Duncan Poehner Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Boone County Water Rescue is a group of 50 dedicated volunteers. The team is currently a division of Boone County Emergency Management and is available 24/7 to all governmental agencies.The foundation of the team is based on its diving abilities. In addition to the general diver certification, each diver is trained under a public safety diver program and as a search and rescue diver.The team also has ice rescue capabilities. With certified dive and ice rescue instructors, basic ice rescue classes are taught in the winter months to fire departments, police departments, and other area rescue agencies.Certified EMTs provide emergency pre-hospital care and provide medical and trauma services on water and land. All Boone County Water Rescue EMTs are Kentucky certified and are crucial in maintaining a medically safe environment for divers during rescue, recovery or training operations. Many Boone County Water Rescue team EMTs are affiliated with fire departments and squads throughout Boone, Kenton and Campbell Kentucky counties.The most visual part of the team is its water rescue units. General purpose work and rescue boats are used for lakes and rivers. These boats are easily transported and can be disbursed throughout Northern Kentucky and beyond. The pride of the water rescue vessels are boats 218, 219 and 220. These boats are fully equipped with state-of the-art sonar, radar, and communications, which dramatically increase the capability and efficiency of these vessels for any type of water rescue or recovery.The team has trained Surface Rescue Swimmers that can be deployed from land or water.The team's capabilities include the use of the most sophisticated electronic equipment, dive gear, and rescue vehicles on the market making it one of the best equipped in the country.The team is ready to respond to any water rescue emergency effort at any time, in any place. They are prepared, knowledgeable and proud to serve their communities.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Maintain chapter membership lists and promote the chapter to grow member participation. Plan and coordinate chapter events such as tours, classes, and seminars to attract active members and interest potential members in our chapter and its goals.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

I have been working as a co-op student in the Utility Engineer role at the University of Cincinnati for 3 years while completing my Mechanical Engineering degree. My time at the University Utility Dept. has been an invaluable part of my career and transition from hands on operations to engineering and management. Staying in the power generation field allowed me to utilize my 10+ years of experience in this field to enact real beneficial change within the organization. I have been fortunate to work with many great plant managers and department directors who have helped me channel my strong technical and interpersonal skills into effective and efficient project management and process improvement within the organization. Throughout my time here I have had the opportunity to work on the study, analysis, design, installation, and operation of numerous mechanical thermal plant systems such as boilers, chillers, and steam turbines, as well as a large amount of high voltage electrical generation and distribution equipment like 13kV generators and transformers. I have spent a lot of my time working with other members of the wider University team and this has also proven to be a very beneficial experience, teaching me to listen and speak in a way that confidently conveys the information needed across a wide array of audiences. I have also learned the importance of seeing the bigger picture of a project, and understanding what the customer or client wants to achieve at the end of a task, rather than just what the design team has in mind.Assisting in the planning and management of a 50MW campus electrical distribution grid has made me a economical operations professional with an eye for efficiency and improvement. My deep background in technical operations has benefitted myself and my team multiple times in this role, by bringing this frontline knowledge to the engineering and planning level to improve our system efficiency and operations procedures.

Cincinnati, Ohio

In my time with SBSC I was taught a great deal by many seasoned technicians, process operators, engineers, and managers. I am grateful for my experience here teaching me to work to accomplish my goals within the realm of internal employees, outside contractors, and 3rd party vendors. I developed many impactful communication and 'soft' skills here that continue to allow me to communicate up and down the technical or management ladder and effectively communicate technical problems to technical and non-technical people inside or outside of an organization. I also learned the importance of building genuine personal networks within the greater industrial world, and this has allowed me to connect and learn from so many professionals both in the Cincinnati area and worldwide. One of the most rewarding aspects of this role was learning to reverse engineer mechanical parts and designs so that replacements or repairs could be fabricated. Learning to convert a physical object to a technical drawing, then seeing it come back to life as a new part from the machine shop never got old and this joy allowed me to get very proficient in the 2D and 3D design and modeling within various AutoCAD programs. I had many talented machinists in house that taught me a great deal about machining processes, print making, tolerancing, and fabrication. I also solely planned and organized a brand new employee onboarding technical training program called 'Soap School'. This directly led to increased production efficiency, employee retention, and made new hires feel confident and capable in their initial roles. The program received immense positive feedback from participants and employees who volunteered their time to teach the history and operations of the plant and equipment.

Virginia, United States

I was hand selected for this role above many senior, by time and rank, personnel for my endless technical curiosity, desire to get my hands dirty, and ability to make things happen across a technically diverse and heavily tasked Reactor Department. I was charged with the cradle to grave (planning, executing, retesting) oversight for any corrective maintenance or technical support within the scope of the Reactor Mechanical division. During my time in this role I became a trusted and proven program manger. I made a reputation for myself in this role of always going above and beyond and pushing to be as effective with each day as possible. I personally led 12 major repairs that were initially deemed outside the ability of the ship's force to complete, but I pushed to let my team and I prove ourselves and our ability. We quickly became the go-to team for all advanced repairs, and left a zero-rework record through all corrective repairs.This role, along with the rest of my nuclear training, taught me to digest massive amounts of technical information in a short time, and to act on this information directly to effect timely repairs to the ships propulsion, electric, and water generation plants. I became proficient in quickly discerning the information necessary to solve problems from large sources of technical information such as manuals and overhaul procedures. I made it my goal to raise the level of knowledge of all technicians working under me and mentored many to advanced maintenance or QA/QC qualifications.Following a strenuous and compressed 8 month shipyard maintenance overhaul period that involved the completion of over 3000 corrective and routine maintenance items in my oversight, I was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for my personal efforts that directly contributed to the first on-time aircraft carrier overhaul worldwide in over a decade.

Virginia, United States

I left the Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) a Machinist Mate Second Class (E-5) assigned to Reactor Mechanical Division. This role laid the foundation and lit the passion for my career working in and around energy generation plants and equipment. I was directly charged with the safety, coordination, and supervision of a team of 5 mechanical power plant operators, primary reactor support systems, nuclear steam generating equipment, two power generating steam turbines, turbine driven feedwater pumps, boiler level control equipment, and many large heat exchangers and plant accessory systems. Having worked my way through the qualification for each of the stations I eventually supervised, I developed a deep understanding of thermodynamic plant operations, applied fluid mechanics, real time trend analysis, and emergency response management.This role also gave me the necessary leadership experience to build confidence leading others through fast-paced, high risk scenarios with minimal oversight. My watch team and I were hand selected to perform initial reactor plant start ups following an extended overhaul period due to our operational efficiency, professionalism, and reputation for tackling large evolutions as a team with ease.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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