Employment
Oct 2002 – Sept 2000, USS Ohio
Electricians Mate 1st Class (Nuclear/E-6)
- Engineering Watch Supervisor - Supervisor of the Engine room of a Nuclear powered Submarine.
- Supervised several personnel in the safe operation and maintenance of nuclear plant operations during at power and shutdown operations.
- As head of the Engineering department training program
- Developed and maintained a comprehensive training program for over sixty personnel, which included testing requirements, record keeping, and development of lectures and study material.
- Member of the Emergency Medical Assistant Team
- As a member of the team completed advance medical EMT training and was certified CPR and first responder instructor.
- Watch team leader
- Supervised and performed maintenance on electrical equipment onboard a Nuclear Submarine. Maintenance included troubling shooting faults, installations of new equipment, and preventative maintenance
Sept 2000 – May 1998, Instructor (Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit)
Electricians Mate 2nd Class (Nuclear/E-5)
- Instructor
- As an instructor was trained to develop lesson plans, instructional strategies, selection of visual aids, and teaching skills; designs lessons from a body of content; develops behavioral objectives; prepares test items; evaluates instructional materials and the results of instruction; presents material clearly and possesses platform (teaching) skills.
- Instructed and certified students in the operation of a Naval Nuclear Propulsion System.
- Electricians Mate
- Performed corrective and preventative maintenance on a various electrical system.
- Stood watch on both operational and shut nuclear powered engine room.
Naval Education
May 1998 – Oct 1996 Student (Naval Nuclear Power)
Electricians Mate 3rd Class (Nuclear/E-4)
- Naval Nuclear Power Schools
- First to complete training in my class and qualify to operate Nuclear reactors, received Commanders outstanding student award. Asked to stay on to training future operators.
- Completed training in the following areas.
- A comprehensive understanding of a pressurized-water nuclear power plant, including reactor core nuclear principles, heat transfer and fluid systems, plant chemistry and materials, mechanical and electrical systems, and radiological control. A through understanding of the physical nature of nuclear radiation particles, their detection, interaction with matter, and human health consequences; gain knowledge of the safe operation of a complex nuclear power plant and its sophisticated subsystems with an emphasis on basic industrial safety principles; identify, troubleshoot, and correct problems in nuclear mechanical, electrical, or reactor control systems at the component level with an emphasis on electrical systems
- Nuclear Field A-School – Training to include the following
- Perform basic arithmetic operations to solve equations using phasors, vector notations, and basic trigonometry; solve DC and AC circuits, including resonance, transformers, basic three-phase circuits, analog, and digital circuits; demonstrate working of DC and AC motors and generators; operate electrical equipment using controllers; test, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair electrical circuits, AC and DC motors, cables, circuit breakers, and other related electrical equipment for power distribution; demonstrate proper use of electrical test equipment such as multimeter, function generator, oscilloscope, frequency meter, power meter, synchronoscope, phase rotation meter, and remote speed controller for measurement and troubleshooting; and perform basic soldering.
Education
Present – Jan 2002, University of South Carolina (GPA 3.95)
Electrical Engineering
- Competed over 30 hours of instruction in the following areas
- 9 Hrs in basic electrical theory
- 14 Hrs in Calculus
- 4 Hrs in Calculus based physics
- Leader of a team that developed and test a wireless antenna design for an Electrical Engineering class.
Security clearance
In Oct 2002 held a Secret Clearance with eligibility for higher
Special Skills
- Fluent in the operation of the Microsoft Office suite.
- Knowledge in Java, and C++ programming languages.
- Knowledge in the setup and operation of wireless LAN