Experience

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  My Own Back Yard

  • Denver, Colorado

  • Semi-retired

    • Feb 2017 - Present
    • Denver, Colorado
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  Xcel Energy

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Contract Technical Writer

    • Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
    • Greater Denver Area

    My work experience and background in training material development for process industries afforded me the opportunity to help the Xcel training department develop course work for their power plant chemists. I was also tasked to develop training manuals for their production engineers and power pl...

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  Plant CTO Solutions

  • Nebraska

  • Tech Writer - Material Developer

    • Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
    • Nebraska

    My process experience has expanded into another interesting field, that is the production of another renewable fuel - biodiesel. I am presenting developing training materials for a biodiesel plant in Nebraska. It is an exciting project and gives me additional experience in a rapidly changing fi...

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  Western ROPE

  • Project Location- Iowa

  • Technical Writer-Material Developer

    • May 2011 - Jan 2013
    • Project Location- Iowa

    The material development project is for a number of ethanol plants located in Iowa. The project includes both the development of operating procedures and training materials including process manuals, process drawings, training guides and operator evaluation material.

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  Plant CTO Solutions

  • Based in Denver, Colorado and traveling regular...

  • Technical Writer-Material Developer

    • Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
    • Based in Denver, Colorado and traveling regular...

    Plant CTO Solutions is the new company name replacing Western ROPE. My present project is developing training materials for a number of ethanol plants in Iowa.

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  KBC Advanced Technologies

  • Greater Denver Area

  • Technical Writing Consultant

    • Apr 2009 - May 2011
    • Greater Denver Area

    With material development projects at KBC I expanded my technical writing expertise with the writing of Advanced Equipment, Concole Strategy, and Advanced Technology manuals for a variety of clients in the oil and gas industry.

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  Red Rocks Community College

  • Denver Area

  • Adjunct Instructor for Process Technology

    • 2009 - 2010
    • Denver Area

    Helped in the development of the Process Technology Program at Red Rocks. I taught process tech classes and also helped with curriculum and laboratory development, I was also very involved in the marketing of the program to various Denver area schools and military support organizations. Our p...

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  Technology Training Systems (TTS)

  • Denver, Colorado

  • Senior Material Developer

    • Aug 2000 - Jan 2006
    • Denver, Colorado

    At TTS I expanded my technical writing experience by working on operating procedure development projects and material development in writing operations training manuals. I also developed experience in stand-up classroom training projects. During my tiem at TTS, I traveled to many process plant ...

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  Public Service of Colorado- presently Xcel Ener...

  • Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plant

  • Nuclear Operator

    • Aug 1984 - Sep 1992
    • Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plant

    My process plant experience brought me to the nuclear power industry where I worked as a nuclear power plant operator at the only HTGR High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor in the US. I advanced up the operations progression until Fort St. Vrain was shut down and de-commisssioned.

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  Amoco Oil Company (now BP) Whiting Indiana

  • Whiting, Indiana Refinery

  • Chief Process Operator

    • May 1974 - Jan 1980
    • Whiting, Indiana Refinery

    My operations experience at the Whiting Refinery included work on different refining units including Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units (FCU) and Vapor Recovery Units (VRU). This experience in oil refining gave me my basic foundation in the process industry.