Meet our Trainers

Graham Provost
Trainer, AVESTAR Center
Fossil Consulting Services (FCS)

Graham is a Director and Senior Project Manager at FCS. He has over 15 years of power plant, electrical distribution, and maintenance related experience, including more than 9 years of training experience. This includes 10 years in the Navy Nuclear Power Program as a supervisor, operator, and trainer, and time in the Cement and Mining Industry as an Electrical Maintenance Manager. Graham has experience in all facets of training curriculum design, development, and implementation for all types of training topics in various formats, including Simulator and Computer Based Training (CBT). As a classroom instructor, he has presented numerous courses for operations, maintenance, and supervision, totaling thousands of hours of classroom presentation time.

Graham has a Bachelors of Science in Human Resource Management from the Milano School of Management and Urban Policy and has pursued Graduate course work in Business at Hood College.

Mike McClintock
Trainer, AVESTAR Center
Fossil Consulting Services (FCS)

Mike has over 35 years of experience in the power utility industry, including over 20 years in developing and presenting training for power plant personnel. Mike started his career with gas turbine design at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft followed by 10 years with GE in both gas and steam turbine installation and maintenance in the factory and as a field engineer. Mike graduated from GE's Startup Engineers' Program.  Mike has developed and taught courses in plant operations, steam and gas turbine operations & maintenance, and in plant thermal performance for both engineers and operators. 

Mike is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Maryland and holds a NIULPE Chief Engineer Certification.

Vic Madison
Trainer, AVESTAR Center
Fossil Consulting Services (FCS)

Vic is a Director and Senior Project Manager at FCS.  He has over 30 years of power plant related experience. This includes Navy Nuclear Power, Commercial Nuclear Power and Conventional Power Plant operations experience as well as training experience. Vic has been a training consultant for 20 years. His training experience includes the design and development of paper-based materials, Computer-Based Training (CBT), and Web-Based Training (WBT) for a wide variety of business sectors. As a classroom instructor, Vic has presented a great number of courses for operators, maintenance and supervisors.  These include both generic and plant specific courses, presented in the US and Internationally.