Served his apprentice period as an underground sampler, chemist and mill operator in the uranium field of Elliot Lake, Ontario.  Worked the iron ore mines of Labrador as a Pellet Plant operator and redesigned and rebuilt the Lurgi furnaces.  As Project Engineer, built a bunker C tank farm and pellet plant in Sept Isles, Quebec. 

Emigrated to the U.S. in 1964 as Pellet Plant Supervisor at Eagle Mountain, California.  Served as Special Project Manager responsible Beneficiation retrofits and General Foreman of operation. 

Built the Island Copper Project concentrator on Vancouver Island and was responsible for Operation.  Coordinated the extraction process with mining activities.  

Metallurgical manager for the Pitch project in Colorado, the first belt filter dry tailings disposal approved by the NRC and Colorado.  Managed Dravo as the project engineer and opted to toll ore to Grants, New Mexico. 

Built Burning Star #5 coal preparation plant in Southern Illinois; integrated tipple and mining; served as Mid West Region Preparation Manager. 

Served as Paris based, Metallurgist and Owner Representative for Niger, Northwest Africa’s Imoraren project with extensive South and Northwest Africa travel. Managed Fluor/Krebs as the engineer. 

Metallurgist and Engineer for the Crownpoint project in New Mexico.  He managed Davy McKee as the project engineer.  Built the first of the kind kinetic hydrometallurgical software for uranium extraction.