storage grinding, pumping, counter-current-decantation washing, leaching, and metal recovery systems, as well as ancillary support systems. Infrastructure included utility systems, transportation, logistics and warehousing systems.
Golden Eagle, Buen Futuro Prospect, Bolivia. Project Manager during a technical data gap analysis to advise Golden Eagle on the development of the necessary work, investigations, and studies for the Buen Futuro gold and copper property required to prepare a bankable feasibility study. The scope of work included review of existing project documentation, as well as coordination of a site visit to Ascension De Guarayos, Bolivia.
Codelco, Andina Phase II Copper Concentrator, Chile. Project controls and estimating manager responsible for cost control, planning/ schedule, and estimating for several prefeasibility and feasibility studies for the Phase II expansion of the Andina site. Total value of the concentrator (process) facilities exceeded $2.5 billion of $6.1 billion program.
Anglo American, Quellaveco Copper Concentrator Project, Peru. Deputy project manager/business services manager responsible for project controls and nontechnical services for completion of a feasibility study update, transition engineering, and early site works of a $3.3 billion program.
Kazakhmys, Bozshakol and Aktogay Copper Mines, Kazakhstan. Deputy Program Director – Services responsible for study and program management for multiple Pre-Feasibility Studies for two (2) strategic copper concentrator projects valued at $1.9 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively.
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd, Brisbane, Australia. Project Delivery Specialist and Consultant to board and senior executive management of an Australian development company seeking to build a $3.5 billion nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central Queensland, Australia, treating nickel laterite ores from New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands.
Australian Magnesium Corporation, Brisbane, Australia. Project Controls Manager contracted by Newmont and employed on AMC's Owner Team, working with Fluor Australia and Leighton Contractors. Provided strategic leadership and project execution planning for an AU$1.8 billion entry into the emerging magnesium industry and commercialization of a new dehydration process technology in Central Queensland.
P.T. Newmont Nusa Tenggara, Sumbawa, Indonesia. Manager Project Controls hired to address significant cost, schedule, and contractual problems on a $2 billion, greenfield copper/gold mine owned by Newmont Mining and Sumitomo. Designed, implemented and managed a radically new relationship between PTNNT and Fluor in a turnaround strategy resulting in successful, “world-class” project, measured by safety, environmental, cost ($300 million under), schedule (6-weeks early) and quality.
