Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Currently serving as Engineering Manager at Westinghouse Electric Company, overseeing a multidisciplinary team of supervisors, engineers, scientists, and union technicians. Focused on establishing objectives, meeting project deliverables, and implementing QA standards such as NQA-1 and ISO across the Churchill site. Responsible for managing technical scopes for commercial offers and the execution of a $4M+ capital budget. With over three years in this leadership role, contributions include the development of new organizational structures and fostering cultural change within the group. As the NSUF Management Sponsor, supports fundamental research in nuclear environments. Dedicated to advancing materials innovation while ensuring operational excellence and strategic alignment in the nuclear industry.
Team of 30+ consisting of supervisors, engineers, scientists, and represented technicians o Establishing objectives and meeting project deliverables o Established new organizational structure and culture change within group Responsible for review and approval of technical scope of all commercial offers associated with Churchill Hot Cell Facilities and Material Testing/Analysis NSUF (Nuclear Science User Facilities) Management Sponsor o Key technical program for fundamental research of materials in nuclear environments Develop and controls capital budget planning and execution for Churchill site ($4M+ budget) Responsible for the development and implementation of QA standards across Churchill site o NQA-1, ISO9001 Co-Chair D&I Patent Committee o Identify patent opportunities, conduct regular review of opportunities to determine viability, patent retirement Former CAP Issue Review Committee (IRC) member – D&I representative Voting member of all site safety committees since 2016 o Radiation Safety, Chemical Hygiene, Stored Energy, General Site Safety
Contractor at Westinghouse Electric Company AP1000™ Electrical, I&C and HVAC Layout Group - Instrument Loop Wiring Diagrams - Responsible for updating and maintaining 100+ diagrams to meet China and Domestic specific deadlines for construction of new nuclear plants. - Engineering Fix-It-Now Team Lead for Electrical Raceway – Offshore - Cranberry, PA lead for responding to electrical raceway conflicts the onshore team is facing preventing construction to move forward - Junction Box Design Specifications - Issued new revisions for all safety and non-safety junction box design specifications to maintain consistency between engineering documentation and changes implemented due to construction demands. Small Modular Reactor Design, Research and Technology - Primary Sampling System, Engineering Lead - Created Engineering documentation to support submittal of Design Certification Document (DCD) - DCD Chapter 9.3.3, Preliminary System Description, P&IDs, Calculation Notes, etc. - Peer reviewed calculation notes and documentation for various systems: - Chemical Volume Control System, Liquid Radwaste System, Passive Core Cooling System Model-Based System Engineering/Requirements Management Pilot, Research and Technology - Technical and Modeling Lead - Successfully met pilot requirements to model Chemical Volume Control System in the model-based engineering software CORE8 such that licensing documentation could be automatically generated
Mitigation of Mercaptan Odor from MIBK Zirconium-Hafnium Separation Process - Project team was awarded the 2011 Business Unit-level George Westinghouse Signature Award - Categorized unknown compound by means of intensive wet chemical and gas chromatographic laboratory analyses - Developed various organic and aqueous lab-scale mitigation techniques into full-scale options for plant operators - Worked intimately with Senior Engineers, Chemists, Technicians, and other Co-op Students - Solved a 30+ year odor problem Developed Nuclear Fuel Cycle Back-End Processes - Constructed a number of process models that would meet a specific hazard and sustainability criteria - Normalized calculated data with current processes to determine how alternative processes would perform relative to the current open cycle process Analyzed Westinghouse Co-product in Defense of Proposed EPA Hazard Reclassification - Ran several tests to formulate defense - Calorimetry to determine heat of reaction - Capture of off-gases and subsequent analysis by gas chromatography and colorimetry to confirm composition - Fabrication of novel experimental set-up to determine rate of off-gas generation Characterized Gasket Material for a Corrosive High-Temperature Environment to Find Suitable Replacement - Conducted numerous qualification tests to determine permeability of gasket material at elevated temperatures Tritium Extraction from the Primary Coolant in a Fusion Reactor - Devised and analyzed an improved recovery process - Successfully reduced the projected number of extractors needed by ~70% - Developed a process simulation in CHEMCAD for a steady state liquid-liquid extraction system with molten lithium-lithium salt solvent