Link to the section of my site with pictures and info about Seabrook Station.

I have been working at Seabrook Station for 23+ years.  I started when it was still under construction in March of 1985.   I was hired as an application developer.  Our systems were on an IBM mainframe located in Manchester, NH.  I thought the job would become static after the plant went online, but I was wrong.  Actually working there has allowed me to work with all kinds of technology as the years moved on.

I setup the first set of networked PC’s on site.  It was used for word processing using Ethernet, a 3Com server, IBM AT computers, and WordPerfect (DOS).  I then setup the next network using Ethernet and a Novell server.  The site moved to Token Ring as OS2 began to become available, only to switch back to Ethernet about 10 years later.

One of my duties was to be the system administrator of our CAD system which was based on a VAX.  It was an Intergraph 250.   Since I was already responsible for our VAX, I also inherited the project management system (VAX 780) and our VAX cluster which we used for word processing.

I was part of a team setting up a PC LAN for a pilot group that would decide if we used Windows 3.1 or OS/2 on the desktop.  Windows 3.1 won on the desktop and we used OS/2 for the server.  As we moved to a client server environment and some apps moved to the browser our need for the IBM mainframe lessened until we actually were able to retire it about 5 years ago.  Around 1997 we moved from OS/2 to Windows NT for our PC servers.

Our environment has also change as our owners changed.  Public Service of NH originally was the majority owner until they sold to Northeast Utilities.   In 2002 we were sold to Florida Power & Light.  The group I work with now is responsible for several fleet wide nuclear applications.  Since 2002 the fleet has expanded from 5 nuclear power plants (4 Florida, 1 in NH) by adding one in Iowa and one in Wisconsin.

Our application environment now is ASP.NET on IIS, Java on Oracle Application Server, Java on WebSphere, windows clients against Oracle database servers, Access, and several legacy apps.

Our current application development function can best be described as being the glue between various vendor applications.  Either to provide functionality that is missing, working around problems with the application, or interfacing between applications.  That has been pretty much the theme for my 23 years at Seabrook Station.  Having to constantly learn different technologies has been one reason that I have enjoyed my time there.

Link to the section of my site with pictures and info about Seabrook Station.