Exelon
Shahkarami is responsible for conduct of fuel (procurement, design,and back-end), engineering, project management, license renewal, industry organizations (BWROG, PWROG, EPRI), innovation, and the international exchange program (KHNP, TEPCO, EDF). He is the company's chief engineer responsible to provide governance and oversight to the corporate and Exelon's seventeen (17) nuclear units located in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Shahkarami joined Exelon Nuclear in 2002 as Engineering Director of the Dresden Nuclear Station. He was promoted to the Engineering VP in 2004. Prior to joining Exelon, he spent 12 years at several Entergy sites in various management positions including deputy plant manager, led the Equipment Reliability, power uprates and the "Achievement Anchors." He worked at Detroit Edison's Fermi Nuclear Plant for three years. He provided five years of engineering consultation through Sargent & Lundy to many U.S. nuclear plants. He spent his first three years after graduation at Brown & Root, Inc., designing and constructing offshore oil platforms and pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea.
Shahkarami received his Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees from Tulane University during 1977-1981, MBA from Mississippi College in 1994, and completed PhD studies in nuclear engineering at Louisiana State University in 2001. He is a registered Professional Engineer; has a Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) Certificate; and has completed INPO's Senior Nuclear Plant Manager (SNPM) course.
Shahkarami is a member of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Nuclear Power Council, the Executive Committee, and has chaired ERAPWG. He has led the PWROG and BWROG executive committees as chair and vice-chair. He is the chairman of the NEI digital I&C working group. He served as BWRVIP and PMMP executive committees and was the executive sponsor for the MRP and led the PWR pressurizer nozzle alloy 600 project. He also serves on the Tulane University, Texas A&M, and Illinois Institute of Technology engineering advisory boards. He is an ANS member since 1992 and has been track organizer for UWC and ICAPP. He has also been general chair for ANS fuel and ICAPP.