Lawrence P. Gradin Resume Summary
Focusing On Engineering Consulting Services
Mr. Gradin is a registered professional engineer in six states with
thirty-five years of experience in multi-discipline engineering management;
electrical, instrumentation and control; equipment adequacy demonstration and
test; quality demonstration; environmental qualification; improvement related
consulting and training; nuclear safety related equipment supply; critical
equipment assessment for telecommunications, product safety, industry;
commercial grade item dedication for nuclear plants; nuclear procurement;
reliability based maintenance; technical and quality training; and related
quality and engineering activities for nuclear, and advanced nuclear reactor,
power/industrial plants, and the pharmaceutical industry. He has been a lead
engineer, supervisory engineer, manager of electrical and related
instrumentation control engineer, or site support engineer for nuclear plants
for more than thirty-five (35) years. Included has been the interface with
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the plant licensing phase. He is
certified to be a lead assessor for Quality Assessments for Nuclear
Facilities (ANSI/ASME NQA-1 and ANSI N45.2), for ISO 9000, for Laboratory
Assessments (ISO/IEC Guide 25, EN45001, ISO/IEC 17025), for Certification
Body Accreditation Assessments (ISO/IEC Guide 65), for Inspection Body
Assessments (ISO/IEC 17020) and as a Certified Lead Assessor by PDA
(International Association for Pharmaceutical Science & Technology) of
Suppliers of Computer Products and Services. He also provides quality consulting,
audits, assessments, training for test lab Accreditation, for Quality
registration, for EMC/EMI testing, telecommunications, software quality, etc.
He is Chair of the Electromechanical Advisory Committee for Laboratory
Accreditation, a past member of the Nuclear Power Engineering Committee of
the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES), past Chair of the Quality
Maintenance and Improvement Subcommittee of the IEEE PES, member of the ASTM
Committee E36 on Conformity Assessment, member of the A2LA Accreditation
Criteria Council, Accreditation Approval Committee. Past member of ASQ
"Assessment, Verification, and Auditing Committee", member or
senior member ASQ, ASME, ISA, NCSL, PDA, and various other groups relating to
quality, testing, equipment assessments, or engineering. He has authored more
than 65 technical papers and textbook, "Equipment Adequacy Demonstration
For Nuclear Power and Related Facilities", US Copyright Office
Registration 576 752, (1993). Post engineering training relating to testing,
quality, and assessments includes Operational QA Courses through the American
Society for Quality, ISO 9000 Series and Auditor training through KEMA-IQC,
NATA/A2LA, IQA and RBA/RAB accepted Lead Assessor and ISO 9000:2000 and
ISO/TS 16949:2002 Transition Training, Software Quality Auditor Training by
PDA, certification program at the American Management Research Institute,
etc.
Mr. Gradin is a recognized expert in Equipment Qualification (EQ) of
electrical and mechanical equipment. This includes the leadership of the only
100% successful EQ effort for an operating nuclear plant out of 70 (Yankee
Rowe), the first 100% successful plant to demonstrate compliance with NUREG
0588 Category 1 (St. Lucie 2, only 1 other plant equaled this success), and
the first 100% successful NUREG 0588 Category II Plant (Waterford 3, no other
series of plants accomplished this) under USNRC intensive audit. He has also
been invited by the NRC to participate as an EQ expert at NRC sponsored EQ
workshops with the nuclear industry.
His unique contributions to industry include the creation, leadership, and
development of the first successful: (1) Solid state modular heat tracing
control system for nuclear power; (2) Integrated plant security and fire
detection system satisfying detailed USNRC criteria; (3) Technology training
program in Electrical Instrumentation and Control Technology for the USNRC
and Industry; (4) Equipment Qualification Program to pass USNRC audit to
criteria established by IEEE 323-1974 (NUREG 0588) and to 10CFR50.49; (5)
Comprehensive Guidance for Nuclear Plant Maintenance-Good Practices; (6)
Integrated microcomputer based data gathering and retrieval systems for plant
safety system data management; (7) Newsletter devoted to Reliability,
Availability, Maintainability and Quality for the power industry; (8) First
known use and acceptance of Seismic Qualification by Experience by the USNRC;
(9) Refocus of the IEEE Nuclear Power Engineering Committee's Quality
Attention from a Compliance Only orientation to Continuous Quality
Improvement; (10) Led the first known Third Party Supplier through
comprehensive NUPIC coordinated Quality Audit without a single finding in its
very first such audit.
Electrical Design and I&C Consulting Engineering and Test
Experience
Mr. Gradin was chief executive officer for his own firm (EcoTech/RAM-Q
Industries) for more than a decade providing design related assessments,
equipment adequacy demonstration, or actual supply of nuclear safety related
equipment for electrical, instrumentation, and control systems. In this work,
essentially every one of the nuclear IEEE standards was used on one project
or another, as the work included the complete electrical system assessment
down to the part level Dedication of Commercial Grade Items (i.e. fuses,
relays, etc.). In addition, the major issues for electrical equipment
relating to its ability to perform a nuclear safety function in harsh or mild
environments, even if the equipment started as a Commercial Grade Item,
rather than a Basic Component was a major focus of Mr. Gradin's work. In
hundreds of files, reports, assessments, and studies prepared for the nuclear
industry -- not a single effort approved by Mr. Gradin and audited by the NRC
has been found deficient.
Prior to his leadership of his own firm, he was a Supervising Engineer of
Instrumentation and Control (at Ebasco Services, now Raytheon), responsible
for the direct supervision of Lead I&C Discipline Engineers and
approximately twenty-five professionals for St. Lucie 1 & 2. Services included
performing necessary upgrading and licensing procedures for the retrofit of a
nuclear plant and other I&C tasks (e.g. NUREG 0737, RG 1.97, NUREG 700,
Appendix "R", etc.) for both an operating nuclear unit and a unit
under construction. He was also Assistant Section Manager of the Electrical,
Instrumentation, and Control disciplines for the Breeder Reactor (at Burns
and Roe) responsible for the direct supervision of four Group Supervisors and
approximately forty engineering for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant.
Other electrical engineering experience included serving in senior level
positions such as Principal Electrical Engineer and Lead Discipline Engineer
for major nuclear power plants.
From 1995 through Summer 1999, Mr. Gradin was Director of Engineering,
Vice President, and Executive Quality Management Representative (EQMR) at
QUAL-TEK assisting manufacturers of nuclear safety related equipment to
demonstrate suitability for nuclear safety related service by qualification
testing and analysis.
As Director of Integrity Solutions Group, Mr. Gradin has provided
specialized consulting combining equipment knowledge, testing adequacy, and
quality to assist major firms obtain Quality and Technical Competency
recognition for Accreditation to ISO/IEC Guide 25, EN45001, ISO/IEC 17025, ISO/IEC
Guide 65, ISO/IEC 17020, and ANSI/NCSL Z540-1 for Calibration Laboratories.
Mr. Gradin's exposure and experience includes US and international nuclear
plants with involvement in hundreds of projects, participation in developing
the electrical nuclear standards for international use for more than a
decade, and work exposure to more than 25% of all the operating nuclear
plants in the US.
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