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[QUOTE=Guest;97443]Donald Callahan 515 CR 16700 Pattonville, Texas 75468 (850) 443-3434 (cell) Objective: To obtain contract employment utilizing my 30+ years of experience and knowledge giving technical directions in performing disassembly and reassembly of steam turbines, generators, valves, hydraulic servo and support equipment inspections. References Mike Arechabala, President of Florida Power & Light “Energy” 772-260-7273 Reggie Caouette, General Electric TFA, Retired 772-532-9801 Tom Sesler, Florida Power & Light , Steam Turbine Fleet Team Manager, 561-694-3104 Gregg Deittmer, Florida Power & Light Manager 561- 691-2293 Tom Broad, Florida Power & Light Director of Outage Service’s, 561-722-7541 Jamie Hickson, Florida Power & Light Outage Manager, Retired 863-357-3036 Bob Scott, ALSTOM Power Inc. TFA 804-399-6255 Paul Nagel, ALSTOM Power Inc. Manager of Outage Services 804-763-3018 Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. March 17, 2010 - June 4, 2010 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director and Outage Manager. Basin Electric Power Inc. Laramie 2. Wheatland, WY. Scope of work: Inspection of a General Electric (ALSTOM retrofit) HP-IP steam turbine and front standard. Installed Alstom upgraded components, first stage nozzle plates, #2 and #3 diaphragms. Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. February 1, 2010 - March 15, 2010 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director, Basin Electric Power Inc. Laramie 2. Wheatland, WY. Outage planning for a General Electric HP-IP steam turbine (ALSTOM retrofit) inspection and installation of upgraded components. Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. September 7, 2009 - December 15, 2009 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director Developed General Electric schedules utilizing Microsoft Project 2. Combination intercept and reheat stop valve/servo, control valve/servo, main steam stop valve/servo, (1 with bypass and 1 without), front standard, generator, HP-IP, and LP steam turbines Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. May 21, 2009 - May 28, 2009 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director, Big Bend Power Plant in Tampa Florida, TECO Installed all L-O blades on 2ea LP rotors. Burred out and inspected 38 steeple cracks on the T/E & G/E L-0 “A” rotor and 26 steeple cracks on the T/E & G/E “B” L-0 rotor Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. May 14, 2009 - May 17, 2009 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director, Allen S. King Plant, Bayport, Minnesota. Inspection of the Alstom retrofit steam turbine thrust bearing. Investigated “worm hole slots” in the face of the thrust bearings along the horizontal joints. Contractor - Alstom Power Inc. February 21, 2009 - May 3, 2009 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804)763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079, James Hall (804) 937-0767 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director, Widows Creek, Tennessee Valley Authority. Inspection of the HP-IP, (cross compound) LP steam turbines and generator. Inspection of all steam turbine valves and hydraulic servos. Inspection of 2ea boiler feed pumps Contractor - Power Equipment Maintenance October 26, 2008 – December 18, 2008 Vice President of Field Operations Supervisor: Scott Cavendish: (864) 622-2129eed pumps. Position Held: Manager, Fowler Ridge Wind Farm, Fowler, Indiana. Installed 98 (new) VESTA wind turbine generators. Contractor – Alstom Power Inc. September 17, 2008 – October 17, 2008 Supervisor: Paul Nagel (804) 763-3018, Rolf Schmidt (804) 334-5079 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director. Technical review of upcoming outages, cost, schedule, safety plan, quality plan, and procedure development. 100MW unit in Jamaica owned by ALCOA 1100 MW unit at the Paradise Plant owned by Tennessee Valley Authority Contractor – Alstom Power Inc. March, 2008 – June, 2008 Supervisor: Bob Scott (804) 399-6255 Position Held: Steam Turbine Technical Director. Paradise Plant in Evansville Ky. Tennessee Valley Authority Inspections of the HP-IP, LPA, LPB, turbines and generator. Installed a new generator field. Inspections on all steam turbine valves and hydraulic servos. Inspection of the (1ea) BFP steam turbine, valves and hydraulic servos. Inspection of all BFP lube oil pumps. Florida Power & Light, Juno Beach, Florida (retired 2008) May 21, 1979 - January 1, 2008 Supervisor: Pete Kiernan (954) 494-1270 Tom Broad (561) 722-7541 Positions Held: Outage Manager, Steam Turbine Technical Director, Outage Supervisor, Foreman, Mechanic, Mechanical Apprentice Instructor and Certified Welder. Outage Manager Note: The following outages are examples of work I performed in this position. Outage Manager Port Everglades unit 3 & 4. (2) Foster Wheeler boilers and (2) GE 400 MW units. Summary of large jobs: Replaced (2) circulating water pumps Replaced all traveling screens (2ea) Generator re-wedge Acid clean HP-IP turbine (2ea) right hand stop valve rebuild (2ea) combination intercept and re-heat stop valve rebuild (4) FD Fan hydraulic coupling rebuild Boiler work, clean, inspect, duct work, air pre-heater basket replacement, tuber samples, re-heater tube repairs. Zero injuries. Jobs finished on time, on budget. $7,000,000 budget. Outage Manager Martin County Unit 4 Inspection of (2ea) General Electric 7-FA Gas Turbines and (1ea) D-11 steam turbine. Summary of large jobs. 7-FA gas turbines, (2ea) rotors sent off to have compressor section unbolted and replaced. All stationary compressor blades were replaced on both units. Hot gas path and combustor outage on both units. D-11 steam turbine inspection, diaphragms dished .050 to .175 Dishing removed by stress relieving and machining. T-1 and T-2 bearings and journals repaired and machined to bring within spec. (2ea) boilers and aux equipment inspected and repaired $30,000,000 budget. Outage Manager High Winds Site in California New installation of (68) VESTA 80 wind turbines Evaluated sites maintenance processes on safety, inventory, maintenance of mechanical, electrical and instrument and controls. Also, evaluated sites criteria for acceptance of new units after construction. Made recommendations and implemented updated processes. Outage Manager Cabazon and WPP93 Wind Site in Palm Springs, California Determine the root cause of an accident of a ZON 750 wind turbine. A 350 ton crane, hub and blades fell 250 feet due to poor crane footing. Assessed all downed units at the Cabazon and WPP93 sites. Determine failed components, ordered parts and returned all units to operation. Steam Turbine Technical Director I gave technical directions in the disassembly and re-assembly of FP&L (s) general electric G-2 400 MW steam turbines, front standards, generators, seal oil systems, valves and hydraulic servos. Outage Supervisor Accountable for 4ea foremen and 40 mechanics. Interviewed and hired 100 + mechanics in the last 4 years of my career. Provided supervision during their probationary period of employment prior to them moving to other regions. Developed 90% of all FPL’s General Electric G-2 turb/gen/valve/servo procedures. Developed numerous Westinghouse procedures for 175 and 800MW turbines/gen/valves/servos. Developed quality checks and hold points with OEM’s specs and service allowable clearances. Accountable for zero outage injuries, cost, durations, manpower, contractor services, trucking and site surveillance on parts at vendors’ shops. Worked with OEM (GE Dallas) service shop to enhance the procedures on their D-11 turbine valves. GE valve engineers implemented all suggestions. Provided management in California on High Wind Site, Palm Spring Wind Site, Cabazon Site and WPP93 Site. Performed site surveillance on turbine components at GE service shops, Westinghouse service shops, Elliott’s, Liddy’s, PME, Southern Grinding machine shops. Outage cost ranged from a $2,000 to $10,000,000. Accountable for all pre-outage and post -outage issues. Foremen Accountabilities: Accountable for a 17 men/women crews, while developing safe behaviors skills, productivity, attendance and maintaining positive work attitudes. Addressed personnel issues as when needed. Maintain 2 Foster Wheeler Boilers, 2 GE 400 MW turbines and all the necessary auxiliary equipment to support them. Maintain spare parts to support short notice outage work and unscheduled Outages. Schedule shifts and crew size to support outages. Develop and improve plant procedures. Possess expertise on General Electric’s G-2 steam turb/gen/valves/servos. I have been the back shift Technical Field Advisor during numerous outages. Apprentice instructor for all fossil and nuclear power plant mechanical apprentices. Hands on instructional classes were held after normal working hours. This was a four year program. During Turkey Point and Saint Lucy Nuclear power plant outages I taught Mechanical Apprentice 10 hours per day 6 days per week to keep employees on schedule. Selected as one of the instructors (1985) to develop and teach a Leadership Training Program (performance management) to all foremen in FPL’s system. This was a 5 day program taught in Orlando. This training class was given a second time (2001) to all foremen in FPL. I worked as one of the instructors. I gave this training to all plant managers and engineers that had personnel reporting to them. Mechanic Itinerate Accountabilities: Drug tested every 6 months Ability to align rotating equipment, boiler feed pumps, condensate pumps, forced draft fans, hydraulic couplings, steam turbines and generators. Installation of mechanical seals, rebuild horizontal split casing centrifugal pump (heater drain pump) vertical pumps (condensate pump) positive displacement pump (fuel oil burner pump). Replace rotating element in Byron Jackson Feed pumps, rebuild gauge glass, pipe fitting, layouts, blue print reading, rigging, and using precision instruments. Operate mobile cranes and turbine deck gantry cranes. Rebuild mechanically operated valves, globe, gate, wedge gate, diaphragm, Hi-drop, check, economizer inlet valve. Welding, certified in schedule 20, 40, 60, 80 and 160 tubing/piping carbon steel, stainless steel and Inconel. Buddy welding boiler tubes (one welder inside and one welder outside of the boiler). Certified in tig-welding root pass using consumable inserts (electric boat, Navy term) on heavy wall main steam inlet lines. Welded on numerous boiler outages, replacing v-bottoms, front, rear and side water wall boiler tubes. Mirror welded radiant roof tubes. Welded tube leaks in all sections of boilers. Dissembled and re-assembled a wide range of steam and combined cycle turbines, GE and Westinghouse. They ranged from 75 to 800 Mega Watts. Rebuilt turbine valves/servos on all FPL GE and Westinghouse turbines. Rebuilt a wide range of IKs. Florida Keys Aqueduct Authorities, Florida City, Florida September 1973 – April 1979 Supervisor: Art Williams Position Held: Diesel Engine and Pump Foreman/Mechanic Maintain (6) White Superior Diesels and (6) Fairbank Morris Diesels at Cross Key, Tavernier Key, Long Key, Marathon Key and Ram Rod Key pumping stations. Diesel engines were operated on a 24/7 schedule. Maintain/rebuild (14) 12 inch inlet by 12 inch outlet pumps and 12 speed increasers. Maintain adequate inventory to support major overhauls, perform daily maintenance activities. Rebuild cylinder heads, injectors, exhaust turbochargers, pumps, speed increasers, valves, Woodward Governors. Trouble shooting abilities and parts availability were critical in eliminating down time during the non-outage season. Redland Construction Incorporated, The Redlands, Florida June 1971 – September 1973 Supervisor: J. W. Payne Positions Held: Maintenance Superintendent, Mechanic Foreman, echanic/Welder. Maintenance Superintendent: Responsible for supervision of 3 mechanics and 2 welders. Mechanic/Welder: Handled the day to day repairs needed to keep equipment operable. Mechanic Foreman: Responsible for all equipment used while building the last 3.5 miles of Florida’s turnpike. Trouble shoot, maintain, and repair/rebuild the following equipment: 38B, 71B, 88B Bucyrus Erie Draglines. 12E, 14E Caterpillar and Huber Road Graders. Caterpillar Road Pans (6 yard machines) 988, 950, 966 Caterpillar loaders.R-30 and R-35 Euclid off the road rock hauling trucks. Maintained Gardner Denver and Mayhew dynamite drilling rigs. Made weld repairs to equipment, trailers and platforms. Training Log Red Badge Training at Port Saint Lucy and Turkey Point Nuclear plants in Florida Certified Welder, sch 40, 80 160 and heavy wall piping. In plant clearance process for all power plant equipment (fossil and nuclear). Respirator Use and Care (passed medical exam and fit test) Confined Space for Power Plants. Asbestos Awareness, hands on trainin (Glove Bagging) on 16”, 12” and 6”piping. Hazardous Waste Awareness Communication, Right to Know Laws and MSDS Logs. Oil Spill Response hands on training at the US Navy site in Key West Florida. Operating a 20 ft. boat, deploying 100 feet of floating boom, oil absorbent towel removals. Stairs, walkways, portable fire extinguishers, First Aide, CPR Boilers, Turbines, Generators, Turbine Valves and Servos. 160 class room hours on each segment was necessary to complete each course. I received an average score of 96 or above on all classes. Turbine steam path audits. Todd Burners - trouble shooting, inspections and rebuilding. Safety Behavior Based Training, Stop program, safety audits, conducted safety meetings and held training classes on specific safety related equipment. Contractor Administration, Contractor Safety, Contractor Clearance Process. Scaffold user and qualified builder. Computer training QIP, (Quality Improvement Process) Team Leader and member on numerous teams. Leadership 101 - A & B Leadership High Performer Instructor: foremen training, performance management training to all foremen and supervisor in FP&L system. Training Nuclear Power Plants: FBI background check Red badge trained for access to the RCA (radiation controlled area) Welding - nuclear qualified on carbon steel, Tig. and Stick. Qualified on tensioning and de-tensioning the reactor head. Installation of RCP (reactor cooling pump) mechanical seals. Qualified to dissemble and reassemble 750 MW Westinghouse steam turb/gen/valve. Inspection and rebuilding RCA containment building snubber’s (hydraulic spring cans). Picked as one of two mechanics to be trained on rebuilding steam generator reactor cooling water pumps at Turkey Point Power Plant Unit 3. Education South Dade High School, Homestead FL graduated in 1970 Attended Miami Dade Junior College, Miami FL. Took Fifteen credit hours in Chemistry, Algebra I and Algebra II. Received a Florida “C” License in Water Treatment.[/QUOTE]
