Project Manager

James H. Harris, PG

P.O.Box ***

Olmito, Texas **575

email: *********.**@***.*** Cell: 361-***-****

OBJECTIVES Seeking an intermediate to senior level position with an environmental

or geotechnical engineering firm

SKILLS

Geotechnical/ Environmental: investigations for residential, municipal, commercial and

industrial projects; geotechnical core logging; soil sampling and density testing;

construction verification of retaining walls, soldier piles, tiebacks, hydraulic ram testing;

design and installation of subsurface drains; mapping of gas pipeline row; verify

installation of friction piles; basic bearing capacity calculations; slope stability analysis;

landslide mapping; railroad/ tunnel rehabilitation; groundwater modeling; water

sampling; mine dewatering; dredging; tailings disposal; mine closure; mine acid rock

drainage mitigation; tailings disposal; road construction; earthquake and active fault

analysis; liquefaction studies; brown field investigations; methane monitoring; Phase I

and II investigations

Mineral Exploration: experience with: precious and base metals, industrial minerals

(aggregates, perlite) diamonds and laterites (bauxite); structural geological analysis;

geophysical anomaly interpretation ( EM, gravity, magnetics, radiometrics); alteration

and metamorphic zonation mapping; geochemical surveying; target definition; drill

project management; tunnel construction; underground bulk sampling

Mining: open pit/ underground geological mapping; deposit modeling; grade control

procedures; reconciliation; resource estimation using polygonal methods; economic

analysis studies; basic familiarity with geostatistical modeling techniques

Petroleum Exploration: sedimentary basin analysis; basic petrophysical log interpretation

(SP, resistivity, gamma ray, neutron, sonic, caliper, dipmeter); stratigraphic analysis; well

log correlation ; subsurface mapping ( structure, isopach, lithofacies, stratigraphic

sections); wellsite geology; coring operations; mudlogging; experienced logging

horizontal wells

Business / Management: scoping / feasibility studies; proposal preparation; budgeting /

planning / coordination; permitting; cash flow analysis calculations; mineral deposit

valuation; mineral estate ownership agreements; due diligence studies

Computer: Lotus 123, Excel, Word, Access, basic skill level with Arcview GIS, AutoCad,

MapInfo, Gemcom; Rockware, Gint,

EDUCATION

1994 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec: graduate studies in Economic Geology

and The Geology of Greenstone Belts

1985 University of Texas, El Paso, Texas: B.Sc. Geology

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CONTINUING EDUCATION

Empirical Methods of Resource/Reserve Estimation ; EDUMINE online campus

LANGUAGES Spanish (good), French (fair), Portuguese (basic)

PERSONAL U.S. Citizenship

AFFILIATIONS/ CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Professional Geologist / Pennsylvania / California / Texas

Qualified Person as defined under Canadian Regulation NI 43-101

2008/ 2009 Certificate U.S. Department of Labor MSHA, Hazard Training, Surface

Metal Mining; 40 Hour Hazwoper Training

Member: SME Society of Metallurgy and Exploration;

NGS Nevada Geological Society;

AAPG American Association of Petroleum Geologists;

AIPG American Association of Professional Geologists

EXPERIENCE

2010 – Currently Oil and Gas Service Co. Corpus Christi, TX

Logging Geologist

1995- 2009 self employed : James H. Harris, Consulting Geologist

Primarily involved in providing geological services to mining and mineral exploration

companies

Client List:

Kingfisher Mines, Ltd. Toronto, Ontario

Property review Chile: inspected/sampled copper vein deposits; delineated possible gold

target

Petromarc, Inc. Austin, Texas

Oil and gas exploration project: subsurface mapping of Upper Cretaceous Escondido

Sandstone

Round Mountain Gold, Inc. Round Mountain, Nevada

Diamond core and reverse circulation drill supervision for mine expansion

Intrepid Minerals, Inc. Toronto, Ontario

Senior Project Geologist, gold exploration El Salvador and Honduras; manager of

diamond core, reverse circulation drilling and tunnel project

Coast Mountain Geological Consultants, Ltd. Vancouver, B.C.

Base metal exploration project, Labrador, Newfoundland

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Guaniamo Mining Company Miami, Florida

Diamond exploration project, Venezuela

Tindall Geoservices, Inc. Vancouver, B.C.

Copper/ gold exploration Mexico

Other Experience:

2005 Geocon Geotechnical Consulting, Inc, Carson City, Nevada

Staff Geologist: partial project list

-delineated wetlands for real estate development

-sampled mined material to determine potential for acid rock drainage pollution

-sampled groundwater at hydrocarbon spill

-mapped area around tunnels as part of study to reopen Comstock railroad

2001 / 2002 Ganico Geotechnical, Inc., Irvine, California

Staff Geologist: partial project list

-sampled air (methane) and water at brownfield site

-sampled air and soil for asbestos contamination

-examined areas for proposed waste disposal sites

1991 Reynolds Aluminum, Inc., Richmond, VA.

Mine Geologist- open pit bauxite mine Guyana

-delineated areas for tailings dam

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