Broker, ABR, CRS

• Apr 2016 - Present

Licensed Broker with RE/MAX Renaissance REALTORS in Chattanooga, TN, where I work with residential and commercial clients to buy, sell and lease properties. Strong business acumen as well as excellent project management skills ensure customer satisfaction. Experience with residential construction and renovation, as well as owning and managing rental property. Licensed Broker with RE/MAX Renaissance REALTORS in Chattanooga, TN, where I work with residential and commercial clients to buy, sell and lease properties. Strong business acumen as well as excellent project management skills ensure customer satisfaction. Experience with residential construction and renovation, as well as owning and managing rental property.

Principal Consultant and Founder

• Oct 2015 - Present

Provides consulting services and solutions to compliance and performance issues for nuclear stations and organizations in a quest to restore regulatory margin and close their gaps to excellence. Provides assessments, evaluations, and solutions for organizational effectiveness and response strategies for nuclear safety culture. Also provides consulting in the development and implementation of programs for regulatory compliance; emergency preparedness and response; accident and incident investigations; readiness reviews; as well as corrective action program and performance improvement initiatives. Show less

Senior Advisor

• Nov 2015 - Present

Senior Leader

• Dec 1981 - Nov 2015

Successful industry leader with over 30 years of electric utility experience, most of it gained in the commercial nuclear industry. Held several senior nuclear and non-nuclear leadership positions at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Experience leading nuclear oversight, quality assurance, licensing, performance benchmarking & improvement, training, leadership development, engineering, and change-management functions and initiatives for an organization of 12,000 employees.Skilled at the assessment and evaluation of nuclear plant performance for compliance as well as for identifying and closing gaps to industry excellence. Served as an INPO evaluator and industry peer for the evaluation of organizational effectiveness as well as developed and used assessments to evaluate and address organizational health and nuclear safety culture improvement. Significant corrective action program, problem development, and root cause analysis experience. Considerable regulatory and licensing experience including inspection readiness activities for NRC IP95001, 95002, and 95003 inspections, baseline inspection activities, license amendments, fire protection program inspection and implementation, license renewal, and extended power uprate activities. Show less

Senior Manager, Site Quality Assurance

• Oct 2013 - Oct 2015

Senior Nuclear Oversight Manager on site, responsible for the performance of the quality control and quality assurance functions and providing oversight of day-to-day plant activities important to safety. Successfully led the assessment and evaluation of all aspects of safe operation of the Sequoyah nuclear station as they achieved top industry performance.

Senior Manager, Performance Indicators & Benchmarking

• Jan 2008 - Oct 2013

Provide governance for development, reporting, and use of internal/external business and performance metrics, governance and oversight for process and performance benchmarking efforts, as well as governance for the standard organization structure. Use performance trending, process and performance benchmarking and comparative analysis based on INPO and other industry best practices and performance to identify gaps to excellence. Provide leadership and oversight to ensure that benchmarking and improvement efforts are targeted and are used to close gaps to excellence. Show less

Senior (Fleet) Licensing Manager

• Jan 2008 - Jun 2009

Led a team of licensing professionals responsible for licensing activities associated with TVA’s fleet of operating nuclear reactors. Considerable regulatory and licensing experience, including inspection readiness activities for NRC IP95001, 95002, and 95003 inspections; baseline inspection activities; license amendments; fire protection program inspection and implementation; license renewal,and extended power uprate activities.

Senior Manager, Training and Development

• Mar 2001 - Dec 2007

Successfully integrated the training & development functions across the company into a single high-performing organization which provided pipeline and continuing technical training programs; supervisory, employee, and leadership development; regulatory / compliance training; and organizational effectiveness / culture change programs & initiatives (STAR7, CHI, etc). Significant contributions included:• Recruitment and pipeline training for replacement of 1/3 of workforce• Use of innovative blended learning approaches to minimize employee time off tools and maximize staff productivity.• Deployment of NERC System Operator Training• Development and ongoing of cultural health assessment process• Implementation of talent assessment and succession planning process• Implementation of a new supervisor and leadership development model Show less

President UTC Alumni Board of Directors

• 2008 - 2010