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Nivelles, Belgium

Responsible for the project that aims at qualifying Westinghouse as an integrated Steam Generator Replacement service provider for the French market

Nivelles, Belgium

Responsible for product development and product application of containment filtered vent systems for severe accident mitigation applications at nuclear power stations.

Nivelles

Manager of the mechanical engineering/analysis department with responsibility for technical and resource management aspects.

Doel - Belgium

Project Manager for Westinghouse scope of work for the Doel Unit 1 SGR project. Responsible for project safety, quality, and overall technical and financial performance. Project scope included preparation of engineering packages and implementation of the SG lifting and handling scope, RSG metrology and machining, primary pipe decontamination, welding and.

Varobacka, Sweden

Technical coordination of FOAK nozzle repair project at Ringhals 3 and 4 power stations. The project involved design, extensive qualification and implementation of a specialty repair process on the alloy 600 weldments of the reactor pressure vessel hot leg nozzles. Application and qualification of large scale ambient temperbead welding and verification of.

Tihange, Belgium

Responsible for engineering aspects of the Westinghouse scope for the Tihange 2 and 3 SGR projects. Preparation of engineering drawings and work packages, specification and procurement of ASME Section III permanent plant items, prime interface with customer contract manager for engineering phase the project. Field engineering and shift outage manager.

South Texas Project NPP

Westinghouse project Engineer for the STP Unit 1 SGR project. Relocated to US for 16 months assignment at South Texas NPP. Responsible for day to day interface with partner company Bechtel and execution of miscellaneous engineering tasks within the project engineering team.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for structural analysis work involving fracture mechanics and materials engineering at several NPP's in Europe. Pressurized Thermal Shock analysis and boat sampling of the Kozloduy Unit 1 RPV. Leak Before Break applications on several PWR's in Europe. Project management of integrated project involving reactor pressure vessel surveillance.

Nivelles

Responsible for seismic requalification project for Beznau units 1 and 2 in Switzerland. The project covered seismic qualification of all Safety Class 1 and the major Safety Class 2 piping systems as well as an overall upgrade of the support systems of these piping systems.

Msc, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Atheneum B