Ha Nguyen Carpenter                                                                                                  hacarpenter@yahoo.com

9609 Ridgeside DR. Apt.1, Louisville KY 40291                                                                      Cell  (270) 994-3398

Education:

1976-1980                            BSEE              University of Tennessee, Knoxville

                                          Graduated with honors             

1980-1982                            MSEE              University of Tennessee, Knoxville (specialized in Electrical Power System)

Professional Experience

Ranstad Engineering:

May 2012- Oct-2012- Procurement Engineer for Duke Power at Oconee Plants.

Responsible for review specs, revise equipment conditional matrices to track equipment status (from installation to unconditional release) for PSW project. 

Shaw in Aiken South Carolina to Support MOX (Mixed Oxide Project) at SRS

April 2009-Jan-2012 (Senior Electrical Procurement Engineer/Site Technical Representative/Project Manager for MOX projects-at Savannah River Site).  Project Manager responsibility consists of the following:

·          Review Electrical & Instrumentation specifications, support subcontract administrative and construction from conceptual design stage through project completion and financial closing to ensure safety, quality, meet technical requirements of the budget and schedule, and site procedures.

·          Support subcontractor (SA) administrator to develop scope of procurement packages, provide responses the vendors’ technical questions and exceptions, and coordinate the SA and the vendors for the design changes.

·          Coordinate with design engineers, seismic engineers(if applicable) and QA or proposal review, technical submittals

·          Develop a detail schedule using Primavera P6 schedule for each awarded package, track all submittals (e.g. drawings, test procedures, and inspection procedures), coordinate with design electrical/&C engineers, seismic to resolve any technical issues. Coordinate between awarded vendors and design for cost impact due to design changes or schedule changes. Inform management any potential schedule impact.

·          Oversight vendors to resolve any technical issues/exceptions, to ensure equipment to be delivered on time and meet all technical requirements as specified per specifications.

United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), Paducah KY (with DOE L clearance)

June 1997- July 2008 (Senior Engineer for 11 years)

·          Nuclear Safety Engineer- Responsible for evaluating modification packages, procedures, and Safety Analysis Report (SAR) changes to determine how the changes are going to affect the SAR, the Technical Specifications, and commitments with the NRC.  Prepared and review 50.59 evaluations also determine whether or not the changes would result in Unreviewed Safety Questions (USQs) which require to be reviewed by. Familiar with PRA (probabilistic Analysis), Nuclear Criticality Accident Evaluations (NCSEs), chemical hazard analysis.  Revising various procedures.

·          Configuration Engineer- Responsible for updating the access data bases to create/revise or delete equipment IDs based on the nuclear plant modifications. 

·          Procurement Engineer – Responsible for preparing/reviewing equipment specifications (e.g. identifying safety functions, critical characteristics of components and develop plans to dedicate the commercial grade items to safety related items), providing technical support during the procurement process, selecting and evaluating equivalent replacement for obsolete parts (including relays, motors, breakers, UPS, motor starters, etc.), and evaluating shelf life for parts that had shelf life expired; resolving any issues associated with QC inspection),  developed test plan for various instrumentation based on set point calculations of various instruments (transmitters, pressure indicators)

System Engineer (Relay System)

Responsible for maintaining system health, ensure all preventive maintenances are performed promptly, support maintenance trouble shooting field problems.

·          Responsible for performing project estimates and schedules for load addition/deletion, performing engineering economic analyses, preparing design calculations, create drawings, Bill of Materials, preparing modification packages for overhead line design for 13KV and below electrical distribution system, construction field support and perform as-built drawings.

 

Carolina Power & Light (CP&L) in Raleigh NC, Brunswick Nuclear Plant (BNP) and H.B. Robinson Nuclear Plant (RNP) May 1982 – May 1997 (15 years)

·          Provided Oversight A/E in reviewing various calculations (Emergency Diesel study, cable ampacity study).

·          Prepared project estimates and schedules for various projects.

·          System Engineer/Design Engineer for RNP

·          Support various tasks during outages for RNP (support maintenance in breaker PM, support modification installation, performing various engineering evaluations, engineering equivalent substitution for obsolete parts)

·          Perform many operability evaluations during the LCOs to prevent Robinson and Brunswick plants from being shut down.

·          Perform cable sizing, transformer, breaker sizing, voltage drop, breaker coordination studies.

·          Review/prepared/modified one line diagrams, control wiring diagrams.

·          Familiar with Passport, oracle, CAPTOR/DAPPER computer software

Publication/Training/Ceritification & Awards:

·          Engineering Thesis, Title: “A New Aggregation Methodology Applied To Residential A/C Loads”, June 1982

·          A published paper with title:”Aggregate Modeling” was presented at American Conference in Washington D.C., June 14, 1982.

·          Recognition of Exceptional Service for supporting RNP during NRC inspection from Mar. 1987 – May 1987.

·          Total Quality Award for Outstanding Effort during NRC inspect ion at BNP and RNP in Jan. 1982.

·          EIT in North Carolina in Jan. 1994.  I am in the process of applying

·          Completed EPRI Procurement Engineering in April 2010.

·          Familiar with PASSPORT, Oracle, CAPTOR/DAPPER computer software to perform coordination/voltage drop studies

·          Completed System Training at Robinson Nuclear Plant

·          Vary familiar with NEC and National Safety Code

 

References:

·          Ron Gillespie              Procurement Engineer at Oconee Nuclear Plant                            (704-737-3442)

·          Grant Payne              Lead Procurement Engineer/Configuration at USEC                                 (270-441-5732)

·          Richard Wead              Site Technical Rep. For Shaw at SRS  for MOX Project                (803-819-2881)