Matthew has over 18 years’ experience in the civil mining and construction industry, with a record of exceeding client expectations for a broad range of complex projects. With strong leadership qualities and communication skills, Matthew has proven himself to be a highly effective manager across many disciplines. During his time at Mine Site Construction Services, Matthew developed a state of the art internal database management system that enabled the company to achieve a significant competitive advantage due to the effective utilisation of their resources, both human and mechanical.
Specialties include; Major project execution management, Maintenance Tactic Management, Inventory Control, Asset Management Planning, Logistics Management, Contract Management and Contract Estimation
Brendan Vaughan
Mining Manger
Brendan is an Australian citizen with over 30 years over national and international experience in the estimation and execution of small and large mining and civil engineering projects. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Masters in Business with dual specialisations in International and Financial Management. Brendan holds the Western Australian Quarry Managers Certificate Competency, is a member of the Australian Institute of Quarrying and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM).
Mark Caruso
Director
Mr Mark Caruso has extensive experience in all disciplines of mining, earthmoving and civil engineering construction earthworks. He has a proven track history of project discovery, delivering and financing projects from exploration through construction into operation in developing and emerging countries on time and on budget. In addition to his role at MSCS Mark has been a Director of Mineral Commodities Ltd since September 2000. He was previously the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Gold Mining PLC (AGMP), responsible for the delivery of the Gold Ridge Project in the Solomon Islands and the Simberi Gold Project in Papua New Guinea. After a successful merger with between St Barbara and AGMP in 2012, he assumed the position of Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mineral Commodities Ltd in August 2012.
Ashley Johnson
Project Engineer
Ashley has an overall experience of 8 years in Engineering, starting at MSCS as a Graduate engineer Ashley now assists in all aspects of Tenders, Contract allocation, Pre – starts, QA/QC auditing, job costing and budgeting. Ashley also assists on site with any operational requirements when necessary. Ashley has both a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil and Construction) and an
Advanced Diploma of Engineering (Civil)