Power Plant Quality Assurance

Marvin L. Dawson

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Portland, OR 97201 Cell: 503-***-****

Summary

Productive, self-starting problem solver with proven leadership and organizational skills in both project management and supervision. Superior problem-solving and conceptual ability. Over 18 years experience in plant and maintenance engineering positions directly related to the operation, maintenance, and design of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, including 6 years of overall plant reliability/availability engineering, plant performance monitoring and equipment failure analysis. Over 30 years diversified experience with various computer operating systems, programming languages, and applications involving mainframe, PC, Unix, and real-time process control. Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry, including 4 years employment as laboratory assistant in inorganic analytical laboratory.

Professional Experience

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), Portland, OR 2006-present

Various part-time and volunteer postions in Visitor Services, Shift Captain, Special Events, Chemistry, Submarine, Featured Hall, and Exhibit Production.

Working with staff and volunteers throughout the organization to provide Total Guest Experience (TGE)/Customer Service to museum guests.

Converted Chemistry Lab experiment operating guides into standardized electronic documents from an assortment of hard copies, mark-ups, article photocopies, and hand-written notes.

Design, prototype, build, debug, repair, program, and document electronic and logic circuits for use in exhibits.

Starbase (formerly Premia), Beaverton, OR 1994-2001

Software Quality Assurance Manager and Product Manager for CodeWright, a programmer's editor.

Commercial software system builds, diskette and CD media creation, Beta testing program administration.

Merant (formerly Intersolv, Inc.), Beaverton, OR 1993-1994

Technical Support Engineer and Software Quality Assurance Engineer for PVCS, a software configuration management system.

AnswerLine technical support and on-site implementation services for PVCS customers.

Generating and conducting test suites consisting of both automated and manual testing for all GUI and command-line SCM products.

Portland General Electric Co., Portland, OR 1974-1993

Trojan Nuclear Plant

A series of positions of increasing responsibility and complexity providing software engineering support for all plant computer systems and end-user technical support for IBM mainframe and PC LAN systems.

Simulator Supervisor, responsible for the operation, maintenance, and testing of a $12.5 million nuclear power plant training simulator.

Senior Computer Engineer, responsible for all plant process control and monitoring computer systems as well as plant-wide computer user support.

Computer Info Center Analyst, responsible for developing corporate mainframe and PC-based computer applications and providing training and enduser technical support.

Project Coordinator/Manager, responsible for the overall development and procurement of a large computerbased maintenance management system and a real-time training simulator.

Quality Assurance Supervisor, responsible for all on-site audits, inspections, and non-destructive examinations conducted at a nuclear power plant.

Plant Systems and Maintenance Engineer, including various assignments related to the construction, startup, operation, maintenance, and design of a nuclear power plant.

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Education and Training

BS, Chemistry; University of California, Santa Barbara – 1970

US Navy Nuclear Power School and Prototype Training – 1971

Electronics Repair, Bell & Howell Schools – 1974

American Welding Society Nondestructive Examinations Certification – 1976Certified Training Instructor – 1989

Certified Senior Reactor Operator – 1981

FrontLine Leadership Training – 1992

Company-sponsored classes related to supervision and management

Selected Accomplishments

Developed and implemented a certified testing program for a computerized nuclear power plant training simulator by using existing staff personnel rather than contract services. This resulted in a savings of over $200,000 compared to other utilities which outside-contracted for this service. Received a Notable Achievement Award for this work and was invited to give a paper at the Simulation Computer Society Annual Conference.

Wrote technical design specifications and evaluated bid proposals for the procurement of a plantspecific operator training simulator in three months less time than originally scheduled.

Coordinated the development of a major computerized maintenance information management system including preventive maintenance and work order scheduling, spare parts inventory control, equipment history and failure trending. Portions of this modular system were subsequently installed at all company thermal power stations.

Supervised the operation and maintenance of a nuclear power plant training simulator, including identification and elimination of deficiencies, installation of design modifications, and verifying the fidelity against actual plant data. This simulator has been praised by government inspectors as one of the best in the nation. My department has consistently exceeded its productivity goals while remaining within approved budgets.

Converted over 50 computer applications for various other users from IBM VSPC and BASIC to VM/CMS Rexx language following a corporate mainframe computer system upgrade.

Taught numerous computer courses and provided individualized user instruction on applications including Word Perfect, Harvard Graphics, TimeLine, Lotus 123, HTML, PHP, SAS, VM/CMS, Xedit, Rexx, PROFS (E-Mail), JCL, and PC-Mainframe file transfers.

Provided both hardware and software HelpLine technical support to users company-wide for PC, IBM mainframe, and Honeywell computer systems and their associated applications.

Installed and provided System Administration and Security for both Novell and UNIX local area networks, including IBM token ring and Ethernet installations.

Developed procedures and conducted testing for a inorganic analytical chemistry laboratory.

Developed and implemented the initial ASME welder qualification program for the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant.

Developed an expert computer system to analyze and generate the hundreds of individual check-offs required to refuel a nuclear reactor core which resulted in the savings of over 50 engineering hours annually and the elimination of all typographical errors.

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