David Steininger Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto

Authority to resolve significant technical or managerial issues within the materials engineering group. Increase international presence of the materials engineering group especially within China.

Palo Alto, Ca.

ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT:* Turned around a $10 million annual research program from a $2.8 million debt to become completely debt free by developing and implementing a strategic plan; negotiated with utility executives on plans to refinance the research program and obtained executive buy-in, while still achieving research objectives.* Skillfully revamped a $12 million/year research program and its customer committee oversight structure by defining and implementing a change management program to resolve internal issues, resulting in enhanced employee morale, increased funding support, and improved customer satisfaction and client retention.* Requested as a consultant on multiple global critical engineering problems associated with nuclear power plants for utilities in Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, and South Africa.* Drove the company’s initial successful involvement with research institutes and universities in mainland China, creating a potential market for long-term growth.* Defined and directed R&D organizations, both in the U.S. and internationally, chartered to produce immediate tactical field applications and long-term research in support of strategic goals.* Successfully convinced several international utilities to pay into collaborative, multimillion-dollar research program valued at several hundred thousand dollars each per year.* Identified potential research opportunities with research laboratories and institutes in mainland China, creating a potential market for long-term growth.

Palo Alto, Ca.

ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT:* Identified and managed $60 million of R&D projects in creating solutions or identifying mitigation actions for nuclear power plant materials’ aging issues, including corrosion and mechanical design defects.* Developed and implemented and organizational change management plan, leading the overall direction of a $16 million funding for Steam Generator Management Program and Materials Reliability Program with executive review and concurrence.* Reported R&D results and financial status to utility executives providing oversight for both programs.* Directly contributed to products that allowed utilities to enhance plant reliability by avoiding forced plant shutdowns or extended outages due to unacceptable material degradation.

Palo Alto, Ca.

ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT:* Selected to join team of peers for the development of three-dimensional, single-and two-phase flow simulations of heat exchanger operation.Received two Technical Excellence Awards and the highest R&D Awards, Literary Award, and Research Application Award, as well as Performance Recognition Citation.* Served as keynote speaker at an international engineering conference in Japan sponsored by Hitachi Corporation.* Spearheaded the implementation of complex signal processing techniques for use in testing and interpretation of large amounts of analytical results and experimental information.* Facilitated and guided the development of an innovative method of modeling turbulent flow fields for industrial applications, critical to the successful development of a flow-induced heat exchanger tube vibration and wear prediction methodology.* Guided the development of new structural safety criteria for electric power plant operation; secured approval from the U.S. government regulators and recorded approximately $70 million in saving to individual plants.

B.S, Aeronautical Engineering

M.S, Nuclear Engineering

Thesis Topic: A Nonlinear Programming Technique for Suppressing Xenon Induced Oscillations in Large Nuclear Reactors.