AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Fuel Management Safety Analysis Reactor Power Systems
Core Design Process Improvement Plant Operations
Troubleshooting Scheduling Technical Writing
Customer Support Risk Analysis Leadership
EXPERIENCE: Aitheras LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
5/12-Present: Business Analyst
Performed Assessment of client’s Information Technology department. Reviewed policies and procedures
documentation for compliance, consistency, and conformity to industry standard best practices. Developed audit interview plan and authored status reports for client. Also assisted with process improvement of client’s work flow.
EXPERIENCE: Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, PA
7/08-2/12: Engineer, Lead Core Designer for Waterford-3 Nuclear Plant
Performed the design, safety analyses, and assessment of nuclear reactor core loading patterns following customer guidelines
and NRC requirements. Evaluate consequences of each design with respect to nuclear physics parameters and impact to other functional groups. Frequent customer communication including weekly conference calls and travel for in-person meetings.
Projects:
Waterford-3 Reloads – Lead Core Designer
The Lead Core Designer has responsibility for developing fuel management and core loading patterns to meet customer requirements. This includes assessing risk to fuel integrity and safety margin management, performing core physics analyses and interfacing with other functional groups (such as Thermal Hydraulics, Fuel Rod Design and Safety Analysis). Also included providing plant operations data needed for startup physics testing and core monitoring. The Lead Core Designer is the main point of contact for technical issues.
Interface with Columbia Manufacturing Plant – Validated Bill of Materials for fuel construction; improved process for design-to-manufacture interface reducing potential errors and schedule problems.
Calvert Cliffs Units 1 and 2, Ginna, ANO-2 – Support peers with design and safety analysis calculations.
Core Design Training Team – Improved qualification process, developed and delivered training materials, and served on qualification boards.
New Hire Mentoring Program – Guided new engineers in the qualification process.
Waterford-3 Redesigns – Redesigned fuel management plan, developed plan for completing all necessary calculations by the revised deadline. Authored safety analysis assessment validating the design after a 2nd redesign was necessary.
Special Projects – assisted in Nuclear Design code improvements.
Training/Qualifications:
Nuclear Design Standard Qualification; Nuclear Design Non-Standard Calculations Qualification; Thermal Hydraulic Fundamentals Training; Instructor Skills Training
EXPERIENCE: Entergy Riverbend Nuclear Plant, St. Francisville, LA
5/04-8/04: Intern for the Reactor Engineer Division
Designed the fuel movement plan for the plant’s refueling outage; an optimization project that included reorganizing the spent fuel pool for new fuel receipt. The plan was then altered to offload specific fuel bundles for control rod maintenance. Internship also included a rotational assignment in plant operations.
EXPERIENCE: University of Florida ...
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