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Alloway, Nj

• Operate and maintain a Jenbacher 616 power plant and all related auxiliary equipment (Salem County Landfill to Energy). • Monitor and tune over ninety gas collection wells to provide sufficient gas for operations, and to meet NJDEP permit requirements. • Act as project oversight for preventative and corrective maintenance evolutions. • Assist in seasonal startup of a boiler plant (Mannington Mills).

Rockaway, New Jersey

Groton, Ct

Responsibilities include:• monitoring and controlling radioactive material and radiation generated during maintenance and operation of a Navy Nuclear Reactor. • Tracking and planning person-hours spent on individual jobs involving the potential exposure of radiation or radioactive contamination. • Supervise organizational radiological maintenance.• Lead pre-job briefs and safety briefs including discussions on risk assessment , personal protective equipment, effect on overall plant operation , and HazMat control. • Sustain safe nuclear operations by keeping reactor plant and steam plant chemistry within strict program requirements. • Accurately analyze radioactive samples to monitor reactor plant material, and core condition. • Coordinate with department supervisory personnel and executive personnel on developing and executing a stable chemistry program for reactor and steam plant operation.• Maintain inventory on reagents and materials necessary for operations in port and at sea.• Received Navy Good Conduct Award• Performed function of Acquisitions Petty Officer- Assisted in acquiring materials and components necessary for operating at sea for extended periods of time.

Groton, Ct

Nuclear Operations, Testing, and Maintenance on SSN781 (USS California) during PSB period including work-up to develop the California into a mission ready vessel to include testing, trials, and multiple short duration underways (Anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months). Valve and Component maintenance and the Quality Assurance involved with package work.• Divisional Damage Control Petty Officer- Responsible for performing maintenance and repair on various submarine damage control equipment.

• Completed courses involving fluid flow, basic machinery, fluid dynamics, air compressors, refrigeration systems, and pump laws.• Completed advanced courses in math, heat transfer, chemistry, physics, radiological controls, thermodynamics, material science, reactor dynamics, and electrical engineering fundamental to design, operations, and maintenance of naval nuclear power plants.• Completed advanced nuclear power training that required the safe operation of a naval nuclear propulsion plant during startups, shutdowns, transient operations, casualty scenarios, and maintenance periods.• Learned individual basic skills of system repair work such as quality control, cleanliness, and precision measuring.

Worked as an independent contractor operating as a finished carpenter/ installer of commercial restroom stalls, lockers, and vanities.

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Education record