Employment History

12/2004 to present: Self-employed DBA Mark Standifer

Mark is currently working out of Oklahoma City where he travels all over the country teaching classes from Electrical Safety to Power Generators.  Clients include large Utilities such as Exelon Corp., Dynegy, NY, Tractor Bell, TX., PGE, PP&L and many others.  Mark has continued to conduct speaking engagements on Electrical Safety and Safety conferences.  Mark is considered by most one of the most knowledgeable trainers on the NFPA70E and Power Generating.  Mark has traveled from the East Coast to the West and to Canada, Hawaii and Alaska in conducting training for Electricians.  

12/2002 to 12/2004

Mark was working out of the Vancouver, WA office Consulting Services. His duties include personnel management, marketing, project management, and performing electrical testing work and technical training. Mark has over thirty years of related field experience and specializes in power distribution switchgear startup & testing, maintenance, troubleshooting, technical training, Safety/OSHA training, relay calibration, circuit breaker testing and large power transformers. Mark is a certified state instructor in six states and is Nuclear power certified instructor. Mark served in the US Navy 1972 to 1980, as a Nuclear Power Plant Electrician and Electrical Operator.

12/94 – 12/2002 Integrity Services & Training, Inc - Vancouver, WA - President

Responsible for office management, project management and field service including, coordinating, man power, scheduling, troubleshooting, testing, calibrating, and performing predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance of electrical distribution systems and components. Mark is responsible for large projects which include PM of stand alone generating plants up to 500 megawatts @ 500kV. Mark has also logged over 20,000 man-hours of technical training throughout the Northwest at numerous facilities.  Mark has presented safety seminars for the State of Washington, Governor's Safety Conference, conducted many classes for the Washington State Electrical Inspectors, guest speaker for several of the Pulp & Paper Conferences as well as many other engagements and appearances.  
 

01/92 - 12/94 Power Engineers Incorporated - Portland, OR. And Longview, WA - Manager

Mark founded the POWER Field Services' satellite office in Portland, Oregon, in 1992, and the Longview, Washington office in 1993. As Northwest Regional Manager, he supervised large projects, performed marketing efforts, established budgets, wrote proposals and coordinated technical support.


12/93 - 12/94 Multi-Amp Institute, Locations throughout the Country

Consulted for Multi-Amp Institute in courses such as Substation Maintenance, Low Voltage Circuit Breaker Maintenance, Medium Voltage Distribution and Epoch relay testing. 
 

12/91 - 12/93 UNC Nuclear Industries, Hanford, Washington - Electrical Instructor

Mark's duties included development and presentation of training material for the nuclear reactor electrical craft. Mark also developed maintenance programs, procedures and a computerized relay testing program for Hanford site contractors.

04/82 - 12/91 Westinghouse Engineering Service, Portland, Oregon

As Field Service Engineer Mark’s duties included hands-on work and supervision in the installation, start-up, troubleshooting, maintenance, retrofit, and acceptance testing of high voltage transmission and all types of heavy industrial  equipment.  The equipment included large synchronous motors and generators, low and medium voltage circuit breakers, protective relaying, load interrupters, switchgear and substations, electronic DC dives, automatic transfer systems, numa-logic controls and large power transformers up to 100 MVA.  Mark worked as Lead Start-UP Engineer on several turn-key projects.   He performed installations for C-Tran and Automated Fuel Handling System and utilized PLCs and Genesis Programming

04/72 - 04/82 Naval Nuclear Power Unit

Mark was assigned to the Mobile Utilities Support Equipment (MUSE) Department as Senior Electrical Technician and Team Leader.  While in this position Mr. Standifer installed and inspected MUSE equipment deployed to DOD facilities throughout the world on standby and emergency basis.  Equipment consisted of diesel driven generators, gas turbine generators, mobile steam plants and mobile substation transformers and switchgear of all types.Education and Qualifications

Class "A", & "B" Electricians School, U.S. Navy, Nuclear Plant Systems, Programmable Controllers, Circuit Breaker Maintenance, Watt-hour Meter Maintenance, Electrical System Maintenance I & II, Coordination, Utility Protective Relay Maintenance, DC Drives, Applied Protective Relaying, Gas Turbines, Electro-Hydraulic Governor Systems, Stationary Power, Nuclear Power Plant Operator Course, Thermo graphic Survey, Level One.

Associations: INPO Nuclear Instructor, ASTD American Society of Training & Development, IAEI International Association of Electrical Inspectors, WISHA, Washington Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, and Alaska State approved Instructor.