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Ken Przybyla
Profession: Mining Engineer
Date of Birth: 1956
Present Position: – Vice President – Consulting Engineering Services
Nationality: American

Educational and Professional:

Lake Superior State University, Escanaba, MI
2003 - MBA,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1981 – BS Engineering (Civil)

Society of Explosive Engineers, past member

Rogers City Planning Commission, 1989-1997, vice-chair, served during writing of the update of the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance

Huron Shore Writing Institute, past member of the board of directors, an international writing institute

Rogers City School Board, served on the negotiations team during a teachers strike, hiring of a new superintendent and the writing of schools’ comprehensive plan

Career Summary:

Ken is an experienced manager and civil engineer. He is considered an influential leader dedicated to continuous improvement to procedures, processes, safety and quality while adding value for stakeholders. Ken has a proven customer focus. Operational responsibilities including P&L, Environment, Health & Safety, planning, cost control, quality control, customer sales and service. Ken has held management positions in large and small facilities including union, non-union and self-directed work environments.

Supplementary Data/Key Qualifications:

» Developed plans to save 40% in drilling and blasting costs at the high calcium pit, improve product mix, reduced waste, and reduced operation hours. $500,000 savings.

» Directed procedure to blend dolomite sand, increasing feed yield from 60% to 80% and reducing required annual extraction by 20,000 tons.

» No Notice of Violation DEQ Air Quality (3 years); reached zero Lost Time Accidents and incident rate below MSHA national average, Twelve Month Trailing April 2007.

» Changed quarry procedures to improve throughput at the primary crushers and eliminate need for contracted stripping, saving more than $250,000 annually (2006).

» Successfully persuaded upper management to change planned underground development to above ground extraction, avoiding additional costs of $750,000 annually (2005-2006).

» Guided the reactivation of the aggregate producing capability at the dolomite plant to regain 60,000 tons of business (2004).

» Directed the rewriting of the Quality Management System, facilitated the training of employees to the new QMS that is now ISO 9001-2000 ready.

» Ensured implementation of a defined systems approach to safety management (DVN’s, International Safety Rating System). Installed written safety rules.

» Installed logistics-production team that improved customer service and on time deliveries.

» Justified and implemented new process for quarry including purchase of three 100 ton haul trucks and new contractor for internal rail. Resulted in $1.5 million savings in rail and its maintenance and overall 5% decrease in overall quarry costs

» Introduced new blending procedures at the quarry to make a more consistent and predictable product, improved internal customer delivery to processing plant and extended reserve life.

» Improved drilling and blasting procedures, including adding in-house drilling, resulting in $100,000 savings annually.

» Modified scheduled shift at the High Calcium quarry from 24/7 to 10 hour shifts (20/7), reducing labor waste and improving preventative maintenance schedule of mobile equipment.

» Successfully persuaded the team to pursue ISO certification. Certification awarded in 2004.

» Coordinated a 7.5% improvement in the quarry’s productivity, with a proven ability to maintain 1.5 million ton monthly output.

» Implemented GPS monitoring of quarry mobile equipment.

Employment Experience:

2008 - Present
Morgan Worldwide Consultants Inc.
Vice President, Consulting Engineering Service for a small but highly specialized mining consultancy business.

1998 – 2008
Oglebay Norton Company
Quarry Manager, O-N Minerals James River, Buchanan, VA Managed daily operations of 3 quarries and 2 crushing plants. Planned and developed improvements to ensure an increase of 250,000 tons annually (41%) at high calcium pit. Developed dolomite pits to improve quality of industrial sand customers.

Plant Manager, O-N Minerals James River, Buchanan, VA Managed P&L; Environment, Health & Safety: improved and ensured regulatory compliance; quality control. Identified key problems and improved asset performance. 900,000 tons sales for industrial fillers, aggregates, glass sand, energy and lime

Production Manager, Michigan Limestone Operations, Inc., Gulliver, MI Managed, coached, and facilitated Self-Directed Work Teams of a 5 million tons/yr high calcium quarry, and a 1.2 million tons/yr dolomite quarry. Created budgets, managed labor and equipment, procured capital for equipment, and installed controls to monitor performance. Managed schedules and contracts for drilling, blasting and rail haul. Facility became ISO 9001-2000 in 2004.

Area Manager - Quarry, Michigan Limestone Operations, Ltd., Rogers City, MI Managed daily operations of 10 million tons per year, ISO 9000, industrial grade limestone quarry, union shop. Ensured compliance with EH&S rules and regulations, created budgets, controlled costs, implemented changes affecting work duties in union environment. Developed short and long term mine plans. (Division of Oglebay Norton since April 2000.)

1988 – 1998
Michigan Limestone Operations, Ltd.
Manager Drill /Blast, Quarry Planner /Foreman, Civil Engineer, Rogers City, MI Reduced drill and blast costs 55%, planned short and long term mining, eliminated SiO2 variance for steel customers, increased reserves by modifying blending procedures at 10 million tons/yr quarry.

1983 – 1988
Prior Experience: Civil Engineering Positions
Bridge construction management, structural steel design and detailing of auto plants and high rise building, inspections of failed structures and expert testimony.