PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

I am an experienced Quality Professional with over 25 years’ experience in training, team building, auditing, implementing and monitoring Quality Systems for commercial, DOD, DOE and NRC job sites and manufacturing facilities. Experienced in the following quality systems ISO/QS 9000, ASME Section I, III, VIII, NQA-1, 10CFR Part 50 Appendix B and 10CFR 830.120, 122. I have taken two plant locations through ISO 9001 certification and re-certification process, and ASME Section I, III & VIII certification and re-certification. Responsibilities also included departmental budget and staffing, review of contracts for quality requirements, generating work instructions, review and submittal of documentation packages to customer’s representatives.

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society for Quality Control

American Welding Society

American Society for Non-Destructive Testing

Management Certificate University of Wisconsin

Work History

Level III Quality Specialist, Weld Document Review

March 2015 to July 2015 Unit 2 & 3 Jenkinsville, SC

Weld Document Final Review for CBI in support of VC Summer Nuclear Power Plants located in Jenkinsville, SC for two AP1000 units.

Level II Source Surveillance Inspector

October 2013 to October 2014 BF Shaw Laurens, SC.

Source Surveillance for CB&I at their facility manufacturing Carbon Steel and Stainless Steel piping modules for VC Summer and Vogtle Nuclear Power Plants for the new AP 1000 design nuclear power plants. Modules are ASME Section III Class 1, 2 & 3 and B31.1. Document review, in process and final inspections, writing nonconformances.

Document Reviewer

July 2012 to February, 2013 Shaw Modular System (SMS) Lake Charles, LA

Document review of turnover packages for the AP1000’S Modules for Vogtle and Summer Nuclear Power Plants.

August 2011 to January 2012 AMEC, Inc. Knoxville. TN - Auditing and updating NQA-1 / ISO 9001 quality systems manuals and procedures to latest revision of NQA-1 and ISO 9001.

March 2010 to May 2011 Stein Construction Company, Oak Ridge, TN Y-12 Facility for the Bear Creek Road By-Pass and 3rd Street Bridge Replacement.

Quality Director- Responsible for implementing and maintaining Stein Construction Company’s NQA-1 / ISO 9001 Quality Systems. Performed inspections as required (visual inspection of pipes, structural steel, valves, pumps, electrical equipment, concrete)

June 2006 – July 2009 All Alloys Fabrication, Inc. Knoxville, TN

Manufacturer of IP 1 and IP 2 containers and Modification of 20’ and 40’Sealand containers to meet IP 1 and IP 2 requirements.

Quality Director - Responsible for the management of the NQA-1 Quality System. Also responsible for supplier qualification, certification and auditing of the Quality System. Generating work instructions, inspections, review and submittal of documentation packages to customer’s representatives. Performed final inspection of steel containers and modified sealand containers, receiving of raw material, steel, fasteners, welding materials

April 2003 – June 2006 Absolute Industrial Sorting, Inc. Knoxville, TN

Manager - Responsible for the daily operation of a sorting company, including scheduling, budgets, customer complaints, etc. Supervised 35 + sorters/inspectors for both in-house and fieldwork. Inspection of castings, brakes, calipers, air bags, electrical equipment and transmission housings.

June 2000 – April 2003 MACTEC, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN

Quality Manager – Responsible for project quality assurance for the decontamination and demolition of ten buildings at the ETTP Main Plant (K-25) site and the SWSA 4, 32-acre landfill cap Rocky Flats building demolition. Additional responsibilities included NQA-1 Lead Auditor, supplier auditing/surveillance 10 CFR 830.120, NQA-1 and ISO 9001; review of purchase orders/contracts; and inspections of equipment at suppliers prior to shipment and surveillance of subcontractors and suppliers.

May 1999 – June 2000 Manufacturing Sciences Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN

Contract Quality Engineer – Involved in decontamination and recycling of metals from BNFL at the ETPP site in Oak Ridge for the Quality Department at the Oak Ridge facility. Responsibilities included NQA-1 Lead Auditor, supplier auditing/surveillance 10 CFR 830.120, NQA-1 and ISO 9001; review of purchase orders/contracts; and inspections and inspections of equipment at suppliers prior to shipment, surveillance of subcontractors and suppliers.

January 1998 – April 1999 Self Employed

Quality Consultant – Consulting on ISO, NQA-1 and ASME Section III, VIII quality system implementation, inspections and surveillance. Valves, pumps, structural steel, electrical equipment, tanks, ASME pressure vessels, compressors, storage tanks, pipe hangers, snubbers).

March 1989 – November 1998 Aqua-Chem. Inc., Water Technologies Division

Corporate Quality Manager – Responsible for day-to-day management of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System. Managed seven quality technicians and inspectors. Also responsible for supplier qualification, certification, and auditing of the Quality Management System (ISO 9001), quality of subcontracted equipment, service and installation of Aqua-Chem equipment worldwide. Attained ISO 9001 certification for two locations (Knoxville and Milwaukee), and attainted ASME, Section III and VIII certifications. Reduced scrap and rework by $3,000,000 and reduced inspection costs by 30%. NDE Level III MT, PT, UT, RT, and VT. Instrumental in increasing supplier delivery performance to 97%.

July 1987 – January 1989 MQS Inspection

Laboratory Supervisor – Responsible for day-to-day operation of a destructive and non-destructive testing laboratory (scheduling, budgets, customer complaints, etc.). Supervised 36 technicians for both in-house and fieldwork (construction, pipelines, power plants, etc.). Managed a $4,000,000/year budget. Set up real-time radiographic system to inspect over 1,000,000 boxes of cake mix for Proctor & Gamble and over 400,000 ignition switches for missing components for Chrysler Motors.

NDE, Level III MT, PT, UT, RT and VT.

Third Party Inspector 2004 to Present (Fill in Work)

Contract Quality Assurance Representative as needed for Moody, Velosi, Petro Chem, PAC, QAE. SGS, Bureau Veritas, Lutech. Verifying welder and welding qualifications, reviewing quality procedures, test procedures, performing and witnessing dimensional, NDE, visual inspections, lumber grading, hydrostatic tests, performance tests, auditing, documentation & Radiographs review and mechanical & weld inspections, PMI at various companies and locations. (Valves, pumps, structural steel, electrical equipment, tanks, ASME pressure vessels, compressors, storage tanks, pipe hangers, snubbers, carbon steel, stainless steel piping).

Previous Certifications:

NDE Level III MT, PT, RT, UT, VT, NQA-1 Lead Auditor

EPRI LEVEL III VT1 THRU VT3, CwI

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