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Engineer Project Management

Location:
Oswego, NY
Posted:
July 17, 2017

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James Astoria, P.E.

** ********* ***** • Oswego, New York 13126

315-***-****315-***-**** cell • ********@*****.**.***

Qualifications Summary

Extensive nuclear work management, operations oversight, project management, construction management, engineering & plant maintenance experience. Expertise in the design, implementation, and management of programs to streamline scheduling and increase efficiencies. Demonstrated exceptional leadership and interpersonal communication skills. Excels at developing, motivating, and guiding highly organized and effective multi-disciplinary teams. Key strengths:

• Project Management • Project Controls •Work Coordinator• Work Controller • Online Plant Maintenance • Outage Management •Planning • Scheduling • Nuclear Engineer •Civil, Structural, Mechanical Engineer • Execution • Integration • Supervision • Procurement • Primavera P6 & P3 Scheduling • Building maintenance • AutoCAD • Estimating • Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Career Highlights -

Nuclear Operations & Plant Maintenance Management & Oversight (1998-2017)

• Work Week Manager - Planned, scheduled, and executed all online multi-discipline plant & preventive maintenance work activities within two nuclear power facilities for one week 24/7 in a 6-week rotation. Provided oversight for 1,300 onsite workers including engineering, operations, maintenance, and management personnel.

• Expertise utilizing Primavera P3 & P6 for multi-disciplinary online scheduling integration. Project Management responsibilities for system modifications installation and acceptance. Outage Construction Services Coordinator (Outage Safety Awarded), Outage Control Center (OCC) Shift Outage Coordinator, pre-outage online work coordinator (99% pre-outage work completion).

• Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Design Release Program Development – Level I, II, III Configuration Set development & debt review, Engineering release milestones - China & domestic. Instrumental in program development and engineering release of China Sanmen Nuclear Power Station AP1000 Nuclear Containment, Hydro and Functional testing milestones.

• Thirteen week cycle plan development with the multi-disciplinary team for safe equipment removal or servicing to maximize operations and minimize outages. On-line maintenance Functional Failures and Maintenance Rule Unavailability monitoring responsibilities. Managed/trained staff in work control processes and problem resolution/issues management. Organizational guidance managing equipment challenges through unit shutdowns, emergent and risk management issues. SRO Certification Training

Project Management/Construction Management/Engineering (1986-2017)

• Construction Turnover Project Manager& Project Controls Engineer – Managed civil, structural, mechanical, electrical & controls construction turnover-people, processes, and resources availability to EPA mandatory compliance date. Primavera P6 & P3 multi-discipline, multi-location scheduling, planning, analyzing and reporting for engineering, subcontractors, construction, & proposal development; Project controls costs–processing, verification, monitoring, evaluating, estimating & reporting. Instrumental in identification & processing $2 millions plus vendor overcharges savings. Rework, expanded scope change orders & claims processing, development including claims philosophy. CBI Fukushima–baseplates, Hilti’s, supports, piping, breaches, construction work order planning, reviews, conduits, material, documents review, temp supports, scaffolding, pre-outage/outage, harden vent,

• Construction /Project Management – Managed 5,000 people, processes, and resources through the development and execution seven-month milestone schedule. Nuclear Const Civil, Mech, Elect Inst, Sys Flushing Instrumental attaining $200,000 Milestone Award

• Senior Project Manger, Project Manger–Sr. Engineer - General Electric (GE Power & Water-GE Energy) Steam Turbine Engineering multi-national Project Management and manufacturing support - mechanical, electrical, structural, and controls engineering, risk management, documentation and manufacturing. Internationally managed people, processes, and resources availability to schedule, budget, engineering management and multi-national risk management code compliance - PED, CE. 10CFR73.53 Security upgrades, infrastructure, buildings renovations, dust collectors - civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, nuclear engineering. Foundations, drainage structures, reinforced concrete, steel, bldg modifications, electrical duct lines & utilities relocations, fencing, intrusion detection, power distribution, controls communications, security stations, generator upgrades, & HVAC designs. Regulatory environmental permitting–Corp of Engineers, NYS, town; Entergy Engineering Change Responsible Engineer – development, procedures, approval & Asset Suite responsibilities. Civil Engineering-Site planning, water & wastewater management, environmental, wetland, regulatory approval, presentations & processing, sanitary sewers/ septic, roadways, NOI, SPEDES, SWPPP, erosion control, hydrology, Building Code Assessments – Separation, Fire, Egress. Building Maintenance HVAC Direct Digital Control Building Automation System (BAS) monitoring, program repairs, maintenance, trouble shooting & upgrades.

Nuclear Procurement Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Purchasing-Buyer (1989-2017)

• Procured nuclear & non-nuclear equipment for a two-unit nuclear power facility, including ASME III and ANSI pumps, valves, strainers, chillers, o-rings, and associated mechanical & structural parts. Material qualifications - commercial grade dedications, seismic, environmental, 10CFR50, 10CFR21 & 10CFR50.59 applicability reviews. Developed, qualified and audited vendors, purchased and administrated contracts, ordered equipment, and expedited the products and services delivery. Qualified reverse engineering equipment vendors. Achieved $500,000 year procurement savings through alternate sourcing, inventory and stock reductions. Project Engineering / Project Management – Pump and Valve upgrade projects.

Work History CBI Construction Services, Fukushima Project Mechanical/Electrical Field Engineer, Entergy James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Station, Oswego, - NY 2016-2017 Instrumental supporting Entergy JAF Fukushima Project error free successfully completed 2017 Outage

Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Design Release Project Management Engineer, Concise Technologies LLC, Westinghouse Engineering, Cranberry Township, PA 2014-2016

Project Manager - Building Maintenance, Brooks Range Contracting Services GSA James M. Hanley Federal Building, Syracuse NY 2014. Instrumental in upgrading Hanley Building GSA Rating from 49 of 50 to top three in 3 months, significantly improving customer-client relationship, preventive maintenance and building safety, mechanical operations and material condition.

General Electric (GE Power & Water-GE Energy) Steam Turbine Requisition Engineer -Project Management, Quest Global Services Contract, GE Manufacturing Facility Schenectady, NY 2012-2013

Senior Project Manager- DuPont Project Team Lead, DuPont-KBR-Allstate Technical Services Contract, DuPont Yerkes Manufacturing Facility, Buffalo, NY 2011-2012

Shaw/Stone & Webster Outage Work Control Supervisor, Shaw/Stone & Webster, Wilmington, IL, Exelon Limerick Nuclear Generation Station, Unit 2 Refueling Outage, Pottstown, PA, 2011

Outage Work Management BOP, RHR, & MSO Projects

Assistant Project Manager–Senior Engineer, Nuclear Engineering, Enercon Services-L.J. Gonzer Associates Contract - Entergy James A. Fitzpatrick Security Upgrade Project & Parking Lot Expansion Projects, Oswego, NY 2009-10

Construction Turnover Project Manager /Project Controls Engineer, Alstom APCom Power, Inc, Spurlock 1&2 Wet flue Gas Desulfur/Wet Elect Precip Project, Maysville, Kentucky 2005-2009

Workweek Manager (Work Controller, Work Coordinator), Constellation Energy Group, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units I and II, Lycoming, NY, 1998-2005

Outage Scheduler, Days & Zimmermann NPS, 1866 Colonial Village Lane Suite 101, Lancaster, PA 17601; PSE&G Salem / Hope Creek Nuclear Power Station, Salem, New Jersey 2005

Project Manager/Civil Engineer, A M Engineering (Land Surveying, Civil Engineering and Engineer Consultant) 959 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06615, 2005.

Consulting Engineering/Independent Contract Design, James Astoria P.E., Oswego, NY 13126, 1989-2017

Procurement Engineer / Purchaser / Buyer, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units I and II, Lycoming, NY, 1989-1998

Construction Management, Structural Engineer, Senior Construction Engineer Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA for Niagara Mohawk Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station II, Lycoming, NY, 1982-1989

Education Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Major / Minors: Civil, Structural, Soils

Professional Development:

Nine Mile Point – SRO Certification Training 1998, Nine Mile Point Unit 1 System Certification 1999, Nine Mile Point – Leadership Academy Training 1997

Kepner Tregoe (KT) Problem Analysis Training 2004

Primavera Course 108 P3 3.1 to Primavera v5.0 Basic Course, October 2007

Oracle University Project Management in Primavera P6 Rel 6 April 2009

NANTel Safety – Electrical Safety; General Personal Protective Equipment September 2009

NRC Safeguard Security Qualified September 2009

Project Management Institute 2010, PMI PMP Certification Candidate

OSHA 30 & 10 Hour Construction Safety & Health Course 2011

Licensing Professional Engineer: New York, Maryland - Retired: Connecticut, Vermont

Software Entergy Asset Suites, Oracle

DuPont Purchasing – Engineering Processing, Documentum,

General Electric PLM (Product Lifecycle Technical Manual), Documentum, Webex, DRB, Pnet

Primavera P6 & P3, Data CAD, AutoCAD, Windows 95-XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WC Mosse

US Homeland Security Electronic SF-85P-S Questionnaire (e-QIP) DDS Federal Protective Service Background Investigation, US Federal Email system, Federal procurement procedures, work control.



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