Personifies "high tech - high touch." Combines experience as a manager and technician in complex, high hazard, high risk industries with advanced education and experience improving organization effectiveness and culture and developing leaders. 

Expertise: Human performance technology, performance improvement, culture assessment and shaping, organization development, human resource management, performance assessment, leadership development, workforce development, process management, systematic approach to training, and leadership.

Experience

Leadership / Management Leadership Development Manager, Manager Plant Services, Manager Training, Maintenance Services Supervisor, Manager Special Projects, Emergency Operations Facility Manager, Supervisor of Instruction, Strategic Human Resource Management Team (Fortune 500 company)

Technical Nuclear Reactor Operator, Senior Operator, Control Room Operator, Instrument Technician, Operations Simulator Instructor, Off-site Safety Review Committee, Plant Operations Review Committee,  Corporate Training Assessment Team, Reactor Operator, Health Physics Technician (for Fortune 500 Companies and the US Navy)

International
International Atomic Energy Agency Expert Instructor (China), Expert Training Consultant (Austria), Management Development Consultant (USA), Expert Instructor (Korea), Expert Consultant (Vietnam)
US Department of Energy & Energoatom Training Consultant (Ukraine), Instructor (USA)
World Association of Nuclear Operators Technical Team Leader (Russia), Technical Team Leader (Sweden), Consultant Training Support (Canada).

Industry Support
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Team Training Research Project
National Academy for Nuclear Training Advisory Council, Instructor, Mentor
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations Accreditation Peer Evaluator (5 times), Consultant, Instructor, Conference Presenter, Accreditation Probation Evaluator
Mid Atlantic Nuclear Training Group Chairperson
Peer Support to Other Nuclear Plants Mock Accreditation Boards (>30), Assessment Teams, consulting, teaching

Educational Support
Pennsylvania State University Adjunct Professor in Workforce Education and Development (taught graduate classes in Organizational Development, Needs Assessment, and Management)
Bloomsburg University Adjunct Professor in Human Resource Management
Luzerne Community College Adjunct Professor in Engineering Technology
Bloomsburg University Institute for Interactive Technologies Corporate Advisory Committee
Regents College, University of the State of New York Technology Faculty

Education and Training

Ph.D. Workforce Development, Pennsylvania State University (Research emphasis in Organizational Performance & High Performance Work Practices)
MS Vocational Industrial Education, Pennsylvania State University (Emphasis in Training and Development in Industry)
BS Technology Management, University of Maryland
Fundamentals of Management, Wharton School of Business, U. of Pennsylvania
Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership
Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
Business Management, Bloomsburg University

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