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Troy Naatus

Carrollton,VA

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering and Production Process Improvement Manager

U
Newport News, Virginia
01.2004 - 10.2013
  • Broad Range of experience with Surface Ship and Submarine Naval Nuclear Power Plants spanning over twenty years
  • Problem Prediction/Prevention/Solution: Specializes in prediction, prevention, and solution of problems involving the many engineering facets associated with design, operations, maintenance, and testing of nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines at shipyards
  • Responsible for ensuring the shipyard organization is performing thorough root cause analysis of problems and ensure process improvement, opportunity analysis and risk management is performed
  • Engineering: Required to independently validate technical decisions made by hundreds of mechanical, electrical, chemical, electronic, radiological, and nuclear test engineers
  • Project Execution: Signatory authority for maintenance, testing, and operations during five depot level nuclear vessel maintenance availabilities (averaging two years in duration), ensuring compatibility of maintenance, testing and operations with complex mechanical, electrical, electronic, and nuclear systems
  • Reviewed completion of all work and performed independent certification of preparations for nuclear reactor operation following maintenance availabilities
  • This includes work certification, system validation, and training preparations
  • Detailed maintenance record reviews and analysis of testing data for compliance to prescribed requirements
  • Maintenance Management and Supervision: Experience auditing scheduling and execution of production work including critical path analysis, schedule integration, key event and milestone management, and test program validation
  • I have spent hundreds of hours auditing production health metrics such as float, work in process (WIP) metrics, cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance, and schedule performance
  • I have performed hundreds of surveillances of in process mechanical, electrical, radiological work for compliance to approved procedures
  • Duties required oversight of hundreds to thousands of engineers, managers, inspectors and productions workers.

Nuclear Officer

U.S. Navy
01.2002 - 12.2004

Enlisted Nuclear Electrician, Instructor, and Operator

U. S. Navy
06.1991 - 01.2002

Propulsion Plant, Officer

  • Officer of the Deck, and Surface Warfare Officer
  • Responsible for maintenance on all shipboard electrical systems
  • Maintained a high state of readiness during extended deployment on USS Abraham Lincoln
  • In depth knowledge of all aspects of aircraft carrier reactor plant and engineering auxiliary systems.

Classroom instructor

Navy Nuclear Power School
  • Specialized in electrical, electronic, and mechanical theory
  • Qualified as a Master Training Specialist
  • Maintained and repaired electrical components including turbine generators, voltage regulators, governors, motor controllers, instrumentation, and control systems
  • Qualified all electrical watchstations and qualified as a propulsion plant watch supervisor.

Education

Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate -

Villanova University
09.2013

BSAST - Nuclear Engineering Technology

12.2009

Navy Nuclear Power School
08.1992

Working to complete Six Sigma Blackbelt certification by the summer of 2015tchstations and qualified as a propulsion plant watch supervisor -

Thomas Edison State College

Skills

  • Proficient in
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Fundamentals of Classroom Training
  • Technical compliance
  • Multitasking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership

Timeline

Engineering and Production Process Improvement Manager

U
01.2004 - 10.2013

Nuclear Officer

U.S. Navy
01.2002 - 12.2004

Enlisted Nuclear Electrician, Instructor, and Operator

U. S. Navy
06.1991 - 01.2002

Propulsion Plant, Officer

Classroom instructor

Navy Nuclear Power School

Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate -

Villanova University

BSAST - Nuclear Engineering Technology

Navy Nuclear Power School

Working to complete Six Sigma Blackbelt certification by the summer of 2015tchstations and qualified as a propulsion plant watch supervisor -

Thomas Edison State College

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