Engineer Manager

Kenneth D. Marinelli

*** ******** ***** • Aiken, South Carolina • 29803 • 864-***-**** (Cell Phone) • Email: *******@*********.***

~ Summary ~

Seasoned Chemical Engineer with over 30 years of experience in both domestic and nuclear operations as a Project Engineer, Process Engineering, Design Authority Engineer and Responsible Engineer with experience in startup and testing of many different types of plants and processes. Over 16 years in the nuclear industry in both private and DOE managed sites including Oak Ridge and Savannah River Site. Extensive training and understanding of all core Federal, DOE, and NRC codes of Regulations and Orders including 10 CRF 830, Nuclear Safety Management, DOE O 420.1 (Department of Energy Nuclear Safety Policy), DOE O 422.1 (Conduct of Operations), DOE O 425.1(Verification of Readiness to Start Up or Restart Nuclear Facilities), DOE O 433.1B (Maintenance Management Program for DOE Nuclear Facilities) and the Tank Farm CHA(Consolidated Hazards Analysis and TSR (Technical Safety Requirements) to mention a few.

Education

Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Professional Development

Quality Control training including Phillip Crosby's College of SPC, Methods of Implementing the W. Edwards Deming Philosophy of Increasing Quality, Productivity and Competitive Position, Modern Quality Engineering, ISO 9000/9001, Lean Manufacturing, Kepner-Trego Problem Analysis, Statistical Process Control, Continuous Process Improvement, Background of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methods and strategies, CGMP, Advanced Spreadsheet Training

Core Competencies

Strong interpersonal, leadership, motivator and team building skills, hands on approach for all tasks, root cause analysis, problem identification, data interpretation, corrective action, decision making, leading change

Day to day liaison with marketing, R & D, production, engineering, corporate VPs, directors, vendors and customers

Fluent with PC’s and PC software (MS Office Suite, MS Project 2007), SmartPlant, Documentum, Maximo, Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat Pro, (Knowledgeable in Primavera 6)

International experience in Korea & Japan for 3 months each & working for a privately owned German company

Years of experience with the specification, procurement, process design/development and operation of high speed rotating equipment, wet electrostatic precipitator/caustic/packed bed scrubber off gas systems, mechanical and process start-up, & Joule Heated Melters, extrusion and compression molding experience in both plastics, cable and aluminum

Years of experience with many types of solids conveying equipment (pneumatic, screw, electromagnet, rollers, bucket elevators and vibratory), and both individual and bulk packaging including metal separations experience

Years of experience with bag house, cyclone, fluidized bed dryers, HEPA, HVAC and dust collection/air filtration equipment

Equipment specification/selection, RFQ preparing, bid/award project, PO packages, & vendor/contractor selection and oversight during construction/commissioning/startup, Pilot design and operation

Five years of general construction and erection experience before attending college

Working Knowledge of BWR/PWR Systems, structures and components, civil and structural knowledge as it applies to construction and safety components/equipment.

Professional Experience

Savannah River Remediation (Contracted by EdgeWater Technical Associates, LLC.) 2014 – 2017

Design Authority Engineer: Providing Engineering experience and expertise in the transition from a Spreadsheet based tank farm transfer protocol to a machine based program. Responsible for the preparation of Test procedures to confirm the technical requirements of the program and as well as functionality. Responsible for taking a Test Procedure from a basic word format to a pictorial format that actually represents the screens as they appear during inputs and required outputs/reports from the program. Also, provides engineering support to all milestones tasks for the Savannah River Tank Farm transfer group to DOE including updating all pertanent documents with current safety basis from PISA's and annual Safety Basis Document Updates. Revised all Tank Farm Accident Power Point Presentations by restructing, adding table of contents and arranging the presentation to be consistent the same format and content structure as the Safety Basis Document.

GE-Hitachi (Contracted by Edge Dynamic) 2012 – 2013

Nuclear Safety Engineer: Nuclear Safety Engineer: Provided engineering support in effort to implement an upgraded Nuclear Safety Program to meet NRC requirements at a nuclear fuel rod production facility. Reviewed all pertinent documents (Consolidate Safety Analysis, Nuclear Safety Regulatory Requirements, Technical Reports, Management Measurement Requirements, Functional Test Procedures and Operational Procedures) for compliance and consistency with all nuclear and governmental regulatory requirements for a nuclear fuels supplier.

Performed walk downs in the operation/plant to verify all IROFS (Items Required On For Safety) are installed and operational as per procedures and performed safety functions as required. Interact with area engineers on a daily basis to become knowledgeable with all process and production equipment.

Made recommendations on all corrective actions to bring all documents and process issues to final resolution.

Savannah River Remediation (Contracted by Value Added Solutions, Inc.) 2011 – 2011

Design Authority Engineer: Provided engineering support for process/mechanical systems (e.g. HVAC, utilities, material handling systems, pumping systems, etc.) for the Small Column Ion Exchange Project for high-level radioactive waste. Identified system concepts and determine system functional and technical requirements. Monitored system performance, troubleshoot and resolve problems. Ensure operation within technical and license requirements, e.g., ASME B31.3. Propose and develop improvements including system/equipment upgrades and plant modifications.

As Design Authority, prepared system modification input documents, provided technical input (e.g. for procedure development) and approved work packages, and advised operations/maintenance/project management for optimizing day to day operations.

Generated facility design description documents and system design descriptions, system interface documents, conducted major technical alternative studies, addressed issues arising from consolidated hazards analysis preparation.

Engineering support services included engineering analysis; walk downs, design development and generation of design output documents and process flow diagrams.

Areva Federal Services LLC, 2001 – 2010

Principal Project Engineer: As a member of the design engineering group was responsible for overseeing the design of six different process units and glove boxes to be part of the MOX Project at The Savannah River Site, a DOE managed site. Other responsibilities included review and approval of design documents while maintaining configuration management and disposition of any condition reports and NCRs.

Required day-to-day interaction with design engineers, HVAC, utilities, civil/structural, process experts located in France and management for updating schedule and resolving any design issues. Responsible for the close interaction with civil/structural to verify compliance with all DOE, NRC, Licensing, and safety requirements for all components and structures. Responsible for resolution of issues related to structural analysis as it applied to the classification of safety components and even re-evaluating the classification of some components to a lower safety classification if they did not meet full criteria of a safety component. Responsible for driving resolution to all outstanding issues while keeping the project on schedule.

Produced equipment design specification documents for glove boxes and process equipment that meet compliance with DOE, NCR (10CFR830/820) and ASME (e.g. B31.3, NQA-1) requirements to include motor data sheets, spare parts lists, equipment list, utility demands calculation, constructible, system description documents, system interface documents and combustible load calculations while maintaining configuration management.

Produced schedules, Gantt charts, pert charts, and resource/manpower loading for process design units using Microsoft Project 7. Also adjusted schedule weekly by smoothing manpower loading to keep staffing levels constant.

Met with scheduling weekly to review and provide inputs for making adjustments for project progress with Primavera 6.

Produced spreadsheets to show labor costs, current costs versus budget and estimated cost to complete by adhering to DOE O 413 principals. Used these costs to generate CPI’s (Cost Performance Index) and EVM's outputs (Earned Value Management) for the project on a weekly basis.

While working in the procurement engineering department, as a Responsible Engineer was responsible for all design documents i.e., System Description Documents (SDD), Component Classification Summary (CCS), Procurement Specification Documents (CCT), coordination with hazards analysis and incorporation into design, functional requirements and coordination of inputs and outputs while maintaining configuration management for design build units.

Training and daily functional use of computer software such as Documentum and SmartPlant.

WSMS (Westinghouse Safety Management Solutions) 2001 – 2001

Project Manager: As a contractor, was a Project Manager over a group of 5 Chemical Engineers who performed various calculations for accident analysis scenarios for 5 separate PISAs, Potential Inadequacies in Safety Analysis, involving the F and H area tank farms at the Savannah River Site.

Successfully oversaw the day-to-day activities of 5 chemical engineers’ assignments to meet customer’s expectations, deliverables, technical performance and schedule.

Responsible for weekly update meetings on scheduled activities and progress for both internal management and the client at SRS.

Bechtel (Contracted by Lockwood/Greene ) 1999 - 2001

Principal Engineer: As a contract engineer was responsible for various engineering tasks including document checking and document preparation associated purchasing equipment on several different projects, AM/CAM (Americium/Curium) Vitrification Process, TFM & C, and Tritium Small Projects at The Savannah River Site.

Prepared heating and cooling load calculations for sizing cooling towers and heating needs.

Performed engineering assignments for Tritium small projects including documents to purchase cooling tower valves, chilled water unit repairs and others, and redesign of a small heat exchanger to meet space confinements.

Successfully negotiated a contract price with a supplier to purchase a large valve saving the project $3500.

Y2KMSI 1999 – 1999

Contract Project Manager: Responsible for the project management of contract to perform duties associated with finding, cataloguing, and determining year 2000 compliance for all PLCs and computers in the clients specified distribution centers.

Responsible for two teams of 8 engineers with a lead engineer for each group.

Responsible for coordinating all logistics of moving the teams around the country visiting each assigned distribution center and scheduling the work with each distribution manager before the teams arrived.

Conducted weekly meetings with client to keep them updated on schedule, progress and documented problems.

Successfully renegotiated the contract for client to supply all equipment and supplies to perform duties required by original contract saving the project approximately $75,000 in expenses.

Successfully renegotiated our contract to increase the number of distribution centers visited as the project was weeks ahead of schedule. This increased the original services provided in the contract price from $1.1M to $1.8M.

GAF Corp. 1998 – 1998

Senior Process/Project Engineer: As a contract Project Engineer on a new fiberglass plant construction and startup in Korea, was responsible for all thermoplastic products. Required two trips to Korea for 6 weeks each to startup the plant/processes.

Responsible for developing a cost estimate for project scope and managing changes to both.

Responsible for the specification, sizing, installation and startup of all process equipment (fluidized bed drier, electromagnetic sorting conveyor, high speed winding equipment and dust collection system) at the client’s site in Korea.

Successful startup of all process equipment and the training of counterparts to the operation of the equipment and also the process/product specifications and training of how to produce a thermoplastic product.

Years of experience with fluidized bed drying equipment, fiber chopping equipment, air filtration equipment, wet application (seizing) equipment, high speed rotating equipment, material conveys/sorters and metal separation equipment.

Fibron International 1996 – 1997

Plant Manager: Responsible for day to day operation of a microfibers producing plant to include staffing, schedule, quality, production quotas, shipping, budget and trouble shooting and resolution of process problems.

Responsible for developing project scope, project costs and schedule for two separate plant expansions. Involved finding contractors, negotiation for price and schedule and managing the construction and startup. Vendor/contractor oversight.

Responsible for increasing plant production from 60,000 lbs. per month to 220,000 lbs. per month in 7 months by two incremental plant expansions, managed both on time and under budget (approximately $800K ea.). Responsible for finding general contractors and electrical companies for bids, award the work, then finally managing and overseeing the contractors during the construction phase.

Successfully lead the efforts in getting a new plant’s stacks tested in compliance and permitted with licenses from the S.C. DHEC, Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Successfully renegotiated a contract with the local natural gas supplier to save the company some $500K the first year.

Jacobs Engineering 1995 – 1996

Project Lead Engineer: As a member of a task force working exclusive for Owens Corning was responsible for providing an engineering solution to client’s need to increase production for a new product line by evaluating the best cost solution of either a new plant, retrofitting the process to an existing older plant or increasing the size of the existing plant.

Successfully completed a small $550K project for the client on time and on budget. Managed scope changes and cost to perform changes.

Part of a team of engineers working to increase the client’s production of a new product line by evaluating and producing estimates for three different options: building a new plant, expanding the existing plant, or retrofitting an older plant with a new process line.

Scientific Ecology Group 1993 – 1994

Program Manager: Responsible for all aspects of the development of a low-level radioactive Vitrification Process for disposal of an internal waste stream (cradle to grave responsibility).

Successfully installed, trouble-shoot, redesigned the control system and start up/operation of a Joule Heated Vitrification unit with a Wet Electrostatic Precipitator, Caustic Scrubber and Packed Bed off gas system using various crafts and outside contract I&C engineers (vendor/contractor oversight). Also trained all technicians on operations of the unit.

Responsible for developing Project scope, cost estimation and manpower estimation to perform all project activities.

Responsible for designing, sizing, making decision on type of materials used for a chimney system to remove the hot gases and fumes from a joule heated glass melter. Required HVAC sizing calculations along with working with vendors to line the ductwork with ceramic refractory to contain the heat.

Versatrim (Division of Atoma, Magna International) 1991 – 1992

Process Engineering Manager: Responsible for all process operations, raw materials, and new model year change over for an automotive OEM.

Successfully resolved a customer complaint by redesigning a part from one of our suppliers, then by rebidding and renegotiating lowered the price of the part saving thousands annually. Successfully resolved all issues dealing with new model year conversion by working with and changing vendors and parts design.

Johns Manville Corporation 1986 – 1991

Production Superintendent: Responsible for the hot end production department which processed some 150 tons per day raw batch into fiberglass products from two separate batch glass furnaces. This included the management of some 130 hourly, 2 lead technicians and 2 engineers in a 24/7 fiberglass plant.

Successfully integrated an aging workforce with new blood and changed the philosophy of producing pounds to producing pounds through increasing efficiencies and quality.

Successfully lead the department to highest levels of efficiencies (from 88% to 93%) ever produced and with the lowest scrap rate (from 20% to 2%).

Plant Lead Process Engineer: Responsibilities included new product development, daily process improvements and troubleshooting, scrap reduction and quality improvements.

Project lead for the $5M technology transfer and purchase with a Japanese firm. This was the direct result of a product that I developed, scaled up by constructing a pilot plant and successful trials in the customer’s operation. Project required travel to Japan twice for approximately 6 weeks each, providing all the design criteria to size the equipment and process control parameters, and then to leading a team of technician trainees learning operations and maintenance on similar equipment to insure a smooth and very successful startup of our process.

Successfully coordinated the design, installation, and start-up of an $80M state of the art fiberglass producing facility.

Involved in all aspects of the new facility including walk-throughs with all corporate engineering groups (i.e., HVAC, electrical and controls, piping, mechanical, civil/structural, etc.). Responsible for driving to resolution all daily issues while keeping the project on schedule. Functionally responsible for successful startup of the new production facility and bringing all products online and into specification for this project which included vendor/contractor oversight. Extensive experience with drying/curing products using fluidized bed dryers.

Division Process Engineer: Responsible for developing and retrofitting the plant with equipment to produce thermoplastic reinforcement products.

Successfully developed three different product lines for producing thermoplastics.

Successfully designed a fluid delivery system that eliminated two sources of raw materials waste and maintenance downtime with an annual costs savings of $600K.

Environmental Systems, LLC. 1985 – 1986

Assistant Project Manager: Assisted project manager in the day-to-day D & D (Decontamination and Decommissioning) operation of a bankrupt oil refinery in East Chicago, Indiana.

Front line supervisor with oversight responsibility for all subcontracts in the removal of all equipment, products, raw materials then the decontamination and decommissioning of the entire site.

Responsible for the safety of all operations to include removal hazardous chemicals such as PCB’s in switchgear, asbestos removal, and all hazardous raw materials.

Celanese Fibers Corporation 1984 – 1985

Senior Process Engineer: Responsible for coordinating all trial work in an R&D pilot operation producing textile products. Interfaced weekly with design/development engineers to validate operational safety and man/machine interfaces for new process/equipment designs.

Successfully lead a project that updated two laboratories with new equipment for testing new products and brought it in on time and on budget.

Successfully resolved a problem involving water getting into instrumentation equipment by walking down the instrument airline supply and finding potable water tied into the line saving the company $40,000 for new air drying equipment.

Owens Corning Corporation 1980 – 1984

Sr. Process and QC Engineer: Day to day production responsibility for several different product lines. Responsible for operational cost reductions, process optimization, and all quality issues of products to include direct customer contact to resolve all complaints.

Successfully redesigned an existing process that resolved a major customer complaint and converted that customer to a 100% single source user.

Developed three patent applications that improved product quality, reduced operational downtime, reduced maintenance costs and eliminated two sources of customer complaints.

Years of experience with fluidized bed drying equipment, fiber chopping equipment, air filtration equipment, wet application equipment, high speed rotating equipment, fluidized bed dryers and metal separation equipment.

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