David M. Wesson

***** ****** *****

Charlotte, NC 28214

Employment:

Duke Energy

Position: Senior Nuclear Engineering Technologist

Work Number: 803-***-****

Home Number: 704-***-****

Email: addx9s@r.postjobfree.com; addx9s@r.postjobfree.com

Location: Catawba Nuclear Station, Design Engineering

Work

Catawba Nuclear Station Design Engineering 1992 to Present

Senior Nuclear Engineering Technologist

Senior Technical Specialist

Senior Design Engineering Support Specialist

Senior Nuclear Planner

Technical Specialist II

Technical Specialist I

Senior Designer

Lead electrical designer for design of fiber backbone for Catawba Nuclear Station. Including design of circuits, cable routing equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation.

Lead electrical designer for design of Fukushima and NFPA 805 circuitry. Including design of electrical power and control circuits, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Technical procedure development for testing of circuitry. Technical support during installation and testing.

Lead electrical designer for replacement of the existing Generator Rectifiers. Including design of electrical power and control circuits, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Technical procedure development for testing of Generator Rectifiers. Technical support during installation and testing of Generator Rectifiers.

Reclassified as a Senior Nuclear Planner to be more in line with the skills and expectations of a Senior Nuclear Planner in an equivalent position throughout the Nuclear industry.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for replacement of the existing Generator Zone G electro-mechanical protective relaying with new digital protective relaying. Including design of electrical power and control circuits, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of Generator Zone G protective relaying.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for Security system modification to upgrade the existing CCTV cameras with new day/night vision cameras and install new infrared illuminators. Including design of electrical power and control circuits, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of new cameras and infrared illuminators.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for replacement of existing GE Voltage Regulator with a new ABB Unitrol 5000 Automatic Voltage Regulator for the Generator Excitation system. Including design of electrical power and control circuits, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of ABB Unitrol 5000.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for major Security system modification and upgrade to move the Security Protected Area fence boundary. Protected Area was expanded to encompass the existing RN Pump Structure and new Dry Cask Storage facility previously outside the Protected Area. Including electrical design of Security power and control systems and layout of new infrared detectors, cameras, tampers and alarms, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, materials, conduit and cable routing and fence grounding. Project included installation of new Security building, including equipment and cable tray layout design. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of new Security Protected Area.

Responsible Engineer for design of Single Point Access (SPA). Including design of electrical power and control circuits, sizing of power and control circuits and voltage drop calculations. Technical support during installation and testing of equipment.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for replacement of existing 15KVA Vital I&C Power Inverters. Including design of electrical power and control systems, electrical isolations, cable drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of new Vital I&C Power Inverters.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for installation of new 230KV Switchyard Load Center Automatic Transfer Switches and power disconnect switches. Including electrical design of power and control systems, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing and materials. Design of power, controls and grounding for temporary power distribution system required for backup diesel generator. Work package planning. Technical procedure development for installation and testing of Automatic Transfer Switches. Technical support during installation and testing of Automatic Transfer Switches.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for modification of the power and control circuits for RN and CA systems to improve system reliability. Including electrical design of power and control systems, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing.

Lead electrical designer and implementation accountable for replacement of plant and 230KV Switchyard Digital Fault Recorders. Including electrical design of power and control systems, electrical isolations, cable routing and materials. Work package planning. Technical support during installation and testing of Digital Fault Recorders.

Electrical designer and implementation accountable for design and modification of new Security Access System. Including power and control systems, electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, and materials. Work package planning. Technical procedure development for installation and testing of Security Access System. Technical support during installation and testing of Security Access System.

Electrical designer and implementation accountable for design and modification of power and control systems. Including electrical isolations, voltage drop calculations, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support for the installation and testing of power, control, I&C, lighting and communication systems in support of Duke Energy, Catawba Nuclear Station.

Electrical designer and implementation accountable for design and modification of electrical heat trace systems. Including electrical isolations, voltage and current calculations for circuit protection, cable routing, equipment layout and materials. Work package planning. Technical support for the installation and testing of heat trace systems in support of Duke Energy, Catawba Nuclear Station.

Electrical testing and support for conversion of existing electrical equipment design data bases to a new electronic equipment data base (EDB).

Innage and Outage support at Catawba Nuclear Station to assist operations in determination of the impact of electrical isolations and the effect of loss of power on plant systems, equipment and components. Information used to schedule work to ensure the least impact on plant operation.

Electrical Designer Duke Power/Design Engineering 1988 to 1992

Electrical designer and implementation accountable for power, control, lighting and communication systems in support of Catawba Nuclear Station.

Electrical Designer Duke Power/Design Engineering 1986 to 1988

Electrical designer for power, control, lighting and communication system design for Duke Power Commercial Facility projects and TVA Fluidized Boiler project.

Electrical Field Engineer Georgia Power & Light 1985 to 1986

Duke Power, Duke Engineering & Services project at Vogule Nuclear Station - Electrical raceway design and field technical support. Qualified QA inspector for inspection and sign-off of electrical raceway.

Electrical Designer Carolina Power & Light 1984 to 1985

Duke Power, Duke Engineering & Services project at Sharon-Harris Nuclear Station - Developed computer generated list for identification and classification of plant equipment for equipment maintenance program.

Electrical Designer Duke Power/Design Engineering 1983 to 1984

Electrical designer for conduit, cable tray, equipment layout, lightuing and communications for TVA Fluidized Boiler project.

Electrical Designer Duke Power/Design Engineering 1969 to 1983

Electrical Assistant Designer

Electrical Junior Designer

Electrical designer for Switchyard and Transformer Station layout, protective relaying and control systems for all Duke Power Nuclear Plants. Switchyard and Transformer Station layout for modifications to Fossil and Hydro stations.

Education:

West Mecklenburg High School

Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC)

National Electrical Code (CPCC)

Duke Energy Training:

AB&B Canada Unitrol 5000 System Automatic Voltage Regulator

Cost Estimating using Success Estimating Tool

Windows 2016, Microsoft Outlook 2016, Word 2016, Excel 2016

Indus (Portal J)(Work Order Planning)

Consolidated Access Suite (CAS)(Work Order Planning)

Fusion (Drawing files)

DEDB (Y2K Design Engineering Data Base), DEDB SME

Pasce (Plantview), Micostation V8/IRAS, Microstation V8i/Descartes

Welding seminar

Technical writing

Basic engineering scheduling

Root cause analysis

10CFR50.59 training

Bussman overcurrent protection

Instrumentation seminar

Process control seminar

Environmental qualification analysis

Significant PIR identification

Protective relaying and controls

Appendix R (Fire Protection)

Emerging Leader Program

Safety Coach

Nuclear Security Controller (Responsible for the control and classification of Safeguards and other Security related documents).

NERC qualified to review and revise NERC drawings and enter NERC facilities.

All Security and Plant training required for unescorted access at Catawba Nuclear Station.

All Plant training required for design, modification, installation and testing of nuclear safety related plant systems and equipment at Catawba Nuclear Station.

Qualified technical procedure writer for the installation and testing of modifications to nuclear safety related plant systems and equipment at Catawba Nuclear Station.

Qualified planner for the planning of modifications to plant systems and equipment at Catawba Nuclear Station.

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