Carl Trachte

Current

Software Analyst at ALATEC

Past

Engineeer II at Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold
geologist at Phelps Dodge

Education

Washington State University
University of Delaware

Connections

92 connections

Industry

Mining & Metals

Websites

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Carl Trachte’s Summary

Nine years of mining experience in a production environment; emphasis on calculation and reporting of copper mine tonnage, hydrometallurgical copper production, and mass balance through the use of Python, dot Net, Visual Basic, and C# programming; CVS/Subversion version control; expertise in collecting, organizing, and extracting mine and processing related data through the use of relational database technology; extensive experience with geometric algorithms as they apply to two dimensional, irregular polygons.

Carl Trachte’s Specialties:

Open Pit Mine Operations, data processing/data crunching, databases, SQL, Python and Visual Basic programming.

Carl Trachte’s Experience

Software Analyst

ALATEC

(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Engineeer II

Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold

(Mining & Metals industry)

May 1996 — March 2009 (12 years 11 months)

Held a number of positions with legacy company Phelps Dodge. Moved from mine exploration geology to Ore Control to Hydrometallurgy to Technical Support and R & D for the mine.

Developed skill in the area of data mining and integration (scripting with SQL and Python). Also performed significant automation of Mine Planning Software and shell commands to support the copper mining operation.
geologist

Phelps Dodge

(Mining & Metals industry)

1996 — 2007 (11 years )

Carl Trachte’s Education

Washington State University

MS , Economic Geology , 1990 — 1993
University of Delaware

BS , Geology, German minor

Activities and Societies:

Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity