Project Manager Engineer

Qualification Highlights:

• Radiation Safety Officer, four licenses, reciprocity in 8 states/Senior Health Physicist, expert addressing challenges managing materials/processes involving transuranics, enriched uranium, fission products, NORM/TENORM, byproduct material, tritium, x-ray generating devices & processes, ALARA coordinator for Byron Unit 2 outage in 2007, radiation safety involvement at three universities and one medical center

• Program/Project Manager – over 30 years experience, returned over $10 million in value to clients

• Expert in NEPA transactions as lead SME as project manager coordinating agencies/teams to deliver results, in implementing programs responsive to regulatory initiatives, e.g., pollution prevention, safe drinking water, occupational safety and health regulations, groundwater protection standards, and Rad NESHAPs

• Adept at assessing ailing radiation protection programs and implementing corrective actions

• Experienced in maintain a cadre of specialized semiconductor manufacturing tools for availability, reliability, qualified as new products and process were introduced to the factory, at a world class manufacturer: Intel

• Investigated legacy/proposed laboratory & pilot plant operations; unique cultural, historic & biotic resources, socioeconomic impacts, preparing licensing & permitting documents, obtaining licenses & permits

• Adept at statistical analysis, statistical analysis software, project management software, EVMS

• Experienced using International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidance for international projects

• Experienced using NCRP reports and reference materials such as ICRP, knowledgeable in use of regulatory standards: 10 CFR 20, 830, & 835 for safety and quality, and 49 CFR 171-173 for transportation

• Experienced using NRC/DOE regulations, ICRU documents, related standards & guidance, e.g., DOE Orders, Standards, Handbooks, & Guidelines, NQA-1, ISO 14000, ISO 17025, ISO 9000, ANSI & ASTM standards

Employment History:

10/10 – Present The Talley Group for CHPRC, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Richland, WA

Radiological Engineer, Program Assessment Manager

• Developed program assessment tools for CHPRC to verify compliance with ESH&Q program

• Participated in emergency response exercise drills

• Developed tools for visualizing data and for routine work-place exposure rate, airborne activity, contamination level and dose tracking, provided extract of air monitoring data for Rad NESHAPs compliance analysis

• Performed project-level ALARA reviews

• Spearheaded efforts to reduce dose and to better utilize the time-value of information

• Developed a macro tool for searching survey simple Excel files, saving hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars in labor costs, having an internal rate of return (IRR) of over 10000%.

05/10 – 10/10 Fowler, LLC, Richland, WA

Senior Health Physicist for WRPS

• Lead a team of certified health physicists in screening over 150 Problem Evaluation Requests (PERs) for Washington River Protection Solutions, abating of costly non-compliance sanctions to fee

• Eliminated 90% of the backlog of PERs

06/09 – 04/10 Cabrera Services, Inc., Denver, CO

Senior Radiological Engineer/Certified Health Physicist

• Developed design specifications for portable waste inspection systems

• Developed training standards for transuranic waste, and mixed waste handling radiation protection operations/programs

• Developed auditing materials to evaluate occupational safety and radiation safety programs

• Supported safety programs relating to Gamma Spectroscopy, Non-Destructive Assay (NDA) and Testing

• Performed data analysis on NDA results for RH and CH wastes

• Performed shielding calculations to support waste handling operations

• Developed appropriate procedures & control points for work packages for glove-box operations at WIPP

• Assessed radiation safety and environmental compliance operations for three waste generator facilities, two at the Hanford Site (PFP & WRAP), and one waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory (WCCR)

• Performed DOT regulatory analysis for portable non-destructive waste examination devices

• Provided project support for DOD operations for marine sediments characterization and remediation

6/08 – 4/09 ECC, Lakewood, CO

Technical manager for Westinghouse Fuel Fabrication Facility D&D Project in Hematite, MO and D&D Projects for Varian in Walnut Creek, CA

• Prepared FSS reports, preliminary remedial action reports, and commercial proposals

• Prepared a chapter for a Part 70 licensing action decommissioning plan, and worked with licensing personnel on coordinating language between decommissioning plan and remedial action investigation submittals

• Revised and updated procedures for health physics and health and safety programs

• Contributed to licensing transactions and program quality for NDS Gamma Spectroscopy ISOCS systems

• Supported occupational safety and emergency preparedness programs pertaining to OSHA standards as well as Radiation Protection Programs

• Saved 20% on proposal costs by developing a cost-effective improvement over RFP design

8/04 – 6/08 The Shaw Group (Shaw E&I, Shaw Stone & Webster), Denver, CO

Senior level project professional and consultant

•Restored an ailing Radiation Protection Program to health and abated license violations inherited from previous operation, maintaining viability of a $50 M project, RPP was valued at $2M for project

• Wrote proposals, won international work with a value in excess of 500K, and executed work

• Responsible authority on four radioactive materials licenses for Shaw

• Prepared monthly analytical reports, final status survey reports, and submitted to client

• Supervised health physics technicians, gamma spectroscopy analyst, & a chief chemist QA analyst

• Used a portable gamma spectroscopy survey instrument to identify isotopes in building materials

• Prepared qualitative risk assessments

• Used MARSSIM protocols to facilitate the free release of structures & soils returning lands to beneficial use

• Technical reviewer and author for operational procedures, radiation protection plan, site specific health and safety plan

• Created implementation materials for a radioactive materials license

• Built QA/QC chart tools (Shewhart Charts) to validate/document daily instrument performance checks

• Functioned as site safety lead

• Assisted in business development in projects coast to coast

• Reviewer/subject matter expert on WMD, RDD scenarios

• Coached, mentored, supervised RCTs, and two scientists, reviewing reports, surveys and validating data

• Worked as an ALARA coordinator for a commercial nuclear power generating station outage, Byron Unit 2, 2007

• Prepared a resource allocation algorithm for meeting Clean Water Act applicable to complex mining site pollution sources

• Implemented OSHA, DOE, DOD, NRC and State agreement program regulations for occupational safety and radiation protection programs nation wide

3/04 – 7/04 Pangea Group, Inc., St. Louis, MO

Senior level consultant to Shaw

• Lead Radiation Protection Program authority for project

• Prepared final status survey reports

• Developed project radiation protection program procedures

• Prepared monthly project analytical reports

• Cost effectively closed-out project, awarded follow-on work with prime contractor

4/03 – 5/04 EarthTech, Inc., San Antonio, TX

Senior level management

• Prepared FSS reports for DOE (TA-33 Tritium abatement at LANL) and DOD (Kelly AFB) facilities

• Developed QA program plans, enhancing division’s marketing profile by 5 to 10%

• Radiation Safety Officer at a multi-million dollar Superfund clean-up site contaminated with radium, thorium, cesium, lead and PCB

• Prepared control charts/Shewart charts for radiation detection instrument response checks tools for instrument acceptance

8/02 – 4/03 Safety & Ecology, Inc., Knoxville, TN

Project Health physicist

• Saved project over $100 K

• Managed RWP activities

• Involved in internal audit processes

• Investigated air sample result

• Conducted ISMS training

• Reported on special dose assessments for radiological occurrence reports

• Performed statistical analyses and prepared presentations of environmental statistics

6/00 – 7/02 Intel Corporation, FAB 11, Rio Rancho, NM

Project manager

• Managed over 100 un-patterned wafer inspection tools, maintaining high reliability and up-time status

• Generated cost savings in excess of $2M dollars/year across the virtual factory

• Introduced new products, matching development Fab yields

• Managed over 1200 statistical process control charts

• Conducted safety sign-off reviews for manufacturing tool installation and relocation

• Conducted safety briefings

• Provided beryllium safety training to staff at resident Fabs and the virtual factory

10/96 – 7/97 Versar, Inc., Northglenn, CO

Project Environmental Scientist & Health physicist

• Managed a MARSSIM Survey design project and procedure development

• Performed data validation for sampling results

• Design review for reactive wall installation for removal of TCA/TCE from groundwater

• Business development and marketing

• Statistical analysis

Credentials:

• B.S., Biology/Chemistry/Biochemistry, Eastern Michigan University

• M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

• M.S., Materials Science, Colorado School of Mines

• M.E., Engineering Management, University of Colorado at Boulder

• Post-Graduate studies at Colorado Sch. of Mines met all course requirements for 2 of their Ph.D. programs

• Certified Health Physicist by: American Board of Health Physics (#3218), expert in MARSSIM protocols

• Medically qualified & current: 40 hr. HAZWOPER (29 CFR 1910.120), with refresher, and HAZWOPER Supervisor

• First Aid, CPR, AED, & Rad. Worker II

• Meets lead auditor credential requirements of NQA-1; previously ‘Q’ cleared

• Over 20 years of OSHA, NRC, & DOE rules implementation, previously held DOE L & Q clearances

• Additional graduate studies at University of Michigan, University of Colorado, University of Idaho,

Idaho State University, & Naropa University

Other Experience:

I have worked with the following major corporations and government contractors: SAIC, Rocky Flats (EG&G Rocky Flats, Inc., Kaiser Hill, LLC, MACTEC (emergency response planning & exercises, NEPA, procedure writing, nuclear safety, pollution prevention planning, regulatory initiative planning, & internal dosimetry, Rad NESHAPs)), MDM Services, Inc., Excalibur, Informatics, RMH Engineering Group, University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, University of Michigan and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ((CDPHE) Projects returned over $7M to State’s general fund, Safety Analysis, licensing, NEPA Assessment, Rad NESHAPs)), Ford, GM, Chrysler Corporation, Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, and supported the missions of DOE, NASA, NRC, EPA, DOD, DHS. More information is available upon request: Edited several chapters of HPS/AMUG’s reference book published last year.

A list of publications, professional work products (as well as examples), specialized software, specialized training, and graduate coursework available on request.

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