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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for the overall operation and conduct of a 163 MW combined cycle plant's operational tasks and functions during a shift. Supervising shift operators along with coordinating interdepartmental and contractor activities to ensure safe and reliable operations. Additionally, I manage a 7,000-ton chilled water plant that supplies a healthcare complex. From these two operations, we supply the needs of our customers, to include hospitals and universities, with both steam and chilled water through a comprehensive network across Philadelphia.• Ensuring the plants are operated in a safe and efficient manner. Complying with all applicable company, OSHA safety rules and regulations, and environmental permits and regulations. • Providing a leadership role in implementation of company policies and procedures for improving the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the plant.• Communicating effectively with operations, engineering, maintenance, customer service, and EHS to ensure customer satisfaction and successful facility operation.• Responsible for the training program to qualify operators for promotion and to re-qualify all operators on an ongoing basis. Coaches and counsels' team to improve technical, interpersonal, and problem resolution skills. Working to identify and provide opportunities for my team to learn new skills and techniques.

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of a 50 MW waste-to-energy power plant in accordance with all company policies and standards. Receiving and processing 1,600 tons of municipal solid waste daily. Responsible for directing and supervising Operations Department and other plant personnel to ensure the facility is operated and maintained in a clean, safe, and efficient manner.• Delineate and enforce the EHS procedures and policies for the operations department and other support teams.• Closely monitor the production and maintenance activities of the facility and assist in planning and executing both scheduled and unscheduled outage work as well as the timely completion of operating duties.• Confer with representatives of other departments in solving interrelated administrative, organizational, and technical problems.• Approval of all requests for removing equipment from service for maintenance or other purposes, and for ensuring that the equipment is properly tagged and cleared in accordance with plant procedures.

Raleigh, Nc

• Project Management, Budgeting, SalesI coordinated with 10 different recruiting stations throughout the west region of North and South Carolina for applicant sales and sourcing, planning targeted advertising, and doing events/presentations at local events. I implemented and coordinated the Navy’s new operational stress control program. Training and assisting at the command level the programs new policies to all sailors attached to Navy Recruiting in the Carolinas.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Sales, Prospecting, Interpersonal Skills, Mentoring and LeadershipI personally developed contacts throughout the Raleigh area. Making Navy centers of influence at high schools, colleges, and businesses. Conducting sales on applicants and their influencers to commit to a contract. Coordinating DEP meetings of all future sailors in the area. Giving hands on training and mentoring of these future sailors prior to them shipping to boot camp.

Kings Bay, Georgia, United States

• 6 years of increasing responsibility supervising, operating, and maintaining a submarine nuclear propulsion plant during four extended overseas deployments and two dry dock maintenance periods on the USS Georgia (SSGN-729).Positions and Collateral Duties Held:• Engine Room Supervisor• Engine Room Valve Preventative Maintenance Manager• Reactor Plant Primary Maintenance Schedule Manager• Fuel, Oil, and Water Systems Manager• Machinery Division's Shipyard Maintenance Liaison• Quality Assurance Inspector• Scheduled, supervised, and executed the completion of over 100 complex maintenance items involving development of work packages, operating procedures and sequencing documents, testing, and inspections.• Extensive experience troubleshooting complex systems onboard a naval nuclear submarine.• Coordinating with civilian maintenance facilities to conduct over 150 separate multi-system isolations and work boundaries to meet conditions for their maintenance and subsequent testing.• Planned and maintained over 70 weekly and quarterly preventative maintenance schedules in addition to the preparation of a cyclic schedule to be used for years to come.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, 3.9

Stem

Fast paced, demanding training program covering: Mathematics Calculus Fluid Dynamics Applied Hydraulics Nuclear Physics Electrical Power.

Stem

This training involved the operation and simulated maintenance of nuclear reactors and their associated steam plants. Graduates of NPTU.

Metal Fabricator

This training involved metal preparation, cutting, brazing, and welding using GTAW and SMAW methods applicable to pressurized fluid systems.