Mike Taylor

Metrology and quality professional with more than thirty years of experience spanning nuclear power generation, U.S. Navy calibration operations, supplier quality auditing, and post-secondary technical instruction. Deep expertise in calibration across dimensional, electrical, pressure, flow, vacuum, and physical disciplines; measurement uncertainty (GUM); test uncertainty ratio and guard-banding; and ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory practice and internal auditing.

An experienced educator and technical communicator — fifteen years of college instruction, multiple published articles, and national-conference presentations — and a long-standing contributor to the National Conference of Standards Laboratories International (NCSLI).

Independent Metrology Consultant at M Taylor Quality & Metrology Consultations LLC (2017-01 – Present)

• Registered independent metrology practice; self-directed projects and continued professional development in calibration, measurement uncertainty, and ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory practice.

Senior Metrologist (Contract) at DTE Energy, Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant (2024-01 – 2026-01)

• Returned to the Fermi 2 metrology laboratory as a contract senior metrologist; performed calibration and inspection of measuring & test equipment across dimensional, electrical, pressure, vacuum, flow, leak-rate, torque, temperature, and humidity disciplines with full traceability.
• Leading contributor to the laboratory refurbishment — rewrote and adapted Fluke MET/CAL automated measurement procedures to integrate new equipment; developed uncertainty budgets and inter-laboratory comparisons; authored reports on nonconforming and out-of-control M&TE.

Senior Metrologist at DTE Energy, Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Plant (1987-01 – 2017-12)

Retired December 2017 after 30+ years.

• Operated a full-scope nuclear metrology laboratory with a strong focus on flow, leak-rate, pressure, and vacuum calibration, plus voltage, current, resistance, frequency, temperature, humidity, torque, dimensional, and radiation/radioactive-source instrument calibration.
• Responsible for laboratory management, uncertainty budgets, inter-laboratory comparisons, vendor calibration coordination, laboratory budget management, outage preparation, customer relations, and customer-base development; authored reports on failed calibrations, lost M&TE, and loss-of-control issues.
• Advanced the laboratory's use of metrology software applications and measurement-data integrity.

Technical Specialist — Supplier Calibration & Quality Audits (Nuclear & Aerospace) at Various Nuclear & Aerospace Suppliers (1990-01 – 2010-12)

• Performed source surveillances, commercial-grade dedication, and NUPIC audits of calibration facilities for the nuclear power industry, including: Keithley Instruments (Orlando, FL); TRW Space Electronics (Redondo Beach, CA); Northrop Grumman Calibration Laboratories (Redondo Beach, CA); AKO Torque Specialties (Enfield, CT — three engagements); Sencore Instruments (Sioux Falls, SD); Consumers Electric Laboratory Services (Jackson, MI); and Stephens Analytical (Montreal, Quebec).

U.S. Navy Instrumentman (Metrology) at USS Fulton Submarine Tender (1983-01 – 2011-12)

Active duty 1984–1987 (USS Fulton, AS-11); Naval Reserve thereafter, with active-duty recall 2006–2008.

• Physical/dimensional calibration specialist in the ship's Metrology & Calibration (MIRCS) Laboratory: repaired and calibrated pressure, vacuum, submarine-depth, altimeter, temperature, dimensional, torque, flow, and time-measurement instruments used on nuclear-powered submarines, both onboard and in the laboratory, including oxygen-clean calibration of pressure and flow instrumentation.
• Performed radiation-detection / health-physics instrument calibration and maintained the associated measurement standards for radiation-contaminated equipment.

Electronics Technician at Southwire Corporation

• Repaired a variety of electronic equipment used in a wire-manufacturing plant.

Adjunct Instructor of Metrology at Monroe County Community College (2010-01 – 2025-01)

• Taught six courses spanning metrology, quality, statistics, and electronics; responsibilities included instruction, test-equipment maintenance, design of training laboratories and lab exercises, and curriculum development.
• Instruction included dimensional metrology, GD&T, statistical process control, measurement systems analysis, and coordinate measurement (CMM / PC-DMIS and portable arm / PolyWorks).

Volunteer Instructor & Designer — Metrology Summer Camp

• Created and taught a metrology summer camp for five years; authored two articles about the program in Metrologist Magazine (2016, 2017).

Instructor / Trainer — U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Indoctrination at U.S. Navy (2005-01 – 2022-01)

• Designed and delivered the annual Chief Petty Officer indoctrination at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, MI, preparing newly advanced Chiefs for middle-management responsibilities (graduate, U.S. Navy Instructor Training School, 1995).

Bachelor of Applied Science in Electronics Technology – Siena Heights University (1998-01)

Associate of Applied Science – Columbus College (University System of Georgia)

Graduate coursework in Master's degree – University of Michigan

Electronics Technician Certification – Columbus Vocational Technical School (1980-01)