Senior Civil Engineer
Resume:
Michael A. Edwards
Atlanta, GA 30306
SENIOR CIVIL/STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Objective: Join the team of an organization that can utilize the services of an engineer with 36 years of experience in the design and support of electric utility plants (fossil and nuclear). Broaden my experience and usefulness to society.
Experience: Tennessee Valley Authority - May 1973 to March 2006
Corporate design, Fossil & Nuclear 1973 – 1988
Feasibility studies, preliminary conceptual designs, civil quantities for cost estimates.
Specifications, bid evaluations, contract administration and task management.
Detail design and checking for structural steel and concrete
Failures and accidents – site inspections, test programs, cause evaluations, extent of damage, recommended repairs and preventive actions.
Periodic maintenance inspections including identification and evaluation of structural deficiencies
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Site Civil Engineering 1988-2006
Qualification of structural features involving root cause analysis, recurrence control plans, corrective actions and extensive evaluations.
Design change packages for plant modifications and improvements.
4 years technical supervisor for 6 lower grade engineers and technicians
Project Engineer, design and construction of a spent fuel dry cask storage facility. Unique use of roller compacted concrete, published in PCA.
Evaluation and upgrade of cranes for NUREG-0612 Heavy Load Lifts licensing and single-failure proof.
Southern Company Services/Atlanta Design Office – 2007 to Present
Miscellaneous and structural steel design and civil specification updating for pollution control projects at existing coal electric generating plants
Education: ASCE – Northwest Mississippi Junior College, May 1971
BSCE – University of Mississippi, May 1973
Graduate Studies, Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee
Continual Training – NRC and P. E. required
Professional: Registered P.E., State of Tennessee, certificate No. 16252
Accomplishments: Excellent technical writing skills. Can evaluate design requirements and identify significant cost savings. Adapt to changes in corporate direction, goals or organization. Team player. Total quality approach to assignments. Unescorted access to Nuclear Plants.
Presentations: “Major Equipment Backfits at the TVA’s Coal Fired Power Plants” at the ASCE convention 1982 and Joint Power Generation Conference 1983
Detailed Work Assignments
February 2007 – Present
Miscellaneous and structural steel design for cable trays, pipe supports, ductwork and platforms for pollution control projects at coal electric generating plants
Revision and updating of civil specifications for steel/ductwork painting, fabrication, and erection; ductwork insulation and lagging; foundations, etc. for pollution control projects
Technical review of Contractor drawings, specs, calculations for design and construction support for SCR additions at Scherer Units 1-4.
May 1986 – March 2006 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant
Project design Engineer for upgrade of existing Auxiliary building crane to NUREG-0612 single failure proof.
Project design Engineer for design and construction of dry cask storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.
Resolved design basis issues for tornado missile protection to NRC satisfaction
Project design engineer for post restart resolution of design and as-constructed deficiencies for the cable tray system. Resolved by dynamic modal analysis of selected worse case samples to qualify over 6000 supports.
Performed extensive evaluations of structural steel and reinforced concrete to resolve design deficiencies, to justify restart of Sequoyah.
Technically supervised engineers in the resolution of over 100 Conditions Adverse to Quality for justification of plant restart.
May 1984 – May 1986
Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustion (AFBC) Design Project – This project involved addition of a new fluidized bed boiler tied to the existing turbine of the unit 10 powerhouse at Shawnee steam plant. Additions and modifications were required to accommodate handling of two types of coal (low sulfur for the existing 9 units and high sulfur for the new AFBC), as well as new limestone handling facilities.
Prepared conceptual and preliminary design for 160 MW boiler building (foundations and steel structure) and multi-use coal and limestone receiving facilities.
Final design for modifications to existing coal transfer station and relocation of yard facilities.
July 1975 – May 1984
Feasibility studies, conceptual design and computations of civil quantities for cost estimates for projects such as:
Combining scrubbers with chimney replacements
Addition of resource recovery units at 5 fossil plants
Precipitator additions
200 MW Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustion (AFBC) plant
Additional floors at power plants Office and Services buildings
Dry fly ash collection facilities at 4 TVA fossil plants
Backfitting an AFBC boiler into a conventional boiler building
Add-on AFBC boiler to be tied into an existing conventional turbine building
Addition of lime spray dryer flue gas desulfurization systems
Siting studies for locating coal fired plants 15 miles from river
Civil specifications, bid evaluations & contract administration for projects such as:
Addition of precipitators, scrubbers, dry fly ash collection facilities, baghouses
AFBC 20 MW demonstration plant
Drilled pier foundations for nuclear plant cooling towers
Sulfuric acid plant for the magnesium oxide flue gas desulfurization system
Preparation of procedural documents for organizational responsibilities
Examination of failures and damages such as:
Construction crane failure during erection. Prepared reports and test programs to support subsequent legal actions.
Internal coal bunker tie beam failure at 2 TVA plants
Boiler explosion and structural steel damage at 2 TVA plants
Precipitator duct damage due to collapse of construction crane onto duct
1000 foot chimney liner
Periodic inspections at fossil and nuclear plants to identify structural deficiencies and prepare reports for such features as: Containment vessels, Chimneys, Intake and Discharge water conduits/structures, coal bunkers, cooling towers and powerhouse basement walls.
May 1973 – July 1975
Prepared conceptual/preliminary designs for the reactor building floor framing, and turbine building main trusses, girts and crane girders for the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant.
Designed support steel for precipitators and ducts supported above the roof of the Johnsonville Steam Plant. Included “beef-up” steel for complete re-design of all powerhouse columns and main bracing systems.
Various other structural and misc. steel such as monorails, pipe supports, girts, platforms and stairs.
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