Robert T. Jones Birmingham, AL

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SUMMARY

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Electrical Engineer with extensive experience in the electric power industry, including nuclear power, which includes working in both Corporate and plant site environments. Effective in writing procedures, training personnel, field testing, leading audits and insuring compliance in a regulated environment.

Power Cable Testing Lighting Design QA Auditor Nuclear Program Owner

NERC Compliance Communications Design Procedure Writer Start-up

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SOUTHERN NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY (SNC), Birmingham, AL 2002 - 2016

Nuclear Energy Fleet Facility Operator – Corporate

Electrical Engineer – Fleet Cable Monitoring Program Owner (2013 -2016)

Provided training/mentoring of site engineers, performed site cable testing, maintained program compliance to NRC regulations, revised program procedures and participated in related industry peer groups.

Trained and Mentored Site Engineers on Power cable Testing and Cable Fundamentals.

Conducted and provided Technical Oversight of Tan Delta Testing of Power Cables.

Provided Engineering support of Power Cable replacements and installations.

Purchased cable testing and inspection equipment to support site testing.

Electrical Engineer – Fleet Design Analysis Engineer (2002-2013)

Provided design analysis and technical support, project management, personnel resource coordination, NERC compliance oversight, and training/mentoring to nuclear fleet.

As the Fleet NERC Compliance Coordinator, completed standards certifications, supported and participated in SERC audits and maintained procedures to insure compliance to NERC Standards.

Designed Security Lighting Upgrades in support of Post 911 Security Initiatives.

Project Manager for converting the Containment Polar crane to wireless controls.

Project Manager for Procedure Upgrades for two major re-organizations, including hiring and supervising a contract procedure writer.

Coordinator for ETAP software error reporting, INPO Operating Experience reporting, Vendor Part 21 Notice reviews (VTIP) and Outage resources.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

SOUTHERN COMPANY SERVICES (SCS), Birmingham, AL

Engineering Service Company for the Southern Company– Corporate

Nuclear Quality Assurance (QA) Auditor

As a certified Lead Auditor, performed and lead QA Audits and Technical Assessments of the SCS Nuclear Projects, including performing regulatory review of procedures.

Electrical Design Engineer

Generated design modifications for a Nuclear Power Station, including lighting design and communications design.

Project Manager for the creation of an electrical panelboard database.

Designed power upgrades to power new plant computer which included an underground remote communications fiber link.

Designed control panel indicating light fixture that saved $350K in installation and maintenance costs. Design included building and testing a prototype fixture.

Designed emergency lighting upgrades for Millstone Nuclear Plant, including writing testing procedures. Test Procedure streamlined efforts to recover from a regulatory shutdown.

Developed engineering guidelines for the design, use and deployment of wireless communication systems to protect sensitive plant equipment from the effects of EMI.

Designed air blown fiber network for plant to provide flexibility for plant communications.

Nuclear Plant Start Up Engineer

Test Supervisor for plant systems, including essential, emergency and security lighting, security lighting diesel generator, emergency lighting UPSs and 120VAC essential power inverters. Managed maintenance and start up testing, which included interfacing with construction.

Wrote test procedures for emergency, essential and Security Lighting systems.

Performed security, fire protection, life safety, safe shutdown and emergency lighting surveys to meet regulatory and licensing requirements.

Wrote Blackout Testing procedure to verify adequacy of safe shutdown lighting that was accepted by NRC and was adapted by EPRI as a method to provide assurance of the lighting system to support operator actions during total station black out conditions.

Tested diesel generators, UPSs, and 120VAC Essential Instrumentation Inverters.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA–BIRMINGHAM - BSE

CERTIFICATIONS

Initial Test Program Supervisor – Nuclear EIT3763 (AL-1981) QA Lead Auditor

Certificate of Technical Knowledge (TKE- IES) Tan Delta Cable Testing

TRAINING

Dale Carnegie

IES- Lighting Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced

CHAR Electromagnetic Interference and Detection

EPRI:EMI of Digital Equipment ; Low Voltage Cable Age Management

Medium Voltage Cable – Characteristics, Performance and Condition Assessment

Fundamentals of Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation

PROFFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

EPRI Cable Users Group (Electric Power Research Institute); IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); PES –ICC (Insulated Conductors Committee); IES (Illuminating Engineering Society)

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