A customer facing engineering leadership position supporting GE's nuclear and fossil power island product life-cycle, from the identification of emerging technology needs through the end of service life. The role champions five primary functions: new technology development, new product development, regulatory compliance, commercial deployment, and sustaining engineering. Further, the System Integration Technical Leader has principal responsibility ensuring the safe, reliable, and economical power production from the fossil and nuclear fleet.

Technical program management and engineering role supporting the development of innovative repair solutions for steam turbines and large industrial reciprocating diesel engines.• Technical contributor to the development of repair processes and solutions.• Developed and maintained multi-generational technology plans for turbine repair.• Managed multiple program budgets, schedules, and resource allocations.• Around the clock engineering support of GE service shops and on-site inspection and repair teams.

Technical program management and engineering role supporting the development of steam turbine retrofits to improve the performance, reliability, availability, and life of the unit.• Technical contributor to the development of steam turbine retrofits and enabling technology• Management of cross-functional engineering teams and external resources• Supplier development for new components and processes• Created design rules, application guidelines, and sales collateral for new products• Direct customer sales, including prototype testing of new technologies in operational units• Technical conference presentations at annual meetings of ASME, EPRI, and various owners’ groups

Cognizant product design engineer from pre-concept to end of production life for Tier One supplier of automotive steering components including steering columns, universal joints, and shafts.• Performed 3D component and assembly modeling and mechanical integrity analyses.• Produce prototype components and assemblies for fitment and functional testing.• Author of new QS9000 System documents.

Held several diverse design, manufacturing, and project engineering positions supporting key business initiatives and customer special requests.Major Projects• Continuous Flow Manufacturing – Implemented electronic Kanban systems, Kaizen process. improvement, and set-up reduction programs to reduce cost, inventory and improve on-time delivery• Thunder Gun - Design and manufacturing of a high performance impact wrench design for NASCAR, shaving seconds of tire changes.• Naval Vessel Refurbishment – Research and reverse engineer 40-year old ordinance loading pneumatic motor designs, thus enabling supply of replacement motors that exceeded original performance specifications.• Author of new ISO 9000 Quality System for Product Engineering.

Technical direction and project management role responsible for steam turbine maintenance and major retrofit installation outages. Earned recognition as lead site engineer in first full-year of service.• Turbine alignment, vibration analysis, controls (MHC), and unit start-up specialist.• Developed and implemented complete project schedule and daily tasks for all outage personnel.• Managed GE and third-party contractors performing on-site machining, X-ray, and other processes.• Reviewed all inspection findings and NDE inspection reports and dispositioned all findings.• Issued detailed outage report including recommendations for future work.Major Projects• Glen Lyn 6 Series Retrofit – First of a kind 8 unit retrofit of a complete high pressure turbine section.