About Dean Naylor
Dean
Naylor is a licenced electrical engineer. He has been performing arc flash studies
since 2002, using .
Dean
began his career as an electrician, however.
Originally a US Navy Electrician’s Mate and Submariner, he learned
electrical work and troubleshooting from some of the best men to travel beneath
the waves.
Out
of the Navy, Dean began work with the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) Local 995,
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Here, he
learned electrical construction in the demanding chemical and refineries of
south Louisiana.
When
it became time to get his degree, Dean went to the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
With a small school appeal and the support of TVA and industry in the
Chattanooga area, UTC has a first class Electrical Engineering program. UTC College of Engineering and Computer
Science currently houses a world class smart grid and protection laboratory as
well as an ETAP/TVA sponsored Power
Simulation Laboratory.
Since
completing his formal schooling, Dean has worked as an electrical engineer and
has performed electrical system studies, including arc flash, short circuit,
motor starting, harmonic, and load flow studies for companies across the US. He also began electrical safety training many
years ago, and has found his ability to speak both engineer and electrician to
be a great help in getting the message across about common sense electrical
safety measures. He has continued to
perform field work in electrical equipment maintenance and has been NETA
certified.
Papers:
“Using arc flash
studies to enhance safety”
Consulting-Specifying
Engineer, October 2018,
using-arc-flash-studies-to-enhance-safety
“Hazards of Establishing An Electrically Safe Work
Condition”
with Tony Demaria and Mose Ramieh III, NETA
World, Spring 2011,