Technical Director - Business Development and Commercial Ventures

• Mar 2021 - Present

President - Nuclear Energy Development Services

• Oct 2009 - Mar 2021

Nuclear Energy Development Services President and Owner • Senior Program Manager - X-energy - Supporting Xe-100 SMR deployment in Canada • Licensing Consultant – Kinectrics - Xe-100 SMR Vendor Design Review support activities • Project Management Office – Kinectrics – Commercial support activities, Bid Preparation Manager, COG Portfolio Manager and Client Lead • Program Manager - COG Research & Development - Chemistry, Materials and Components $7M/yr program including Chemistry of Primary and Secondary Systems, Steam Generator Material Integrity, Steam Generator Non-Destructive Evaluation, Valves, Steel Components and Piping, Concrete Structures, and Cables • Safety Factors Assessor - Bruce A Integrated Safety Review Project • Integrator - Database Applications including NRU Integrated Safety Review Project Team • Project Lead - COG Next Generation Industry Standard Toolset Initiative Show less

Senior Consultant

• Apr 2008 - Sep 2009

Senior Consultant • Project management, client interface and subject matter expert: o Implemented Work Management System for NRU Integrated Safety Review (reviewing compliance with domestic and international codes and standards) o Reviewed and Verified OPG Darlington Channel Instrument Flow Report o Authored Embalse – Containment Leak Rate Test Inspection Report o Supported COG Industry Standard Toolset Containment and Fuel codes strategic direction reports • Business development including marketing and corporate promotions • Recruitment of industry recognized experts and recent graduates • Supervision and training project staff Show less

Program Manager -COG Research and Development Safety and Licensing

• Apr 2006 - Apr 2008

• $10M/yr program including Containment, Thermal Hydraulics, Physics, Fuel Normal Operating Conditions and Fuel and Fuel Channels • Facilitated industry technical committee and working groups in developing and running the safety and licensing program for the CANDU industry • Activities including contract management, resource planning, progress monitoring, and negotiations with industry representatives, regulatory bodies, and academia, and review and approval of all deliverables (work plans, technical notes and reports) • Business process improvements and implementation of database systems solutions • Plan and execute annual industry workshop and COG-CNSC R&D seminar Show less

Consultant

• Apr 2002 - Apr 2006

Program Manager -COG Research and Development Safety and Licensing • As above. Project Manager -COG Regulatory Affairs • Assisted Regulatory Affairs Director in facilitating the COG regulatory affairs program. This included the activities of the nuclear safety committee and nuclear environmental affairs committee NSS Project -Darlington Pressurizer Gas State –Subject Matter Expert • Developed concept to provide flexibility during outages for heat transport states Program Manager -COG Research and Development Safety and Licensing • As above. Project Manager -COG Regulatory Affairs • Assisted Regulatory Affairs Director in facilitating the COG regulatory affairs program. This included the activities of the nuclear safety committee and nuclear environmental affairs committee NSS Project -Darlington Pressurizer Gas State –Subject Matter Expert • Developed concept to provide flexibility during outages for heat transport states

Senior Technical Engineer, Darlington Fuel Handling Department

• 1999 - Mar 2002

• Fuel Handling Outage Single Point of Contact• Team Leader -Closure Plug Leakage Project• Heat Sink Coordinator -Darlington Unit 4 2001 Fall Outage• Heat Sink Consultant to Outage Managers• Darlington Safeguards Officer (International Atomic Energy Agency)• Project Manager -New Fuel Reconfiguration Project• System Responsible Engineer -New Fuel• Thermal Hydraulic Consultant to Darlington Fuel Handling (Flow defuelling, custom shield plugs, test loop experiments, etc.)• Completed Fuel Handling Major Panel Operator Course Show less

Nuclear Design Engineer -Thermal Hydraulic Analyst, Darlington Nuclear Safety Department

• 1993 - 1999

• Nuclear Safety Work Group Coordinator (13 Week rolling maintenance schedule)• Acted as Thermal Hydraulic Analysis Section Manager• Outage Heat Sink Analyst Expert:• Developed many of the outage heat sink strategies and outage heat transport configurations• Produced many heat sink design calculations• Heat Sink consultant to engineering services• Heat Sink presentations to Darlington management• Heat Sink training presentations to engineering services and authorized operations personnel• Authored reports fundamental for establishing approval of natural circulation as a back up heat sink for the 1997 vacuum building outage• D2O Coordinator -1997 Vacuum Building Outage • Member of Ontario Hydro Nuclear (OHN) heat sink team that developed the OHN Low Power Heat Sink Policy and Standards• Performed thermal-hydraulic analysis of the primary heat transport circuit, under accident conditions using TUF transient computer model• Member of software selection team• Performed flow defuelling calculations• Hired and supervised a co-op student Show less

Nuclear Design Engineer -Thermal Hydraulic Analyst, Nuclear Safety Dept., Operational Safety Section

• 1991 - 1993

• Member of N12 task force assembled to solve the fuel bundle endplate cracking and bearing pad wear problems at Darlington • Acoustic and mechanical vibration analysis of the primary heat transport circuit • Organized and conducted experiments at Stern Laboratories on a full scale fuel channel hydraulic test loop and developed pressure transducer installation procedures • Member of N12 task force assembled to solve the fuel bundle endplate cracking and bearing pad wear problems at Darlington • Acoustic and mechanical vibration analysis of the primary heat transport circuit • Organized and conducted experiments at Stern Laboratories on a full scale fuel channel hydraulic test loop and developed pressure transducer installation procedures