Mr. Lesiuk has 33 years experience in the power generation industry including 21 years with General Electric’s (GE) steam turbine division and 12 years as a turbine consultant and project manager with Ebasco Services (later Raytheon Engineers and Constructors) and Aptech Engineering Services.
Mr. Lesiuk’s turbine consulting experience includes the development and implementation of a turbine component condition assessment methodology, failure analyses, preparing equipment technical specifications, bid evaluations and third-party reviews. As a project manager, he was responsible for cost, schedule, and deliverables on life extension programs, reliability improvement programs, and multi-disciple rehabilitation and retrofit engineering projects in the US, China, the Philippines, Bahrain and Chile.
Mr. Lesiuk’s GE experience includes involvement in the design, manufacture, operation, and servicing of turbines for fossil, simple and combined cycle applications, and nuclear fueled power plants. He was responsible for turbine rotor and blade design, operational problem resolution, root cause analysis, factory liaison, and managing major rehabilitation projects, new unit designs, and turbine upgrade/life extension programs. As Manager of Steam Turbine Application Engineering he was responsible for pre-order design work for conversions, modifications, and upgrades to existing GE and non-GE equipment.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Syracuse University (1965)
- M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Syracuse University (1970)
- Completed Course Work for Ph.D. in Engineering (1970)
- Basic Principles of Supervisory Management – AMA
- Leadership Principles – AMA
- Individual and Group Behavior – AMA
- Managerial Skills Development Course – General Electric Corporate
- Modern View of Fatigue and Its Relation to Engineering Problems, Union College
Technical Institute
- Fatigue of Metals, Materials and Processing Laboratory, General Electric Company
- Fracture Mechanics, Gas Turbine Products Division, General Electric Company
- Principles of Heat Treating, American Society of Metals, Metals Engineering Institute
- Professional Engineer – New York State
SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES
Martin Drake Plant, Units 5, 6, and 7, Life Assessment for Colorado Springs Utilities - Volume 2, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, with R. Wesley, APTECH Report AES 05015656-2-3 (October 2005).
Life Assessment Overview for Colorado Springs Utilities - Volume 1, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and R. Wesley, APTECH Report AES 05015656-2-2 (September 2005).
R. D. Nixon, Unit 1, Life Assessment for Colorado Springs Utilities - Volume 3, with T. Burnett, Grimsrud, R. Wesley, APTECH Report AES 05015656-2-1 (September 2005).
Birdsall, Life Assessment for Colorado Springs Utilities - Volume 4, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and R. Wesley, APTECH Report AES 05015656-2-4 (September 2005).
Review of Unit 4 HP Section Thermal Parameters (Final Report), APTECH Report AES 05075861-2-1 (September 2005).
Review of L-2 Blade Failures, APTECH Report AES 04125621-2-1 (December 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 5 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and O. Nye, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-1 (July 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 7 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and O. Nye, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-3 (July 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 6 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and O. Nye, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-2 (July 2004).
Visit Report to AK Steel Middletown, APTECH Report AES 04055415-2-1 (June 2004).
Task 7 Deliverable - Cost of Cycling Estimates for Clover Bar Units 1 and 3, with G. Grimsrud, S. Lefton, P. Besuner, and T. Kuntz, APTECH Report AES 97053081-2-1 (December 1997).
Operation Assessment for Illinova Energy Partners Crystal Tissue Paper Mill, with T. Burnett, APTECH Report AES 97053085-2-1 (August 1997).
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