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Helena, Mt, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Westminster, Colorado, Us

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Oversee a 2,400MW portfolio of 4 power plants while managing 100+ people and multi-million-dollar budgets across the portfolio, ensuring optimal workforce development and personnel resource allocation to drive seamless operations• Implemented safety teams and established health and safety procedures from the ground up, allowing for exceptional leadership and responsibility concerning Health, Safety, and Environmental efforts• Lead impactful customer relationship management strategies, including 1 key customer requesting my services specifically for taking over the portfolio of 3 plants• Responsible for primary portfolio P&L and consistently influence profitability through talent management and acquisition, as well as transformational leadership and reaching 99% of corporate metrics-based incentive• Led quarterly Risk Management workshops to manage risks with 6 representatives from the entire team, allowing for increased awareness and reduced contractual risks by 50%+• Utilize leadership expertise to negotiate contracts and obtain new contracts, as well as provide proposal support, resulting in a $2M project to mobilize a power plant• Brought a 715 MW power plant online from commissioning to commercial operation, hiring the staff, including the plant manager and managing the project end-to-end• Plant oversight included St. Joseph Energy Center, UCLA Cogen, Oregon Clean Energy, Victoria Power Station, and Channelview Cogen.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Oversaw a team of 8-10 Project Managers, Engineers, and Designers, as well as interfacing with construction contractors to deliver project management of a coal power plant O&M and capital project portfolio• Collectively managed $20M in project budgets annually• Successful team projects included: High Energy Piping Stress Analysis and Hanger Evaluations, Cooling Tower Acid Tank Replacement, Water Treatment Plant design engineering, Wet to dry ash conversions, Pipe Hanger and Snubber Engineering, Design, and Construction Support, Lime Unloading System Upgrade, Coal Chute Replacements, Fire Protection Upgrades, Transformer replacements, Pump upgrades and replacements, Procedure and System Description writing, and Piping system upgrades• Pertaining to the lime unloading system, was able to move the customer and take the customer’s offloading time from 2 hours to 45 minutes, allowing them to reduce costs significantly and solving a huge trucking logistics problem

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

• Delivered project management of a power plant capital project portfolio comprised of $50MM annualized total installed cost, ensuring operational efficiencies and transformational leadership while overseeing 200 professionals at any given time• Led team as the Gas & Oil Fleet Portfolio Manager for 7 generating plants totaling 3,100MW of capacity, delivering successful team projects and upgrading customers key assets in a time crunch utilizing innovative project management techniques to improve reliability• Successful team projects included: Gas Turbine Inlet Replacements, Gas Turbine Control System Replacements, Gas Turbine AVR/PSS Upgrades, Gas Turbine Overhauls, Steam Turbine Generator Rewinds and Replacements, Cooling Tower Refurbishments, Fire Protection System Upgrades, GSU Transformer Replacements, Cooling Tower Acid Tank Replacement

Issaquah, Wa, Us

• Managed a 12-member production team while leading the daily operations of a 580 MW combined cycle generating plant, maintaining an operations budget of $2M for labor and materials• Responsible for Arlington Valley Energy Facility assets including 2 GE 7FA+e Gas Turbines, 2 Aalborg/CMI Heat Recovery Steam Generators, 1 GE D11 Steam Turbine, 6 Inlet Chillers producing 12,600 tons of turbine inlet cooling, Supplemental HRSG duct firing, and a Zero Liquid Discharge water treatment plant using High-Efficiency Reverse Osmosis technology• Responsible for large Utility-Scale solar field development support of 2 125 MW units (Arlington Valley Solar Energy), Switchyard O&M Committee representative for the site• Led outage planning and management while focusing on operational processes from a production management standpoint• Delivered NERC compliance management, operating procedures revisions, training, and development, specifically tailoring to the plant and collaborating with the team to upgrade all procedures to be a better structured, systems-oriented approach• Implemented a system to reduce chemical cost and tracked it, saving the customer $500K a year in chemicals through the zero liquid discharge system

Irving, Texas, Us

• Led engineering support, site availability calculations and reporting, project management, environmental health and safety management, environmental permitting and reporting, procedure writing and implementation, and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance• Transformed the business from receiving 8 air permit violations to to 0 on the next inspection and being named to the District Clean Air Honor Roll• Managed public relations efforts and continuous improvements on compliance monitoring systems, as well as joined an industry peer environmental group, resulting in winning a peer award journal for compliance monitoring system and steering the company in the right direction for the compliance inspection to go well

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

M.E., Mechanical Engineering/ Engineering Management

B.S., Nuclear Engineering Technology