Dwayne Bent
Plant Manager - Astoria Energy I & II at NAES
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDwayne Bent is an experienced plant manager with 13 years in power generation operations and engineering, currently leading day-to-day operations at New York City’s largest combined-cycle facility delivering 1,200 MW to over one million homes. He directs a 22-person multi-disciplinary team, driving operational excellence through preventative maintenance, outage response, regulatory compliance, and safety-first culture that has produced near-zero unexpected outages and zero casualties. Skilled in process optimization, performance analytics, and contract-driven pricing, he blends technical depth from hands-on turbine commissioning with strategic budget and revenue management. Dwayne’s background spans commissioning new gas-turbine plants, re-commissioning post-disaster assets, and building operational frameworks from the ground up—experience that informs his continuous improvement mindset. He pairs advanced engineering credentials (MS and BS in engineering) with an MBA to align technical decisions to business outcomes. Outside of power plants, he’s contributed to open-source tooling (CKAN) as a full-stack developer, signaling a practical curiosity for software solutions that augment operational workflows.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Industrial Engineering, Master of Science - MS Industrial Engineering at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
develop10
command-line-interface10
dotnet-core10
command-line10
csharp10
version-detection9
versioninfo9
versioning9
version-control9
plugin-development8
markdown7
bbcode7
markdown-it7
css6
xmlhttprequest6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
KSP-CKAN/CKAN
May 2015 - May 2019
The Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:192 commits, 71 PRs, 199 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Dwayne primarily contributed to the CKAN client's command-line interface, introducing new functionalities. They added a "compare" action for version string comparisons and implemented various export formats, including PlainText, Markdown, and BBCode, for the module list. Additionally, the user implemented the "as" directive within module installation descriptors, enhancing installation flexibility, and made various code improvements across multiple files.
kerbalarchiveckancomprehensiveksp
Apokee/Ketchup
Jul 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:409 commits in 1 year 5 months
kerbalmodprogrammablekerbal-space-programkerbal-space
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