Dr. Gary D. Storrick, P. E., P. G.
Professional Experience
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May, 2004-Present
Contract Engineer
Hudson Global Resources
- On contract to Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
April, 2001 - February, 2004
Senior Consulting Engineer
Union Switch & Signal
- Lead Systems Engineer and System Integrator for CSXT (Eastern
U.S.A.) Next Generation Dispatching System
- Senior Systems Engineer for Railtrack (U.K.) West Coast Route
Modernization Network Management Center.
February 1988 - April, 2001
President and Founder Olenellus Engineering
Clients and typical work included:
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Nuclear and
Advanced Technology Division: Controls Engineer:
Control and limitation systems design for advanced pressurized
water reactors and Soviet VVER reactors. Turbine control and
protection systems design. Nuclear power plant transient analysis.
Simulation Programmer: Computer modeling of control and protection
systems and nuclear, thermal, and hydraulic processes for advanced
pressurized water reactor and VVER designs. Technical Writer:
Design basis documentation for several domestic nuclear power
plants, with emphasis on control and protection systems. Geologist:
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant literature review.
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Resource Energy
Systems Division: Simulation Programmer: Computer modeling
of combustion and thermal processes for rotary combustor waste
disposal power plants. Software Engineer: Custom data acquisition
and interface software for communications between Westinghouse
Distributed Processing Facility and IBM personal computers. Controls
Engineer: Control system design, plant characterization testing
programs.
- KLH Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA: Electrical
Engineer: Complete control, electrical, communications and lighting
design and specification for Emporium Water Treatment Plant,
New Cumberland Waste-water Treatment Plant, Kane Waste-water
Treatment Plant and Breakneck Creek Waste-water Treatment Plant.
Electrical design and specification for numerous sewage pump
stations. Geotechnical Engineer: Sedimentation pond and drainage
ditch design for waste-disposal landfills.
- EEI Geophysical, Inc., Elkins, WV: Geotechnical
Engineer: Sedimentation pond and drainage ditch design for approximately
15 surface mines.
- Sowash, Carson & Shostak, Athens, Ohio:
Geotechnical Engineer: Expert witness work involving strip-mine
acid drainage remediation.
- Thorpe, Reed, and Armstrong, Pittsburgh, PA:
Electrical Engineer: Expert witness work involving analysis of
a 230 MVA transformer failure.
December 1986 - January 1988
Consultant
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Resource Energy Systems
Division
- Simulation Programmer: Computer modeling of combustion and
thermal processes for rotary combustor waste disposal power plants.
- Software Engineer: Custom data acquisition and interface
software for communications between Westinghouse Distributed
Processing Facility and IBM personal computers.
- Controls Engineer: Control system design, plant characterization
testing programs.
April 1986 - December 1986
Geologist/Geotechnical Engineer
GeoMechanics, Inc., Elizabeth, Pennsylvania
- Geotechnical Engineer: Geologic site reconnaissance for limited
access highways, bridge replacements, and highway interchange
locations. Soil and rock test boring layout for US-220 highway
relocation, Altoona, PA. Water supply relocation/alternate supply
study for Belle Meade, PA. Slope stability analyses for highway
and parking lot fills.
September 1984 - April 1986
Consultant
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Nuclear Technology Division
- Senior Controls Engineer: Functional design and analysis
of pressurized water reactor control systems, including classical,
optimal and optimal stochastic systems. Work included both analog
and digital systems.
- Simulation Programmer: Computer modeling of nuclear processes,
thermal/hydraulics, control and protection systems for pressurized
water reactors. Nuclear power plant transient analysis.
January 1978 - January 1984
Senior Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Nuclear Technology Division
- Senior Controls Engineer: Functional design and analysis
of pressurized water reactor control systems, including classical,
optimal and optimal stochastic systems. Work included both analog
and digital systems.
- Simulation Programmer: Computer modeling of nuclear processes,
thermal/hydraulics, control and protection systems for pressurized
water reactors. Nuclear power plant transient analysis.
September 1989-August, 1993
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Pittsburgh
- Research involved synthesizing fine-particle titano-magnetites
using a glass-ceramic method, and subsequent investigation of
thermoremanent magnetic properties.
September 1984 -August, 1989
Teaching Fellow
University of Pittsburgh
- Instructed course in Optical and X-ray mineralogy
- Instructed laboratories in geology, mineralogy, crystallography,
paleontology, and geophysical well logging.
Software experience
- C, C++, PASCAL, Object PASCAL (including MacApp), FORTRAN,
BASIC, ACSL
- Extensive (15 years) experience with Macintosh operating
system and Macintosh software, including MPW (including Assembler,
C++ and PASCAL), MacApp, SADE, SourceBug, Absoft and Language
Systems FORTRAN, THINK C, THINK Pascal, Mathematica, DOORS, 4th
Dimension, Excel, Lotus 123, DeltaGraph, Spyglass, Word,
Ready-Set-Go, PageMill, Photoshop, SuperPaint, other graphics
programs, and various utilities. Familiar with Inside Macintosh
and Macintosh Technical Notes; former ETO Subscriber.
- Familiar with MS-DOS operating system and selected software
(e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Turbo Pascal, Microsoft FORTRAN,
Word, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Windows); some experience with
UNIX, SUN, VAX, and other systems.
- Experienced in large-project development, including development
of a 168,000 line scientific MacApp-based application in Object
Pascal and a 100,000 line scientific MacApp-based application
in C++.
- Assembly language for Motorola SC/MP, 68000/020/030/040,
and 68881/882; Intel 8080, 8086/286/386/486.
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