Jorge Valencia

Jorge Valencia has a diverse work experience in the field of blasting solutions and engineering. Jorge is currently the Director of Blasting Solutions at Itasca Consulting Group, Inc. starting from October 2022. Prior to this, they worked as a Senior Drill and Blast Engineer at Nevada Gold Mines from January 2020 to October 2022.

Jorge also has experience in research and teaching as a Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the University of Nevada, Reno from January 2018 to January 2020.

Before that, Jorge co-founded VPO Ingeniería SpA in August 2016, where they served as a Socio Fundador until January 2020, contributing to the company's engineering projects.

Jorge has also worked as a Jefe de Proyectos for GeoBlast from March 2015 to January 2020, and as an Ingeniero Planificación Operativa for Minera Antucoya from January 2014 to February 2015.

Additionally, Jorge worked as an Asesor de Tronadura at Coviaci from January 2013 to January 2014, where they provided technical advice in blasting activities.

Jorge began their career as a Consultor Técnico at Orica in May 2008 and worked there until January 2013, helping clients with technical consulting services.

Jorge Valencia's education history includes a Ph.D. in Mineral Resources Engineering with a focus on Artificial Intelligence in Mining from the University of Nevada, Reno, which they pursued from 2018 to 2022. Prior to that, they completed their undergraduate degree in Ingeniero Civil en Minas (Mining Engineering) at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, though the specific dates of their enrollment and completion are not provided. Additionally, they obtained a Ph.D. in Geo-Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno from 2018 to 2020.

In terms of certifications, Jorge has acquired several through LinkedIn. These include "Building and Deploying Deep Learning Applications with TensorFlow" in June 2022, "Develop Your Writing Skills" in June 2022, "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing" in May 2022, "Tips for Better Business Writing" in May 2022, "Tips for Writing Business Emails" in May 2022, "Writing in Plain Language" in May 2022, "Writing to Be Heard on LinkedIn" in May 2022, "Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer" in April 2022, "Writing with Impact" in March 2022, "Deep Learning: Image Recognition" in January 2022, "Building Deep Learning Applications with Keras 2.0" in December 2021, "Deep Learning: Face Recognition" in December 2021, and "Neural Networks and Convolutional Neural Networks Essential Training" in December 2021.