Kevin has over 20 years of experience in process engineering for the mining industry. His experience covers copper and gold hydrometallurgy, including pressure oxidization, solvent extraction, and electrowinning as well as process modelling and hazard and risk workshop facilitating. As Process Engineering Manager, Kevin improves operational safety standards, manages professional personnel, leads project teams, and supervises project operations.
Kevin continually challenges himself and his team to find better ways to find solutions for client challenges.
Key projects that he has delivered as Process Lead include the Eskay Creek Project, and Wasamac Project – both in Canada.
Kevin spent ten months in Brazil supporting the commissioning and start-up of the first small industrial (10ktpa Cu) CESL Process Facility. Kevin also led the Newmont (formerly Goldcorp) Waste to Ore sensor-based sorting project that included the design, construction, commissioning, and testing operations of 2 sorting plants as well as a waste rock dump drilling program and a capital and operating cost estimate for a full-scale plant.
Kevin is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM). He is a Registered Professional Engineer with Engineers & Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC) and the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (NAPEG).
Kevin has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB and an executive diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.