Experience

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  Duke energy corporation

  Nov 2006 - Apr 2018

  Leading Operations and Maintenance teams to achieve highest reliability, lowest cost operations and maintenance of a 2x1 Combined Cycle and 5-unit Simple Cycle CT site. Leadership focused on building a strong backbone of operations and maintenance standards to deliver consistency to ensure asset reliability and availability. Lead the cultural transformation to deploy Lean Manufacturing concepts, build organizational capability and drive continuous improvement.Develop and deploy organization wide effort to enable sites to how to see and understand waste and value. Focused on building skills for operational excellence.Enabled organization to deploy Lean principles to streamline processes and enhance efficiency, resulting in $20M in sustained cost savings and improved performance. Led maintenance and technical teams to ensure reliability during the first year of commercial operations. Developed maintenance strategy budgets for a new 3x1 1000MW Combined Cycle facility and existing 900 MW units. Managed up to $15M annually in O&M and Capital budgeting for sustained reliability. Working at Progress Energy, a Duke Energy Company• Led maintenance organization for a 3-unit 400MW coal fired generating station, ensuring sustainable reliability.• Developed and managed annual maintenance budgets and capital projects budgets up to $10MM.• Implemented predictive maintenance strategies to reduce downtime and increase operational efficiency.Work at Progress Energy, a Duke Energy Company Working at Progress Energy, a Duke Energy Company• Led essential reliability program focusing on 5000MW of steam turbine and generator assets, development and execution of capital improvement projects for Duke Energy Corporation in North Carolina.• Planned and executed turbine sectional replacements and generator stator rewinds to ensure optimal power generation efficiency.

  • Station Manager

    May 2015 - Apr 2018

  • Duke Production System Lean Leader

    Jan 2014 - May 2015

  • Maintenance & Technical Manager

    Jul 2012 - Jan 2014

  • Maintenance Superintendent

    Apr 2009 - Jul 2012

  • Lead Steam Turbine Engineer

    Nov 2006 - Apr 2009
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  Tennessee valley authority

  Apr 2018 - now

  Lead Reliability Outage and Capital Projects teams to deliver generation projects to increase asset reliability. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of outage and projects across Coal, Gas, and Hydro assets. Develop a capital and O&M portfolio to deliver a generation asset management strategy focused on improved performance Deliver Operational Leadership in the Gas Operations organization to achieve the highest level of asset reliability and availability. Implement innovative strategies to improve gas operations maintenance performance. Lead collaboratively to achieve operations and maintenance cost savings and improved performance through process improvements and technology upgrades. Lead operational excellence initiatives across Gas Combined Cycle and Simple Cycle facilities focusing on continuous improvement in Operations and Maintenance processes. Deliver financial excellence by leading improvements in maintenance outage cost modeling. Mentor and develop key personnel to expand the leadership bench strength across Gas Operations.

  • General Manager - Generation Projects & Outages

    Oct 2022 - now

  • General Manager - Gas Operations

    Feb 2019 - Dec 2022

  • Senior Regional Manager

    Apr 2018 - Feb 2019