Experience

Expert Geophysics Limited

• Canada
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Manager

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Self-employed

• Gauteng, South Africa

• Independent Consultant

  • May 2021 - Present

  Development of Technical Software / Airborne Geophysical Systems / Consulting Current Activity: • Porting a legacy Pharlap Embedded Data Acquisition and Navigation application to Windows IOT • Magnetic Compensation on composite aircraft. Looking for opportunities. Development of Technical Software / Airborne Geophysical Systems / Consulting Current Activity: • Porting a legacy Pharlap Embedded Data Acquisition and Navigation application to Windows IOT • Magnetic Compensation on composite aircraft. Looking for opportunities.



Geotech Airborne Limited

• Gauteng, South Africa

• Operations Manager / Senior Geophysicist(Tech Sales) / Data Processing Manager

  • Jun 2007 - Apr 2021

  Multiple Roles during the growth of the company from a relatively small size, to a major corporate. Director of local subsidiary companies Geotech Airborne Limited South Africa and Geotech Aviation South Africa. Operations Manager • Operations for Africa, Middle East, India and Europe. Senior Geophysicist(Tech Sales) / Project Management • Technical feasibility work for clients. Electromagnetics / Magnetics / Radiometrics / VTEM / ZTEM / Maxwell / EMFlow • Managing technical delivery of World Bank and EU Projects in Tanzania/Ghana/Niger/Cameroun Data Processing Manager • Oversight of global (excluding North America) VTEM ,Magnetic and Radiometric data processing and interpretation. • Quality control and delivery of final data products and interpretations. Client liaison on data processing issues Show less



Geoduster Technologies / Barone, Budge and Dominick (BB&D)

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Independent Consultant

  • Jan 1999 - Jun 2007

  Geoduster - Director/Developer Development of airborne geophysical systems. Highlights: •Integration of Geophysical Sensors, Magnetics, Radiometrics onto Airborne Platforms. Data Acquisition •Development of a Magnetic Compensator using fluxgate magnetic data, current sensors, and inertial navigation devices. •Development of an embedded Data Acquisition and Navigation System. State of the art pilot navigational aids. •Development of 32 bit PCI memory mapped device drivers and others. •Embedded Systems / Pharlap(now defunct) / RTX / C / C++ / C# / Fortran(old) / WIN32 Barone, Budge & Dominic – Team Leader / Developer Commercial Programming. Support work a Swift routing and other Commercial Applications for a major bank. High end Client/Server financial applications development. Technologies include AIX / Windows Clients / COM / XML / TCPIP / ORACLE / MQ / Transaction Server / C / C++ / C# / SQL Server / Python / Internet / Intranet. Show less



Global Earth Sciences (Pty) Ltd,

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Director

  • Jan 1997 - Dec 1999

  Partner - Geophysical Airborne Surveys Development of a tri-axial airborne magnetic gradiometer system with a spectrometer. Responsible for data acquisition processing marketing and client liaison. Carried out projects in Ghana and Botswana for de Beers and Anglo Gold. Partner - Geophysical Airborne Surveys Development of a tri-axial airborne magnetic gradiometer system with a spectrometer. Responsible for data acquisition processing marketing and client liaison. Carried out projects in Ghana and Botswana for de Beers and Anglo Gold.



KenWalt

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Geophysicist / Developer

  • Jan 1989 - Dec 1997

  Development Geophysicist •Airborne Electromagnetics - Development of EM data analogue profile display and anomaly picking package for the Anglo American EM system. This work was carried out on a Unix / C system. •Airborne Magnetics - Development of an airborne geophysical processing package •Photogrammetry - Development and implementation and marketing of a low cost photogrammetry software package specifically tailored to the engineering market. This package was developed under Windows NT and runs in the MicroStation MDL and Windows WIN32 environment. Show less



Anglo American Corp Ltd., South Africa

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Senior Geophysicist

  • Jan 1986 - Dec 1988

  Overall operation and application of a time domain EM system developed at the University of Toronto. (UTEM). Responsible for all aspects of applying this technique within the corporation ranging from field operation to data processing and software development. Commodities: Cu,Ni,Pb,Zn,Fe,Mn Overall operation and application of a time domain EM system developed at the University of Toronto. (UTEM). Responsible for all aspects of applying this technique within the corporation ranging from field operation to data processing and software development. Commodities: Cu,Ni,Pb,Zn,Fe,Mn



Stockdale Prospecting

• Melbourne, Australia

• Senior Geophysicist

  • Jan 1986 - Dec 1988

  Stockdale Prospecting was/is a subsidiary of de Beers and my primary role was for exploration for diamonds. This included the development and management of an airborne helicopter magnetic and VLF data acquisition system. Unix/Fortran/C.Commodities: Diamonds Stockdale Prospecting was/is a subsidiary of de Beers and my primary role was for exploration for diamonds. This included the development and management of an airborne helicopter magnetic and VLF data acquisition system. Unix/Fortran/C.Commodities: Diamonds



Anglo American Corp Ltd., South Africa

• Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Staff Geophysicist

  • Jan 1980 - Dec 1983

  General geophysical exploration for base metals. Experience gained in field data acquisition instrumentation and methods ranging from data acquisition to management and interpretation of the data. Include magnetic, gravity, induced polarization, time and frequency domain EM, resistivity etc. Commodities: Cu,Ni,Pb,Zn,Fe,Mn General geophysical exploration for base metals. Experience gained in field data acquisition instrumentation and methods ranging from data acquisition to management and interpretation of the data. Include magnetic, gravity, induced polarization, time and frequency domain EM, resistivity etc. Commodities: Cu,Ni,Pb,Zn,Fe,Mn