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West Mifflin, Pa

Provide leadership and strategic direction for a 15-member engineering team to design, improve, and maintain the reactor servicing system for all NIMITZ Class aircraft carriers during mid-life refuelings and end-of-life inactivations. • Development of new, and improvement of existing, system designs including mechanical analyses, fitup studies, detailed technical drawings, and system performance evaluations.• Provide new or updates to existing system-wide nuclear reactor servicing manual requirement documents scoping and directing refueling system operation at nuclear capable shipyards. • Engineered refueling systems to have integral criticality safety with compliance to naval nuclear regulations. • Built productive, trusting, and highly-engaged relationships with a range of internal/external stakeholders, including Naval Sea Systems Command (government oversight), Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc (equipment supplier), Newport News Shipbuilding (end-user), and NNL senior management.• Provide emergent problem solutions for significant shipyard operational stoppages.• Manage an engineering services contract with Newport News Shipbuilding; annual $6M budget.• Chartered, funded, and established local innovation teams at NNL and Newport News Shipbuilding that identified 100+ system improvement initiatives in a mature system and process. • Established new project management structure for the USS JOHN C STENNIS (CVN 74) refueling and USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) inactivation systems preparation with new tools to proactively manage work.• NNL emergency response team leader for NIMITZ and FORD Class carrier accidents or system failures with nuclear significance during reactor servicing evolutions.• Oversee the generation of approximately 70+ technical documents annually including necessary regulatory documentation for compliance with NAVSEA standards; 98% commitments completed on-time. • Ensure all delivered products meet NNL, NAVSEA, and end-user quality standards.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NNL interface for all NIMITZ Class reactor servicing operations. Effectively managed complete spectrum of engineering issues ensuring technically correct and timely solutions.• Oversaw the resolution and completion of 35+ action-required field support items in CY2018.• Communication hub for NNL, NAVSEA-08 (Naval Reactors), and shipyard engineering leadership. • Key contributor for the resolutions of notable servicing issues during the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) refueling, including:- Excess residual water in spent fuel shipping container- Hydrogen gas accumulation within spent fuel shipping container- Severance of shipboard reactor components- Nuclear safety improvements during refueling period

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Technical expert on spent fuel shipping container loading and unloading systems for the ex-ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) defueling and NIMITZ Class refuelings. Responsible for the continued operation and improvement of hardware and software used to process the fuel containers at Newport News Shipbuilding and the Naval Reactors Facility. • Author of and primary field support for NIMITZ Class spent fuel shipping container Early Systems Checkout.• Key contributor for the resolutions of notable servicing issues during the ex-ENTERPRISE defueling: - Module interference removal- Spent fuel container and servicing facility liquid waste system demineralizer media contamination - Reactor servicing equipment radiological contamination

Longview, Texas, United States

Lead and supervised student-based teams in the development of new, low-cost, prosthetic technologies and validation systems. Researched and implemented cost effective methods for mass-manufacture.• Provided cross-cultural technical training: Conducted on-site education of government funded clinics in Dakar, Senegal on manufacturing methods and service system for the LEGS M-series knees. • Led LeTourneau University senior students through ISO verification of the current LIMBS knee technology and the development of a LIMBS pediatric knee variant.