senior project manager

senior system engineer

intern

general engineer

it analyst

Exelon

The saying who you know and not what you know goes a long way.  Seeing high level of incompetence of operating shift managers has put a damper in my confidence of how the nuclear stations are ran.  Continual back scratching and political advancement while borderline integrity issues are all signs of an incompetent upper management.

As a large corporation compensation can be lucrative as long as you know and chum at the right individuals.

Benefits are comfortable and competitive compared to other companies.

They use diversity and veteran status only to check mark their box. They do not consider the years in service as they calculate your work experience for the pay compensation and promotions.

Diversity is generally kept at the lower ranks of the office as the higher in management you go the lighter the hue and similar the backgrounds. Most opportunities for the younger starting career professionals are provided to the resemblance of the upper management.

Bully tactics and "chilling" effects for continuous pressure for the desired answer regardless of technical rigor and recommendations are for the people to blame for not challenging upper-management enough and cast blame on engineering. (because the upper management will change jobs and the error will not target them in the future)

Engineering is not valued as it isn't a direct operations and maintenance aspect of generating money.  Because engineering error is latent and will be caught at a much later date, they are used as an old rug to sweep dirt under for another person to hold and get blamed.

If you want to utilize your talents and have a high aspiration in career growth, be wary as if you do the right thing at times subtle retaliation will ensue and the glass ceiling will hit you sooner than you think. 

If you want to continuously move up in management or operations, do not become an expert in a certain area as the company will chain you to that position to alleviate to hire and train another person out of their own convenience.  Continually move from one position to another as you befriend and fraternize with upper management and you will move up regardless of quality work and dedication to the task and integrity as long as you provide minimal time.

BUT if you want a steady paycheck and don't mind being stuck in a cubicle working 10 hours average and only get paid 8 hours a day and really just want to ride out the remainder of your career independently with out much aspiration, this job is great for you. Smile as everything is just fine.

Don't even know where to start. This place has the worst management I have ever worked for. They do nothing to improve work life balance, or improve moral of the department. You hear the same regurgitated garbage over and over again about what needs improved, but it never gets done. The management will not go out of their way to help you. If you have issues, they blank stare listen and that's the end of the conversation. Security management will not bring up issues that other departments, because they know their management is a joke, and if they do bring up issues that are reported, it ruins their possible chance of moving to management in another department. If you like working with lazy management that pawns off as much work as possible on the guards, this is the job for you. Asking them to help you in anyway that involves them getting out of their chair is a dilemma.
     For the training department, why even bother having one. Another big joke of security. If you want to sit around and talk about life stories and tell jokes for weeks, that's the place. The only place you learn anything is from on the job shadowing, but you don't get much of that. For the time wasted by instructors, who don't even know the full scope of the security job, they have the on staff security train them. It's all fine, but what is the point of the training department then? 
     I always wondered what other departments think of security management. Security is the bottom of the barrel department, that is told what to do by other departments. The security management has absolutely no backbone when it comes to backing up their people. They will throw them under the bus in an instant, just to make themselves look good to other management in other departments. 
     So, if you love constant overtime, poor management, and being talked down by your management, along with being told every excuse why they can't get something done to improve safety or help you, it's a great place to work.
     How is the security management even evaluated? Honestly, they put the worst people in these positions and let them go rampant. Clearly their only job is to suppress any issues that are brought up, and not fix them.


My Schedule: Monday-Friday: 7am-330pm  plus every 3rd month on call 24 / 7 days a week.

Typical day – I open up the medical center ( I alternate between two different locations, one in Baltimore City and on in Baltimore County [bimonthly and PRN]), perform physicals, manage care for occupational health illness and injuries, Case Manage  short term disability cases including out of state  absences  that start from 5 days  up to 6 months.  Physically work in the medical center as well as telephonic/ managing phone lines, communication with various other supervisors and mangers  r/t employees, sending and responding to multiple emails.   Communicating with various Primary Care MD's of individual employees with current medical issues, obtaining  medical updates to assistant in case management decisions.  Also, Starting Denial procedures for current STD benefit cases that has not met criteria. Conference calls with various divisions primarily Legal, Human Resources, Mangers /Supervisors r/t individual employee issues- varying from hiring process, medical surveillances, medical  accommodations, ADA, termination, etc. 
Traveling to various locations, when required, including out of state if needed for meetings or other training/teaching.

My coworkers are within other offices and outside of the State (Chicago) and in Maryland.  I have an Awesome team.

I hardest part of the job is in trying to answer that question because I don't think it's hard.  It can be challenging at times; with all the multitasking, in only an 8 hour window.  I usually work through lunch if I choose to eat verses a light health snack (fruit/yogurt).

The most enjoyable part of my job is that I love what I do because it helps  employees and the company as a whole.  

Pros: Great benefits and Yearly Incentive Bonuses

What is the best part of working at the company?
The company culture and opportunities to learn were what I enjoyed most. I enjoyed my time with this company and the people I worked with and learned with. Everyone was always willing to help teach each other and close any gaps in the team. Management was also responsive and was always looking for ways to train, promote, and improve their team.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part was the tight deadlines when infrastructure systems went down but it was welcomed stress. Additionally, management cross-trained their team so that the work is evenly distributed and there are always resources available when deadlines are extremely short. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
If you are like me and love learning new technologies you will love it there. They also have a very inclusive company culture and you get to meet people from all walks of life and learn from their experiences. They also have networking events for different groups of people. I enjoyed the groups centered around Star Wars, Anime, Gaming, and African Americans in Tech.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in and check service now requests and also email communications
Complete all training tasks for upcoming projects
Complete all tasks assigned for all projects assigned to your team
Monitor the status of the critical Servers
Build virtual environments using automated scripts for the Development operations team
Meet with my mentor via Teams to learn a new skill and help reduce his workload in return

Exelon overall is a good company to work for. There is plenty of opportunities for advancement and/or rotating, pay is pretty fair, and management is competent and inclusive. Sometimes some of their efforts do look a little like they are “for show” only though. For instance their work in DEI. They say they care about inclusion but almost all the executives are white. Also depending on your department you will be expected to work a lot. For me this is within the finance department. They call it “world class” but I personally think this is just a ploy for them to get us to work more, squeeze us of all our labor, and convince us that we are part of something that is so much better because everyone works super hard. Really the truth is they just need more staff within the department to spread the work out more evenly so that our “world class organization” don’t need to work so much. I am a low level employee but I have seen our managers and even senior employees work late nights and sometimes all day. They encourage everyone to use their vacation every year which is good, but I know some employees in the department who lose their vacation every year (thankfully I am not one of them). Coworkers are also good. Also for junior employees or people straight out of college, Exelon is one of the highest paying jobs you can find out there so it is great in that aspect. Benefits are also very generous include paid vacation 3+weeks per year, HSA, insurance, Employee assistance Programs which include finance assistance, legal assistance, and up to 6 free mental health sessions per year, 401K match program, employee stock purchase plans, generous annual bonuses, and much more.

I left a very stable federal contract contract position, renewed 3 times to advance my career as an Application Architect Excelon but never performed that duty. I was just another Sr. Programmer developing mostly APIs

My Experience:
We created a particular RESTapi to wrap the current WCF code as a first step for moving the platform into the future. We was told this was to be the standard henceforth. I was assigned a project that was perfect for it. I used it and had the project ready for review in 2 weeks. Come review time, the team lead whose brain child the RESTapi was, told me I should not have done that. He then forced me to rewrite it. The code was functioning perfectly, no issues and adhered to all company standards.

After another 2 days, that code was also wrong because it provided too much information to the 3rd party community so I adjusted the data to be revealed via interface and was told that was wrong.

So, the team lead, decided to show me how it was done and said he could do it in two hours. Three hours later it was still not done and I was told to finish what he started... that was late on a Friday afternoon. The project ended up taking another month.

A month after that when my contract was up, it was not extended as expected. The team lead, also a contractor was hired as a permanent team lead for Exelon, and I was given another two weeks to finish up and document my projects. I was unemployed for another 6 weeks.

•	Providing Tier 1 & 2 and System Administration support for end users both employees and contractors              who have access to Constellation\Exelon network and applications. 
Submit service tickets to proper support group for specific application issues for issues that cannot be resolved within the help desk.
•	Troubleshoot and resolve trouble tickets related to technical difficulties with hardware, software, and the network on multiple, widely diversified computer platforms using HP Service Manager for Ticket tracking and status updates for customers 
- RSA token deployment and troubleshooting for remote users, with both physical and smart phone token devices, walk client through set up's and install of new RSA tokens. 
- Citrix server application use and troubleshooting
- Assist building the Knowledge Base for team use in preparation of new work for the account.
- Assist new hires with answering questions on application and troubleshooting processing when new on the phones and continue to mentor when Leads are unavailable for assistance.
- Installs, removes and upgrades software packages to include office automation, and special purpose software, profile rebuilds, local PC, Outlook and Citrix. 
- Verify account access in Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Management Console, RSA Console, Citrix Farm, Access Requests Systems, and Blackberry Enterprise Server

Exelon bought out our company supposedly with the intention of growing their Midwest business.  But instead within 2 years our lease was up at our office location and they decided against renewing and decided to completely close the Indianapolis all together.  

Then to add salt to the wound I had to train not 1 but 2 employees to take over my job functions for my final 6 months until the closure date.  Had no choice to do it or I wouldn't receive my severance package.
Exelon had no idea what our company did exactly or how good at it we were, we had a great team of employees that had all worked together for many years and had survived to buy outs.  My immediate manager and co-workers in the Indianapolis office were great, like family honestly.  Exelon management was fake and clueless to our job functions, it was just all about the money to them.

I personally had a very hard time with the transition of my job duties and the closure because I truly cared about my customers and making sure I provided nothing but the best quality of work and customer service to them, the trainees had a difficult time catching on and understanding the job functions.  Even though I wrote up very specific instructions and procedures for every system and process I performed, it was very frustrating but unfortunately out of my hands and luckily my customers understood.

My day starts at 7am-4pm. The first thing I do is check our queue to see if there are any emergent issues that need help right away. I then proceed to the call center floors to see if there are any shoulder taps that need addressed. I then come back to check my queue and what laptops/desktops I have at my desk to work on. I periodically check email to see if anyone needs help. I am signed into Skype at all times to answer IMs as they come in. 
I have learned to work with all levels of clients here at Exelon. I work with 4 other teams across the Eastern U.S. We have monthly meetings to make sure we are all on the same page. I have learned about safety, volunteering and being diverse. Our workplace here is open, all of the teams seem to work together in one way or another. I provide support in a building of 1500. The hardest part of the job is being apart from support teams that I cannot walk up too. They are located in a sister company in another state. Getting help with issues that may arise can be difficult. The most enjoyable part is fixing issues and knowing the clients can work again and get their job done without any hassles. I was told long ago, a productive worker is a happy worker. I believe that to be true in what I do as well.

Hardest part:
 Learning the procedures and process of the department. Then watching the department go from 43 people to 8 people at the end.

Most enjoyable part:
 The people they made it easier to learn & the amount of work that kept you busy all day.

Management & Co-workers:
 Both management and co-workers were there to help if you need them.

Come in and open & sort incoming mail then distribute to the group.
Two different type of invoice - some (with paper sent from different parts of the company that had to be filed immediately) labor work so when invoice came in all could be verified & others were verified through the system for materials ordered & received.  Eventually new program "Passport 8.0" was implemented which let you verify all invoice whether labor and/or material.  Some major clients that contact us regarding multiple payments we create spread sheet with all the invoices number, amounts paid & dates paid.  
Sometimes you help run the check disbursement machine and once the checks are disbursed your verify the checks for dates, signature and quick glance at the rest of check  if ok then fold and stuff envelope for mailing.  Update spreadsheet with check run totals.

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