Our Team

Bill is a geologist with 35 years’ experience in diamond exploration and mining, including 32 years with Anglo American and De Beers and eight years as head of De Beers global exploration activities. Bill was directly involved in the discovery and development of four new diamond mines in southern Africa and participated in a number of kimberlite resource sampling and evaluation projects and mine feasibility studies in Africa, North and South America, Europe and Australia.

Bill served as a director of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited from 2002 to 2006 and as Chairman and/or director of a number of other De Beers Group and associate companies during his career. Since retiring from De Beers in 2006, Bill pursued personal interests before commencing private diamond industry consulting work in early 2009. Bill joined Snowden in September 2009 and since then has directed a number of independent technical reviews and Competent Persons’ Reports for a number of diamond and other commodity projects.

Mike is a Principal Consultant with over 30 years of software development experience in the mining industry, having previously worked at WMC Resources in various roles.

Since joining Snowden in 2000, Mike has worked on several projects including the development, implementation and support of geological database management systems, resource and reserve database systems and various other applications. His areas of expertise include SQL server development, .NET application development, PowerApps development and acQuire geological database management.

Matthew is a mining engineer with over 20 years mining industry experience. Over this time he has been engaged in numerous projects at all study levels for a wide variety of commodities. These projects involved:

• pit, stockpile and dump optimisation and practical designs including backfill and in-pit tailings options;
• cut-off grade optimisation including blended products;
• tactical and strategic scheduling to balance combinations of maximising net present value, equipment and grade/ore type blends;
• equipment selection and productivity studies including haul optimisation;
• contract mining evaluations; and
• cost estimations.

Frank is a mining engineer with more than 25 years surface mining industry experience, with the last ten years in a consulting role. He has a strong analytical skill base with real-time mining data collection systems and mine optimisation, design, cost modelling and scheduling software.

His consulting expertise includes project financial analyses, Competent person sign-offs. His consulting work includes project management for iron ore, gold, bauxite and nickel laterite mining studies at the scoping, feasibility and prefeasibility level, Ore Reserve audits and specialised technical reports (NI 43-101, Chapter 18).

Jennifer is an experienced Senior Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the mining & metals industry. Skilled SQL, Databases, IoT solutions, BI reporting, Data Warehousing, .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. She is a strong consulting professional with a Certificate IV focused in Project Management Practice from PM Partners. Within the mining industry Jennifer has worked with a number of commodities including gold, uranium, diamond, coal and iron ore.

Michael has over a decades’ worth of software development experience spanning across various industries including: defence, payroll, courtroom, marine and geospatial.

He has been a key contributor to many commercial product features which have met and at times exceeded customer expectations. Technical versatility is one of his greatest strengths as he is a capable polyglot and able to deliver software solutions without the underlying choice of technological stack being an impediment. He maintains an interest in emergent software development technologies and practices which leverage cloud-based infrastructure to deliver fast and reliable solutions.

Hayley is a software developer with 14 years’ experience across the technologies and mining industries. Hayley has worked on a wide range of applications for the mining industry including both custom and commercial software solutions and has been involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle. Her areas of expertise include front end development, Angular, WPF, .NET framework and SQL Server.

Tuyet had been working with projects related to univariate and multivariate conditional simulation, uniform conditioning and global change of support. Tuyet has also been involving with the developing of Snowden Supervisor software by providing code for model validation, global change of support, Local Kriging Neigbourhood Optimisation, Sequential Gaussian and Sequential Indicator Simulation and Kriging Neigbourhood Analysis.

Wei has broad experience in IT industry. Since joining Snowden Technologies, he has been working on Snowden’s geostatistics software.

Latha is a Certified Test Professional with over 15 years’ experience in IT. Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle. Latha is also experienced in designing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts and Test Procedures. Latha has worked on web and client / server application testing, ERP implementation (Oracle Retail, Microsoft Dynamics) and post go live testing.

Anthony is a geologist with a strong technical background in resource estimation and mine operations (open pit and underground), developed since 2010. His experience spans nine geographically and geologically separate precious metal deposits and several mineralisation styles, including alluvial, supergene oxide and in-situ hard rock. While working with Gold Fields Ltd, Anthony was strongly involved with corporate technical innovation and business improvement projects including mine to mill reconciliation and optimisation. His experiences, which range from international secondment to private conference with industry leaders, has given Anthony a broad exposure to the mining industry.

Ian has over 15 years’ experience delivering IT and software development projects across a Wide range of Industries including Government,Mining,Public Transport, Visualisation and Insurance. He has a solid technical background across a wide range of software languages and has been involved in all stages of the software development lifecycle. Since joining Snowden Technologies, Ian has worked on several projects including the development and support of Reconcilor and Regulator products.

Lisa has over 12 years experience in the software industry working with diverse technologies. She has a strong technical background and is familiar with a number of development tools and methodologies. She has expertise in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, focusing predominantly on requirements analysis and quality assurance. Lisa has acquired a variety of technical skills, including a number of different databases and development frameworks. Currently, Lisa has a software consultant role in Reconcilor and Regulator project teams at Snowden.

Andrew is a senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience. Andrew has worked with various industries supporting multiple technologies, software solutions and databases including .NET, MS SQL and Angular. Andrew has been involved with the redevelopment of the Otracom Tyre Management System.

Since graduating in 2004 from Murdoch University, Lukmaan has been working as a Software Developer for many companies in Perth. He has development experience varying from solo projects to largest software house in Western Australia.

Since joining Snowden in 2018, he has been an important member of the Reconciler upgrade project.

Caitlyn is a Marketing Coordinator working at Snowden since graduating with a Communications degree from ECU in 2006. She is responsible for supporting the growth of the company through building brand awareness and effective marketing of Snowden’s products and services.

Michelle has 14 years administration experience in the mining industry. Responsibilities include travel management and project management support.

Marinda has been the Receptionist at Snowden since 2011.

Kristy Marshall is a Marketing Strategy + Social Media specialist, graduating with a Double Bachelor Degree in International Business and Communications. With experience in marketing for Education + Technology companies in Sydney, Kristy has led the evolution + optimisation of several international marketing teams, with a focus on innovation and customer satisfaction. With her roles comprising high-level marketing strategy as well as implementation, her achievements include growing her departments revenue 10-fold over a period of 18 months, building a team of 12 employees in the same period across two countries, to the rollout of a Salesforce instance, and organising 600+ person, 8 stream conferences with international delegates. She’s all about smart marketing and personalising social media to build brands that customers want to engage with.

Chris has worked in the mining industry since graduating in 2006. Following his initial training with Rio Tinto Iron Ore in Australia, Chris moved to Snowden Consulting, initially in Australia then in South Africa gaining international mining experience of diverse projects including; Project management and completion of Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies, Independent Technical Reviews and Due Diligence studies for various ore deposits and providing on-site mine planning and mentoring to engineers at underground and open pit operations.

Chris then joined Discovery Metals in Botswana as a Senior Engineer implementing various projects including; Surpac mine planning software and training of Botswanan engineers, full site reporting systems, blast design reviews and the start-up of a new open pit.

Matt is Executive Consultant at the Snowden Group, a global mining consulting company.

Matt has +35 years experience in most major commodities, across the value chain, and in many countries. He built on a solid background in gold and platinum with stints on the South African Gold Mines, in rock engineering research, as an analyst on the JSE, and in running his own consulting company, to a 16 year career with BHP, and latterly back to independent consulting.

Prior to BHP Matt was Mineral Resource Manager for Randgold Resources, based in Mali, was Consulting Geologist (Mines) for Rand Mines, was CEO of a Minerals Consulting Company, a Mining Analyst on the JSE, a Mine Geologist and an Exploration Geologist.

Matt has led or participated in numerous acquisition and divestment studies, across gold, PGM’s, base metals, and bulk minerals.

Matt is a Competent Person/Competent Valuator in most major commodities and has worked on projects and operations throughout the globe.