Arthur Don Buchanan

**** ******** **** ******

309-***-****

abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

- M.S. Mining Engineering 2000: Southern Illinois University

- B.S. Aeronautical Engineering 1972: University of Illinois

EXPERIENCE I have a broad range of experience based on the beginnings in a

self employed family business which enabled me to step into an intense

management role in corporate business. I am presenting these experiences

in 3 sections self employment, graduate student, and corporate business

manager.

Buchanan Sawmill Sims, Illinois 63-76 (self-employment)

Logging, Milling, Chipping and Machinery construction

Background/Scope: a start to finish operation delivering 5-7 truck loads of

lumber, 7-14 truck loads of wood chips, and 1-2 truck loads of piling or

grade logs a week

Equipment: 2 skidders, 2 tractors, 4 loaders, 5 trucks, chipper, and a

portable and stationary mill Responsibilities: Started as summer labor in

High School and became responsible for all operations.

Note: a mill is a processing plant with many materials handling problems

including: Chain, Belt & Pneumatic conveyors, Screens, Augers, Rollers, and

Pneumatic, Hydraulic & Electric systems

- Safety concerns are paramount in this industry

- My designs of mills works so well that others purchased

them

- Necessary interactions with Department on Natural

Resources & other agencies

- Many contracts are negotiated made and executed in the

course of business

Buchanan Farms Keenes, Illinois 76-89 (self-employment)

Grain, Livestock, Spraying, Storage, Land ownership and Fuel Alcohol

Background/Scope: 5000 acres of grain cropland spread over 3 counties

Direct Reports: up to 10 men

Equipment: 4 Combines, 6 Tractors, specialized tools, 4 Trucks, and Grain

Storage and Shop Facilities

Responsibilities: Owner Operator Bottom line

- Interaction with Government agencies USDA, Conservation

agencies, BATF, and EPA

- Designed, built, and permitted a 20 gal/hr Plate column

still for fuel alcohol

- Licensed for purchase and application of chemicals (weed

killers and grain treatment)

- Dealer for Fertilizer, O's Gold, and Novartis seeds

Land Development Sims, Illinois 75-83 (self-employment)

Land Clearing, Grading, Lake, Road, Airstrips, and Waterway construction

Most operations were conducted on family property with limited contracting

to others hence this is land development instead of a construction

business.

Equipment: 6 Cats, 3 Scrapers, 3 Trucks, Road Grader, 2 Air compressors, 2

Welders and 2 Fuel depots

Responsibilities: Operator, Foreman, Maintenance, Training, and layout.

Buchanan Oil Fairfield, Illinois 76-89 (self-employment)

Background/Scope: 150 oil wells in 9 fields with 8 injection wells and four

kinds of pipelines

Direct Reports: up to 15 men and independent contractors.

Equipment: Cat, Backhoe, 2 work-over units, Spudder, 5 Trucks, LPG plant,

and Rotary Drilling Rig

Responsibilities: Day to day operations; Trouble Shooting; maintenance;

planning and construction of tank batteries and pipelines; and Training.

- Coordinated many jobs with waiting time in excess of

$1500/hr

- Involved with Department of mines and Minerals for

Permitting

- Many oversized loads requiring permits to move

- Had organized office with a staff of 3

- A lot of abstract work required in the course of business

- Set up Pump stations with automatic controls

- Maintenance and logistics necessary skills

Researcher/ Graduate Student (SIU) Carbondale, Illinois 96-99

I returned to college with my son as a researcher while farming part time.

Reclamation oriented thesis on direct re-vegetation of power plant and mine

waste

- Worked with large scale modeling of Trona mine

- Explored possible uses of fly ash

- Worked on Rib Rash problem

- Instructor for mining, chemistry and physics classes

- Representative on Graduate/ Professional Student Council,

Facility/ Student board and SME

- Director of 1999 IMI convention

- A lot of abstract work required in the course of business

Caterpillar (contract CEMS and Bradford & Galt) Peoria, Illinois 99-09

Background/Scope: $10 Million Orders annually which serve / control $2

Billion of prime product. Set priorities, manage and complete concurrent

projects that have broadly defined goals. Appropriate managers were kept

informed of special problems and project status.

Application Analysis / Quote development (Cat)

Communicate with dealer, engineers, and or customer, to define the problem.

Analyze problems and define possible solutions, in the form of a quote.

Identify unique problem areas, prioritize, price and delegate the

contractors necessary for completion. Compile costs for options, parts and

pricing for a timely delivery of the quote and hardware.

- Estimated a $5M loss for Newmont contract in Oct of 2003 was proved

correct in 2006

- Predicted the first Newmont Ghana deal would fail due to radio

frequency allocations

- Created BOM for the move of MineStar from C del C to Cerro Matso

Project management (Cat)

I was the default unless/until a project manager was installed.

- Project Manager on Robinson Quatra

- Project Manager on Newmont until I trained Ryan Howell to assume the

job

- Worked on the final settlement of the Newmont project

- Helped legal determine propriety information from industry standard

on Newmont Contract

Logistics / Training Support Manager (Cat)

Demonstration, and test items have difficult logistics and customs issues

because they are not production items with prices, classifications and

compliance issues

- Got initial AccuGrade components into Brazil for Demonstration

- Got training & show materials to various locations all over the

world

- Kept all shovels working despite pressure sensor problem in 2005

- Managed the 1 yr supply gap- recalls, in displays, receivers,and

masts

- Trained several people on how to ship and document training

materials

- Worked with Morton to set the inventory levels of parts in Morton,

Grimburgen, Melbourne, Denver, Miami, Singapore, and Johannesburg

Six Sigma / Quality Cost reduction (Cat)

- Was Greenbelt on MineStar quote project

- Member of the Sametime roll out to Corporate Global Mining

- Was lead green belt on MineStar price pages project

- Saved and documented $250K last month of employment

Buyer / Order analyst (Cat)

I was backup to anyone involved in mining solutions, including Aquila site

manager and a "go to" person for difficult problems that have no clear

resolution.

- Ordered computers for several mines including the request for

investment required

- Worked with suppliers on red line drawings and cut purchase orders

for experimental hardware

- Resolved Grief on orders and trained many dealer personnel to used

Cat order system

- Help many dealers to change their procedures to effectively use and

track Cat order system

- Input Aquila orders for Cat supplied parts

- Controlled several internal Cat dealerships

Product Support (Cat)

- Operated the second shift hotline for CAES and MineStar

- Warranty support and policies

- Onsite at Go-Live for MineStar at C del C in Columbia and Black

Thunder

Data Mining (Cat)

- Developed Excel spreadsheet to track all technology enabled machines

60,000

- Developed metrics and graphs to track sales progress for meetings (to

VP level)

- Maintained and published the Excel sheet tracking the CAES and

AccuGrade components

Business Manager (Cat)

- Ran Board of Directors meetings for Aquila

- Ran all employee meetings for Corporate Global Mining using live

meeting and multiple locations

- Set up and ran a simulated Board of Directors for MineStar

- Develop and edit price pages, databases, and service letters

- Created and edited section 26 in the Product Handbook.

References:

As most of the references are specific to only a limited part of my

experience, I have included, in quotes, the area of experience this

reference can verify.

Scott Rutherford abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 309-***-****, (309)-253-

7790 Caterpillar, Boss (Board of Directors and meetings, Inventory

control, and best Cat reference)

Claude Aboujaoude, abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 450-***-**** ext 233,

Aquila - Caterpillar, 2900 Joesph Bombardier, Laval, PQ, Canada, Coworker

(BOD, and mining technology)

Lyle Cline abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 618-***-****, SIU Carbondale, IL.

Advisor (Teaching, research, and Industry convention organization)

Ryan Howell abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 309-***-**** 7885 Treasure

Cove CT Reno NV 89506, Intern and Coworker (Intern relations and mining

technology)

Dave Duke abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 309-***-****, Coworker (Price pages,

excel use, data mining, and general resource)

Steve Orwig abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 309-***-****, Boss (Price pages,

money savings, data mining, and business resource)

John Cummings abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 309-***-****, Coworker (New hire

training and mining technology)

Ann Lynch abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com. 309-***-**** or (309) 251-

1998 Coworker ( Product Handbook work)

Paul Chugh abl9j9@r.postjobfree.com 618-***-****, Professor Advisor (Teaching,

research, and Industry convention organization)

Brad Greenwald 618-***-**** Papertown, IL, Independent business owner

(Agriculture knowledge and self employment)

Leon Barnard 618-***-**** Wayne city, IL, Independent business

owner (Agriculture knowledge, oil field, and self employment)

Jerry Friend, President Friend Energy Corporation RR 3 Fairfield,

IL. (618)- 842-9161, Independent business owner (oil field and self

employment)

More references can be provided if desired

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