WILLIAM A.

FETTERS
Project Engineer
847-736-9367
wffa845a@westpost.net

Education: Montana State University 5-qtrs Criminal Justice, Political Science

University of Montana 2-qrts Business
Bachelors Degree in Mining Engineering @ Montana Tech May 1998
John F. McCarthy Memorial Scholarship 1997
Luzenac Minerals Scholarship 1997
Consol Scholarship 1998
Little Scholarship 2005
Computers: AutoCad, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Access Surfer and Surp
ac Mine Design, Trimble GPS, and Nokkia Total Station
Vegas Tunnels (5/08 TO 11/08):
Senior Tunnel Engineer/Consultant: A joint venture with S. A. Healy and Impregi
lio on a design build water intake tap into Lake Meade for the Southern Nevada
Water Authority. A 650a deep access shaft was designed to lower a 23a diameter
TBM by Herrenknecht drive 3.5 miles under high pressure conditions into a pre
installed 20 a diameter lake intake 300a below lake surface.

Atkinson Construction (7/06 to 5/08):

Engineer: North Ore Shoot (NOS) Shaft collar at the Bingham Canyon Mine for Kenn
ecott Utah Copper 20 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. The shaft collar will
be recovered by excavation & installation of temporary support through approxima
tely 230ft. of broken waste rock + rehab of 3,100lft. of shaft
Project Manager: Drive 16a wide x 18a high access tunnel 125ft. from the back of
an existing 32a x 60a chamber and mine 20a long crosscut access and a 30a wide
x 70a long chamber with an 18a diameter radius for a ceiling. Trim powder, anf
o and precise drilling were required to excavate chamber to proper shape and siz
e. Finish the floor with concrete at a 1% grade installing conduits and handhol
es in the floor and cutting gauge mounts into the rib. Set up and utilize sub-c
ontractor to drill 24a diameter hole 197a long from the surface to a back corner
of the chamber for ventilation. Deliver surveyed tunnel perimeter and outline w
ith gauge mount and handhole positions. Support DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction
Agency) with tunnel access verification, removal of fence and ventilation fan fo
r test of static bomb, reinstalling fence and ventilation fan immediately after
test while wearing full face respirators.

Project Manager: Plan tunnel re-entry and rehabilitation of test chamber. Work
progressed under confined space permit required rules. The chamber was contamin
ated with white phosphorous which can produce phosphine gas (PH3) when in contac
t with water. Initial work was performed wearing the proper PPE and using full-
face respirators with phosphine gas (PH3) filter canisters. The tunnel was bolt
ed with epoxy encapsulated Williams bolts on a 5a x 5a pattern and sealed with 5
000 psi fiber-reinforced shotcrete using a robot and pump. The test chamber was
washed down, bolted with 10a bolts, mine mats were cut off and shotcrete applie
d. After rehabbing the tunnel the site was set up for testing an aerial shot us
ing a skip bomb. Test support and installing the ventilation fan and fence acro
ss the portal after the test were also required.
Frontier\Kemper (3/03 to 1/05):
Chief Field Engineer: Co-ordinate field engineering staff and survey crews in c
omplex underground expansion of existing freight tunnel. This was a self direct
ed position on a technically difficult job encompassing a wide range of work. P
osition required hiring and training field engineers to assist tunnel superinten
dents and walkers in understanding specifications, qa/qc, and ground support req
uirements in a challenging tunnel rehab. An existing 4200a freight tunnel with
brick lined sections in unstable ground was widened with mechanical equipment.
The tunnel was widened to 65a wide and 40a high for 1200a to build an undergrou
nd train station using drill and blast techniques. As the tunnel was widened th
ree separate faces advancing at different rates were excavated, shotcreted, and
bolted with grouted rock dowels. On one end of the station a 41adiameter shaft
was being excavated using drill and blast techniques after an 8a 3a diameter rai
se bore was accomplished from the existing tunnel. The station, shaft, and bric
k sections of the tunnel were all being excavated at the same time once the work
force, walkers, and engineering staff were trained. The Portals on either end of
the tunnel were completely rebuilt and stabilized. The West portal was dug bac
k and the ground was stabilized using soil nails, shotcrete and wire. The form
traveler was poured beyond the tunnel limits and backfilled. On the surface a b
us transfer station with 3 high speed elevators was constructed to access the lo
wer station. The shaft centerline, the tunnel centerline, and the train station
centerline were all offset from each other making survey control complicated an
d difficult.
BU Corp (9/02 to 2/03):
Survey Superintendent: Co-ordinate complex geometry surveying at the Exchange P
lace Subway Station that feeds the World Trade Center from New Jersey. The stat
ion platform was enlarged with roadheaders to use a 10 car train from an 8 car t
rain. Work with Dibit survey crew and generate final Vehicle Dynamic Outline (V
DO.) The geometry of the cuts and crossovers were an increasing or decreasing s
ize. Once it was determined the survey crews were accurate, the accuracy of the
cuts were transferred to the operators and foreman. The roadheader foremen wer
e taught to use offsets and survey marks improving the accuracy of the roadheade
r work. Document and record construction of Exchange Place subway station with
power point presentation showing the various stages of construction.

Kiewit Construction (6/98 to 10/01):

Field Engineer: Bored a 16a diameter tunnel 2039 meters long at the Yucca Mount
ain Nuclear Waste Repository with a Robbins Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at the N
evada Test Site. Quantified, documented, and reported; progress, downtime reaso
ns, water quantities used and returned to the surface, and material quantities.
I conducted jobsite safety meetings, pull tested 8a swellex rockbolts and assis
ted the surveyors moving the steering lasers. A 16a Robbins TBM was used to dri
ve the 2039 meter long exploratory tunnel. Steel sets with metal ribbing and wo
od blocking were used in Fault zones with quarter round channel and 4-8a swellex
rockbolts standard every 4 feet in good ground. Materials and supplies were br
ought in by rail with waste conveyed out. The conveyor, fresh-air ductwork, uti
lities, and rail sections were installed while driving the drift.
Field Engineer/Subcontract Superintendent: Design build DC triangle for Level (
3) communications doing route surveys and determinations. The routes went from
DC to Pittsburgh, DC to Wilmington Delaware, and DC to Raleigh North Carolina.
The 800 miles of installation took place in rural areas as well as metropolitan
installation in Washington DC. Safety, utility locating, maintenance of traffic
(MOT), bridge attachments, permitting, design, bores, and determining right of
ways were in my scope of work. Work began with the planning, designing, and exe
cution of all phases of fiber installation. My task after planning was complete
was overseeing the installation of conduits inside the District of Columbia as
Subcontract Superintendent. This work was unique by the fact that it was the on
ly city street installation on this mainly long-haul routes section. Up to 4 su
bcontractors were working at the same time with between 15 and 120 men. This se
ction contained bridge attachments, a 1200 foot bore under the Potomac River, an
d manhole installations inside the District of Columbia. Safety, utility locat
ion, permitting, and maintenance of traffic were the main issues dealt with dail
y.
Estimating/Planning: Estimate work out of the Chicago office. When the stage w
as reached where someone should have shown me how, there was no one with the tim
e to show me how, so I developed a spreadsheet in excel to speed the process. I
completed my work on time. After defending and justifying the figures to the o
ffice manager I received an aat-a-boy.a The system was changed to reflect a bet
ter mentoring attitude and spreadsheets are now be used to estimate in the Chica
go office.
In Puerto Rico I assembled a plan to remove 27- 35a I -Beams with concrete road
mats on them to facilitate traffic over a subway construction zone. Under a tig
ht weekend schedule safety, equipment needs, manpower, MOT, and sequencing needs
were planned out to expedite the job. Site diagrams, along with crane size and
capacity charts were assembled for engineered picks of the I-Beams.

Superintendent: Remove 3.5 miles of track, clean the invert, stabilize bad grou
nd areas, and re-install high speed rail back into the Stillwater East Boulder P
latinum Mine. I had a major roll in planning and scheduling the work, training
an unskilled workforce, and supervising all phases of this job. The ground supp
ort and rehabilitation included relieving the baskets in the wire mesh, bolting
with splitsets, and shotcreting. In squeezing ground 20a grouted cable bolts we
re installed in the invert to hold the invert in place and inhibit heaving. MSH
A 40 hour underground training was received.

Barrick Goldstrike (5/97 to 9/97):

Internship: Standardized and electronically formatted weight study data for hau
l trucks. The information was entered into a spreadsheet and manipulated to gra
ph and trend weights in useful ways. A comparison study for 24H and 16G motor g
raders was ultimately used as support document in Application for Expenditure (A
FE.) The operators of the 24H were surveyed for their opinions about the Grader
. A vision problem became evident from the survey concerning the wheel lean of
the 24H. A solution proposed was to install 6a bicycle flags on the wheels unti
l familiarity was achieved with the 24H motor grader. The rest of the summer I
worked with the survey crew using the Trimble GPS and Sokkia total stations. I
was involved in the aend of montha pit survey, day to day staking of the ore bo
dy, ashooting with the gun,a and a drainage problem between the shop and tire sh
op. The adrainage problema used GPS with backpack to do a topographical survey
and determine needed elevations. A sequencing solution was offered because the
original drainage was flawed, needed to be dug up and replaced, and couldnat int
erfere completely with day to day operations of the area.
Bush Drilling (5/96 to 9/96):
Drill Helper: Worked underground and above ground core drilling using Hagby cor
e drills at TVX minerals in Jardine Mt. Conventional drilling was used undergro
und with wireline retrieval utilized on the surface. MHSA 40 hour underground t
raining was completed. All surface drill holes over 500a in depth were surveyed
for direction using a downhole camera.
Rhone Poulenc (3/93 to 11/96):
Laborer: Worked on furnace digout operating drills, jackhammers, overhead crane
s. Heavy manual lifting and shoveling were required working 16 hour days during
furnace rehab.
Furnace Splitman: (tapper helper, tapper, and furnace boardroom operator) The s
plitman filled in on days off maintaining electric arc furnaces. The furnaces we
re tapped and drained, electrodes were installed, draining troughs were maintain
ed and furnace draft was adjusted. The boardroom operator ran the furnace contr
olling the feed of ore, raising and lowering of electrodes, and calling the tapp
ers due when the furnace needed draining.
P4 Splitman: (condenser operator, P4 operator, and roaster operator) The conden
ser operator oversaw the drafting and condensing of the elemental phosphorous.
The P4 operator filtered and measured the phosphorous tanks and loaded the produ
ct onto rail tanker cars. The roaster operator burned the phosphorous residue f
rom the filtering process in an electrically heated kiln.

Ames Construction: (3/91 to 10/92):

Heavy Equipment Operator: Operated crushing and screening plants washing and si
zing ores for leach pad construction at Newmont and Barrick Mines. In the cours
e of my work I operated 992, 988, and smaller loaders, D9L and 8k dozers, 825 co
mpactor, forklifts and boomtrucks. As operator/foreman when crushing and screen
ing I used various combinations of cone and jaw crushers, along with belt convey
ors and screen boxes to size materials. I was in charge of the dozer-loader ope
rators and up to 3 laborers during crushing operations or during maintenance and
repairs.

Reference:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Dave Hoag a" Engineer (505) 507-3866
Carl Jorgensen a" Engineer (435) 831-7260