John Elnitsky
Rear Admiral USN (ret.) / Senior Nuclear Utility Executive
- Role
- Rear Admiral Usn (Ret) at US Navy
- Location
- New Smyrna Beach, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Elnitsky
More than 30 years of senior and CEO level experience leading Nuclear Power, Research & Development, and Engineering organizations as large as 4,100 personnel. Visionary leader, innovative problem solver, and articulate communicator with proven expertise building multi-disciplinary high performing teams and coalitions to achieve cost effective results. Equally effective managing stakeholders from the board room to the plant or construction site. Leadership and management skills include:*Project & Construction ManagementCompleted dozens of major power plant construction and retrofit projects safely, on time, and under cost. Experiences in a variety of construction and modernization projects including wind, solar and combined cycle power plants; fossil and nuclear plant modernization; and new nuclear development. Recently completed a $2.5B portfolio of upgrade and modernization projects for fleet of nuclear power plants.*Technology DevelopmentLead innovative portfolio of digital modernization projects across fleet of 10 nuclear power plants. As CEO of Navy’s research and development organization reduced nuclear submarine unit procurement cost more than $50M/ship leading an advanced technology project team and adopting moderate-risk, cutting-edge technologies.* Financial ManagementKey architect and leader of industry wide nuclear engineering efficiency improvements in Long Term Asset Management, Preventive Maintenance Strategies, and Advanced Monitoring & Diagnostics that facilitated a diverse telework enabled work force to reduce Engineering labor cost by over 30%.* Strategic Planning & ExecutionEnvisioned, built coalition, and executed an innovative navy nuclear maintenance strategy consisting of a combined shipyard civilian and sailor nuclear maintenance department with fly-away nuclear repair capability for deployed ships. Leveraged similar collaborative approach with multiple contractors as leader of projects and maintenance services for commercial nuclear fleet.* Innovative Problem SolvingImplemented an award-winning Project Management Center of Excellence with oversight of over $5B/year of company-wide capital projects. This federated approach to project management has been benchmarked and emulated by companies such as DuPont, IBM, and Exxon/Mobile.* Inclusive CollaboratorTransformed business and project management operations in multiple organizations by aligning workforce performance objectives with corporate strategic plans, output metrics, and technology maturity and diversity measures.
Experience
Rear Admiral Usn (Ret)
May 2022 — Present
Education
US Department of Energy Certification
Operation, Maintenance, & Supervision of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plants (M.S. Nuclear Engineering)
1998 — 1999
Naval Postgraduate School
Mechanical Engineer Degree and MSME
1985 — 1987
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Executive Business Course
2007
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Executive Business Course
2004
United States Naval Academy
BSME, Mechanical Engineering/Nuclear Power
1976 — 1980
Skills
- Construction
- Operational Planning
- Security Clearance
- Program Management
- Energy
- Dod
- Systems Engineering
- Engineering Management
- Project Management
- Defense
- Nuclear Engineering
- Navy
- Reactor
- Nuclear
- Engineering
- Power Generation
- Leadership
- Factory
- Military
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