Manager Engineer

Daniel J. O’Lone

** ****** ******** **** **********, NH 03825 ************@*****.*** 603-***-**** OBJECTIVE

Seeking an Executive Level position where I can use my extensive technical, financial, quality, commercial, management, leadership and business development skills and experience in a fast-paced challenging environment.

EDUCATION

M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. in Marine Engineering from United States Naval Academy CERTIFICATION

Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute EXPERIENCE

Westinghouse Electric Company, Nuclear Component Manufacturing Sept. 2008 to present Program Manager, China Projects

Program Manager for several major manufacturing contracts for China Nuclear Power Plants since August 2012. Travel to China extensively to negotiate the contracts’ financial, technical and quality terms and close the sales. Continue to travel to China and Korea for Progress Meetings and for Business Development.

Accomplishments:

• Responsible for P&L and meeting contractual deadlines for over $55M in contracts. This includes interfacing closely with the Customers and with the Chinese Designer. Responsible for technical, financial, quality, commercial and schedule issues. This is a first of a kind contract and the challenges of working with multiple Chinese and US specifications have been significant.

• Negotiated a sub-supplier contract with Korean company to build a major component with a net financial gain to Westinghouse of $5M. Continue to work closely with Korean company to monitor technical and quality work and control commercial issues.

• Developed a Quality Program specifically for the Chinese customers that integrated with our existing program.

• Achieved certification for very stringent Chinese Quality Program. Participated in Audit with Chinese regulators and Corrective Actions after the Audit. Also participate in ISO 9001:2008 and ASME Audits.

• Solved many significant technical and commercial issues relating to design and manufacturing. Negotiated contract changes to control and manage the issues.

• Brought several significant new Business Development opportunities (value of approximately

$150M) to Westinghouse as a result of individual effort at building extensive relationships in China.

Engineering Product Manager (October 2011 to June 2013) Responsible for work of 23 Manufacturing Engineers, ~50 Fabricators and Machinists, 4 Quality Engineers, 2 Supply Chain Personnel, and ~ 10 Support Personnel. Managed manufacture of Control Rod Drive Mechanisms (1 to 2 year projects) and Reactor Vessel Internals (3 to 4 year projects) for multiple plant designs.

Accomplishments:

• Managed 9 separate CRDM Engineering and Manufacturing projects covering 5 different plant designs at the same time. All completed and shipped on time.

• Shipped more CRDM products to more customers in 1 year than has ever been done before or since.

• In less than a 2 year period raised Operating Profit for this group by over 5% through Lean Processes, motivation, coordination and teamwork.

Principal Project Engineer (September 2008 to October 2011) Responsible for the manufacturing and delivery of complex, large (>200 tons and 30 feet in length) structure for new Reactor Plant Design. Due to personnel and productivity issues, I concurrently served as a Fabrication Shop Supervisor for 8 months during this period. Accomplishments:

• Shipped Reactor Vessel Internals for a First of a Kind Design on time.

• Discovered and reported several Design Flaws in the Upper Guide System. Produced Design Changes that were incorporated in final design.

• Supervised 15 Fabrication Mechanics daily while performing full time duties as a Project Engineer.

CEO / Owner – Shamrock School Systems May 2000 to Sept. 2008 Owned and lead a computer hardware and software business working with School Nutrition Directors. After designing and supervising development of the software, I directed marketing, sales, installation, training and support for the system with nearly 100 schools as clients in Maine and New Hampshire. VP – Rediker Software, Hampden, MA Aug. 1994 to May 2000 Negotiated strategic business alliances with other companies in related markets and created the School Office SuiteTM, an integrated family of software products for schools. This created added value to our software resulting in new sales from existing customers and made our offering more attractive to new clients. I was also responsible for major school district sales efforts and helped close the largest sale in company history.

CEO - Computer Resources Incorporated, Barrington, NH Aug. 1994 to Nov. 1997 Performed strategic assessment of the company’s 15 year old, DOS-based product and directed a team of engineers in development of a new Windows version of the product.

• Resulted in a 50% increase in sales revenue in first year of availability and significant continued growth for the company.

MILITARY

Nuclear Trained Officer in the USN serving in the Submarine Force June 1973 to Aug. 1994 Served in four consecutive sea assignments before transferring to a permanent shore assignment as an Engineering Duty Officer. I retired from active service in 1994. While on active duty, I held a Top Secret clearance level.

Highlights of my career are as follows:

Project Manager for the Supervisor of Shipbuilding Conversion and Repair, Groton, CT. Accomplishments:

• Managed all submarine repair work performed worldwide by Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics. Negotiated many multi-million dollar contracts and emergent repair work with Electric Boat.

• Managed 9 regularly-scheduled high-dollar, 60-day maintenance periods on submarines. Upon my arrival, these maintenance periods frequently ran over-schedule and over-budget. During my tenure, there was only one, which ran over-schedule due to last minute discovery of mandatory new work. The other eight were finished on or ahead of schedule, and all nine were completed under-budget. The final ship I supervised set an Atlantic Fleet record for fastest completion and lowest cost.

Student assigned to MIT for 24 months to earn a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. Accomplishments:

• Earned M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and an M.S. in Material Science and Engineering in only 18 months.

Chief Engineer Officer on USS George Washington.

Accomplishments:

• Maintained nuclear reactor plant critical and steaming continuously for 4 months during circumnavigation of South America.

• Supervised over 85 personnel.

• Led recovery efforts through a catastrophic electric plant casualty while at sea and managed to restore the plant and continue underway back to home port for major repairs.

• Decommissioning and inactivation of the ship including all Nuclear Systems. PERSONAL

Member of the following:

• US Naval Academy Alumni Association

• MIT Alumni Association

• Military Officers of America Association.

References available upon request.

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