All these years as a mining engineering professional, Ilias Atwani has worked for various different companies in a variety of roles. During his tenure as a mining engineer for the underground mines and mine planning department of a reputed firm, Ilias was involved in performing the following featured tasks –

-- Mid and Long term planning of two mines in operation phase

-- Identify and schedule cost-saving opportunities

-- Mine Design of new mineral lenses – In association with the Design Tech.

-- Mining sequence optimization

-- Coaching and training Junior engineers on site

-- Supervising the mining engineering Dept. during the Senior’s Engineer absence

Ilias Atwani has bilingual proficiency in English, French, and Arabic while elementary and limited working proficiency in Spanish. Away from work, Ilias enjoys spending his time practicing team sports like soccer and volleyball, and individual sports like swimming and tennis. He is also quite fond of traveling, trekking, and hiking.

About Ilias Atwani

Ilias Atwani is an experienced Mining Engineer working with a senior Canadian gold mining company as a Mine Operations Coordinator (Mine Operations Dept.). He is skilled in mining oriented operational Analysis/Modeling: Surpac®, Whittle®, Talpac®; Programming: Matlab®, C/C++, VB; Management and logistics: SAP®, JD Edwards®; and CAD software like AutoCAD® (Amine & Promine), SolidWorks®, Silverscreen® (CAMP), 3DReshaper®. He is an alumnus of Laval University from where he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Mining and Mineral Engineering in July 2012. He also attended Institut Polytechnique privé de Casablanca from Sept 2006 to Dec 2008 for his preparatory classes for engineering school. Currently, Atwani is pursuing his Executive Master of Business Administration (E-M.B.A) degree from Laval University.