Education (Ongoing Coursework)

Electrical Engineering Technology,

Metropolitan State University of

Denver

Electrical Engineering – Renewable

Energy Emphasis, DeVry University

Electronics Technology with Power

and Utility, Ecotech Institute Aurora

Registration/Certification

OSHA 30 card holder

CPR First Aid

Micro Minature repair

Professional Affiliations

Veterans of Foreign Wars – Member

Awards

Joint Commendation Medal

Navy Commendation Medal

(two awards)

Navy Achievement Medal

(four awards)

Experience

15 Years

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CHRISTOPHER D. SETELIN

Project Engineer

Mr. Setelin’s experience spans a wide variety of engineering and weapons systems for U.S. Navy AEGIS warships. His expertise includes technical planning, systems installation, and functional testing, as well as systems operational testing and exercises.

Kleinfelder Project Experience

North Metro Rail Line Expansion, Design-Build, RTD, Denver, CO

(2018 – Ongoing). Systems Quality Assurance Inspector for the expansion of the commuter rail transportation infrastructure throughout the Denver area. As a member of the communications and electrical Quality Assurance group, Mr. Setelin is responsible for overseeing the installation and construction of the communications and electrical elements for the project to ensure that installed items meet project plans and specifications. Project elements observed include safety, communications, underground duct bank, train control, overhead catenary, grounding and bonding, and medium voltage systems. He routinely reviews and approves systems inspector reports, accurately reviews contract submittals for content and accuracy, resolves project punch lists items, and ensures that client expectations are fully understood and achieved.

Previous Project Experience

AEGIS Testing and Evaluation, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Project Engineer. Mr. Setelin provided support of U.S. Navy AEGIS ship’s Combat System Shipboard Qualification Trials (CSSQT) to verify, validate, and evaluate that the ship’s combat/weapons system was installed correctly and could be maintained and operated safely and effectively by the ship’s crew. He served as technical writer in the creation, development, and implementation of CSSQT test plans for equipment and systems assessments and operational performance. Mr. Setelin also provided daily leadership and management of shipboard testing teams made up of warfare team leaders, systems engineers, and subject matter experts in their performance working with ship’s crew to complete all test plan requirements and milestones. He coordinated all efforts between the NAVSEA engineering team and the ship’s crew for all training, preparations, administration, and safety that lead to the successful qualification for the ship and crew to support National Defense requirements.

Telecommunications and Fiber Optic Networks and Infrastructure. Network Field Technician. Mr. Setelin collaborated and assisted the engineering team with the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of customer installed network communication equipment, power plants, and associated connecting optical and electrical wiring. He acted as first responder, supporting customer trouble-tickets for on-net and off-net corporate and customer service outages, successfully correcting numerous issues to quickly and professionally restore network services. Mr. Setelin performed preventative maintenance on servers, routers, switches, power plants and UPS’s. He also assembled new customer full service communication cabinets that are ready-for-use immediately upon delivery to customer site.

Fiber Optic Splicing Technician. Mr. Setelin performed numerous fiber optic splicing operations to bring up new service for new customer builds in both inside plant (ISP) and outside plant (OSP). He performed emergent repairs for fiber optic cable unplanned outages caused by damage to existing fiber network cables and documented all cabling and fiber optic connections found for all jobs. Combat Systems, U.S. Navy. Senior Enlisted. Mr. Setelin led 61 sailors in maintenance/operation of Combat Systems Suite for the U.S. Navy's Ballistic Missile Defense test ship for successful, on-time accomplishment of 8 National Defense Flight Test Missions (FTM), totaling over $240 million. He independently developed and executed plans to keep the Combat Systems department ahead of schedule for all required FTMs and crew certifications. He provided aggressive management and oversight of 350 depot-level jobs during a $30 million ship dry dock overhaul. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), U.S. Navy. Maintenance Chief. Mr. Setelin provided support to JSOC during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). He directly supervised a team of 22 Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps Personnel and Department of Defense (DOD) Contractors of a deployed fixed-site, multi-service team tasked to provide worldwide secure voice and data communications infrastructure. He served as the installation team leader for all communications upgrade projects and led his team in the upgrading service to 63 buildings and structures. His team installed over 3,300 feet of fiber optic cable and 21,000 feet of Cat5e cable, installing 226 fiber connects, 128 wall boxes, and terminating 258 cat-5 connects within 2,500 hours of work. He worked directly with the Navy SEABEE battalion in supervising the planning and installation of new conduit for the cable installations into new buildings and structures. He additionally was the team leader tasked to transfer all communications and networking requirements to new operations center for all JSOC and support commands of the entire OIF area of responsibility, with the requirement of have zero disruption of operations while the transfer was taking place. His team completed this herculean task three days ahead of schedule allowing 100% interoperability with Coalition Forces and other Task Forces using valuable resources and saving the Department of Defense over $200,000 in total overall costs. U.S. Navy. Afloat Trainer/Training Team Leader. Mr. Setelin was responsible for the training and assessment of 51 Combat Systems Training Teams conducting shipboard training evolutions of 24 Navy and Coast Guard Units, 98 training team members and 324 Watchstanders. He was instrumental in developing the Maintenance and Material Management (3M) Team Trainer to improve Fleet procedures. Mr. Setelin ensured that 1,485 personnel across 180 divisions were properly trained in material condition and equipment readiness. U.S. Navy. Leading Group Supervisor. Mr. Setelin supervised 12 personnel, ensuring 100% completion of 5,006 maintenance checks for 9 divisions, obtaining grades of excellent by all inspectors. He supervised 17 Departmental Sponsor Coordinators directly supporting 2,816 reporting crewmembers and their families with their transition to a new community and command. Mr. Setelin researched and coordinated onboard training for 10 technicians and 5 operators, saving the U.S. Navy $60,000 and greatly improving operational readiness while contributing tremendously toward successful completion of Builder’s and Acceptance Trials. While serving as Departmental Custodian for $1,600,000 of departmental Maintenance Assist Module assets, he ensured inventory reliability and improved accountability of these high value assets. He also performed 2M miniature circuit card and wiring repairs to various equipment systems and wiring. U.S. Navy. Electronics Technician Supervisor. Mr. Setelin supervised the maintenance, management, and organization of all electronic equipment and special projects, supervising 6 work centers consisting of 7 military and 4 civilian personnel to maintain all Ground Electronics equipment in a high state of readiness. He was instrumental in maintaining the operational readiness of air station equipment critical to flight safety for over 3,000 flights of personnel and critical supplies and equipment. Mr. Setelin developed and implemented a comprehensive budget plan for test equipment calibration, ensuring maximum use of limited funding and markedly improving the efficiency of test equipment maintenance. He also coordinated and managed all problems during alignment of two separate wind data systems using technical expertise and corrected a prolonged difference between two systems, enhancing flight safety. Mr. Setelin tracked maintenance requirements for more than 700 pieces of communications, weather, telephone, and test equipment, resulting in an equipment maintenance recorded accomplishment rate of 100%.

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