Providing international leadership and direction for global team activities including establishing fuel product implementation roadmaps and technology portfolio value assessmentsProvided project leadership and direction for Bellefonte Loss-of-Coolant Analyses activities including task scheduling, resource loading, budget administration, and workload managementProvided leadership and direction for PWR Core Engineering Site Support activities including calculation generation, calculation verification, core performance monitoring, customer startup support, customer training, and customer supportProvided project leadership and direction for PWR Core Monitoring System development activities including software specification verification, performance benchmarking, acceptance testing, and training development for POWERTRAXProvided leadership and direction for FIDMS predictive software development under Microsoft Windows using Qt, Fortran, C, and C++

2004 – 2006 Progress Energy, Carolinas Raleigh, North CarolinaLead Engineer 2004-2006- PWR Core Design engineering duties including core neutronics model benchmarking, cross-section generation, loading pattern design, loading pattern confirmation, and operations data generation using CASMO, PRISM, SIMULATE, MICROBURN-P, and NEMO- Methods development including an explicit spacer grid model using PRISM for independent loading pattern verification and an optimized model using PRISM for POWERTRAX integration- Software development, verification, and validation in accordance with the Software Quality Assurance Program to support core design activities using Fortran and Visual Basic in Excel- Plant support in design calculation generation, root cause determinations, 50.59 evaluations, and core performance monitoring

1989 – 2004 Progress Energy, Florida Crystal River, FloridaLead Engineer 2001-2004- Reactor Systems engineer supervision through budget administration, performance appraising, coaching, counseling, and workload management- High Impact Team leadership for refuel outage personnel performing reactor head removal, refuel operations, incore neutron detector replacement, dosimetry removal, reactor head placement, zero power physics testing, and power escalation testing- Reactor Engineering duties including physics testing, core performance monitoring and benchmarking with NEMO, a 3-D Core Neutronics code, core monitoring system diagnostics (NAS & FIDMS), radiochemistry analyses, root cause determinations, 50.59 evaluations, and operations support

Supervisor, Nuclear Engineering 2000-2001- Reactor Engineering, Nuclear Fuels, and Safety Analysis supervision through budget administration, performance appraising, coaching, counseling, and workload management- Nuclear Fuels and Reactor Engineering leadership, training, and direction in using design and analysis codes including NEMO for calculations of reactivity, power distributions, and nuclide concentrations and in developing applications using Excel spreadsheets and compiled languages (C, Visual Basic, Fortran)- Safety Analyses leadership, training, and direction in developing and using codes such as RELAP5, ORIGEN, CONTEMPT, CONTAIN, etc., for transient analysesPrincipal Nuclear Engineer 1997-2000- Simulator Performance Test coordination, evaluation, and documentation- Simulator performance validation based on plant and industry events using plant, industry, and/or design code data, including RELAP5 Thermal/Hydraulic and NEMO 3-D Core Neutronics analyses- IRIX (Silicon Graphics UNIX) operating system upgrade including a complete system rebuild and kernel device driver development for Year 2000 compatibilitySenior Nuclear Licensing Engineer 1996-1997- Current Licensing Bases reconstitution- Official regulatory correspondence generation- Emergency Operating Procedure validationsSenior Simulator Systems Engineer 1989-1996- Software development/enhancement including core neutronics, thermal hydraulics, electrical distribution, control systems, and process computer simulation/stimulation- Silicon Graphics IRIX (UNIX) operating system administration including automated magnetic media mirror utility development, simulator system TCP/IP network implementation, computer system halt analyses, and communication link development using TCP/IP and serial- Simulator Factory Acceptance Testing and Simulator Operating Instruction development

Senior Specialist, Simulator Support - ENCORE MPX‑32 operating system upgrade from revision 2.1A to 3.4- Software development/enhancement in the areas of core neutronics, two-phase thermal hydraulics, and panel input/output- Simulator Factory Acceptance Testing- Plant design change review for simulator applicability- Cold license simulator training program development, simulator instruction and classroom instruction

1979 - 1981 NCSU Nuclear Reactor Program Raleigh, North CarolinaLicensed Reactor Operator- Reactor operations and control board instruction during power plant operator training in the Reactor Operator Training Program- Reactor operations during experimentation and sample irradiation activities