Scott Maxwell Email & Phone Number

South Texas Project

Teaching Initial License Training at South Texas Project.

Watts Bar - Tennessee Valley Authority

Helping out the Initial License Training folks. They are running concurrent license classes here for the forseeable future. Trying to over-man operations, somewhat, in order to be able to feed Unit Two as she gets finished.Also helping with Licensed Operator Requal group with exam administration and simulator operations.Additionally, Watts Bar is revamping their entire catalog of operations initial license training lesson plans. Whew! What a job! I am helping with the re-write / upgrade of the lesson plans. Using Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Visio.

Vogtle 3&4 Ap1000 Units - Waynesboro Georgia

Perform IT duties. That is Instructional Technologist, not Information Technology. Neat time in my work life. Learned some new stuff. Was reminded that I really like technical stuff and non-technical stuff is just as boring as I remember it. Couldn't ask for a better group of folks to work with.

Taught initial license training including classroom, simulator instruction, and booth operation. Got 21 of 22 canidates to license.

Taught initial license training and licensed operator continuing training. Including classroom and simulator.

Zion Station, Zion, Illinois

Non licensed operator. Fire brigade. Chemical spill and hazardous material response. Operate equipment such as pumps, valves, switches, circuit breakers, relief valves, vacuum breakers. Take readings on level, flow, pressure, temperature, vacuum, voltage, current.

Morton Grove, Illinois

This place was the funnest workplace I've ever been in. I am a geek at heart and man did they have geek stuff! The place's purpose was to manufacture printed circuit boards. We made electronics! Here I learned more about PLCs, servo motors, sensors, reflow ovens, conveyors, fibre optic control loops. It was awesome! They sent me to several factory schools two Panasonic schools around Chicago and one Dover/Soltec reflow oven school up in Kittery, Maine. Here I troubleshot high tech equipment most of which had on-board PLCs that you could just interact with using the same terminal that the line operator used. To be honest most of it involved clearing something out of the way of a sensor or realigning the sender or receiver in an electronic eye pair. I mean that type of stuff runs forever really. You don't get or need to be interacting with the programs and stuff on a daily basis. But it was still very very cool to learn about it all. Now (2013) I am taking a PLC class toward my degree and the class has been made very easy by the experience I had at a couple of previous jobs. US Robotics being one of them. Nichols Aluminum was the other.

Lincolnshire, Illinois

This place was a really fun workplace. Dangerous though. Lot of injuries. Never to me thankfully. As a lab tech I would do destructive testing on bone shaped samples of aluminum that were processed in the factory. This machine would clamp on to each end of the 'bone' and pull it apart until it broke. It would then tell me the force that was required to break it. It graphed the stress-strain curve and everything. That was particularly cool to me because I had learned about stress/strain, ductility and all of that in the Navy. But that was all books. Then I got to see it in real life! That was great.I also had to paint samples and put them in a little miniature oven (kiln maybe?) Its been a while. This would prove that the metal we produced could be painted and have it baked on. I eventually bid out to the maintenance department on an electrician's job. Never had a lick of experience as an electrician before, but they let me do it anyway. I actually wired up one thing as an electrician while I was there. I had to run power to an overhead garage door opener. complete with industrial start stop switch and conduit. I was so proud of that dang thing. I looked at it every time I walked by.Anyway, most of the job ended up being much more to my liking which was working with PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers). We had GE Fanuc controlling the annealing ovens. We had Reliance Electric Automate and Automax controlling a couple of production lines. That stuff was really cool.They sent me to one factory training for a week around Chicago. It was for the manufacturer of the gas fire units that heated the ovens. The only thing I remember from that training is Stoichiometric conditions: The condition in which all of the fuel and all of the oxygen supplied to a combustion process is exactly used up. Ha! Anyway, worked with Parker hydraulics to some extent there also. You can't really hide what you are. I was an MM at heart.

North Chicago, Illinois

Primary Duty was to check line production to ensure compliance with established standards. At some point I was made the assistant supervisor of the QC technician group. This was an amazing place to work. It is where I learned Spanish. Something approaching 95% of the workforce were spanish-only speakers. I had no choice but to learn! It was great and I greatly enjoyed it.

Bachelor'S Degree, Spanish Language And Literature, 4.0 Straight 'A'S

Getting my bachelor's degree in Spanish from ASU. I can already speak, read, and write it so why not? I am in the process of earning this.

Bachelor'S Degree, Nuclear Energy Engineering Technology, 4.0 Straight 'A'S

Bachelor of Science in Applied Science in Nuclear Energy Engineering Technology. ABET accredited.

Calculus Ii, Tbd

Took the second course in the Calculus series here. Not getting my degree from here though, just the one class.

Math And Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Took Chemistry, Calculus I, and Physics II here, but not getting my degree here. Straight 'A's

Math, 4.0 Straight 'A'S

Wanted to take Calculus at College of Lake County, but had to take College Algebra and College Trigonometry first. Never got around.

Humanities / Basic Curriculum, Passed

Took a few classes while in the Navy. They had a program where a college professor would go out to sea with us and we'd take the classes.