Monthly Archives: January 2015

Michael Helminski has more than 38 years of experience at Sargent & Lundy, including more than 10 years as general counsel and five years as chief financial officer. He is responsible for the overall management of the financial and legal areas of the company.

Previous leadership positions include serving as the firm’s commercial manager. In this position he was responsible for all contracts that the company entered into, including EPC contracts and joint venture agreements. He was also responsible for the business insurance and risk management process.

Helminski joined Sargent & Lundy in 1982. Early in his career, he was involved in various engineering projects primarily on nuclear power plants.

INDUSTRY AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

• Association of Corporate Counsel member
• Marquette University Engineering Alumni Scholarship Fundraising Supporter
• Science Olympiad Middle School Event Coach
• Boy Scouts of America Local Troop

EDUCATION

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• MBA from Loyola University, Chicago
• JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law – Illinois Institute of Technology

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

Member of the Bar in Illinois and Wisconsin and with the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Tom Foley is the senior vice president and director of Sargent & Lundy’s electrical grid infrastructure services. In this role, he is responsible for the overall management of the firm’s efforts related to power transmission and distribution, substation design, battery energy storage, electric vehicle infrastructure, renewable interconnects, and grid modernization.

Foley joined Sargent & Lundy in 2016 as a vice president and project director, helping the firm’s electric grid infrastructure business more than double its operations throughout the U.S. during his tenure. He has also led Sargent & Lundy’s interface with multiple clients along the East Coast.

Prior to joining the firm, Foley was the CEO of Altran North America and head of Altran’s global energy practice. He joined Altran in 2002 as part of its acquisition of Stratus Engineering, where he was a minority owner. Earlier in his career, Foley worked for Stone & Webster with assignments in transmission and distribution and large fossil-fueled power plants in addition to a three-year assignment at the PSE&G Salem/Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant site.

INDUSTRY AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

• Ohio State University – Nuclear Engineering Board
• Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce – Business on Board Program
• United Way Tocqueville Society

EDUCATION

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University
• MBA from Saint Joseph’s University

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

Licensed Professional Engineer – California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia

Shiven Sulkar is a senior vice president with more than 30 years of experience with Sargent & Lundy, focused primarily on nuclear power projects. He is the director of the firm’s nuclear power business and is responsible for the overall management of all nuclear new generation projects and nuclear services work performed by Sargent & Lundy.

During his tenure as a project director, Sulkar led the firm’s execution of major nuclear projects in both the U.S. and internationally, managing long-term relationships with multiple large clients. His project experience includes international and domestic new generation facilities, major plant upgrades, and major plant restart efforts, including specialized nuclear and related support facilities for the U.S. Department of Energy and its national labs. He was instrumental in developing the firm’s relationship with and supporting the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Sulkar joined Sargent & Lundy in 1991 as an electrical engineer supporting engineering, design, and construction for nuclear power plants.

INDUSTRY AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

• American Nuclear Society
• Nuclear Energy Institute Supplier Advisory Board
• Nuclear Energy Institute Trade Advisory Sub-Committee
• Master of Energy Engineering Advisory Council, University of Illinois Chicago
• United Way Tocqueville Society

EDUCATION

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

• Licensed Professional Engineer – Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin

Chuck Beitel is a senior vice president and director of the firm’s non-nuclear power generation, environmental, oil and gas, and industrial services. He is responsible for the overall management of the firm’s projects in conventional power generation; waste-to-energy; air, water, and solid waste environmental management; carbon sequestration; upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas; and multi-discipline industrial projects for both domestic and international clients.

His career encompasses more than 28 years of experience in the power industry, including engineering and project management for new power plant designs for coal, natural gas combined cycle, hydrogen generation, carbon capture, and several reciprocating internal combustion engine power plants. He has extensive experience with large-scale fossil plant environmental retrofits, including selective catalytic reduction, flue gas desulfurization, dry sorbent injection, mercury control, and a variety of plant betterment services for power and heavy-industrial clients. He has worked as a field engineer on multiple large-scale power generation project construction sites. As a project director, he has responsibility for all technical and commercial aspects of the firm’s relationships and project portfolios with numerous southeastern and midwestern clients.

INDUSTRY AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Lifetime Member
• Southeastern Construction Owners and Associates Roundtable (SCOAR)
• University of Missouri Columbia Alumni Associate Lifetime Member

EDUCATION

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri Columbia

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS

• Licensed Professional Engineer – Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Michigan