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Resume
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J.
S.
Miller
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(703) 313-6216
Home
(703) 313-9138
Office
(703) 597-2459
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6397 True Lane
Springfield, VA
22150
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Objective
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To have the opportunity to use my experience and
abilities to improve the effectiveness of a company’s business.
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Experience
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1996 – Present
EDA, Incorporated
Springfield, VA
President and Principal Engineer
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Started company in 1996.
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Developed marketing and Quality Assurance Program for
company.
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Developed modifications to Systems that improved
reliability.
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Lead technical auditor for the audit of General
Electric.
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Provided technical support three power plants to reduce
outage time by optimizing system performance.
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Provide training in Performing various Analyses.
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Development of Enterprise Computer Solutions for Company
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Develop Web Sites for several areas.
Familiar and used Java JavaScript, and Visual Basic 6. Web development was performed with FrontPage 2000 and
Visual Inter Dev.
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Provided training to Plant Engineers on RELAP5
Application and Use.
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Developed piping loads for Reactor Containment Fan
Cooler System.
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Evaluated RWCU Anomalies.
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Maintained Local Area Network Using Windows 2000
Advanced Server
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1994–1996
Scientech, Incorporated
Rockville, MD
Senior Technical Advisor
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Developed commercial business development and marketing
plan.
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Implemented new programs with the Regulatory staff and
authored several regulatory papers.
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Lead technical consultant for
Engineering Inspections at power stations.
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1985–1994
Gulf States Utilities
St. Francisville, LA
Director – Nuclear Engineering
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Provided project management and leadership to 4 groups
that included 65 engineering professionals.
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Provided design and outage support to all engineering,
maintenance and operations.
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Evaluated and resolved several long standing problems of
mechanical and electrical systems.
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Responsible for fuels budget and technical support and
analyses for all fuel
activities.
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Provided training in problem solving and root cause
evaluation.
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Received company’s highest employee rating.
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Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, &
training employees; rewarding & disciplining employees; appraising
performance; planning, assigning, & directing work; addressing
complaints & resolving problems.
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Responsibility for developing and implementing a local
area network (LAN) with 4 IBM UNIX servers and 40 workstations.
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Received two design patents from the United States
Patent Office. Also
received several International patents for the same designs.
Supervisor and Senior Engineer– Site Engineering
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Was responsible for full system and design support for
the 10 mechanical systems.
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Was responsible for developing and implementing a living
probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) that was actively used for
decision making and outage management.
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1978–1985
Black & Veatch Consulting Engrs.
Overland Park, KS
Engineer III – Systems Engineering
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Project Engineer and Manager for power plant safety
valve testing and qualification.
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Provided Engineering support for design and construction
of power plant systems.
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Developed fire protection designs and specifications for
several power plants.
1976–1978
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Idaho Falls, ID
Senior Engineer
– Code Verification
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Provided technical support to the regulatory agencies
for a General Electric test facility.
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Provided code development and verification of several
large computer programs.
1974–1976
NUS Corporation
Rockville, MD
Engineer –
Safety Analysis
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Provided design, safety analyses and shielding
assessments for a power plant.
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Provided criticality and thermal hydraulic analyses for
10 fuel rack designs.
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Education
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Kansas Sate University
Manhattan, KS
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M. S., Nuclear Engineering.
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Graduate Student Council.
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Certifications
and Registrations
Other
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University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
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B. S., Mechanical Engineering.
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B. S., Industrial Engineering
Professional
Engineer in Maryland and Louisiana - Mechanical
CCNA
- Certified Cisco Network Associate
MCP
- Microsoft Certified Professional
Proficient in the use of many computer programs
including but limited to RELAP4, RELAP5, RETRAN, GOTHIC, COMPARE,
CONTEMPT, KYPIPE & ADLPIPE.
Many computer skills have been developed
including the use of Microsoft Office Software and Visual Basic 6.0.
Interest in community & church activities,
running, genealogy, writing poetry, carpentry, and computers.
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Received American Nuclear Society (ANS) best
small section award while Chairman of MO/Kan ANS Section.
Also was Chair of Louisiana ANS Section.
Received
several design patents in the USA and Europe.
Frequent
speaker on technical issues affecting the power industry.
Special Training in the last 24 Months
Advanced
HTML
Advanced
XML
Introduction
to Java Programming
Microsoft
Courses on Data Base Design
Microsoft
Course on Microsoft Windows 2000 Networking and Operating System
Essentials
Microsoft
Courses CTEC 1017 - Mastering Web Applications Development Using
Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0
Microsoft
Courses in Creating and Configuring a Web Server Using Internet
Information Server IIS 4.0
Taught
Introduction, Intermediate and Advanced RELAP5
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Representative Publications
- "A
Linear Programming Fuel Management Model for the HTGR,"
(co-author), Annals of Nuclear
Energy, Vol. 2., PP 649-656, Pergamon Press (1975).
- "Alternatives
for Reducing Thermal/Hydraulic Loads on the Safety/relief Valves
Discharge Piping," (co-author), American Nuclear Society 1983
Winter Annual Meeting.
- "Instrument
Sensing Line Anomalies in BWR's," (co-author), American Nuclear
Society 1986 Summer Annual Meeting.
- "A
Boron Transport Simulation Using RETRAN Control System Models for
Anticipated Transients Without Scram (ATWS) Analysis," (co-author),
Fifth International RETRAN Meeting, Boston, MA, EPRI-NP-5781 -SR, April
1988.
- "RETRAN
Simulation of a BWR/6 Load Rejection Transient," (co-author), Transactions
of the American Nuclear Society,
Vol. 60, November 1989, PP 779-780.
- "Implementation
of an Individual Plant Examination at a Nuclear Utility,"
(co-author), American Nuclear Society 1989 Winter Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, November 26-30, 1989.
- "BWR
Water Level Modeling," (co-author), Proceedings of the Sixth
International RETRAN Conference, EPRI NP6949, August 1990.
- "Using
PRA Methods at an Operating Nuclear Utility," (co-author), American
Power Conference, 53rd Annual Meeting, April 1991.
- "Outage
Risk Assessment Using RELAP5," (co-author), RELAP5/TRAC-B
International User's Seminar, Baton Rouge, LA, November 4-8, 1991.
- “Sensitivity
of Peach Bottom Turbine Trip Test Calculations Using RETRAN”,
(co-author), Proceedings: Seventh International RETRAN Conference, 13-1,
EPRI TR-100361, February 1992.
- “Comparison
of Peach Bottom Unit-2 Transients”, (co-author), Proceedings: Seventh
International RETRAN Conference, 13-5, EPRI TR-100361, February 1992.
- "BWRSC:
An On-Line Stability Exclusion Region Calculator for BWR's,"
(co-author), 5th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor
Thermal-Hydraulics, September 21-24,1992.
- "PRA
Development and Uses," (co-author), ASME 3rd International
Symposium on Power Plant Transients, November 8-13,1992.
- "Developing
Engineering Analysis Capabilities at a Nuclear Utility," ASME 3rd
International Symposium on Power Plant Transients, November 8-13, 1992.
- "RELAP5/MOD3
Accident Analysis for River Bend Station," (co-author),
RELAP5/TRAC-B International User's Seminar, Boston, Massachusetts July
6-9, 1993.
- “Assessment
of Vibration Anomalies of Main Steam Lines of Palo Verde-3”, ASME
International Meeting, Boston 1995.
- "A
Boron Transport Simulation Using RETRAN-03 Control System Models For
Anticipated Transient Without Scram (ATWS) Event", (co-author),
Invited Paper, Presented at Specialist Meeting on Boron Dilution
Reactivity Transients, State College, PA, October 1995.
- "Water-Level
Backfill Modification Evaluation", (co-author), Presented at Safety
of Operating Reactors, Seattle, Washington, September 1995.
- “Evaluation
of Auxiliary Feedwater System Using RELAP5”, Annapolis RELAP5
Conference, March 1997.
- “Evaluation
of Vortices in Sumps and Tanks”, ASME Fluids Conference, Washington,
D.C., June 1998.
- “Solving
Reactor Water Clean-up System Anomalies Using RELAP5MOD3.3”,
(co-author), 11th International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering, ICONE11, Tokyo, JAPAN, ICONE11-36149, April 20-23, 2003.
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