TEAM
BCTEC professionals contribute to establishing best practices and standards for mine planning, developing technologies to optimize profitability, sustainability and safety.
Senior Mining Engineer
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Specialist Engineer
Engineering Manager
Over 10 years of experience in underground mining, specialist in caving methods with knowledge in processes of operational and mining planning. Previously supervised the processes of Extraction, Hauling, Plant and Crushing, Drilling and Blasting and Short–Term Planning at El Teniente. Currently leads our BCTEC multidisciplinary team in the design and implementation of innovative technologies for companies in Chile, Perú, Australia.
Pablo Álvarez 
PALVAREZ@BCTEC.CL
IT Manager
Executive with more than 18 years of professional experience as Software Development Engineer, IT Project Manager, Technology Manager. Expert in development of transversal systems (e.g. Networking, Database, Legacy Systems, Business intelligence, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Mobile Applications) and tools that add value to BCTEC analyses and recommendations.
José Bacigalupo
JOSE.BACIGALUPO@BCTEC.CL
Project Engineer
Mining Engineer with more than 3 years of experience in underground mining. Key player in research studies of gravity flow experiments, gravity flow simulations and database analysis of caving mines.
Lenin Arancibia
larancibia@bctec.cl
Project Engineer
Project Engineer
Project Engineer currently working on BCTEC risk modeling studies in caving mining and international benchmarking research regarding mining practices and standards. He interned in the JKMRC research center at the University of Queensland in Australia working on various mining and metallurgy projects while completing his Mining Engineering degree at the University of Concepción.
Marcelo Avila
MARCELO.AVILA@BCTEC.CL
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Administration and Finance
Engineering assistant
Marketing
Strategic Advisor
Principal Consultant
