JACQUES MULLEROccupation Process Engineer, Metallurgical/ChemicalGender MaleNationality South AfricanEthnic Group WhiteLanguage English, AfrikaansDrivers Licence Code BDesired job location Willing to relocateCurrent Employer Algoness (Pty) Ltd (self-employed)Availability 1 month

Contact Details Cell phone +27(0)82 507 7429Email jacquesmul@gmail.comSkype jacques.mullerLinkedIn http://za.linkedin.com/in/jacquesmuller1 Residential Location Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Professional Profile Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng.) and certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with a wide range of skills developed over more than 10 years working in different areas of the mining and metals processing industries.

Specialised competencies:

Metallurgical and chemical process modelling, analysis, control and optimisation. Metallurgical process design, commissioning, start-up, operation and decommissioning. Managing and executing process engineering projects from initiation to closure. Communicating technical information effectively and professionally at all levels of the organisation. Writing and presenting of peer-reviewed papers at international conferences. Application of commercial software and the development of customised model software systems

spanning the knowledge areas:o mass and energy balancing, o metallurgical accounting, o computational fluid dynamics (CFD), o finite difference modelling (FDM),o physicochemical property modelling, o computational thermochemistry, and o advanced process control.

Education 2015University of PretoriaM.Eng. (Metallurgical Engineering)*Thesis title: “Investigation of Thermal and Fluid Flow of Behaviour of HCFeMn and SiMn Slag Tapholes using Analytical Flow- and Slag Physicochemical Property Modelling”*With distinction2005University of PretoriaBachelor of Engineering (Honours) – Management of Technology2003University of Pretoria Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) – Control Engineering *With distinction2002University of PretoriaBachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering)*In the 1st class1998Hoёrskool StandertonGrade 12 (Matric) *5 Distinctions*Academic colours*1st in class (matric)

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Professional Courses / Training International Advanced Mineral Processing Simulation Course / MidasTech International / November 2015 Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam Preparation Program / ProjectLink / March

2015 Management Development Programme (MDP) / University of Pretoria / October 2014 Global Minerals Risk Management Course (G-MIRM) / EX3 SRM Training / April 2013 Metal Accounting / Diverse Corporate Training Solutions / March 2013 Short Course in Manganese Production / NTNU, Norway / September 2011 ANSYS DesignModeler / Meshing & ANSYS FLUENT Introductory Training Course / Qfinsoft / June 2011 Numerical Thermoflow / University of Pretoria / 2011 Matrikon Process ACT / 2007 Advanced Mass and Heat Transfer / University of Pretoria / 2006 Wonderware Application Server / 2005 FactSage / 2004 Conferences and Schools Attended:- Pyrometallurgical Modelling (author) / SAIMM / August 2014- Tapping / SAIMM / May 2014- INFACON XIII (author-presenter) / June 2013- Sampling Conference / SAIMM / June 2013- Molten12 (author-presenter) / May 2012- South African Pyrometallurgy 2011 International Conference (author-presenter) / March 2011- Southern African Pyrometallurgy 2006 International Conference / March 2006

Professional Registrations / Memberships Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) - Registered as Professional Engineer in 2009 – Nr. 20090077 Project Management Institute (PMI®) – Project Management Professional (PMP®) in 2015 – Nr. 1821106 South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) – Member – Nr. 705231

Computer Skills Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Microsoft Visio Microsoft Project Software Languages Visual Basic, C#, SQL ANSYS FLUENT FlexPDE

Matlab Mathematica FactSage Matrikon Control Performance Optimiser Wonderware InSQL

Career History 1. FEBRUARY 2015 – PRESENTAlgoness Pty (Ltd)Pretoria, South Africa

OWNER / CONSULTANT

Responsibilities Primarily responsible for the management and interaction with clients to provide specialised consultation

services, dealing mostly with middle- and business unit-management of large organisations. Pyrometallurgical process modelling, analyses and optimisation, using mass and energy balances,

physicochemical property modelling, artificial intelligence methods, data mining and regression analyses and thermodynamic modelling techniques.

Technical reporting, presentation and training on work results. Designing, developing, and deployment of the software systems that provide technical solutions. Small business management - Marketing, planning, project management and general management. Providing modelling software support and improvement services.

Achievements Developed an iron ore concentrate pelletising process model that calculates process conditions and pellet

properties, applicable for process optimisation and financial impact analyses of raw materials.

2. 2015 – JANUARY 2016Exxaro Resources (Pty) LtdPretoria, South Africa

LEAD PROJECT PLANNER

Responsibilities Ensuring that plans are in place for capital and operational projects in the carbon and ferroalloys operations,

and in Information Management (IM).

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Ensuring projects are delivered within allowed time and costs. Monitor project progress and ensure agreement with contractual requirements.

Achievements Contributed towards the successful completion of a project within constraints for the replacement of two

induction furnaces producing atomised ferrosilicon. Contributed towards the successful completion of various information management (IM) projects. Obtained the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification, and gained relevant experience.

3. 2011 – 2015Exxaro Resources (Pty) Ltd, at AlloyStreamPretoria, South Africa

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER, METALLURGY

Responsibilities Senior Metallurgical Process Engineer for the operation of a ferromanganese applying a novel smelting

furnace technology. Directly managing service providers (chemical analyses and process information system). Providing specialist metallurgical support during commissioning and plant operation, targeting improved

production, product quality and process efficiency. Working with senior management and business partners on attaining process targets. Completing continuous improvement projects. Troubleshooting and researching metallurgical process aspects and unit operations. Train and supervise Engineers, Technicians and Operational personnel. Developing standard operating procedures and a process operational manual, and providing training. Adhering to, and enforcing company health, safety, environment and quality requirements. Specifying and developing process information management and reporting systems. Developing and maintaining the process material and energy accounting balance. Compiling daily, weekly, monthly and final test campaign process reports and presenting to top

management. Participating in furnace refractory and equipment design as well as post-mortem studies. Specifying and testing of process control system functions. Conceptualising and analysing different process operational scenarios. Designing, supervising and interpreting results of metallurgical processing experiments. Project planning and management.

Achievements Part of the core team that successfully completed two test campaigns to demonstrate an innovative

ferromanganese smelting furnace technology, where the whole plant was designed, constructed, commissioned, operated and shut down.

Developed thermochemical models of the unique smelting furnace process, and applied it in the operation of the demonstration plant and the analysis of the process for industrial scale implementation of the furnace technology.

Successful completion of a Master’s degree in metallurgical engineering, with a project on tapping flow modelling that was applicable to the AlloyStream process.

4. 2010 – 2011Algoness Pty (Ltd)Pretoria, South Africa

OWNER / CONSULTANT

Responsibilities As listed per Point 1 in the above described experience.

Achievements Developed an iron ore fines sinter process model using the finite difference technique and sub-models for

physicochemical phenomena and parameter optimisation through the application of artificial intelligence methods, deployed in custom developed software.

Completed various iron blast furnace slag analyses and modelling studies, evaluating physicochemical properties, e.g. viscosity and solidus-, softening-, liquidus temperatures, and reaction kinetics, and performing thermodynamic modelling.

Evaluated process routes for a new ore reserve through thermodynamic modelling and analyses. Analysed and modelled phase formation during iron ore sintering through thermodynamic modelling and

analyses. Developed a web-based ternary diagramming application that can be used to plot contours for any property.

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5. 2009 – 2010 Pesco CCPretoria, South Africa

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

Responsibilities Assisting with supervision of one to two Engineering students. Consulting on processing routes, equipment sizing and continuous improvement of mineral processing

plants, and design and execution of experimental test work. Designing and developing software. Performing statistical data analyses and process modelling. Interacting with clients and sub-contracted service providers. Developing engineering training material. Project management.

Achievements Developed and successfully tested a dense medium separation cyclone acoustic monitoring system,

including the development of customised software for data analyses. Developed and successfully testing a particle tracking system in dense medium separation using RFID

technology, including the development of customised software for interaction with detection hardware. Developed minerals processing training material for practicing Engineers.

6. 2004 – 2009 Ex Mente (Pty) LtdCenturion, South Africa

PROCESS ENGINEER

Responsibilities Conducting consultation projects in pyrometallurgical processing. Process modelling and simulation, performing finite element analyses, mass and energy balancing and

thermodynamic modelling. Reporting and presenting project results. Conducting plant analyses and audits. Controlling and improving processes. Project management. Designing, developing, commissioning, supporting and training of custom developed software systems. Developing interfaces with plant automation systems. Participating in selecting, mentoring and managing one to two Engineers and Software Developers. Interacting with clients, performing requirement analyses and scoping solution proposals.

Achievements Part of a team that successfully commissioned an advanced process control system of a billet

homogenising furnace. Developed and applied several predictive and reconciling mass and energy balances of pyrometallurgical

processes, using Microsoft Excel and interfaces to thermodynamic libraries. Completed finite element modelling studies to analyse smelting furnace refractory performance for several

clients. This included modelling hot-face reactions using the thermochemical package, FactSage. Part of the core team that developed a generic software system to capture discrete activity record data for

an Ilmenite smelter in China, including capturing of the user requirements, and on-site commissioning and training.

Part of the core team successfully developing a generic server-client based software system assisting engineers in the operation of smelting processes. This included development of specific models for viscosity, refractory wear, liquidus temperatures and predictive and reconciling mass and energy balances.

Providing on-site metallurgical support at an operation with a furnace smelting ferromanganese and ferronickel. Responsibilities included monitoring the key performance and safety indicators, making decisions to improve the process performance. For this process a predictive mass and energy balance and accounting balance were developed and used.

Conducted process analyses and audits at several pyrometallurgical plants, to analyse performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Career History: Previous Positions

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7.ENGINEER IN TRAININGIST Delkor2004

8.ENGINEERING STUDENTMintek2000 (1 month), 2001 – 2002 (1 month)

KEY STRENGTHS Enthusiastic learner; self-driven and hard working with a strong ability to work independently and

successfully on own initiative or as part of group. Strong skills in communicating technical information effectively and professionally at all organisational levels. High personal standards with attention to detail. Ethical and socially aware with high integrity and honesty. Decisive and action oriented. Excellent analytical and innovation skills, combined with prioritisation and time management skills achieve

work results that are focussed on meeting customer’s needs within time and cost constraints.

References Available on request.

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