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Lake Worth, Fl, Us

Devens, Ma

Senior Program Engineer in the Project Management Office (PMO) responsible for Instrumentation and Controls for the SPARC Fusion Plant.

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl

Led the successful delivery of engineering projects by delivering on-time and under-budget design packages. This included managing tasks across multi-disciplinary teams, tracking budgets and controlling costs and scope, accessing and mitigating risks, and reporting earned value. Independently planned and performed engineering design and cyber security work by applying sound engineering principles. As Senior Project Engineer, I provided expert technical direction and assigned work to less-senior engineers, drafters, and technicians.Performed cyber security analyses on critical digital assets for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant electrical distribution upgrade project to meet Nuclear Energy Institute 08-09 requirements. Discovered and corrected flaws in cyber design, preventing 10 CFR 73.54 regulatory deficiencies.

Reston, Va

Led various electrical design changes of instrumentation and controls systems for Southern Company Nuclear Services, including responsibility for all technical, regulatory, budget, and schedule aspects.Performed cyber security and risk assessments for the Plant Farley security computer upgrade project to meet Nuclear Energy Institute 08-09 requirements. Identified vulnerabilities and designed controls and mitigation strategies for critical digital assets. Authored design documents, test procedures and requirements specifications on numerous design change projects for Southern Company nuclear plants.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Developed competitive proposals and bids of up to $70M by defining technical scope and cost basis, resulting in contract awards in excess of $6M per year.Managed and delivered projects under budget and on schedule, adding additional $1M+ to profit by controlling cost, scope, risks and eliminating non-value-added activities. Collected and reported metrics to upper management and controlled group procedures and policies. Led various corrective actions, such as resolving vendor quality issues and nuclear safety-related audit findings. Managed the organization’s program for reporting of defects and noncompliance to resolve issues that impacted clients.Led a group of engineers and technicians by planning work and schedules, ensuring adherence to schedules and budgets and guaranteeing that work complied with company policies, client and regulatory requirements. Worked with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure regulatory approval under Order EA-12-051 in order to bring a first-of-a-kind, spent-fuel-pool-level instrument to market. Led the team through successful development of the technology, commissioning, and approval at more than twenty installations.Authored requirements and design specification for the upgrade of the Fermi Power Plant Offgas control system, which included PLC, relays, HMI panels and software. Designed the implementation of the Offgas system, ensuring requirements were met.

Erlangen Area, Germany

Developed HMI Configuration Management plan, practices, processes, procedures and tools for the Olkiluoto 3 project, incorporating guidelines from ISO 10007:2003 and IEEE 829-2008.Managed configuration processes of two large-scale plant systems: the process information and control system, and safety information and control system.Reviewed and authored documents as part of Olkiluoto 3 HMI team.Performed Human Factors Engineering for the Olkiluoto 3 HMI in the Main Control Room following NUREG 0700 guidelines.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

The Fire Safe Shutdown Analysis group is an organization responsible for determining the safety of a Nuclear Power Plant shutdown process in case of a fire.Analyzed complex power plant circuits to determine component failure modes and effects in support of regulatory compliance of 10 CFR 50 Appendix R fire safe shutdown project for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant.Created 76-page training reference that saved the team leader an estimated 8 hours per new team member in training time. Coached new team members on engineering package creation and power plant component concepts.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

The Steam Generation Services group is an organization that develops robotics and tooling and services Steam Generators of Nuclear Power plants.Led the CE mark certification of RANGER, a robotic steam generator inspection tool. Authored Risk Assessment with input from cross-disciplinary subject matter experts. Resolved open and emerging issues, including electrical modifications to PCBs and sensors, component certifications, standards compliance, and technical documentation for the RANGER robotic tool.Coordinated risk assessment for RANGER CE Mark with a panel of experts from across multiple engineering organizations and drove the evaluation to completion.Authored RANGER User Manual to meet technical and standards requirements for CE Mark.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Created new test procedures to ensure hardware and software design requirements were met for the Digital Control Rod Drive Controls System, a safety critical system, for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station. Optimized and integrated these procedures into the Factory Acceptance Test, resulting in higher testing efficiency.Authored design specification and designed the hardware and software for a first-of-a-kind control rod position indication panel at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station. Communicated with customer to create and meet design requirements. Drafted new testing procedures for the position indication panel and integrated them into the Factory Acceptance Test. This integrated approach resulted in a successful, early deployment in the main control room at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station.Designed logic and wrote code for the Digital Control Rod Drive Control System (DCRDCS) for Three Mile Island (TMI) Nuclear Station to add features, increase functionality and fix errors.Successfully made PLC data available to external systems by troubleshooting the TMI DCRDCS Modbus communication modules and the system software. Reviewed detailed design drawings for the DCRDCS for Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 2 and TMI. Found and corrected errors, resulting in improved quality.Led the performance of the FAT for the Oconee Nuclear Station Unit 2 DCRDCS, resulting in early and successful completion.Led the performance of the Delivery Acceptance Test for the Oconee Unit 2 DCRDCS, resulting in early and successful completion.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Intelligent Machines Design LabFocus on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEEExperience in Nuclear Engineering, 3 semesters.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management

Study/audit only, no degree earned.