Oliver Curtis

Project manager in the Nuclear Asset Sustainability Projects (NASP) organization. Delivering electrical, I&C, and digital projects across TVA's 7-unit nuclear power generation fleet.

• Project delivery

  Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and safety from initiation through closure under the SPP-34 and SPP-19 series frameworks.

• Team leadership

  Lead integrated joint project teams through scoping, funding approval gateways, planning, design, and implementation.

• Portfolio ownership

  Serve as single point of contact for electrical and I&C modernization and asset sustainability projects (>$35M portfolio)

• Funding & approvals

  Develop project scopes, cost estimates, and funding authorization packages for Project Approval Board (PAB) review; presented projects to TVA NPG executives for approval.

• Cross-functional leadership

  Directed multi-discipline teams spanning design & system engineering, procurement/supply chain, site maintenance, outage management, and external vendors. Lead high-performance project delivery through collaboration and influence across organizations without direct reporting authority.

"Seller-doer" consulting engineer for water and wastewater utilities in Tennessee and Georgia. Engaged in the execution of treatment, conveyance, distribution/collection system, and regulatory/digital projects. Led engineering teams in hybrid project management/design management role.

• Project delivery

  Managed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk performance of technical SMEs and digital delivery staff across multi-disciplinary design projects.

• Pursuits & scoping

  Developed engineering scopes, LOEs, and contract pricing for sales pursuits (WWTP & WTP expansions, high service/finished water pump stations, raw water intakes, financial and capital management services)

• Project controls

  Managed monthly project financials, including invoicing & progress reporting, ETC/EAC budget forecasting, operations management project reviews, and client progress reporting.

• Engineering & mentoring

  Utilized hydraulic modeling tools to size and evaluate process piping and pumping equipment for water and wastewater facilities. Mentored junior staff on process mechanical and hydraulic design processes.

• Financial modelling

  Developed lifecycle cost, economic analysis, financing, and cash flow models for capital projects and programs between $200M-$3B.

• Utility advisory

  Advanced Jacobs’ utility financial management & advisory practice in Tennessee; developed water/wastewater capital plans, funding strategies, rate studies, and revenue sufficiency recommendations in collaboration with utility managers, directors, and finance staff.

Served as vision leader in product road mapping and technical scope/specification development; designed platform to handle ingest of more than 5TB/week of imagery, LiDAR point cloud, and GPS/IMU data streams during vehicle operations with nightly turnaround of computer vision model inference results.

• Responsibilities

  Served as technical lead & product development manager for highway safety asset (guardrail) condition assessment and damage detection startup. Led development of MVP (minimum viable product) over ~9 months

• Responsibilities

  Managed 2-4 software developers, image annotation staff, and other technical staff in execution of product development scopes.

• Responsibilities

  Led the design, procurement, and systems integration of vehicle-mounted LiDAR, GNSS/IMU, and imagery sensors with on-board edge computing and computer vision inference hardware.

• Responsibilities

  Led the development of internal data processing, condition assessment, and work order management platform, built on Django, PostgresSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer, MapBox, Metabase etc. to avoid ESRI vendor lock-in.

• Responsibilities

  Built client-facing web mapping applications on ArcGIS Online, with PowerBI reporting integration.

• Responsibilities

  Developed, trained, tested, and managed deployment of in-house computer vision AI/ML models.