(Retired) C.F.B. Operations Specialist
Jacksonville Florida
Worked as a Power Plant Operator at St. Johns River Power Park for the first part (10 years) of my power plant career and the remaining 15 years at JEA's Northside Generating Station in Jacksonville Fla. on two 310 MW, Foster Wheeler designed, Circulating Fluidized Bed boilers (C.F.B.). Competitively promoted to Unit Operator after which I was recruited for a Maintenance Analyst position in which I functioned primarily as a boiler performance team member focused on the troubleshooting and optimizing of C.F.B. Operation and improving unit reliability. 2011,promoted to the appointed position of C.F.B. Operations Specialist. During the later part of my very rewarding and demanding career with JEA my duties and responsibilities evolved into outage management, boiler inspection, troubleshooting, managing specific refractory contractors, refractory inspection and quality control, expansion joints,