InsideTVA - February 2011

InsideTVA a monthly publication of the Tennessee Valley Authority

Volume 31, Issue 2 February 2011

The Next

Generation page 6

MEREDITH NEAL AND JERRY MILLER FROM WATTS BAR’S PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE GROUP

All In a Day’s Work page 10

DESKTOP SPECIALIST JOSH BERRY’S

job rocks page 8

In this issue

HOT TOPICS

FEBRUARY 2011

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Across TVA

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Scanning the Future

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The Next Generation

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My Job Rocks – Desktop Specialist Josh Berry

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Clara Petty: The Sharecropper’s Daughter

CLETUS MITCHELL

Open for Business

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New Retirees All In a Day’s Work

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Applause!

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Don’t Hesitate – Update!

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STAFF & CONTRIBUTORS

La’Nita Jones Editor

Bill Sitton Contributor

Brooks Clark Production Editor

Shannon Ridinger Contributor/ Correspondent

Cletus Mitchell Photo Editor

Julie Taylor Contributor

Damien K. Power Contributor

TVA, EPRI Dedicate SMART Charging Station for Electric Vehicles TVA and the Electric Power Research Institute unveiled an electric vehicle charging station that can also make electricity from sunlight, store electricity and put electricity back in the power grid when needed.

The prototype Smart Modal Area Recharge Terminal, or SMART station, developed by TVA and EPRI is among the first public electric vehicle charging stations with all these features.

Located at EPRI’s Knoxville Research Laboratory, the station demonstrated its capabilities while charging electric vehicles built by General Motors, Mitsubishi and Nissan. Shown above are (l-r) EPRI Senior Project Manager John Halliwell, TVA Transportation & Infrastructure Senior Project Manager James Ellis, TVA Vice President of Technology Innovation Rudy Shankar, TVA Senior Vice President of Environment & Technology Anda Ray and EPRI Vice President of Power Delivery & Utilization Mark McGranaghan.

Another power station is being built at Oak Ridge, and others will be built in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville.

TVA Repurchases Chattanooga Office Complex

Suggestions for articles can be sent to the following correspondents:

TVA bought the Chattanooga Office Complex on Jan. 3 from a Chicago-based realestate partnership for $22 million. TVA sold the complex for $158 million in 1986, then took out a 25-year lease. The repurchase was negotiated two years ago, after the lease expired. TVA also expects to purchase the Monteagle Place Building in October 2012.

NUCLEAR PLANTS Bellefonte – Susan Gentle Browns Ferry – Amy Reagan, Jim Nesbitt Sequoyah – Shannon Ridinger Watts Bar – Jim Hopson

Winning Performance Scorecards Through December Available

CORRESPONDENTS

FOSSIL PLANTS Allen – Josephine Moore and Angela Simpson Bull Run – Mary Nolan Colbert – Sharon Johnson Cumberland – Sandra Parchman Gallatin – Kriste Lanius John Sevier – Norma Cato Johnsonville – Stefanie Moore Kingston – Beth Jackson Paradise – Janet Tingley Shawnee – Debby Abell

Widows Creek – Debbie Crabtree POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS and SAFETY PROGRAMS Myra Ireland RIVER OPERATIONS Jason Huffine ENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGY Bill Sitton NUCLEAR GENERATION DEVELOPMENT & CONSTRUCTION Terry Johnson

The Winning Performance Balanced Scorecards for fiscal year 2011 through December are available on the Winning Performance homepage (the link is under the ShortCuts heading on InsideNet).

Employees are encouraged to regularly review scorecard results and improvement action plans in their business areas.

FOSSIL POWER GROUP Jessica Stone

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ON THE COVER COVER PHOTO – Component Engineer Meredith Neal (left) receives advice from mentor Maintenance Specialist Jerry Miller. Story on page 6. Photo by Damien K. Power.

PHOTOS BY DAMIEN K. POWER

Open for Business

BY SHANNON RIDINGER

Thanks to the Nuclear Power Group’s In-Processing & Training Center, new employees can hit the ground running.

What happens at an In-Processing & Training Center?

The center is designed to be the central site to train new employees and contractors before they report to work at TVA nuclear power plants or in Nuclear’s corporate offices. Located in the Jackson County Industrial Park in Hollywood, Ala., the center opened for business in September 2010.

“The center allows us to offer standard, site-specific new employee training,” says the facility’s general manager, George Laurie. “Our training areas are a very important part of what we do here. We have stations where workers learn how to do everything, such as how to put on protective gear. New employees can get familiar with a typical day or situation at a plant before they ever step in the door. When employees complete the training, they are ready to work safely.”

More than 1,000 workers have come through the center already, and Laurie says he expects about 2,000 to 5,000 trainees each year.

Instructor Morris Necklaus oversees a new class in the state-of-the-art computer lab.

More than just a building The first floor in the 36,000-square-foot facility is complete with a Dynamic Learning Center for hands-on training; classrooms with 150 computer stations; a medical office; a badging office; and a large training area where workers learn radiation worker dress-out requirements. A second level will be added to the structure later this year to provide specific training required for some contractors, such as rigging, welding certification and confined-space training.

Laurie says TVA is seeking Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design green building certification for the center, a first for a TVA building. LEED certification verifies that a building or community was built using several strategies to improve energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.

When the building is completed, the site will feature electric vehicle charging stations, dedicated parking for alternative fuel vehicles, water-efficient landscaping and plumbing, and use of renewable power through the Green Power Switch program. n

Instructor Rick Tobey demonstrates safety precautions in the Dynamic Learning Center.

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A CR O S S TV A

Colbert Employees Recognized for Developing Wildlife Habitats

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The Wildlife Habitat Council has recognized Colbert Fossil Plant employees for their two-decade project to develop wildlife habitats and increase native biodiversity in the 1,354acre reservation that surrounds the plant. The land includes 540 acres of forest, 135 acres of scrub and 200 acres of wetlands.

Snowfall Across the Region Wintery scenes like the one at the TVA Chickamauga Dam recreation area were common after several inches of snow and ice fell throughout the TVA service region in mid-January. Cold temperatures and icy conditions closed many TVA recreation areas.

The snow storms continued this winter’s unusually chilly pattern. Colder weather drove up operating costs in the first quarter, primarily because the fuel and power purchased from other utilities totaled more than $1 billion, compared with $608 million in the same period last year. TVA set all-time records for the month of December in 24-hour usage and peak demand, both as a result of the cold temperatures across the region.

Steve Wallace

The wildlife project started in 1990 when a group of employees decided to plant seeds in a field to develop a wildlife habitat. “The employees installed or replaced existing bird boxes to promote blue bird nesting, and several workers helped build and install an Osprey platform on the Tennessee River and two bat houses to promote more pollinators and insect control,” said Engineering Technician Steve Wallace.

Since then, workers have planted more than 3,000 saplings and maintained wildflower plots and a 6-acre, native grass and wildflower meadow.

In the spring of 2007, the team replanted deer-food plots with perennials, which provide forage and cover for animals. Several schools and organizations have helped with habitat projects to enhance conditions for deer, turkey, quail, songbirds and other wildlife.

Food & Clothing Drive for the Salvation Army During the holiday season, Fossil Generation Development & Construction’s Coal Combustion Products, Projects & Engineering employees held a food and clothing drive to support the social services arm of the Salvation Army, which distributes food to needy individuals and families in Hamilton County and the surrounding counties.

Delivering nonperishable food items are (l-r) Vivian Ellis, Cedric Adams, Julie Schmidt, Jeff Ward, Matt Cook, Jessica Scott and Becky Zirk.

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Lorina Upshaw, standing in class with Howard School students (l-r) Quanisha Hammonds, Keshe’D Daniel and NuQeilla Robinson.

SCANNING THE FUTURE

BY JULIE TAYLOR

TVA employees and retirees team up to teach electronic document management to students at the Howard School of Academics & Technology.

Lorina Upshaw never thought she would return to her high school alma mater to teach students the skills she has learned over the past 33 years at TVA. But that is exactly what she does at least once a week at the Howard School of Academics & Technology in Chattanooga.

Students are hired as TVA interns to scan and index documents into TVA’s Electronic Document Management System. They work two hours a day at the school.

John Geeter, a TVA retiree, oversees the work in a room shared with TVA’s CADNet program — a school-to-work course that teaches students computer-assisted drafting skills.

Both programs are thanks to a partnership between Power System Operations, Fossil Generation Development & Construction, Nuclear Generation Development & Construction and the Nuclear Power Group.

“It is a great outreach program — a winwin for Howard and TVA,” says Charley Spencer, a manager in Fossil Generation Development & Construction and a volunteer in TVA’s Partners in Education program who helped Upshaw get the document-management program off the ground in October 2010.

“It also is a great example of different TVA groups working together to help students.”

According to Upshaw, a Nuclear Power Group information representative, the program opens the students’ eyes to career opportunities at TVA. “By providing these students with onthe-job training, TVA is investing in the future,” Upshaw says. “These skilled students could become the next generation of TVA employees.”

The students are recommended by faculty based on their interest and ability.

Principal Paul Smith says the program gives students real-world work experience that can enhance their studies in college or apprenticeships.

“The experience comes at a pivotal time for the students,” he says. “It is the first step toward grade 13.”

After two semesters in the program, sophomore NuQeilla Robinson says she would consider a career in document management at TVA. “I have really enjoyed working with TVA,” she says. “It has made me realize how it feels to be a young adult.” n

Need scanning?

Any TVA organization that would like to use the program’s scanning services can contact John Geeter at 423-313-2658 or Lorina Upshaw at 423-751-4866.

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A YOUNG EMPLOYEE IS GRATEFUL TO H TRAINING HER TO TAKE OVE

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BY BROOKS CLARK

HAVE MENTORS WHO ARE ER THE REINS SOMEDAY.

Do you remember your first mentor in the workplace? Do you wish you’d had one?

At Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Meredith Neal in the Predictive Maintenance Group is grateful to have mentors who are teaching her the many details of their jobs.

“My mentors go above and beyond what is required every single day,” says Neal, 23, who joined the Predictive Maintenance Group last April, out of the University of Tennessee’s mechanical engineering program.

At first, Miller and Anderson wondered how long Neal might stick around.

“We were very skeptical,” admits Anderson. “We are like doctors who diagnose the health of the machines.

We predict when they’re going to need maintenance. Every machine has a maximum life span. We do vibration analysis, oil thermography, ultrasonic readings and refrigeration analysis. We get dirty and sweaty. We are always climbing all over the place, and it can be somewhat dangerous.

Meredith jumped right in there and said, ‘Let’s go.’”

THE ADVENTURE BEGINS “For her first day on the job, we dressed out in Radiological Control Area clothing – banana suits – and went inside the reactor building and up a long climb to do vibration readings on the polar crane,” says Anderson. “It’s very hot and humid up near the top. When we came back down and were leaving the area, Meredith stepped in the Personal Contamination Monitor and it went off.” Her hardhat had been contaminated with a small amount of gas. The technicians wiped down the hardhat and sent Neal on her way, but it was an intimidating start.

Newcomer Meredith Neal (center) of the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Predictive Maintenance Group takes thermography on the switchyard under the tutelage of Maintenance Specialists David Anderson (left) and Jerry Miller.

“We said to each other, ‘Let’s see if she comes back after lunch,’ says Anderson. She came back and asked, ‘Where’re we goin’ next?’”

PHOTOS BY DAMIEN K. POWER

Neal describes herself as “preppy,” in slight contrast to Maintenance Specialists Jerry Miller and David Anderson, 50-somethings who ride Harleys cross-country and locally, respectively.

In the photos above, Neal works with her mentors Anderson and Miller to take vibration data, on the gland steam exhaust motor to determine the effectiveness of the dynamic absorber.

Neal exemplifies a key initiative going on all over TVA as longtime employees prepare to pass the torch to the next generation. “David and Jerry are great mentors,” says Neal.

“They take the time every day to teach me something.”

“It’s a special benefit to TVA that employees like Miller and Anderson love to teach,” says Senior Manager, Talent Sourcing & Support Services Susan Stout. Anderson, for one, has taught Sunday school to high school and college students for years.

“It takes roughly five years to learn our trade,” Anderson says.

“Our profession has a lot of tribal knowledge. You don’t pick it up off the street. You don’t learn it in school. You need someone to show you the ropes. That’s the way it was done for me by a man named Robert Emory, and I want to return the favor.

Jerry was self-taught and learned the vibration field while at Kingston Fossil Plant. We’re trying to turn over Watts Bar’s program to a young whippersnapper so that we can leave it in good hands.” n Inside TVA | FEBRUARY 2011 | 7

my job rocks

BY DAMIEN POWER

TVA employees are on the job 24/7, keeping the lights on, running the river system, managing TVA lands and supporting TVA’s operations.

In this column, you’ll hear from TVA employees who can say, “My job rocks!”

JOSH BERRY

| DESKTOP SPECIALIST, CHATTANOOGA

When your computer turns into a lemon, Josh Berry makes lemonade.

He believes his outlook on the future makes him a valuable asset for TVA. Having obtained his bachelor’s degree at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he is now pursuing a master’s of business administration with a focus in leadership to help make his next career step at TVA.

Berry, a desktop specialist supporting the Chattanooga Office Complex, is known for being upbeat, solving problems and knowing a whole lot about what makes Information Technology systems work — or not.

“I love interacting with people and getting them to see their full potential,” Berry says. “Hopefully my MBA will lead me to the next step where I can constantly encourage and lead others.” He’s also

looking forward to his new “career” as a father, as he and his wife are expecting a son in June.

When he’s not helping frustrated TVA employees conquer technology gremlins, painting the nursery or studying for his degree, Berry is an avid athlete.

He participates in several TVA-hosted sporting events, including softball and golf. Berry played shortstop for the championship Chattanooga softball team in the 2010 TVA Super Challenge event. n

Berry joined TVA as an intern in the summer of 2005 and became a full-time employee with IT’s Help Desk in 2008.

He credits the internship program for his career success, and he highly encourages other young people to follow in his footsteps.

Berry really enjoys his desktop support position. “You never know what you are going to see next. One minute you are working with someone in Nuclear, then next someone in Finance, then someone with Fossil…it’s an opportunity to see the ‘big picture’ and how each position plays a part in making TVA run as one. I try to ‘involve’ my customers so they have an understanding of what their issue may be, not just fix it and leave.”

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“It was a big stepping stone for me, and I see it as an excellent tool for new graduates to transition from college to career,” explains Berry. “You learn the company, and people see your face and learn your name, and if you work hard you can end up with a fantastic position like I did.”

Desktop Specialist Josh Berry gets to the root of the problem while maintaining his trademark smile.

Clara Petty: The Sharecropper’s Daughter

BY BROOKS CLARK

Growing up in eastern Arkansas in the 1940s and ’50s, young Clara Adkins each year started school two months late because she and her four siblings had to bring in the cotton.

“I watched with envy as I looked up from my cotton row to see the bus pass by each day loaded with schoolchildren,” writes TVA retiree Clara Adkins Petty in The Sharecropper’s Daughter: A Memoir. “I thought kids who got to go to school all year were the luckiest people on Earth.”

During the 1940s, the Adkins lived in a three-room home with no electricity, running water or inside bathroom. In 1949, they moved into a house with a second bedroom and electricity. They got running water in 1957 after Petty graduated from high school, but it was years before the family added an in-house toilet.

LISA BUSER

Each November, Petty caught up with her schoolmates and earned good grades. “I had an unusual love of reading,” she says. “It may have been my escape.”

After high school, Petty worked her way through Draughon’s Business College in Memphis, living at the YWCA. After graduation she got a job as an executive secretary at Allen Fossil Plant, which turned into a career as a TVA human resources officer. She worked at Hartsville and Browns Ferry nuclear plants, in Nashville and in the Customer Service Center in Memphis before retiring from TVA in 1996.

After several years out of the work force, Petty took a job as an executive assistant at Federal Express, where she works today.

The memoir took about two years to write.

In addition to the hardships, her father was emotionally volatile and abusive in the home. “I lived in fear and anxiety,” she recalls. “I always thought it would get better, but it never did.”

Although her father was a time bomb in the home, he was calmer and kinder when they were all chopping and picking cotton in the fields.

“I had always dreamed of writing a book,” she says. “I thought I had a story to tell. It started out as a history lesson for my two sons and three grandchildren, because this was a world so distant from what we know today. But as I started writing, I realized those years of hardship had instilled in me the survival skills I used to build a successful life. I hope my story can encourage and inspire others who had similar childhoods to overcome their hardships and challenges.”

“It was a haven for him,” Petty explains. “It was his comfort zone.”

The book is available from Amazon.com and major bookstores. n

new retirees 36 Years

Dennis L. Laugherty, Nuclear Power Group, Spring City, Tenn.

Vicky M. Richardson, Environment & Technology, Muscle Shoals Charles W. Smart, Environment & Technology, Knoxville

34 Years

33 Years

Robert L. Casey, Fossil Power Group, Jackson, Tenn.

John R. Reid III, Strategy & External Relations, Nashville

32 Years

31 Years

Jonathan W. Willingham, Strategy & External Relations, Huntsville, Ala.

30 Years

J. Larry Chandler, Fossil Power Group, Chattanooga

Hershell L. Butler Jr., Nuclear Power Group, Decatur, Ala.

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All In a Day’s Work

BY BILL SITTON

T VA B I O L O G I S T N E T S N E W C R AY F I S H D I S C O V E R Y

In July 2009, Simmons and his fellow team members were conducting a biological assessment of water quality in Factory Creek, a tributary of Shoal Creek in Lawrence County, Tenn.

As he reached down into the seine net to grab a unique looking crayfish, Simmons didn’t realize that his name, as well as the creature he was holding, would eventually find their way into the Smithsonian Institution’s natural history collection.

As it turns out, Simmons had discovered a new species of crayfish, which is now named in his honor — Barbicambarus simmonsi. After scientific review, the new species was recognized in the December 2010 issue of the Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington. The original crayfish is now cataloged among the Smithsonian’s species collection.

“I knew the crayfish was remarkable, having worked on crayfish projects before,” Simmons says. “But I thought it was a Kentucky bottlebrush crayfish that a fisherman had mistakenly introduced to the stream.”

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Simmons, who has worked for TVA for about five years, says he’s elated to have a species named after him. “It is probably the greatest honor a biologist can receive,” he says. “I never dreamed that at this point in my career — or lifetime — that I would have a species named in my honor. It’s pretty cool for me.”

Barbicambarus simmonsi is just the second species in the Barbicambarus genus. The first species, identified in 1884, is found only in the Green River near Mammoth Cave, Ky. Living under large, flat submerged boulders, Barbicambarus simmonsi is believed to inhabit just the Shoal Creek watershed in Tennessee and Alabama. The new variety is 6 to 7 inches long, whereas other native crayfish average 2 to 3 inches. Unlike any other genus, Barbicambarus have “bearded” antennae, giving them the common name of bottlebrush crayfish. n

PHOTOS BY DAMIEN K. POWER

Aquatic Zoologist Jeff Simmons has a really big fish story to tell.

Biologist Jeff Simmons shows off the rare Chickamauga crayfish, Cambarus extranus, which can only be found in the tributaries of South Chickamauga Creek in Chattanooga. Below, the Barbicambarus cornutus shares the same distinctive furry antennae as the Barbicambarus simmonsi.

Applause!

Resource Planning Specialist Tequilla Hurt in Chattanooga was featured in a recent roundup of systems engineers by Contributing Editor Dan Margherita of Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Technology magazine. Here are some excerpts:

NEW EMPLOYEES YASSINE ABOULFAIDA Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer, Nuclear Power Group

Born and raised in Tennessee, Hurt has a 2004 bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Christian Brothers University in Memphis and a 2010 master of business administration degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

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“Since middle school I always enjoyed playing around with things,” Hurt remembers, “breaking them apart to see how they work, and putting them back together.” She came from a low-income family but “was always surrounded by love.” She worked her way through school juggling two or three different jobs in five years.

Besides all her power-system, transmission-reliability and operations duties at TVA, Hurt is involved in recruiting at local colleges and churches. She’s also part of Partners in Education, a TVA program that helps local school youth develop social and life skills and supports character development, service learning, career opportunities and leadership experiences.

The TVA region is a far cry from Casablanca, Morocco, where Yassine Aboulfaida grew up.

Bowling Green, Ky.-based Economic Development Consultant Roxann Fry earned the designation of certified economic developer from the International Economic Development Council.

The certification recognizes mastery of economic development skills, professional attainment, and commitment to personal and professional growth.

His dream of being an engineer led him to college in the United States and, most recently, to Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

Aboulfaida was hired as an instrumentation-andcontrol systems engineer for TVA’s Nuclear Power Group in December 2010.

A TVA employee since 2008, Fry has more than 10 years of economic development experience. At TVA, she assists prospective and existing industries, facilitates financial services and helps communities support and grow local businesses. She also helps implement community-preparedness programs, delivers resources and technical assistance, and coordinates TVA’s marketing and business development efforts.

This isn’t his first time at TVA. He worked for Bechtel as a design engineer on the Watts Bar Unit 2 project in Knoxville for three years. Before that, he worked at the Bechtel office in Frederick, Md., for a year.

Fry formerly worked at Greater Louisville Inc. and Georgetown College in Kentucky. She won the Kentucky Association of Economic Development’s 2010 James Norris Gray Award for Professional Development for significant or innovative contributions to the field.

“Now I work on the system side,” Aboulfaida says.

“My job is to help make sure that Watts Bar is providing safe and reliable power at all times.”

He is completing two in-depth training courses — Introduction to Engineering Support Personnel and Pressurized Water Reactor Systems, which are required of all new engineers at the plant.

“I am learning more about the importance of being a nuclear power plant employee and how to perform my duties according to procedures and plant systems,” Aboulfaida says.

TVA Engineers of the Year Honored at Luncheon Engineering Excellence was the theme of the 2011 TVA Engineer of the Year awards luncheon on Jan. 28. Randy Petty was honored as TVA’s Ike Zeringue Engineer of Year, along with seven finalists nominated by their respective business units. Shown from left to right are Roger Milstead (River Operations), Kent Brown (Nuclear Power Group), Roberto Sanchez (Fossil Generation Development & Construction), Jim Kilgore (Fossil Power Group), Randy Petty (Power System Operations), Justin Kuhlers (Customer Relations), David Baker (Information Technology), Louis Lee (accepting on behalf of Michael Browman, Environment & Technology). For additional information about these engineers and their achievements, see the Nov. 18, 2010 TVA Today.

Aboulfaida graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with an electrical engineering degree.

He chose the university because of its power system program.

While he was there, he met and married his wife, Amber. She is now an electrical engineer with Bechtel, and they have a 2 1/2-year-old son, Adam.

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Don’t Hesitate –

Update!

When was the last time you checked out your contact information in TVA’s Human Resource Information System? Well, there’s a good reason to put it on the top of your list.

Pretty soon, TVA will have in place a system able to reach every employee and contractor in the event of an emergency or any other serious situation — like a pandemic, for example.

Here’s the rub: if your contact information isn’t correct, you might not get the message.

So don’t hesitate or procrastinate: Update!

Here’s how: • From the TVA InsideNet homepage, select DIRECTORY from the list of SHORTCUTS on the left.

• Click on the UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION link.

• Enter your Employee ID and PIN. • Update your work information, if necessary.

• Select EDIT OTHER PHONE NUMBERS so that all your contact numbers will be up-to-date.