Full Circle

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Published: October 05, 2025

Life has a funny way of bringing you back to familiar places in new roles. I’m now I&F Decision Science Associate Manager at Accenture, and guess where I’m assigned – back working with CODELCO through the MinCo-Hidro project. Same company, completely different perspective. Last time I was inside the operation, now I’m on the consulting side helping shape strategy. It feels like full circle. The faces are familiar but the conversations are different this time around. Being inside the operation versus consulting from the outside are two completely different experiences – when you’re inside, you live the problems daily; from consulting, you see the patterns across multiple operations. As Associate Manager now, I’m less in the code and more in the strategy, which is a shift I’m still adjusting to. The responsibility is bigger – it’s not just about building a good model anymore, it’s about making sure the whole engagement delivers value. I miss the hands-on data science sometimes, but I think this is where I’m supposed to be growing.

New Side Project

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Published: September 25, 2025

New Side Project

120 TPH

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Published: April 20, 2025

The SAG mill optimization model delivered scenarios exceeding +120 TPH. One hundred and twenty tons per hour of additional throughput. That number kept bouncing around in my head all day. Months of work – data pipelines, model iterations, validation with the operations team – and now it’s showing up in production numbers. There’s a particular satisfaction in seeing real tonnage move because of something you built. Today was a good day.

The Desert

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Published: February 08, 2025

Working at Minera Centinela in Antofagasta and the Atacama desert is something you have to see in person. Coming from the forests of southern Chile, this is the opposite end of the country in every sense. Dry, vast, and strangely beautiful. The mine itself is massive – you feel small standing next to those trucks. The flight from Santiago to Antofagasta is barely two hours, but it feels like arriving on another planet. Where I grew up everything is green and wet; here, it hasn’t rained in years. The mine camp life takes some getting used to – wake up, bus to site, work, bus back, dinner at the camp cafeteria, sleep, repeat. The food is surprisingly decent though, you can’t complain about that. The dry air hits you immediately; your lips crack, your nose bleeds if you’re not careful. The sunsets out here are unreal though. Not a bad office view.