BENJAMIN J. JONES

**** ******* ***** 502-***-**** Carlsbad, NM 88220

Email: acugw5@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Senior Procedure Writer, Nuclear Waste Partnership – Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Certified Procedure Writer, Procedure Professionals Association (PPA)

Director, Grants, Planning and Research, Aiken Technical College

President, World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana

Former Practicing Attorney Business Practice (Ky-8 Years)

Adjunct Faculty (Business Law) at Indiana University Southeast

Adjunct Faculty (Political Science) McKendree University

Former Senior Executive at the Council of State Governments

Former City Attorney

Skills and Abilities

Extremely experienced professional with a history of success in senior positions in diverse fields and contexts. Accomplished writer with the experience and ability to apply logic and analysis to writing in technical fields. Certified nuclear procedure writer with experience creating and revising a wide variety of types of technical and management procedures in a demanding nuclear re-start environment.

Positions Held

Senior Procedure Writer, Nuclear Waste Partnership, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (2015-present)

Employed as part of a newly-created Procedure Department during a multi-year effort to re-start operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) under a Department of Energy contract with the Nuclear Waste Partnership. Served as a Senior Procedure Writer assigned to critical re-start efforts including the following:

One of two writers assigned to review and revise all plant procedures related to implementation of a Consolidated Evaluation of the Safety of the Situation (ESS) which consolidated 10 different ESS’s into one revised pre-start document.

Served as a member of a plant-wide “Tiger Team” which reviewed and revised over 180 procedures and created new procedures for implementation of an entirely new Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) to replace the plant’s Consolidated ESS and allow restart with actual waste operations.

Revision of over 60 plant critical equipment procedures as part of institutional re-start efforts.

Procedural development for major new plant equipment systems, including a new underground wireless communication system, a new supplementary underground ventilation system, and numerous others.

Director of Grants, Planning and Research, Aiken Technical College (2012-2015)

Responsible for grants acquisition and management, as well as institutional research and institutional effectiveness for a technical college of 3,000 students in Aiken, South Carolina. Responsibilities include preparation for accreditation and re-affirmation including academic program accreditation, as well as non-academic and academic program review, learning outcomes assessment, etc. Acquired over $15 million in grants for the college’s programs.

President, World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana (2002-Oct 2011)

Provided leadership in all aspects of a community-based international organization that develops and provides professional programming for official, U.S. government-sponsored international visitors to the Louisville urban area. Created a program of community discussions centering on international affairs which brings together hundreds of local citizens each year for educational programming. Obtained corporate support for local organizational programs. Responsible for grant proposal development and management, as well as all aspects of association management. Administered professional internships, coordinated local volunteers, plannned and developed cultural and social programming. Responsible for publications, finances, staff management, and all aspects of membership recruitment, retention, and programming.

Successfully led a small non-profit organization through a period of financial crisis

while redefining its mission and services. The World Affairs Council is now larger,

more stable, and more active than at any time in its history

Created Global Issues Forum at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, hosting

presenters such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Gen. Colin Powell, Christiane Amanpour, etc.

Successfully obtained over $1,000,000 in Federal Grants and Contracts for the

World Affairs Council of Kentucky/Southern Indiana, and in previous positions

at the Council of State Governments submitted over $2,000,000 in successful

federal grant proposals

Winner of “Art of Diversity” Award for 2006 from the Center

for Non-Profit Excellence

Winner of “Mayors International Award” for 2007 from the Metro Government

Winner of “Outstanding Medium-Sized World Affairs Council” Award for 2008

from the World Affairs Councils of America

Selected for Numerous High-Level Visitor Programs by the U.S. Department

of State, Agency for International Development, Library of Congress,

and US/Ukraine Foundation

Adjunct Instructor (Business Law) at Indiana University Southeast (2006-2012)

Selected by Business School at IUS to teach Business Law on an Adjunct Instructor Basis. Taught all aspects of business law to Business School undergraduate students.

Adjunct Instructor (American Politics) at McKendree University – Louisville Campus

(2007-2008)

Taught American Politics to undergraduate students

Washington Office Director and Director of International Affairs, Council of State Governments

Responsible for all Washington and International activities for a large (180 employees) umbrella association of state government officials. The Washington Office Director served on the Board of Directors for the State and Local Legal Center, as well as being responsible for all staff functions for the CSG Intergovernmental Affairs Committee and the CSG International Task Force. Elected Chair of the Board of the Hall of the States, where almost all state organizations are housed on Capitol Hill. Responsible for liaison between CSG and its affiliates, and a wide variety of federal agencies and other intergovernmental organizations and associations. Engaged in extensive lobbying and informational activities and provision of intergovernmental policy information and intelligence to CSG and state-related organizations. Headed CSG International Program with responsibility for program development and management of CSG Delegations Abroad to the European Community, the Republic of China on Taiwan, Japan (Environmental Focus), and the former Soviet Union (criminal justice delegation). Responsible for international grants and contracts, grants from the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), the Japan Foundation, the Philip Morris Corporation, and the German Marshall Fund.

Director of Law and Justice, Council of State Governments

Created and developed a department at CSG headquarters office in Lexington, Kentucky with responsibility for over a million dollars in research grants (an overall departmental budget of $1.8 million) and management of all criminal justice associations and activities within the CSG umbrella. Those responsibilities included research and training in law and justice related state government policy areas; obtaining and managing grants; conference planning and management; publications; and management of supervision of all staff. Among the associations managed were the American Probation and Parole Association, the National Association of Secretaries of State, the National Association of State Election Directors, and the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws.

Attorney in Private Practice and Various Positions at the Council of State Govenments

Private practice of law for eight years on a part-time basis while also serving variously as a consultant and full-time employee for the Council of State Governments. While engaged in general private practice, also served on a part-time basis as City Attorney for two Kentucky cities.

Education

J.D. University of Kentucky – Lexington, Kentucky

B.A. University of Kentucky – Lexington, Kentucky

Majors in Political Science and Communications

Organizational Affiliations

Member, Louisville Metro YMCA International Committee, 2003 - 2006

Member, Board of Directors, World Communities of Louisville, 2002 - 2008

Publications

“Presumption In a Products Liability Action that an Adequate Warning Would Have Been Heeded”, 38 ALR5th 683, 1996

“Free Trade and State Sovereignty”, Spectrum, Fall 1994

“The States and the North American Free Trade Agreement”, The Book of the States, (1994-95 edition)

A Compilation of State Ethics Laws Relating to Public Officials, Council of State Governments, 1991

“Interstate Compacts and Agreements”, The Book of the States, (1980-81 edition)

“State Consumer Protection Activities”, The Book of the States, (1980-81 edition)

Interstate Compacts and Agencies, Council of State Governments, 1979

The Minnesota Family Farm Security Program, Council of State Governments, 1979

The Connecticut Product Development Corporation, with Dr. James E. Jarrett, Council of State Governments 1979

The New Jersey Qualified Bond Program, with Dr. Dick Howard, Council of State Governments 1978

“The Separation of Powers Doctrine and the Use of Arbitration in State and Local Public Employee Labor Relations”, State Government, (Spring, 1978)

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