James Astoria, P.E.

37 McCracken Drive • Oswego, New York 13126

315-342-3813 • 315-402-6404 cell • jastoria@twcny.rr.com

 

 

Qualifications Summary

 

Extensive nuclear work management, operations oversight, project management, construction management, engineering & plant maintenance experience. Expertise in the design, implementation, and management of programs to streamline scheduling and increase efficiencies. Demonstrated exceptional leadership and interpersonal communication skills. Excels at developing, motivating, and guiding highly organized and effective multi-disciplinary teams. Key strengths:

 

• Project Management • Project Controls •Work Coordinator• Work Controller • Online Plant Maintenance • Outage Management •Planning • Scheduling • Nuclear Engineer •Civil, Structural, Mechanical Engineer • Execution • Integration • Supervision • Procurement • Primavera P6 & P3 Scheduling • Building maintenance • AutoCAD • Estimating • Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint 

 

Career Highlights -

Nuclear Operations & Plant Maintenance Management & Oversight (1998-2011)

•              Planned, scheduled, and executed all online multi-discipline plant & preventive maintenance work activities within two nuclear power facilities for one week 24/7 in a 6-week rotation.  Provided oversight for 1,300 onsite workers including engineering, operations, maintenance, and management personnel.

•              Expertise utilizing Primavera P3 & P6 for multi-disciplinary online scheduling integration. Project Management responsibilities for system modifications installation and acceptance.  Outage Construction Services Coordinator (Outage Safety Awarded), Outage Control Center (OCC) Shift Outage Coordinator, pre-outage online work coordinator (99% pre-outage work completion).

•              Shaw/Stone & Webster Outage Work Control Supervisor – Outage Work Management BOP, RHR, MSO Projects

•              Thirteen week cycle plan development with the multi-disciplinary team for safe equipment removal or servicing to maximize operations and minimize outages. On-line maintenance Functional Failures and Maintenance Rule Unavailability monitoring responsibilities.  Managed/trained staff in work control processes and problem resolution/issues management.  Organizational guidance managing equipment challenges through unit shutdowns, emergent and risk management issues. SRO Certification Training

 

Project Management/Construction Management/Engineering (1986-2014)

•              Construction Turnover Project Manager& Project Controls Engineer – Managed civil, structural, mechanical, electrical & controls construction turnover-people, processes, and resources availability to EPA mandatory compliance date.  Primavera P6 & P3 multi-discipline, multi-location scheduling, planning, analyzing and reporting for engineering, subcontractors, construction, & proposal development; Project controls costs–processing, verification, monitoring, evaluating, estimating & reporting.  Instrumental in identification & processing $2 millions plus vendor overcharges savings.  Rework, expanded scope change orders & claims processing, development including claims philosophy 

•Construction /Project Management – Managed 5,000 people, processes, and resources through the development and execution seven-month milestone schedule.  Instrumental in attaining $200,000 Milestone Achievement Award 

•Senior Project Manger, Project Manger–Sr. Engineer - General Electric (GE Power & Water-GE Energy) Steam Turbine Engineering multi-national Project Management and manufacturing support - mechanical, electrical, structural, and controls engineering, risk management, documentation and manufacturing.  Internationally managed people, processes, and resources availability to schedule, budget, engineering management and multi-national risk management code compliance - PED, CE. 10CFR73.53 Security upgrades, infrastructure, buildings renovations, dust collectors - civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, nuclear engineering. Foundations, drainage structures, reinforced concrete, steel, bldg modifications, electrical duct lines & utilities relocations, fencing, intrusion detection, power distribution, controls communications, security stations, generator upgrades, & HVAC designs.  Regulatory environmental permitting–Corp of Engineers, NYS, town; Entergy Engineering Change Responsible Engineer – development, procedures, approval & Asset Suite responsibilities.  Civil Engineering-Site planning, water & wastewater management, environmental, wetland, regulatory approval, presentations & processing, sanitary sewers/ septic, roadways, NOI, SPEDES, SWPPP, erosion control, hydrology, Building Code Assessments – Separation, Fire, Egress.  Building Maintenance -HVAC Direct Digital Control Building Automation System (BAS) monitoring, program repairs, maintenance, trouble shooting & upgrades. 

 

Nuclear Procurement Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Purchasing-Buyer (1989-1998)

•              Procured nuclear & non-nuclear equipment for a two-unit nuclear power facility, including ASME III and ANSI pumps, valves, strainers, chillers, o-rings, and associated mechanical & structural parts. Material qualifications - commercial grade dedications, seismic, environmental, 10CFR50, 10CFR21 & 10CFR50.59 applicability reviews. Developed, qualified and audited vendors, purchased and administrated contracts, ordered equipment, and expedited the products and services delivery.  Qualified reverse engineering equipment vendors.  Achieved $500,000 year procurement savings through alternate sourcing, inventory and stock reductions.  Project Engineering / Project Management – Pump and Valve upgrade projects

Work HistoryGeneral Electric (GE Power & Water-GE Energy) Steam Turbine Requisition Engineer -Project Management, Quest Global Services Contract,  GE Manufacturing Facility Schenectady, NY 2012-2013

Project Manager - Building Maintenance, Brooks Range Contracting Services GSA James M. Hanley Federal Building, Syracuse NY 2014.

Instrumental in upgrading Hanley Building GSA Rating from 49 of 50 to top three in 3 months, significantly improving customer-client relationship, preventive maintenance and building safety, mechanical operations and material condition.

 

Senior Project Manager- DuPont Project Team Lead, DuPont-KBR-Allstate Technical Services Contract, DuPont Yerkes Manufacturing Facility, Buffalo, NY 2011-2012

 

Shaw/Stone & Webster Outage Work Control Supervisor, Shaw/Stone & Webster, Wilmington, IL, Exelon Limerick Nuclear Generation Station, Unit 2 Refueling Outage, Pottstown, PA, 2011

 

Assistant Project Manager–Senior Engineer, Nuclear Engineering, Enercon Services-L.J. Gonzer Associates Contract - Entergy James A. Fitzpatrick Security Upgrade Project & Parking Lot Expansion Projects, Oswego, NY 2009-10

 

Construction Turnover Project Manager /Project Controls Engineer, Alstom APCom Power, Inc, Spurlock 1&2 Wet flue Gas Desulfur/Wet Elect Precip Project, Maysville, Kentucky 2005-2009

 

Workweek Manager (Work Controller, Work Coordinator), Constellation Energy Group, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units I and II, Lycoming, NY, 1998-2005

 

Outage Scheduler, Days & Zimmermann NPS, 1866 Colonial Village Lane Suite 101, Lancaster, PA 17601; PSE&G Salem / Hope Creek Nuclear Power Station, Salem, New Jersey 2005

Project Manager/Civil Engineer, A M Engineering (Land Surveying, Civil Engineering and Engineer Consultant) 959 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06615, 2005.

Consulting Engineering/Independent Contract Design, James Astoria P.E., Oswego, NY 13126, 1989-2014

Procurement Engineer / Purchaser / Buyer, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Units I and II, Lycoming, NY, 1989-1998

Construction Management, Structural Engineer, Senior Construction Engineer Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA for Niagara Mohawk Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station II, Lycoming, NY,

 

EducationBachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Major / Minors: Civil, Structural, Soils

 

Professional Development:

 

 

· Nine Mile Point – SRO Certification Training 1998, Nine Mile Point Unit 1 System Certification 1999, Nine Mile Point – Leadership Academy Training 1997

· Kepner Tregoe (KT) Problem Analysis Training 2004

· Primavera Course 108 P3 3.1 to Primavera v5.0 Basic Course, October 2007

· Oracle University Project Management in Primavera P6 Rel 6 April 2009

· NANTel Safety – Electrical Safety; General Personal Protective Equipment September 2009

· NRC Safeguard Security Qualified September 2009

· Project Management Institute 2010, PMI PMP Certification Candidate

· OSHA 30 & 10 Hour Construction Safety & Health Course 2011

 

LicensingProfessional Engineer: New York, Maryland

Retired: Connecticut, Vermont

 

SoftwareEntergy Asset Suites, Oracle

DuPont Purchasing – Engineering Processing, Documentum,

General Electric PLM (Product Lifecycle Technical Manual), Documentum, Webex, DRB, Pnet

Primavera P6 & P3, Data CAD, AutoCAD, Windows 95-XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WC Mosse

US Homeland Security Electronic SF-85P-S Questionnaire (e-QIP) DDS Federal Protective Service Background Investigation, US Federal Email system, Federal procurement procedures, work control.