Gilbert Akelembona Ayelkuungo

• Plan and execute blast hole drilling work within contract terms and conditions in a cost-effective manner. • Performe weekly and monthly review of project performance and generating reports detailing strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. • Ensure safety and welfare of workforce and equipment • Develop and initiate projects, manage costs, and monitor performance. • Achieve project key performance indicators (KPIs) to optimize operations and meet client’s expectations • Prepare weekly and monthly reports • Provide detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.

• Coordinated the work of technical service, maintenance and the operation teams to ensure targets were safely met • Designed drill patterns and corresponding blast tie up plans for drill and blast crew • Tracked performance of all fleet on site to identify weaknesses and opportunities and worked closely with the operation team to address same. • Produced weekly, monthly and quarterly budgets and plans for the site. Weekly and monthly reconciliations were also produced as a measure of our performance against plan and budget in the areas of tonnage moved, cost and revenue. • Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members. • Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others especially young engineers under my tutelage • Paid attention to detail while completing assignments. • Undertook a drill and blast project to identify root causes of rampant occurrences of toes on floors and offered recommendations that helped to bring the situation under control • Tracked and kept records of all explosives issued by explosives contractor and used. I was responsible for end of month explosives reconciliations with explosives contractor.

• Monthly safety inspection (Pit & Magazine) and audits of Drill and Blast activities in the pits are adhered to and to ensure that regulations are strictly obeyed. • Designing of bench plans and bench Master showing drilling sequences to ensure optimum accesses are available for equipment • Updating blast inventory report to help the team in monitoring performances and for the benefit other sections that matter. • Preparing daily and monthly drill reports • Visiting field on frequent basis to ensure that plans and designs are correctly implemented • Producing monthly plans based on budget plans and reconciling against actual at end-of-month. • Producing weekly blast maps and reconciling against actual at end-of-week. • Producing blast simulations (tie-up plans) for implementation by operations crew. • Carrying-out fragmentation analysis on blasted muck and producing reports detailing improvements and areas that need improvement. • Producing bench plans for pits detailing pattern sizes, sump locations and type of blast for various sections to produce safe working pits. • Producing drill pattern designs and corresponding drilling and charging plans and ensuring operations crew adhere to them on the field. • Updating the blasthole status on daily basis to know how far work on blasts has gone. • Environmental reporting regarding blasting activities • Explosive report and reconciliation • Drill consumables tracking and cost reconciliations with contractor • Monthly, Quarterly and Annual explosive budgeting • Explosive usage tracking and cost reconciliation with contractor

• Monthly and weekly scheduling/ mine planning • Three month rolling plans • Weekly and monthly dumping plans for all waste dumps • Preparation of the daily dig maps for morning production meetings • Loading of grade blocks into jigsaw and running of crystal reports • Running of script and topo updates • Creation of dozer files for pit floors and ramps, dumps floors and ramps and stockpiles ramps • End of month reconciliation • Blasted muck inventory report • Taking of minutes during daily mining production meetings • Leading morning meetings and weekly and monthly mine planning presentations • Building and updating Excel sheets • Set up adequate priorities and restrictions according to mine plans agreed upon at the Operations-Planning meetings. • Coordinated with field supervision, equipment physical allocation and opportunities for optimizing production. • Maintained good and effective relationship with mining supervisors and operators to ensure that daily targets are met in a safe manner • Kept records of production and updated same on the data software (Jsmine) • Coordinated and ensured that equipment due for maintenance were worked on and kept records on all machines going down for maintenance and subsequently updated same on data software (Jsmine) • Ensured ptimal assignment of trucks to all excavators to minimise hanging and queuing • Coordinated breaks and personnel relief during shift work