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Technical Advisor Human Performance

Location:
Montpelier, VA
Posted:
May 14, 2025

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James Roth

***** ********* ****** ****, **********, Virginia, 23192 • 804-***-****

*****.****@**************.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

DOMINION ENERGY

Virginia

System Engineer - North Anna Power Station

Jun 1981 – Mar 1986

Responsible for tracking Periodic Surveillance Testing required by Station Technical Specifications.

Performed turbine cycle efficiency modeling and evaluation to improve generation performance.

Responsible for Turbine Generator system performance. Attended and successfully passed Shift Technical Advisor Training. Shift Technical Advisor - North Anna

Mar 1986 – Mar 1992

Performed required duties of Shift Technical Advisor as a member of the Control Room operating crew.

Developed, maintained and coordinated the North Anna Deviation Reporting System (corrective action tracking) and the associated database.

Reviewed Dominion and external industry events for applicability to Dominion nuclear stations.

During station refueling outages, performed safety inspections of all plant areas and coached personnel where proper safety equipment was not being used. Identified, reported and investigated human performance errors for station and fleet corrective actions. Performed Plant Assessments, Pre-INPO (Institute for Nuclear Power Operations) and Pre-NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) assessments and Root Cause Evaluations.

Authored and reviewed outgoing NRC correspondence. Successfully completed Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) training, passed Nuclear Regulatory Commission examination, and held SRO license. Performed required duties of On-Shift SRO.

Senior Staff Engineer - Innsbrook

Apr 1992 – May 2008

Reviewed Dominion and external industry events for applicability to Dominion nuclear stations.

Reviewed all nuclear licensing correspondence from the NRC and internal for applicability to Dominion nuclear stations. Performing technical evaluations and authoring technical reports. Reviewed human performance errors for fleet corrective actions. During station refueling outages, performed safety inspections of all plant areas and coached personnel where proper safety equipment was not being used. Identified, reported and investigated human performance errors for station and fleet corrective actions. Performed Plant Assessments, Pre-INPO and Pre-NRC assessments and Root Cause Evaluations both as team leader and team member. Corporate IOER Coordinator - Innsbrook

Jun 2008 – Apr 2016

Coordinated the Operating Experience (OE) Program for the Nuclear Fleet. Responsibilities included:

o Screening internal / external OE for applicability to the nuclear fleet

(including all licensing correspondence).

o Assigning, reviewing, and approving technical evaluations and reports for applicable OE documents.

o Performing technical evaluations and authoring technical reports. o Providing periodic updates to senior nuclear executives. o Developed the Station Operating Experience Database used for tracking all internal and external nuclear operating experience reviews.

o Coordinated fleet reviews of, and developed the fleet responses to nuclear industry event reports (these included both equipment and human performance errors.

o Authored event reports for reporting to the nuclear industry. Member of the development team for the current nuclear fleet corrective action reporting and tracking system development team. This included electronic workflow processes for both human performance errors and equipment issues.

Performed nuclear plant assessments, Pre-INPO (Institute for Nuclear Power Operations) and Pre-NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) assessments and Root Cause Evaluations both as team leader and team member.

Participated as a team member on INPO Evaluations, both domestic and foreign.

Assisted the nuclear stations in the corrective action screening process as needed.

Administration of Fleet Corrective Action System (Corporate). Corporate Emergency Response Organization Member (Radiological Assessment Team)

Fluent in COGNOS report development and developed Cognos reports for various departments across the nuclear fleet.

Coordinator - Nuclear Operations Support

May 2016 – Present

Coordinate Nuclear Fleet-wide Senior Management Safety Review Meetings (4x annually)

Coordinate ODEC (Old Dominion Electric Cooperative) Onsite Technical Review Team meetings (3x annually).

Coordinate the North Anna Joint Operating Committee (Dominion Energy & Old Dominion Electric Cooperative) meetings. Perform due diligence, respond to VA/NC State Corporation Commission discovery questions, and provide requested data for company rate cases. Participate in performance of NERC nuclear site audits. Developing presentations for Nuclear Executives as requested. Develop and submit monthly and annual Regulatory Reports for submittal to the NC State Utility Commission, VA State Corporation Commission, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the Regional Transmission Operator.

Coordinator - Nuclear Operations Support (cont.)

Perform emergent work items.

Assist the Corporate Licensing staff as needed.

Corporate Emergency Response Organization Member (Radiological Assessment Team)

Administration of Fleet Corrective Action System (Corporate) EDUCATION PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

B.S. Nuclear Engineering

June 1981

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Microsoft Word / Excel / PowerPoint / Access

Adobe Acrobat Professional

IBM Cognos Analytics

AutoDesk Fusion360 (3D Printing)

PowerGads- ASR (Automated Station Reporting)

Certified Drone Operator

QUALIFICATIONS

SUMMARY

Shift Technical Advisor Certification - March 1986 Senior Reactor Operator License - North Anna Power Station

(March 1988 (NRC license SOP-20653)

Root Cause Evaluator Training (Team Leader) - May 1994 Root Cause Analyst Training / FPI International - August 1995 Nuclear Fleet Emergency Response Organization Member since 1988 FAA Remote Pilot Certification (Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems) - 2019



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