Chuck is co-founder and Senior Vice President at PEC. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical
Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has an accomplished and
extensive career in engineering and operations. Following his shipboard, shipyard, and submarine prototype
service with the U.S. Department of the Navy, Chuck worked within the commercial nuclear
power industry from the 1970s through the mid 1990s, a time that included a wide variety of
assignments, among which was managing major projects in several nuclear plants.
Chuck has participated in a wide variety of unique projects that have served to
help define nuclear industry direction and standards. These include initiating the concept
of extending the service life of nuclear plants to 60 years; participation in the
development of EPRI’s Advanced Light Water Reactor requirements; technical and strategic
planning for the cleanup of TMI-2; deactivation of Hanford facility, PUREX, B-Plant, and Plutonium
Finishing Plant; and as one of the primary developers of MicroShield, a radiation
analysis software used worldwide by hundreds of engineers, waste managers, and health
physicists.
Since the mid-1990's, Chuck has provided engineering and management consulting
to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its prime contractors. He has been directly
involved with the planning and execution of the shutdown, deactivation, cleanup,
and demolition of many of the DOE’s excess facilities. This work has been for both
headquarters’ clientele and field projects.