Employment:
2008 – Present United States Department of Energy – Argonne, IL
Nuclear Safety Engineer – New Brunswick Laboratory – Facility Operations Division
• Building/Facility Manager – Accountable for implementation of Technical Safety Requirements including the scheduling and performance of surveillances and Limited Condition of Operation entries and exits. Lead NBL representative for development of new DOE Safety Analysis to successfully downgrade the Hazard Categorization (HC) of the laboratory from a HC-2 to a HC-3 facility. Strategy enabled the laboratory to reduce the facility nuclear footprint by 96%. This achievement will result in cost savings of millions of dollars over the next 5 years of operation.
• Cognizant System Engineer – Responsible for configuration management of Safety Significant systems, initiating actions to correct problems, working with maintenance to troubleshoot complex issues, determining operability of systems with out of specification conditions. Preparer and reviewer of Unreviewed Safety Question Screenings/Determinations.
• Criticality Safety Representative – Develop Criticality Safety Program including documented analyses and procedures. Represents NBL for the DOE Criticality Endusers Group.
• Active DOE “Q” (Top Secret) Clearance
2002 – 2008 Public Service Enterprise Group – Hancocks Bridge, NJ
Reactor Engineer – Hope Creek Generating Station – Operations
• Reactivity Management – Developed reactivity management plans compliant with Technical Specifications and fuel reliability rules for routine and non-routine plant maneuvers including control rod exchanges and plant startup and shutdown including control room support for implementation of the plan. Interfaced with core design and analysis engineers based on in-cycle developments.
• Refueling Outage Support – Calculated lifetime of core components for outage planning. Provided refuel outage support for fuel and core component exchanges including fuel shuffles and offloads. Site lead for pre and post outage activates such as fuel receipts and spent fuel pool cleanups.
• Fuel Reliability – Actively monitored core chemistry for fuel defects. Monitored fuel defects for degradation and determining fuel age. Led fail fuel inspection and reconstitution including root cause investigation of fuel defect.
• Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Custodian – Performed annual inventory of SNM. Prepared and reviewed move sheets for movement of SNM.
• Training includes: RETAQS BWR Reactor Engineering Qualification Program, Hope Creek Integrated Plant Operations Course, and various Engineering Support Personnel training courses.
• Core Monitoring Experience: CMS (Westinghouse), 3-D Monicore (GNF)
Education:
2000 – 2002 Masters of Science in Physics (GPA 3.36)
Indiana University – Bloomington, IN
• Classes Include: Classical and Quantum Dynamics, Electricity and Magnetism, Analog Electronics, and Introductory Particle and Nuclear Physics
• Projects and Research Include: Non-neutral Plasmas, Design and Testing of a Linear Amplifier, and ATLAS (Monte Carlo) Sof...
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