Mr. Jutras, who leads EPM’s Fire Protection Engineering Division, has been with EPM since 1992. He has extensive experience in fire protection system design and analysis for a wide variety of clients and building types. Mr. Jutras has a sound understanding of national fire protection codes and standards, and he has developed multiple successful performance-based design solutions to support variances from prescriptive building and fire code requirements. Mr. Jutras is a registered Professional Engineer. He is a member of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and a principal member of the NFPA 14 Committee on Standpipes, served as a Director ...

Mr. Vicken Khatchadourian joined EPM in 2006 and has been providing engineering consulting services to the nuclear utility industry in the United States. Mr. Khatchadourian has provided support for the fire protection programs at several nuclear plants, including plants licensed to 10 CFR 50 Appendix R and plants which have transitioned to NFPA 805 (10 CFR 50.48(c)). His experience includes development of Safe Shutdown Analyses, Non-Power Operational Mode reviews, feasibility assessments for Manual Actions/Recovery Actions, Multiple Spurious Operation (MSO) reviews, Licensing Action reviews, Fire Risk Evaluations, and Fire Hazards Analysis, and NFPA 805 implementation efforts. Mr. Khatchadourian has participated in ...

MS, Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute BS, Civil Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mr. Schairer has fifteen years of experience in fire protection engineering consulting, with a focus in the utility industry. As Technical Consultant, he has supported and managed multiple projects related to Risk-Informed Performance-Based Fire Safe Shutdown Analysis, NFPA 805 Transition, Fire PRA and Fire Risk Evaluations, Fire Modeling, NFPA Code Compliance Reviews, Fire Protection System Design, Fire Protection Safety Assessments, Fire Hazards Analyses, Fire Protection Audit Support, and Peer Reviews. As a recognized industry fire protection expert and leader, Mr. Schairer has presented lectures to the NRC ...

B.S., Business Administration (CIS concentration), Bryant University, Smithfield, RI A.S., Computer Science, Dean College, Franklin, MA Massachusetts Software Council Fellowship Program Alumnus Mr. Brulé is a Manager – Senior Analyst with twenty years of experience in the nuclear industry. He has provided technical support to Safety & Systems Analysis division projects related to NFPA 805 transition, Appendix R analysis, Set Point Determination, Equipment Qualification (EQ), and design basis regeneration.  He is a member of the software team for EPM’s Genesis Solution Suite® as well as the legacy INDMS software. In the software group Mr. Brulé has performed programming, software testing, ...

BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Osmania University Certification in Client/Server Technologies, Clark University   Mrs. Gangidi has over 22 years of software development experience including twenty years serving nuclear utilities on software and programming projects. She has an extensive background in software design and is responsible for the development and maintenance of client server and Web centric nuclear power plant database applications. This includes gathering requirements, estimating, designing applications to specified requirements, and documenting according to EPM’s QA procedures. With her educational background in software development life cycle, she is involved in design, development, testing, implementation and installation of computer ...