Joe of Principal Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company

Commercial nuclear power has always been a controversial topic in the media, especially since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.  Over the last several decades, changes throughout the industry have provided advancements in safety and operating efficiencies, making nuclear power a safe, economically viable and sound option for our energy future.  The purpose of this presentation is to lay out the facts in a reasonable manner that shows a clear-cut case for expansion of nuclear power plants in the U.S.

Biography:

Joe is currently a Principal Project Manager with Westinghouse Nuclear Rotating Equipment Services.  Previously, Joe was a senior engineering consultant with Westinghouse Nuclear for the Czech Republic’s Temelin Nuclear Power Plant I&C Upgrade Program; a Senior Project Manager for Mott McDonald working with the Port Authority light rail and Mon Incline upgrade projects; he consulted Comcast for their power infrastructure planning; did business development for Athena Sciences; performed systems engineering for the SEPTA Positive Train Control program at Hitachi; at Westinghouse; he managed China customer I&C technical issue resolution of both Sanmen and Haiyang AP1000 nuclear plants, the first passively cooled nuclear power plants.

Joe was a catalyst for the successful startup of the high-speed maglev program for the Pittsburgh area, which lost US government support post 9/11, that same system was built and operates at up to 260 MPH between Shanghai, China and its airport.  He is an experienced resource manager of over 30 professionals.  Earlier in his career, he designed a vehicle borne Operator’s Console drop-in LCD unit for its Automatic Train Control System that ran for decades.  His interest in LCD displays led him to do R&D on some of the early TFT LCD display technologies, predecessors of today’s displays.

Joe holds BS and MS degrees in EE from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA (with honors) from Robert Morris University.  He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Pennsylvania and holds a PMP project management certification.  He is Professional Activities (PA) Committee Chair for IEEE Pittsburgh Section.  He has participated in many Congressional Visits Day events sponsored by IEEE-USA.

He holds 5 US Patents, some of which were marketed as motion activated LED safety light to a national bicycling distributor, selling several thousand units and received royalties.

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