Keeping Current

Raised in a Georgia Power family, Earl was inspired at a young age by his father, who served as  superintendent at Georgia Power’s Plant Mitchell and Plant Arkwright. After a summer internship at Georgia Power and graduating from Valdosta State College in 1972, Earl officially began his career at Georgia Power's Plant Hatch in 1972 as a documentation supervisor in the old GPC Production department, which housed all the generating plants.

While at Georgia Power, he held a variety of positions in quality assurance, including in the Nuclear Quality Assurance department, Plant Scherer's Construction Quality Assurance department, the Southern Nuclear Readiness Review Unit 1 Task Force, and the Plant Vogtle Quality Assurance department. Earl transferred to the Forest Park Repair Shop in 1986, where he drew upon his experience to develop the necessary procedures and framework to develop a comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) program in just 18 months that met Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requirements to support Plants Hatch, Vogtle, and Farley. He retired in 2009 as a Quality Assurance specialist in Forest Park.