Experience

STARS Alliance

• United States
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • Jun 2017 - Present

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2015 - Present

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Arizona Public Service Company

• Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 1986 - Present

  Engineering Fix-It-Now, responsible for the day-to-day engineering support to operations and maintenance. Key products include operability assessments, systematic troubleshooting plans, and coordination of engineering resources for emergent issues. Also support the STARS Engineering Team. Engineering Outage Department Leader, responsible for all engineering refueling outage activities. Functioned as single point of accountability between engineering and work management. Reported to the Director, Plant Engineering. Provided direct support of STARs through participation on the STARs Engineering Team. Previous engineering manager positions held include Technical Services, Systems Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, and Plant Reliability and Modifications. As Manager of Engineering Technical Services, was responsible for 24 engineering programs including ISI, IST, materials management program, equipment reliability, and engineering training. Also responsible for the station probabilistic risk assessment and Legacy Engineering processes. Was the Palo Verde Engineering Manager on the STARS Engineering Team. As Systems Engineering Manger, was responsible for system health of all NSSS, BOP, I&C, and Electrical systems including monitoring and trending, long range planning, and managing system teams. Was also responsible for the probabilistic risk assessment, implementation of the engineering training program, Legacy Engineering Program, and Reliability Engineering programs. As Plant Reliability and Modifications Manager, was responsible for the station equipment reliability program, design modifications to the plant and all configuration management-related activities. Lead the STARS Equipment Reliability Team. As Maintenance Engineering Manager was responsible for In-service Inspection, Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation, and Valve Services Engineering. Also held the



Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

• Utilities
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Sr Evaluator

  • May 1995 - May 1997

  On loan to INPO from Arizona Public Service Company as a Lead Engineering Evaluator. Responsible for leading evaluation and assessment activities for INPO's Engineering Support Department for assigned plant evaluations. Responsible for evaluating all aspects of nuclear plant engineering activities including system, design, and reactor engineering. Also responsible for leading assistance trips as needed in the Engineering Support area. Also functioned as the Cognizant Valve Engineer for INPO in support of the INPO Component Engineering Department. Was a consultant to Millstone as part of their restart efforts in 1997.



General Atomic Inc

• Product Support Engineer

  • Jan 1984 - Jan 1986

  Supervised field service engineers in the start-up and field repair of new digital radiation monitoring systems for nuclear power plant installations. Also functioned as project manager for contracts under one half million dollars and was responsible for marketing products and engineering services to government and utility personnel. Was responsible for design/design modification and/or start-up assistance to the following nuclear power plants; Responsible for the seismic and environmental qualification of new products and the direct response to customer and architect engineer questions concerning the qualification, reliability and maintainability of General Atomic's digital radiation monitoring equipment.



Technology for Energy Corporation

• Systems Engineer

  • Jan 1982 - Jan 1984

  Responsible for the fault and event tree analysis of nuclear power plant and chemical process industry systems. Success criteria determination, failure modes and effects, and common mode failure analysis were among the techniques used to analyze plant systems. Was primary balance of plant system modeler, and was co-engineer on the seismic analysis for the Clinch River breeder reactor project. Also modeled systems for the Oconee and McGuire safety assessments. Responsible for the fault and event tree analysis of nuclear power plant and chemical process industry systems. Success criteria determination, failure modes and effects, and common mode failure analysis were among the techniques used to analyze plant systems. Was primary balance of plant system modeler, and was co-engineer on the seismic analysis for the Clinch River breeder reactor project. Also modeled systems for the Oconee and McGuire safety assessments.