Illinois Commerce Commission

Consultant and Focus Area Leader to the Illinois Commerce Commission on its requested examination of Illinois Power Company’s Clean Air Act compliance plan for one of their affected generating stations. Emphasis was on the investigation and assessment of utilities project plans and implementation methods for engineering, design, procurement, construction, and startup of two 600MW FGD systems. Directed the preparation, evaluation and justification of the overall capital, operations and maintenance costs. Applied best available practices to establish contingency factoring in the range of uncertainty and level of confidence required that the project costs at completion would not be exceeded. Used results to develop a ceiling of reasonable costs above which the ratepayers would not be held responsible.

Delmarva Power and Light Company

Consultant to Delmarva Power and Light Company. Served as Lead Consultant in their evaluation and selection process for a project management system to be used on generation, production, transmission and distribution projects. Provided strategic guidance in the conduct of a project and functional management information needs analysis and assisted in the assessment of various commercially available computerized project management systems.
• Consultant to Delmarva Power and Light Company. Served as Team Leader in the performance of a comprehensive independent assessment of the strengths and areas of potential improvement for development, planning, and execution of major electric generation and transmission and distribution capital projects. The evaluation and recommendations addressed capital budgeting, project management, project controls, procurement, accounting, licensing, engineering, construction, startup, safety, staffing, outsourcing and quality assurance activities.

Louisiana Power and Light Company

Consultant to Louisiana Power and Light Company. Provided independent review of utility's nuclear outage cost management program at Waterford Nuclear Power Plant. Objectives included determination of how the utility programs compared with industry standards and identification of opportunities for improvement. Provided advice and guidance to utility management in performing nuclear plant outage critiques and results documentation.

New York Public Service Commission

Consultant to the New York Public Service Commission. Served as Lead Consultant in the Management audit of Central Hudson Gas and Electric (CHG&E) for the New York Public Service Commission. Responsible for review and assessment of utility staffing requirements, electric and gas operations, construction programs, outsourcing, use of contractors, and work force management program for blue and white-collar employees.
• Consultant to the New York Public Service Commission. Served as Lead Consultant and Assistant Project Manager in the Management audit of New York State Electric and Gas Corporation for the New York Public Service Commission. Principal focus was on utility’s construction program planning and execution for additions and modifications to facilities for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and acquisition, storage, transmission and distribution of natural gas.

Utility client

Consultant to a utility client in the organization, development and analysis of various informational databases using statistical software to examine historical trends in nuclear utility operations, maintenance, fuel and capital costs to anticipate future production expenditures. Developed means and methods to forecast future plant availability capacity factors and outage rates for a nuclear power facility.