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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