Senior Environmental Associate

James F. Riley, Jr.

**** ****** *****, ********, ** 28104 Phone: 704-***-**** email: ************@*****.***

Lowes Paint Department Entry Level Associate

Charlotte, NC

After being retired for 13 years, to see if I could still be productive, I temporary went to work for Lowes in their paint department mixing paint. I accepted a full time entry level position. This was a very rigorous assignment. The day stated at 5:30 am and went until 2:30 pm with an hour off for lunch. Since I had never worked at this level before, this was a great learning opportunity. I wanted to prove to myself that I could still handle the rigors of full or part time employment – no problem.

Retired

Louisville Gas and Electric

I and E Maintenance Supervisor

Mill Creek Steam Station

Responsible for a group that consisted of three I&E maintenance groups, two computer techs and a college intern engineer. Each I&E group consisted of a group leader and seven (7) technicians. In addition to leading these groups, I also had major project responsibilities. These groups had major problems with huge backlogs of work orders. My assignment as explained by the plant manager was to:

• Reduce the backlogs of each of the three I&E groups – each group had over 500 work orders in the backlog dating back to over 10 years.

• Reduce the number of safety and critical work orders in the backlog.

• Locate and eliminate phantom trips on his generators

• Try to improve the work habits of a number of technicians – some of technicians often reported to work late, left work early, took extended breaks and were generally not very productive. This facility had strong union influence.

• Try to improve the relationship between the union craft and management.

• Replace the rotten wire and lights his scrubbers

• Take care of two delinquent capital budget projects.

Purchase and install a new transformer (TR) set for the #4 generator unit.

Purchase and install a new trash compactor for the warehouse.

My results within three years included:

• All work order backlogs for my groups were reduced to less than 50 work orders in the backlog for each group with no work order being over 90 days old.

• All safety and critical work orders were always addressed prior to the end of the workday.

• Located and eliminated all the phantom generator trips.

• Effectively addressed and greatly improved the work habits and effectiveness of my groups, this included the problems between the union and station management.

• Repaired the TR sets for both the #4 generator and warehouse trash compactor.

Project Manager 1

Projects and Outage Management

Duke Energy Generation Support

Description of Major Job Duties/Accountabilities:

This group assures that assigned projects are completed within the allowed funding and schedule criteria. Projects for which I had responsibility or assisted included:

• Space allocation. Developed a plan for creating additional employee seating space and “walled offices” for managers on the 10th floor of EC-11. The plan included converting 12 storage libraries into the configuration needed. After the plan was approved my management, my task was to coordinate the efforts of company employees and a contractor in converting the storage libraries into the configuration needed. The results was seating for an additional 16 employees and five walled offices suitable for supervisors and/or managers.

• Auxiliary cable upgrade. Cradle to grave coordination effort between the station and sub-contractor hired to install the cable and related switchgear. This project was completed on schedule and below cost.

• Continuous Emissions Monitoring upgrade. Assigned to assist another project manager in coordinating the installation efforts of various plant employees and contractors. This project was ongoing when I left the company.

• Feed water heater upgrade. Assigned to assist another project manager in coordinating the installation efforts of various contractors and plant personnel. As a former power plant engineer, I had considerable experience with this type of equipment and was able to help resolve a number of issues that were keeping the project from getting on tract. This project was ongoing when I left the company.

• Assist in the identification and resolution of system, equipment and procedural problems.

• Establish positive relationships with station personnel to identify potential operations issues and develop plans for making necessary corrections.

Maintenance Engineer

Riverbend Steam Station

Duke Power

In this position, I was responsible for the station’s Equipment Systems Monitoring (ESM) and control processes that included all plant instrumentation with the exception of the WDPF control and monitoring system. Equipment and processes for which I had responsibility included precipitators, ash removal, coal burning, coal weighing and opacity monitoring equipment. Equipment responsibility included providing budgetary information and maintenance and preventive maintenance activities. As part of the maintenance support team, I also assisted with the job planning processes. Some major accomplishments for which I was directly responsible were:

• Station pre-heater basket upgrade – completed on schedule and under budget.

• Made use of excess department revenue to purchase and install needed coal mill feeders.

• Instituted preventive maintenance process that lead to an 80% reduction in forced loss MWh due to mill maintenance.

• Developed a regional mill team and provided vendor training at no cost to the station.

• Developed and instituted a process that tied mill maintenance to mill run time - this process became a good tool for anticipating parts and labor needed for mill maintenance activities.

• Developed and instituted a PM process that led to a 90% reduction in forced loss MWHs due to precipitator maintenance.

Operations Engineer

Riverbend Steam Station

Duke Power

In this position, I had the lead position in providing technical support for a four-shift utility power plant operations group. Some of the duties included managing day-to-day operations including shift staffing, handling environmental compliance and health and safety issues, developing and/or improving unit start-up and shut down parameters, providing supervisory support when needed and providing for or arranging training support to the operating shifts. Support Production Office activities such as maintaining daily

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