Dan Elder Email & Phone Number

United States

Vidalia, Georgia

Primary focus is in helping organizations improve performance through management mentoring, coaching, human error prediction/prevention, workplace human factor issues, and organizational consulting/assessment.

Carlsbad, Nm

Recruited to support the successful restart of DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Project in Carlsbad, NM, following a 2 year suspension of operations.* Restart Team Member – president-sponsored initiative to coach/mentor/assess site activities through real time observations to improve organizational performance to meet DOE order 422.1, Conduct of Operations, for restart.* Manager, Procedure and Document Services - overseeing a staff of 15 procedure writers comprising the facility's technical and management procedure upgrade program. Scope of work included identifying and incorporating design, safety, and regulatory documents, observing task performance to validate accuracy, and upgrading final product to conform to DOE Order 0 422.1 and standard STD-1092-92.

Waynesboro Ga

Responsible for overall management of the multi-billion dollar Vogtle Units 3 & 4 AP1000 project nuclear construction training department. Reduced chronic corrective action and training delivery backlogs to zero; designed, created, and implemented standard nuclear training protocols, methods, and procedures; created standard admin processes for document revision control and tracking; implemented standard business practices to foster predictability and staff accountability; and recruited nuclear experienced professional staff.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible, including final signature authority, for overseeing all aspects of staff administration, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of the INPO accredited maintenance training programs at STP's twin unit PWR site.

Specializing in dramatic profit improvements in $1M -$25M sized businesses. Target industries include product or service oriented businesses, and professional practices (CPA's, chiropractors, dentists, etc.).An independent consultant bringing 30 years of military, corporate America, and business ownership experience to the table, including mentoring professionals through career transition and business startup. Have operated, taught, and studied hundreds of business models.Primarily focused on measurable, bottom line results using a two-stage strategy. First, developing substantial profits in the shortest period of time, for the least amount of effort, and the smallest amount of human resources and capital expense. Then, mentoring owners over the longer term to ensure the systems developed are implemented, the gains maintained, and the culture changes institutionalized.

Eunice, Nm

Recruited to oversee design, development, and implementation of the nuclear training programs at the first nuclear facility built in the US in over 30 years. Responsible, including final signature authority, for all aspects of staff oversight for design, development, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of the technical training programs at Urenco's $3B US enrichment facility. Program areas include process operations, engineering/support, system and equipment electrical and mechanical maintenance, health physics, chemistry, logistics, and fire brigade.Start up activities included identifying, recruiting, hiring, and training instructional technologist (IT) staff, developing and implementing the instructor qualification program to facilitate department SME's in presenting developed material, and implementing effective customer (dept) interfaces using curriculum review committees to guide program development.

Career highlights include direct technical training oversight, QA lead auditor experience, & eng. special project experience in a federally regulated facility.• 9 years of direct oversight responsibility for all aspects of training assessment, development, and delivery, including final signature authority, of design, development, delivery, and incorporation of feedback for training programs in a high-consequence-for-failure industry.• Maintained national and international academic accreditation through 2 complete quadrenniel review cycles; member of several national and one international reaccreditation assessment teams.• Skilled in talent mgt; molded 11 direct reports with low morale, high conflict, disparate backgrounds into a multi-disciplined, cross-functional team.• Participated in nat'l & internat'l talent assessment, accreditation & action planning. Exchanged best practices with groups from Russia, Spain, Mexico, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Canada & South Africa.• Reduced operating budget by 2/3 over 9 years while improving product consistency, quality, and vendor oversight.• Designed and implemented metrics-driven performance indicator systems to ID & correct process weaknesses; adopted company-wide.• Responsible for perf. improvement of some 350 mgt, supv, & craft employees.• Coordinated organization-wide implementation of enterprise mgt software; impact assessments, project scheduling, communication planning, training, & procedure revs.• Extensive experience in steam plant operation derived from service on conventional and nuclear powered US Navy vessels, and a commercial power generating station.• Completed 12 month intensive senior reactor operator school in all aspects of normal and emergency reactor/steam plant operation (mgt level) and General Electric station nuclear engineer training, including electric plant operation and power distribution.

One Yr Full Immersion Course In All Aspects Of Normal, Abnormal, And Emergency Power Plant Operation

12 month course for mgt certification

Proprietary Aspects Of The Operation Of Ge'S Bwr 4 Reactor Plant

Bs, Behavioral Sciences

Computer Science, Materials, And Nuclear Fuels

Fields of study included computer science, materials, and nuclear fuels. No degree sought or conferred.