Errol Scott Arnett

P.O. Box 2431

London, Kentucky 40743

Cell (606) 344-4270

Home: (606) 528-0246

esarnett@live.com

EDUCATION

June 3, 1989

Laurel County High School

London, Kentucky 40741

High School Diploma

March 30, 1990 Laurel County State Vocational Technical School

London, Kentucky 40741

Courses: Drafting (2165) Hours

Including AutoCAD Release 10 Training and a Civil Drafter Certificate

July 31, 1991

Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, Kentucky

Completed 9 Hours of Required Courses

January 21, 1992 Morehead State University

Morehead, Kentucky

Completed 44 Hours which included 12 hours Drafting, 3 Hours

AutoCAD, and 3 Hours Trigonometry and Geometry

December 2011 University of Phoenix

Associate of Arts/Concentration in Foundations of Business

SPECIAL TRAINING

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Certified Impoundment Inspector and Instructor for the State of Kentucky

Certified Underground Miner

Certified Mine Emergency Technician

Certified Troxler Nuclear Gauge Safety Training

HAZ-MAT Certification

24 Hour Certificate from Carlson Software in Advance Mining Short

Course

24 Hour Certificate from Carlson Software in Geology

(Training Cont.)

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Demonstrated Proficiency Bio Marine (BioPak 240S User)

• MSHA Approved Instructor

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

11/89 – 11/89

Interstate Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Geology Technician

Duties: Co-op from the Vocational School

• Color Coding Maps for Coal Reserves and calculations. Used a

Planimeter to justify acreage for un-mined mineral taxes. Copies

maps using blue line machine.

03/90 - 08/90

Interstate Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Surveyor Technician

Field Duties:

• Assisted in As-built and layouts of sediment pond structures, haul

roads and hollow- fills

• Assisted in survey of property lines for surface mine leases,

boundary surveys, pit locations etc.

• Retracement surveys and staking

• Assisted in surveying for photogrammetry surveys for horizontal

and vertical control

• Assisted in engineering practices for production mining

• Grade staking for sediment ponds and haul roads

• Survey alignment for High-wall mining

Office Duties:

• Tonnage calculations for surface mining

• Office filing

• Traversing and plotting

• Surface pit information

• Aerial Photography Alignments

01/92 - 03/93

Interstate Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Surveyor Technician

Field Duties:

• As-built and layout of sediment pond structures

• Survey of property lines for surface mining

• Retracement surveys

• Rodman for photogrammetry surveys for horizontal and vertical

control

• Rodman for production mining

• Grade staking for sediment ponds and haul roads

• Annual Pond Inspections and Reports

• Cross-sections and Spoil storage surveys

• High-wall Miner Alignment Surveys

Office Duties:

• AutoCAD drawings of surface mine information and sediment

ponds

03/93 - 07/95

Interstate Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Underground Surveyor Technician (Transfer from Surface)

Field Duties:

• Field Surveys of gas and oil wells in relationship to underground

mining areas

• Set spads for alignment of underground mining including main

lines, panels and construction settings

• Boundary surveys for underground mining including adverse

property and no mining zones

• Assisted in the construction survey of mine site and layout

including a $3M slope hoist/belt system from the Hazard #4 seam

into the Amburgey Seam.

• Annual sediment pond inspections and as-builts pertaining to the

mining areas

• Impoundment and Refuse area inspections and annual surveys

• Elevation surveys to water wells and structures located above the

mining zones to determine cover related to subsidence zones

• Subsidence zone inspections

• Post mining recon, determining ventilation changes, belt

development etc.

Office Duties:

• Filing of maps, deeds, plats and deed research

After company change over

07/95 - 2/00

James River Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Engineering Technician/ Party Chief

Field Duties:

• Location of gas and oil wells utilizing a two to three man crew

• Subsidence Control Surveys and Inspections

• Set spads for alignment of underground mining sections

• Boundary surveys for underground mining

• Construction of mine site and layout surveys including a $1.5M

box cut design below drainage

• Annual sediment pond inspections and as-builts

• Impoundment and Refuse area inspections and annual surveys

• Survey of Stockpiles and calculations of volumes

• Alignment surveys for main line belt structure, both floor structure

and hanging. Set alignment control for head-drive placement

Office Duties:

• Consisting of AutoCAD drawings including some of the following:

• Mine maps and Work maps including 10 MMU sections

• Elevation mapping

• Section escapeway maps for emergency escape routes

• Design of projections for underground mining

• MSHA plans and detail drawings for investigations

• Ventilation maps and Roof Control Plans

• Life of mine timing maps for presentations to Board Members

• Responsible for ordering gas well overlays and plotting new well

locations

• Plot and contour road profiles and cross- sections from surveys

• Refuse impoundment drawings and state regulation diagrams

• Involved with State and Federal inspectors with weekly and

monthly inspections

• Train new employees in AutoCAD and other office duties

• Calculations of coal stockpiles by survey

• Calculation of water user fees for the State of Kentucky

02/00 - 05/01 Manpower of Lexington

600 Perimeter Drive

Toyota on site

Position: Team Member

Duties:

• Online team member in the plastic department of Toyota

05/01 - 06/02

James River Coal Company

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Engineering Technician / Party Chief

Field Duties: Same as above

Office Duties: Same as above

06/10/02 - 09/03/04 A&L Surveying and Engineering

London, Kentucky 40701

Position: Party Chief

Duties:

• Field Location for property surveys

• Set monuments for boundary surveys

• Survey for sewer designs and sub-division layouts

• Survey for non-coal mines, surface and underground

• Survey of surface mining projects which include,

• Location of pits, as-builts of hollow fills, annual pond

• Inspections, location of auger holes, as-builts of sediment ponds

• Topographic surveys

• Elevation Surveys

• Construction Surveys

• ALTA Surveys

• Inversing and Traversing to predetermined corners/marker

locations

• Traversing / reducing field notes on computer programs

• Control Surveys on Kentucky State Plane Geodetic Coordinate

System

• Field Research for surveys

Office:

• Cad drawings for boundary surveys

• Non-coal mine maps and updates

• Filing and deed research for boundary surveys

• Field Location Plots

09/07/04 – 01/01/05 Meredith General Surveys

1680 N. Hwy. 421

Manchester, Kentucky 40962

(606) 598-3540

Position: Party Chief

Duties:

• Consisting of boundary surveys, location and staking of gas wells

within the regulations of the Division of Oil and Gas.

Office Duties:

• Consisting of field location maps, final plats, deed plots

01/14/05 – 04/16/06 Century Coal, LLC

Beverly, Kentucky

Position: Engineering Technician

Duties:

• Managed the survey team and assisted in surveys when needed.

• Set control for underground and surface mining.

• Layout of box cut and mine yard.

• Alignment of High-wall Miner and field surveys

Office Duties:

• Mapping of underground and surface highwall mining areas.

• Worked with corporate office with spread sheets and daily

production information.

04/17/06 – 03/31/07 International Coal Group

1021 Tori Drive

Hazard, KY 41701

Position: Engineering Technician

• Managed contract survey crews with daily surveys for both surface

and underground tasks.

• Mapped all mined areas both surface and underground

• Presentation mapping and 10 year timing maps

• Quality mapping

• Trained with members of the Mine Rescue Team

04/01/07 – 12/31/08 International Coal Group

(Transfer)

1021 Tori Drive

Hazard, KY 41701

Position: Senior Engineering Technician

Transfer to the surface division of ICG.

• Duties consist of updating master property maps and excel sheet

for GIS entries.

• Master Mineral mapping and updating new leases.

• Designing blast grid maps for surface mining areas and pre-blast

surveys.

• Updating flown photos and Pond Inc. maps.

• Updating gas line moves and mapping proposed gas well drill sites

based on mining futures.

• Calculating surface volumes for budget maps.

• Timing Maps for budget presentations

01/05/09 – Present Alden Resources, LLC

332 West Cumberland Gap Parkway

Corbin, KY 40701

Position: Manager of Mapping

• Engage in mine planning and design, creating approved mining

plans for underground mine development. Work with production

management personnel in development stages and quality layouts.

• Assist in the preparation of drillhole locations and quality studies

including the development of Iso-Pacs and strata mapping.

• Train company personnel in drawing software and mining

concepts.

• Create mapping and timing for short term mining areas and Lifeof-Mine

calculations.

• Managing of timed projects and direct survey crews task during

daily tasks.

• Decisions making and problem solving during daily tasks.

• Developed an overview of permitted areas and utilize GIS for

mobile research in the field.

• Maintain and review Ventilation, Subsidence and Roof Control

Mapping for all company mining facilities.

• Weekly Refuse Impoundment Inspections and Compaction Testing

• Assist in Permit Revisions including Bond Releases for facilities,

Pre-blast surveys for new permitted areas.

• Model 3D surface mapping and grids to visualize existing benches

from aerial flight mapping.

• Correspondence with drilling crew for Geosteering drilling into

thin seam coal beds to determine quality analysis.

• Working with all regulatory agencies to develop mining plans that

adhere to the safety and mining regulations.

• Developed the first GIS database network within the company

using ESRI ArcGIS Desktop for use with Geology and permit

management, land information and data quality functional with

mobile devices.

• Created file sharing of Auto Cad files utilizing a cloud-based

system. Accessing current and up-dated drawings in a mobile

setting and on the fly.

• SAP Material Management End User – Manage requisitions for

engineering and drilling production.

• Work hand-in-hand with consultants to expedite useful and needed

material to Federal and Local officials.

• Assist in Engineering budgets for capital