Experience

MetalManagementSolutions.com

• South Africa
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Director

  • May 2017 - Present

  At MMS we are passionate about empowering the industrial industry with practical, user friendly and robust technology to empower them with effective decision making and problem solving in their day to day jobs. We build and customize software to meet any Chemical-, Metallurgical- or Physical Processing site's requirements in effectively keeping account of all processes performances, assets, resources and other materials. We also specialize in monitoring and optimizing operations in real time and improve future planning with insights and business analytics by optimizing production data from any available source. As Technical Director at MMS, I am managing the Engineering and Implementation teams on site while continually working in parallel on developing our company and technology products with our developers. At MMS our aim is to bridge the gap between engineers and software products to solve day to day challenges with innovative, robust and user friendly technology which I am leading based on my practical on site history of managing and operating Metallurgical Processing sites with a strong analytical function as well as in depth R&D in metallurgical processes. Show less



Carbon Fertilizer Technologies

• Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Process Engineer

  • Feb 2016 - Apr 2017

  Research and Development Product trials Technical services Water Treatment Balancing and Correcting Soils Research and Development Product trials Technical services Water Treatment Balancing and Correcting Soils



Kamoto Copper Company S.A.

• Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Metallurgist

  • Dec 2014 - Sep 2015

  Graduate Metallurgist in the Technical Services department responsible for the operation and optimization of a copper and cobalt processing plant. Experience on both the concentrator plant as well as the hydro-metallurgical plant. Processes includes: milling, flotation, thickening and CCDs, roasting, leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation, electrowinning and heap leach. - Operation: Metal accounting, daily assessment of plant performances, KPI development and interpretation; control room operation; harvest schedules; housekeeping schedules and supervision; problem solving; crisis management; supervising night shifts; assessing health, safety and environmental risks; current- and leach efficiencies; SX profiles, settling profiles; investigation and reporting of irregularities; SOP writing; PBC hot and cold commissioning; acid consumption control; - Optimization: metallurgical testing in laboratory for leaching, settling, filtration, flotation and cobalt purification with precipitation; pilot plant operation for leach, heap leach and cobalt precipitation - Key achievements: •Research and Development for new Copper whole-ore-leach plant; •Successfully commissioned two pinned bed clarifiers (PBCs) and written SOPs for the start-up and operation of the PBCs; •Supervised night shifts and managed to improve plant stability; Show less