Robert Wayne Patlovany

Education

Certifications and Affiliations

Engineering Experience (concurrent)

Three years root cause analysis engineering as member of Independent Safety Engineering Group (ISEG) for operating nuclear-steam-electric power plant. Performed accident investigations through Events and Causal Factors Charting, Change Analysis, MORT charting, etc.

Four years Probabilistic Risk Assessment on nuclear steam-electric power plant and nuclear weapons production plant undergoing decontamination and decommissioning, creating fault trees and event trees modeling plant systems failures and human errors contributing to either reactor core melt or unshielded, nuclear criticality accidents. Used RISKMAN on 486 PC to convert mainframe Boolean equations model of nuclear power plant safety systems to graphical PC-based model.

Seven years Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer writing and reviewing nuclear criticality safety limit evaluations for Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site. Documented safe configurations for classified weapons parts and fissile waste from nuclear weapons production, satisfying analysis requirements for double contingency documentation.

Supervisory Experience

Professional Development

XML at Front Range Community College. Projects applied internal and external cascading style sheets; generic classes; pseudo classes; XSL; DOM; SAX; default and overriding namespaces; DTD with internal and external subsets; simple and complex Schema; XLINK; XPointer; Java extraction of XML element names, attribute names, and related data; and XSLT style sheets for collecting data from multiple sources. Study included XML connections to databases.

Advanced Java at Front Range Community College. Projects demonstrated Java 2 Swing GridBagLayout GUI with JDBC/ODBC access to database through singleton.

Advanced Object Oriented Software Engineering at Colorado School of Mines toward a master's degree in computer science. Projects included documentation of data mining program. Course scope includes Structured Analysis and Design plus Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Software Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, covering UML and Object Oriented Design (OOD) processes, with C++ programming projects covering inheritance, disk file I/O, and interfacing with a precompiled operational module. Wrote detailed UML/OOD documentation of all phases of software design process for programming project in UNIX environment. Used PPP remote interface to Mines UNIX with VI editor for compiling extension of bar chart, scatter plot, and connected line graphing functions to preexisting basic graphics package.

C++ Data Structures at Front Range Community College. Projects demonstrated mastery of C++ data structures for dynamic arrays using linked lists, binary search trees, stacks, queues. Used Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.

Front Range Community College C++ programming fundamentals. Used Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0.

Introduction to Java, at Front Range Community College, programming under JDK 1.1 and Visual J++ 5.0. Projects completed in double buffered "screen savers," ASCII text I/O with keyboard inputs and disk file manipulation, GUI Windows for user interface using AWT toolkit Grid Bag Layout Manager, command line and Applet execution, event handling, exception handling, and threads.

Computer Experience

Taught CIS 162 (Introduction to C++ Programming) at Front Range Community College, Summer 2002. Taught CSC 160 (C++ Programming 1) Fall 2002, Spring 2003. Teaching CIS 145 (Introduction to Java) Summer 2003.

Completed all UML robustness diagrams for www.MarkerXchange.com project under John McClure (303-368-9373, [email protected]), using Visio. Used robustness diagrams for laying out all database entities under SQL Server 2000. Diagrams revealed three required entities not recognized in previous draft. Diagrams revealed three entities not recognized in a previous draft.

Completed Advanced Java class project for a Human Resources Application with a Graphical User Interface using Swing components and a JDBC connection to an Access database.

Completed Excel Visual Basic macro program for modeling 121 simulated mutual fund or stock brokers with a range of buy and sell setpoints for mapping most efficient transaction setpoints involving two investment options being compared.

Completed QBasic simulation modeling three-dimensional aircraft collision process for comparing efficiency of three different collision avoidance rules with random altitude safety. Wrote 12-page peer-reviewed technical explanation of findings, and submitted to FAA request for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement findings. Also wrote 3-page non technical summary for magazine with 35,000 pilot subscribers, which generated 2 pages of letters to the editor in a subsequent issue.

Completed derivation and Basica implementation of program for mapping three-dimensional points on any two-dimensional plane as viewed from any eye point location.

Completed QBasic and C++ implementations of "World's Greatest Least Squares Program" for linear, n'th order polynomial, log-linear, linear-log, and log-log curve fitting. Similarly completed Excel Visual Basic macros version implementing comprehensive suite of least squares statistics addressing 12 data input scale options.

Working knowledge of Office 2000, especially Word and Excel, including macros. AutoCad used for illustrations and computations of spatial relationships.

Completed Fortran and Basic implementations of Runga Kutta programs for solving n'th order systems of first order, linear, ordinary differential equations.

Completed Fortran model of one pressurized water reactor fuel channel transient after loss of primary cooling water pumping power.

Completed Qbasic implementation for calculating the first two heat transfer time constants for nuclear reactor primary coolant fast response temperature sensors.

Major Accomplishments

Checked 17, 3-inch-thick volumes of instrumentation and controls calibration scaling calculations generated by up to 12 engineers for STPEGS instrumentation, including all fluid level systems and all nuclear safety-related I&C systems.

Received commendation letter from HL&P Vice President Warren Kinsey for deriving equations as an ISEG oversight investigation engineer explaining three repeat overflows of safety-related emergency diesel generator fuel oil storage tanks. Detected generic systematic engineering errors guaranteeing repeat overflows. Findings resulted in design modifications installed to prevent overflows.

As ISEG investigator of a 5.5 MW diesel generator out-of-phase synchronization accident, discovered that synchronization interlocks were inadvertently left out of the diesel generator design for six units, and unwisely taken out of the design for two 1200 MW main generators. Findings resulted in compensatory operations notifications and design modifications.

As ISEG investigator, documented design errors in main generator stator cooling water system causing continuous full-travel oscillations of cooling water temperature control valve.

Proved mathematically, using two independent correlating methods, that Federal Aviation Regulations 91.159 and 91.179, the hemispherical cruising altitude rules, multiply midair collision risk in direct proportion to accuracy of compliance. Documented findings in peer-reviewed technical journal, Risk Analysis. Proposed fixes to regulations as Request for Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 28996 to implement Altimeter Compass Cruising Altitude Rule (ACCAR). Wrote three-page non technical summary article for 35,000 subscribers of Aviation Safety, which generated two pages of reader comment letters, with mostly supportive editorial responses to letters. Identified eight midair collisions with over 135 fatalities that could have been avoided since 28996 was rejected by the Federal Aviation Administration in 1997. Independently published, peer-reviewed computations by NASA Ames Research Center programmer, Russ Paielli, corroborates findings in Air Traffic Control Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 3, Fall 2000, as, "A Linear Altitude Rule for Safer and More Efficient Enroute Air Traffic".

Professional Writing

Climb and Maintain What?, Aviation Safety, December 1998, pages 8-10; resulting in Unicom: (Letters to Editor) Cruisin' for Bruisin', Aviation Safety, February 1999, pages 27-28.

Aviation Experience