Project Manager Engineer

Jay Patel

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Professional Experience

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Reactor Operations Engineer, Division of Construction Inspection and Operations Program Jan 2011 to Dec 2012Screen and evaluate daily event issues to determine safety significance and applicability towards new reactor construction. Interact with technical staff to create internal evaluation reports on safety significant events and determine path forward to prevent similar issues for new reactor power plants.Issue agency-wide communications on safety significant events to inform NRC staff of new reactor construction insights and highlight lessons learned to prevent similar occurrences.Prepare Statement of Work to define contractor job scope, deliverables, and schedules, and perform periodic reviews of government contracts and budget to monitor progress in contractor work.Generic Communications Primary Lead for Office of New Reactors

Project Manager, Division of New Reactor Licensing, EPR Projects Mar 2009 to Jan 2011Provide management related activities for design certification application reviews, early site permit reviews, and combined license application reviews associated with Generation III EPR technology.Process and review Safety Evaluation Reports (SER) with the Technical Staff and Office of General Counsel to ensure SER captures the staff’s review on applications submitted (Design Basis Documents), and present final SER findings to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.Draft, review, and issue Request for Additional Information to applicants during safety review phase to ensure application submitted conforms to NRC regulations. Perform technical audits, teleconferences, public meetings between the NRC staff, members of the public, and applicants to discuss technical and scheduling issues. Develop detailed summaries for meeting participants and the general public to document outcome of technical meetings.

Sargent & lundy

Mechanical Engineer July 2006 to Feb 2009Prepare in-depth Conceptual Design and Modification Packages to replace degraded safety-related piping and components for several nuclear facilities.Perform detailed hydraulic analysis for multiple piping systems to demonstrate portable pumps in conjunction with hoses and system piping, are capable of delivering the required flow to containment when necessary. Coordinate with multiple departments (Structural, I&C, Electrical, Piping Designers, etc) as Project Lead to ensure client packages include all discipline inputs and provide a consistent technical write-up.Provide markups for P&ID’s and Isometric diagrams, and perform field walk downs to develop routing for new piping systems, demolition of existing piping systems, and tie-in locations.

Exelon corporation

Technical Specialist Engineer / Fuel Floor Coordinator Aug 2004 to June 2006Direct planning, scheduling, and execution of refueling outages for Three Mile Island, Oyster Creek, Limerick, and Peach Bottom.Fuel floor coordinator responsibilities during refueling outages include, but are not limited to review of detailed refueling schedules, providing contingency plans, maintaining procedure adherence to ensure all conditions are met, monitor fuel transfer sheets during core reload, notify Operations on activities requiring support. Provide detailed refuel floor plans for reactor disassembly and reassembly using AutoCAD to ensure equipment accessibility, outline heavy load paths for critical lifts, and chart radiological dose levels to summarize areas of high exposure risk. Provide technical support, along with station engineering, to the Reactor Services Group on performing and verifying calculations, obtain equipment and tools (Refuel Platform, FME retrieval tools) to improve outage performance, and obtain funding for equipment (cavity staircase, reactor stud racks) from the Project Review Committee (PRC) in efforts to reduce critical path hours, manpower, and dosage on refuel floor during outages.Revise Refueling Procedures to assist craft personnel to perform job scope safely during refueling outages.

Computer skills

AutoCAD, MathCAD, Working Model, Engineering Equation, Lotus Notes, MS-Office software, Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), SharePoint Adminstrator, PassPort, Enterprise Project Management (EPM).

Education

University of South Carolina Aug 2000 – Aug 2004 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Cum Ladue Graduate with cumulative GPA of 88% Recipient of Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma Engineering Honour Society

Citizenship: Canadian, United States

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