Vaughn Lotspeich - UPF Project Manager
Mr. Lotspeich obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, in 1979. He joined the General Electric Company (GE) as a field engineer assigned to the Casper, WY office where he principally started up and serviced coal mining, oil well drilling and large steam turbine generator excitation and power system stabilizer systems.
In 1983 he became GE’s construction site manager for the DOE Western Area Power Administration’s high voltage direct current converter station in Miles City, MT. After completing the Miles City converter station in 1986, he became the GE’s site manager for the DOE Idaho National Engineering Laboratory’s (INEL) Specific Manufacturing Capability (SMC) reversing hot strip rolling mill, taking primary responsibility for the design and programming of the hydraulic cylinders and roll bending control systems as well as overseeing the testing and commissioning of the main motor and feed table drives and control and VAX/VMS data collection and manufacturing supervisory computer system.
In 1987 Mr. Lotspeich became GE’s project manager for three turnkey paper machine modernization projects in western Oregon where he managed the re-electrification and process automation updates of an off-machine coater (high grade magazine stock), craft paper machine and a newsprint co-generation capability.
In 1989 Mr. Lotspeich joined the INEL’s SMC project as the process automation manager with subsequent assignments as the mechanical and electrical design and facility engineering manager. In 1994 Mr. Lotspeich assumed responsibility for the electrical engineering department for the INEL where he managed the electrical engineering of the site’s infrastructure and process upgrades. In 1997 he became the director for the INEL’s Facility Engineering division where he oversaw all multi-discipline infrastructure and process design as well as long range site wide planning.
In 2000, when Bechtel-BWXT Idaho assumed the INEL management and operating contract, Mr. Lotspeich assumed the concurrent responsibilities as the functional manager of the Project Engineering, and the work organizations Diverse Engineering Projects and Idaho Falls Facilities Operations Engineering departments. Design activities managed included environmental remediation, nuclear operations and work for others initiatives.
In 2002, Mr. Lotspeich joined BWXT Y-12 as a project manager where he first became involved in the Uranium Processing Facility. He also managed the final construction and turnover phases of the Y-12 FCAP 3500 Ton Hydraulic Press and the Refurbish Power Supply and Distribution Systems projects.
In 2008 he transferred to the Bechtel Power Global Business Unit as the Control Systems Engineering Group Supervisor for the TVA Watts Bar Unit 2 Completion Project and then to the NextEra Port St. Lucie Extended Power Uprate Project. He also developed electrical and instrumentation and control construction workpackages at the NextEra Point Beach Extended Power Uprate. His next assignment was to the TVA Bellefonte Unit 1 Completion Project where he prepared egineering estimates for the replacement of instrumetation and controls on balance of plant systems.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Resume
Vaughn Lotspeich
| This resume chronicles nearly three decades of successful leadership of large engineering and project teams that delivered technical solutions to a wide variety of unique needs. The development and execution of projects addressed the need for: power generation, delivery and conversion; complex manufacturing and chemical processes; radioactive waste management and conventional infrastructure projects including support facilities (medical, transportation fleet management), water, power, roads, and waste treatment. | |
| Experience: | |
| 2008 – Present Bechtel Power Corporation Knoxville, TN Control Systems Engineering Group Supervisor § Prepared system conceptual engineering costs estimates for the TVA Bellefonte Unit 1 Construction Completion Project. § Prepared electrical and instrumentation & controls construction work packages, managed commodities inventories and verified engineering change package scope inclusion in work packages at FP&L Point Beach Extended Power Uprate (nuclear). § Managed the engineering design of control systems for the FP&L’s Port St. Lucie Extended Power Uprate (nuclear). § Managed the engineering design of control systems for the TVA Watts Bar Unit 2 Construction Completion Project (nuclear) Design activities included retrofit of reactor trained protection sets, replacement of balance of plant controls with a sample and sense lines, chemistry sampling, radiation monitoring, master control room human factors deficiencies, and creation of the Unit 2 master equipment list (>800,000 engineering hours). 2002 - 2008 Y-12 National Security Complex Oak Ridge, TN Senior Project Manager II (Bechtel) § Managed nuclear and non-nuclear Line Item Capital Projects including: § Pre-conceptual and conceptual design of the Uranium Processing Facility ($2.4B), § Construction and operations turnover of the Refurbish Power Supply/Distribution System ($68M), § Construction and operations turnover of the 3500-Ton Hydraulic Press ($28M). | |
| 1989–2002 Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Idaho Falls, ID Engineering Manager/Director (Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Babcock and Wilcox, Rockwell) § Managed deployment and development of Project Engineers, Systems Engineers and Design Engineers in support of; infrastructure upgrades, spent nuclear fuel, high and low level radioactive waste management, environmental remediation, advanced test nuclear reactor, and armor production projects. § Managed Lab’s internal Architectural Engineering capabilities in support of aforementioned family of projects (~230 engineers). § Responsible for developing INEL’s long range facility plans. | |
| 1980–1989 General Electric Company WY, MT, VA, ID, OR Project Manager § Managed multiple paper machine drives and controls upgrade projects. Site Manager § Managed the construction and startup of a 200 MW High Voltage Direct Current Back-to-Back Converter Station ($30M). § Designed and managed installation and commissioning of an automated digital controlled Reversing Hot Strip Mill for armor production (INEL). Field Engineer § Tested and commissioned Large Steam Turbine Generator Excitation and Power System Stabilization systems on multiple power generating stations. § Tested, commissioned and serviced several electric-over-diesel oil well drilling rigs, and mining equipment including draglines, shovels, blast hole drills, hoists, conveyors and haul trucks. | |
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| Notable Professional Activities: |
| § Hosted and participated in multiple collaborative exchanges with the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (2005 – 2007). § Contributed to the Critical Decision 1 Independent Project Review of the Chemical & Metallurgical Research Replacement project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2005). § Contributed to the Critical Decision 1 Independent Project Review of the High Explosives Pressing Facility at the PANTEX Assembly Plant (2004). § Contributed to the Off-Project Corporate Management Assessment of the 3013 Pu Container Surveillance and Storage Capability project at the Savanna River Site (2004). § Contributed to the McGraw-Hill’s technical publication of “Facilities Engineering and Management Handbook - Commercial, Industrial and § Contributed to the Independent Management Assessment of Nuclear Operations at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2000). § Contributed to the State of Idaho’s proposal for the VentureStar Idaho Space Port (1998) (site selection, support logistics and down range safety). § Received Award for Excellence (1997) and the Top Performance Award (1998) for the design of the Electrical Utility Systems Upgrade at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the INEL. § Contributed to the State of Idaho’s proposal for the Micron Memory Chip facility (1995) (site selection). |
| Education: |
| 1975–1979 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY § B.S. Electrical Engineering 1998–2000 University of § Idaho Falls Engineering Outreach - Graduate Level courses: Engineering Law and Contracts, Managing Complex Systems, Project Engineering, Cost Management Systems, and Managing Technical Teams 2007 Project Management Institute § Project Management Professional Certification (Expired) Synopsis of Corporate Training - Bechtel, § Project management, project controls, configuration management, design reviews and risk management, § 10CFR50.59 Licensing Evaluation – NextEra St Lucie Plant § Six Sigma § Managerial and supervisory training, § Weapons development and technology, § Welding, chemical engineering, data communications, § Environmental law, § Operational Readiness Reviews, Unreviewed Safety Questions, Causal Analysis, § Multiple systems and equipment specific training, § |
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