Christopher T.

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About Christopher T.

I am a Fire Protection and Nuclear Safe Shutdown Engineering Fleet Leader, with extensive experience in fire protection program and systems management, facility management, risk/hazards analysis, Safe Shutdown analysis, fire protection code consultation, loss prevention, computational analysis/modeling, and fire protection system design. My primary areas of expertise are within, but not exclusively, the nuclear and petrochemical industries. I am also extensively versed in water-based sprinklers, special hazards, fire alarms, Smoke Management and CONTAM analysis. Furthermore, I have six years experience in a Naval engineering atmosphere with four years in a direct supervision including continuous involvement in fire service with a progressing role. I consider myself a confident and concise communicator; able to deliver enthusiastic presentations with clarity and professionalism to diverse audiences. I am a very organized and effective manager of simultaneous projects, skilled at seeing the big picture and identifying the tasks necessary to facilitate on time and efficient completion.I am highly skilled at working effectively with a multitude of engineering, clerical, and presentation software; including but not limited to, AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation, Bentley Navigator, FDS, Smokeview, CFAST, CONTAM, Exodus, HASS, HydroCad, SprinkCad, Fluent, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, C-language, Fortran, JavaScript and UNIX base code.Fire-Related Specialties: Fire protection code consultation, computational analysis/modeling, water-based fire protection system design, fire protection program (development, implementation and management), special hazards fire protection system design, smoke management design and analysis, fire-induced soot and radionucleotide particulate loading, loss prevention and control, automation of design and reporting methods, NFPA 13 thru 30, NFPA 101 and CRD O 420.1C.Nuclear-Related Specialties: Nuclear Safe Shutdown Assessments, Nuclear Safety Capability Assessments (NSCA), Non-power operations (NPO), Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRA), Diverse and Flexible Coping Strategies (FLEX), Beyond Design Basis Events, Fukushima Retrofits, 10 CFR Appendix R to Part 50, NFPA 801 (Standard for Fire Protection for Facilities Handling Radioactive Materials), NFPA 804 (Standard for Fire Protection for Advanced Light Water Reactor Electric Generating Plants), NFPA 805 (Performance-Based Standard for Fire Protection for Light Water Reactor Electric Generating Plants)