2016 Mar - Present
Independent Consultant - Principal of Black Cat Projects Inc. (Ontario)
* Contract with Bruce Power > Nuclear Waste Management (2016 July to present)
* Programs / strategies
* Planning and estimating for Major Component Replacement Programs
* Technical Advice regards chemical decontamination of reactor heat transport system
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) / Ontario Hydro
2002 Sep - 2016 Feb
Senior Manager / Senior Advisor - Strategic Programming / Commercial Contracts
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Management of the OPG-Bruce Power Lease and Ancillary Service Agreements (contract portfolio management)
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OPG Landlord function for lease of the Bruce Nuclear Power Development (property / asset management]
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Commercial / service contracts - negotiation & drafting
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Intellectual property management; responses to Freedom of Information requests
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Briefing / Information packages for stakeholders (internal & external)
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Risk identification & reporting (senior management decision support)
1998 Jan - 2002 Sep
Technical Advisor - Business Planning & Programming, Nuclear Operations Support & Services
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Business planning, budgeting & cost analysis (reporting)
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Business support to senior management of Nuclear Engineering & Modifications (Projects)
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Project oversight assistance to senior management
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Bruce Lease service agreements drafting (engineering & technical services)
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Commercial readiness to provide OPG services to Bruce Power
1993 Sep - 1998 Dec
Technical Superintendent / Section Manager - Chemistry & Metallurgy Dept., Nuclear Technical Services
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Decontamination services - chemical & mechanical methods; systems, components & equipment
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Decontamination facilities design & operating recommendations
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Steam generator / heat exchanger cleaning services
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Contamination control support to operating stations
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Direction / supervision of field deployed technical staff (6 to 8)
1982 Jul - 1993 Aug
Senior Technical Officer - Chemical Operations Dept., Nuclear Operations Branch
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1986 Mar - Mar 1992 Reactor Refurbishment
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1988 Apr to 1992 Mar - attached to Retube Engineering, In-Service Nuclear Projects (Pickering NGSA Units 3&4 Retube and preparations for Bruce A Retube (project cancelled))
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1986 Mar to 1988 Mar - attached to Pickering Construction to support Units 1&2 Retube Project; equipment & faciliites decontamination; design solutions for optimized contamination control during on-reactor Retube operations
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Reactor systems & components decontamination - assistance / support to station Ops & Mtce
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Heat exchanger chemical cleaning -in station support to Ops & Mtce
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Design and oversight of laboratory testing programs (chemical decontamination and heat exchanger cleaning process development)
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Nuclear Fuel Handling Systems - support to Design & to Operations for equipment decontamination and optimized contamination control (minimized ingress of activated corrosion products ("crud") into fueling machines].
1978 Dec - Jul 1982
Junior Engineer > Assistant Technical Supervisor - Chemistry & Metallurgy Dept, Central Nuclear Services, Nuclear Generation Division
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Reactor systems chemistry - monitoring & control; problem troubleshooting
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Steam systems corrosion product transport studies / modelling
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Reactor Heat Transport System radiation field monitoring - field data acquisition / data analysis
1978 Jul - 1978 Nov
Junior Engineer In Training - Ontario Hydro Nuclear Training Centre, Rolphton, Ontario
Summer 1973 & 1975
University Work Terms with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) at the Whiteshell Nuclear Laboratories, Pinawa, Manitoba
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Laboratory studies on corrosion product transport in reactor heat transport systems
