ISMSOLUTIONS - Key Persons
As system engineer, Mr. Horner's attention to detail greatly improved accuracy of system documentation, identified components not previously tested, reactivated partial systems taken out of service for adjoining structure demolition to provide needed coverage, performed troubleshooting and repair of faulty circuitry, and comprehensively tested the ventilation interlocks.
Alan Schantz has over 37 years of experience and specialized training in naval nuclear power plant operations, maintenance and testing of S3W/S4W, S5W, and S6G reactor plants as a NAVSEA qualified Nuclear Shift Test Engineer, Assistant Chief Test Engineer, and Chief Test Engineer at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. He specialized in reactor plant and facility operation, maintenance, preplanning, and testing of the above-listed primary, auxiliary, and secondary naval nuclear plant systems and equipment.
Mr. Schantz also served in the US Navy as a nuclear qualified Machinist Mate for 4 years at sea onboard the USS Sam Houston and USS Robert E. Lee and was qualified to operate S3W/S4W, S5W, and S6G Reactor Plants by NAVSEA 08.
Mr. Schantz has an inactive secret clearance.
Barry Burrow has more than forty years of executive, management, and hands-on experience with nuclear and conventional engineering systems, nuclear facility operations and readiness activities, and nuclear facility technical support with expertise in leadership, operations, nuclear safety, engineering, training and readiness.
Over a period of 14 years at the Hanford Waste Stabilization and Disposition Project, Mr. Burrow served variously as Director of Operations, Director of Technical Support, Director of Engineering & Nuclear Safety, and Director Operations / T Plant Facility Manager. He was responsible for as many as thirteen facilities within the Project, including seven Non Reactor Hazard Category 2 facilities, with oversight of waste repackaging and processing activities, contaminated and industrial liquid waste processing facilities, nuclear and environmental laboratories, low level and mixed waste burial grounds, treatment and storage facilities, transuranic waste retrieval and repackaging activities, and safety basis documentation. He previously served as Commander of Destroyer Squadron Nine in the U.S. Navy, as Director of the Chief of Naval Operations Ship Material Readiness Training Program, and as Commanding Officer of the USS California (CGN-36) and the USS Towers (DDG-9).
Mr. Burrow holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from the United States Naval Academy and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Naval Postgraduate School.
Mr. Levitan has nearly 40 years' experience with environmental impact, risk assessment, and regulatory studies for a wide range of projects including nuclear and chemical contamination cleanup, energy generation and distribution facility construction and operation, and industrial and commercial development. He has extensive experience in managing and participating in guidance development, implementation, and audits of major environmental statutes and their implementing regulations. They include the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Clean Air Act as well as U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) specific requirements, notably DOE Order 435.1, Radioactive Waste Management, and 2005 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Section 3116 waste determinations. He has demonstrated organizational leadership and management experience having been a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Federal Government and as an office and department manager for environmental/engineering consulting firms.
Bill has a B.A. in Natural Science from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in Marine Studies (thesis work in Environmental Toxicology) from the University of Delaware.
Job Titles:
- Nuclear Engineer in the Nuclear Test Division at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard
Mr. Gipe has over 25 years of experience and specialized training in naval nuclear propulsion plant operations, maintenance and testing of SSN 688 and SSN 774 Class submarines at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY&IMF). He specialized in performing engineering work on the primary, auxiliary and secondary nuclear systems of these submarines.
Mr. Gipe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University and qualified as a Nuclear Engineer at PHNSY from 1988 to 2015. In the military, Mr. Gipe qualified as a US Navy nuclear Machinist Mate at the Naval Nuclear Power School and Naval Nuclear Prototype. Mr. Gipe has an inactive secret clearance.
ISMSolutions has partnered with Hughes Associates, Inc., for the services of Bruce Campbell. Mr. Campbell has served as a Vice President at Hughes since 1996. In that capacity, he provides support for industrial, commercial and government clients on a number of legal cases that involve automatic sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems and loss control.
Past projects at Hughes include evaluation of an aircraft flight simulator facility; fire protection evaluation of a wide body commercial aircraft hanger; a life safety study at the campus of a large metropolitan water utility; Fire Hazards Analysis Reports and Fire Safety Assessments for the Idaho National Laboratory, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Nevada Test Site and the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Assistance in DOE and Corporate Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs), and baseline needs assessments of fire departments. Mr. Campbell has participated in several highly visible fire investigations, including a sodium incident and a pyrophoric uranium oxide excursion.
Mr. Zimmerman has over forty year's experience in nuclear safety and licensing, nuclear engineering, test engineering, and nuclear operations support. He has served in numerous lead engineer positions, including oversight of contractor and engineering department personnel. He has extensive experience in nuclear safety, and is recognized as a subject matter expert in accident analysis methodology. His previous DOE program involvement includes the Waste Treatment Plant Project, Hanford Tank Farms, Hanford Site-Wide Environmental Restoration, N-Reactor, the Hanford Radioisotope Program, and the Fast Flux Test Facility. He is a former Nuclear Navy officer, and was selected to serve on Adm. Hyman Rickover's Washington DC engineering staff.
Mr. Zimmerman has BSE & MSE degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the Naval Reactors Reactor Engineering Program. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Washington
Mr. Hill has more than 45 years of combined experience in the Navy Nuclear Propulsion program and the Department of Energy nuclear operations and environmental clean-up programs.
Mr. Hill started his nuclear industry experience in the Nuclear Navy supervising the operation and maintenance of Submarine Naval Reactor Plants at sea and ashore. He was the leader of a Navsea Code 390 team that tracked and trended all mechanical and electrical systems for the West Coast Trident Submarine Fleet, saving hundreds of millions of dollars by scheduling maintenance prior to failure, and rescheduling maintenance that was not needed. He served as the mechanical engineering interface between the Navy and Electric Boat during construction and as Engineering Officer of the Watch during initial startup of the natural circulation S8G Trident Submarine Reactor and Engine Room Prototype in up State New York. Other duties included serving as Lead Crew Chief and Training Coordinator during two Naval Nuclear Prototype tours, serving as refit coordinator for Submarines in both the Pacific and Atlantic and serving as crew member aboard two ballistic missile submarines and one 688 fast attack submarine.
After retiring from the Nuclear Navy, Mr. Hill joined the Department of Energy at the Richland Operations Office from April 1991 through June 2014. In this capacity, he served as the Site Maintenance Manager and established consistent maintenance policies
Job Titles:
- Safety Manager for the Southern Oregon Head Start Agency
Mr. Ljungberg has extensive experience at the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and at the Southern Oregon Head Start Agency.
Throughout his federal career with the US EPA and the DOE, he was primarily an Environmental Scientist with several years of concurrent assignments in safety and emergency management. This work was almost all focused on environmental restoration programs and projects involving nuclear, RCRA hazardous, and radioactive mixed waste. His federal work involved extensive regulatory compliance evaluation and contractor oversight in all environmental disciplines.
Mr. Ljungberg holds a B.S in Forest Biology from the State University of New York and a B.S. in Forestry from Syracuse University. He is a certified ISO 14001 Principal Environmental Management Systems auditor, RABQSA International, Inc., a qualified ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems internal auditor, and a qualified NEPA Document Manager.
Prior to retiring from DOE, he was qualified in the Waste Management, Environmental Restoration, and Environmental Compliance areas in the DOE Technical Qualification Program, a qualified DOE Emergency Responder, a qualified Department of Energy Consolidated Audit Program (DOECAP) Environmental Compliance, Waste Operation, and Quality Assurance Auditor for Laboratories and Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities, a qualified DOE Integrated Safety Management System (ISMS) Lead Auditor, and a designated DOE National Secuity Professional, Level 1 Certificate.
Chris Sorensen has over 32 years of experience in nuclear operations and assessment of multiple aspects of a wide range of nuclear facilities including naval reactors, commercial reactors and various high-hazard DOE nuclear facilities.
Dr. Gibbs' management experience includes serving as a vice president of a major electric utility company, three general manager assignments of projects, one of which employed over 800 personnel, and general manager of a DOE GOCO facility. In addition to three electric utility companies, his employment history includes assignments in the Naval nuclear submarine program, the Electric Power Research Institute, two DOE contractors, and the DOE. His expertise extends from the design and operation of highly technical advanced nuclear power facilities to design of effective & compliant management systems.
Craig Sprain has thirty years of nuclear and utility industry and related experience including nuclear and utility facility operation, maintenance and regulation. He has expert level knowledge of 10CFR830, Part B, Nuclear Safety Management, program development and implementation; as well as related Department of Energy (DOE) guidance and safe harbor methods. This includes Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) Process, Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) development and implementation, programmatic assessment, event and root cause analysis, and corrective action development and evaluation. Additionally, he has project and personnel management experience and has evaluated and implemented Quality Assurance Programs. Mr. Sprain has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from San Jose State University with post-graduate studies at Oregon State University in Chemical Engineering and Atmospheric Chemistry.
Mr. Chang has over 40 years of experience and specialized training in naval nuclear propulsion plant operations, maintenance and testing of S3W/S4W, S5W and S6G reactor plants as a NAVSEA qualified Nuclear Shift Test Engineer, Shift Test Supervisor, Assistant Chief Test Engineer, and Chief Test Engineer at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY&IMF). He has expertise in procedure preparations, review and approval of technical work documents, Joint Test Group (JTG) approved test / operating procedures, and in advance planning of availabilities for the primary, auxiliary, and secondary nuclear systems.
Mr. Chang has expertise in leading people as a division head and program manager in the following areas: Nuclear Inspection; Assistant Project Superintendent; Nuclear Facilities; Fluid and Mechanical Systems; Radiological Training; Deputy Radiological Director; Command Performance Improvement Operations; and Deputy Project Superintendent. Mr. Chang has expertise in Learning Organization and Knowledge Management concepts and tools for effective and efficient learning, leading to continuous performance improvement. He has experience as a facilitator of Performance Improvement Events.
Mr. Chang holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Gonzaga University and was qualified to operate S3W/S4W, S5W, and S6G Reactor Plants by NAVSEA 08.
Mr. Chang has an inactive secret clearance.
Dana Bryson is a Senior Executive with 34 years of leadership, acquisition, permitting, public involvement, project management, nuclear operations, and nuclear safety experience. Dana has an extensive history of successfully managing hazardous chemical and nuclear facilities, environmental remediation and decommissioning scope for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of the Navy.
Dana concluded his federal career as the site Acting Manager of the DOE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a Hazard Category 2 Nuclear Facility. He had delegated authority through the Secretary of Energy for facility startup/restart, nuclear safety basis, corrective actions, regulatory permitting, and fee determination. Dana led robust communication efforts and built coalitions with local stakeholders, regulators, and the State of New Mexico to support the WIPP recovery.
Dana holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering and numerous advanced certifications in nuclear safety, public involvement and federal acquisitions.
Dave Hicks' 30+ years in the nuclear industry began as a nuclear reactor operator on an operational, fast attack submarine. He also worked as a Shift Test Engineer at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard before joining the Department of Energy at Rocky Flats in 1990. Mr. Hicks performed numerous assignments for the DOE including routine operational oversight as a Facility Representative; Nuclear Materials Program Manager; Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) Stabilization, Packaging, and Shipping Project Leader; and Waste Programs Manager. Subsequent to the Rocky Flats closure Mr. Hicks assisted HQ nuclear materials and waste programs at several EM sites.
David Amerine has 45 years of experience in the nuclear industry. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy and obtaining a Masters in Management Science from the Naval Post Graduate School, he served on two nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, he joined Westinghouse at the Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site. There he worked as a shift operations manager and refueling manager for the initial core load of the Fast Flux Test Facility, the nation's prototype breeder reactor.
Mr. Amerine furthered his career in the commercial nuclear power industry throughout the 1980's, first as the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) vendor, Combustion Engineering, Site Manager at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station during startup and then as Assistant Vice President at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station. There he led special, interdisciplinary task forces for complex problem resolutions involving engineering and operations during the recovery period back in the late 1980's. From the Davis-Besse experience, Mr. Amerine went on to a series of leadership and executive positions in the nuclear industry.
Job Titles:
- Reactor Plant Chief Test Engineer
Dave Brown has more than 40 years of nuclear industry experience, demonstrating both technical and leadership abilities. His experience includes 15 years of reactor plant testing experience for the U.S. Navy, chairmanship of several Type B accident investigations, operational readiness reviews, and employee concern investigations for the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as a role in preparing directives for the DOE. Mr. Brown is a member of the Subcommittee on Computer Software Quality of the ASME Standards Committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance (the NQA-1 standard committee).
Debra McBaugh has over 35 years' experience in the nuclear industry as a manager and leader for a broad range of health physics areas, including licensing, inspecting and application of NRC and state regulations to radioactive material use facilities, oversight of environmental radiation surveillance programs, training radiation workers and media personnel, and emergency preparedness and response at nuclear power plants, naval facilities, and the Hanford Site.
For over 15 years, she managed the Washington State Environmental Radiation Oversight program which conducted monitoring and performed assessments to assure facilities' radiation surveillance programs were adequate. Oversight was provided at federal and commercial facilities, including the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site, Energy Northwest Columbia Generating Station, U.S. Ecology low-level waste disposal site, and U.S. Naval facilities.
Throughout her career, she participated in over 40 emergency radiological exercises at commercial, naval, and federal nuclear facilities. She has been a major responder during actual incidents.
Because of her skills and knowledge, Ms. McBaugh was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) where she served on the Board of Directors. She is also serving as a member of NCRP scientific committees working on response and recovery for radiological and nuclear incidents.
ISMSolutions has partnered with Florida International University (FIU) for the services of Dr. Ines Triay. Dr. Triay was nominated and confirmed by President Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate as DOE's seventh Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management. She directed the Environmental Management Program of the Department of Energy, the largest and most technically complex environmental cleanup program in the world. The EM Program involves a $250 billion lifecycle cost, $6 billion annual budget, 34,000-employee workforce, over two million acres, 114 sites located in 35 states, thousands of structures to demolish, tens of thousands soil/groundwater areas to remediate, and millions of cubic meters of radioactive waste to dispose.
Ed Adams has over 39 years of experience in the nuclear industry with approximately 29 years in Radiological Control Management. Throughout Mr. Adams' career he specialized in improving poor performing Radiological Control Programs. Areas of expertise include tracking and trending programs, radiological metrics, change management, and improving Radiological Conduct of Operations, Management Observation Programs, Assessments, Corrective Action Management and Leadership Development. On several occasions, Mr. Adams has successfully prepared various Hanford facilities and projects for Operational Readiness Reviews (ORR) conducted by the government.
Mr. Simpson has over thirty-eight years of experience in executive management, federal contracting, and property disposal related to managing and executing government and business functions. As the Director of the Office of Contract Management / Office of Procurement and Assistance Management at the Department of Energy, he was the senior official with responsibility for overseeing the Department's acquisition planning, business clearance, and contract administration systems. This spanned ten major DOE contracting offices and a number of second tier contracting offices with budgets in excess of $15B annually. As the Director of DOE's Office of Procurement and Assistance Management, he was the Senior Procurement Executive with broad responsibilities for all aspects of DOE's procurement system, including issuance of DOE's procurement and financial assistance regulations and policies, delegation an management of contracting authorities, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
Mr. Simpson has a B.S. in Business Management, is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and is a member of the National Contract Management Association as well as its Executive Advisory Council.
Gary Schuetz has over 40 years of management and technical experience in the nuclear industry. Following his service in the US Navy nuclear submarine program, he directed nuclear operations and testing for more than ten years as a board-certified Reactor Systems Test Engineer in the US Department of Defense. Upon transfer to the US Department of Energy, Environmental Management (EM) in 1990, he oversaw the challenging deactivation and demolition of several high-risk plutonium production facilities and contributed to the successful closure of the DOE Rocky Flats site in Denver, Colorado.
Job Titles:
- Facility Security Officer for Apollo Federal Services
- Intelligence Analyst
As an Intelligence Analyst in the National Security Directorate of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Hannah Trump supported the business development portfolio between PNNL and the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) by developing and maintaining strong strategic relationships both internally and externally. She directed new programs and scientific capabilities to solve problems and challenges, including co-leading PNNL's Insider Threat Emerging Objective, developing ICITE training courses, and supporting ICITE transition for a variety of programs.
As a Facility Security Officer for Apollo Federal Services, Ms. Trump was the Manager of Facility Security for a DOD TS FCL with various Special Access Program contracts. She was responsible for the development of scope, staff, recruitment, training, technical plans and day to day operations for various international sites; encompassing personnel, physical, technical, information, operations and administrative aspects and she managed and developed workforce planning, talent acquisition, leadership development, student recruiting programs, employee engagement, and organization design.
Ms. Trump has a B.A. in Business Administration/Interdisciplinary from Eastern Washington University and has almost completed an an M.A. in National Security Studies from the American Military University. She also served in the United States Air Force. She holds an active DOE Q and OGA TS Clearance with TS/SCI, CI Poly.
Ms. Trump was also Facility Security Manager for multi-million dollar SCIF project work conducted in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Uruguay, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, Ireland, Mali, and Pearl Harbor, HI. As such, she received the highest DSS Facility Security Audit Rating 4 years in a row.
Mr. Berman brings more than 42 years of experience in the management, supervision and performance of nuclear/radiological work, clean-up of radiological waste, and the establishment of appropriate safety basis, conduct of operations and engineering controls in a working plant environment. Along with his distinguished career in Chief Engineer positions at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, the DOE Rocky Flats Plant, the DOE Pantex Plant and the DOE Hanford Tank Farms, he is recognized for "turning around" the performance of engineering and operations organizations, with integrated safety management approaches to embedding safety planning and controls into hazardous work activities.
Mr. Berman has a comprehensive understanding of the engineering, operational, environmental and safety requirements and practices in the DOE weapons complex and the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. He has been an invited speaker at international nuclear safety forums, where he has addressed the challenges involved in integrating safety planning into nuclear work planning. He also has run corporate workshops for creating and maintaining a world-class safety culture, for both nuclear and non-nuclear industries (e.g., Petrochemical).
Jane Hedges has 30 years of environmental cleanup, waste management and water quality protection in both nuclear and non-nuclear facilities. This includes over 16 years of extensive experience in radioactive and chemical cleanup and waste management and ten years spent managing the State of Washington's Department of Ecology office overseeing the largest cleanup project in the United States, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Jane worked on high level sensitive negotiations on behalf of the state, developed and implemented policies to facilitate cleanup decision making, and participated in risk management prioritization to promote responsible fiscal management.
Prior to assuming Ecology management, Jane worked as a private consultant and for local government on permitting, water resource issues, solid waste management and watershed protection.
Mr. Jens is also a 20-year veteran of the United States Nuclear Navy Program, including ten years as a Field Representative, Project Engineer, and Project Manager for the Naval Reactors Program. Jeff has led large integrated multi-disciplinary organizations of up to 400 personnel, successfully implementing culture changes and significant upgrades of cross-cutting programs. Because of his extensive experience, he can recruit and retain qualified staff in technical fields for positions that are difficult to fill.
Mr. Jens served as a senior technical advisor for U.S. DOE and contractor organizations at the Hanford site, co-authoring the initial Site Radiation Protection Program Plan and the Site Conduct of Operations Manual. He also served as senior technical advisor for U.S. DOE Headquarters, collaborating on the development of codes and standards for radiological controls and conduct of operations and providing input for the development of nuclear safety and quality assurance codes.
Jeffry Parkin has over 35 years of operations, technical development, oversight and management experience in the nuclear industry. After eight years in the US nuclear submarine program, he directed nuclear operations, maintenance, testing and nuclear waste disposal for more than seven years in the Support Systems Engineering Division at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Mr. Parkin transferred to the Department of Energy (EM) in 1995 providing oversight of deactivation, demolition and environmental restoration of several high-risk plutonium and uranium production facilities and contributed to the successful closure/remediation of DOE Sites at Rocky Flats in Denver, Colorado, Fernald in Cincinnati, Ohio, Uranium Milling Facility in Moab, Utah, and soil/groundwater remediation at the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) National Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.
Mr. Jerrold (Jerry) Lester has over 35 years of business management experience in engineering, construction, and environmental remediation industries. He is a results oriented leader with keen insight into managing and controlling major projects. His experience includes over 30 years with Fluor Corporation, 15 years of which were supporting the environmental remediation of the Fernald, Ohio and Hanford, Washington sites.
Mr. Lester was the principal writer of the Fluor Fernald Project Management System Description outlining the Project Management and Control applications for managing the environmental remediation of the Fernald nuclear site in accordance with the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) under development by the Department of Energy. He directed the development of the Project Controls Procedures and training materials and trained approximately 300 site personnel. He developed the storyboard presentation used in satisfactorily meeting Fernald's Compliance Review. At the Hanford Site, he managed Project Controls for the Groundwater and Soil Remediation Project and successfully prepared the project for both DOE Baseline and EVMS Reviews.
Jerry Long brings over 34 years of relevant experience in directing complex nuclear operations, waste management, nuclear systems maintenance and repair and environmental remediation, gained over a wide variety of challenging scientific and technical assignments. Following his 20-year career in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program, Mr. Long transitioned his skills to the safe and efficient operation and management of federal nuclear facilities. His proven leadership experience includes executive management and direction of successful operations at Hanford and Rocky Flats for CH2M Hill.
Mr. Long has held progressively difficult management and leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer at Hanford tank farms, Vice President of Plutonium Finishing Plant, and Vice President of Nuclear Operations for CH2M Hill Corporate. He is a recognized expert at conduct of operations, quality assurance, welding and non-destructive testing, reactor and steam plant cleanliness, waste management, maintenance and work control, readiness reviews and start up and testing of nuclear and non-nuclear systems.
Mr. Long holds or has held multiple operational qualifications for nuclear work up to and including site emergency director and incident commander as well as Engineering Officer of the Watch and Joint Test Group/Joint Reactor Fueling Group. Over the course of his multiple assignments, he has managed up to 1,150 people and $280 million in annual budgets on projects with contract values of $7 billion.
Mr. Long holds a B.S in Electronics and Engineering from Excelsior College.
Mr. Andrew Rahn is a Mechanical Engineer with twenty-seven (27) years of diverse nuclear start-up and commissioning experience within government and the commercial nuclear industry. He has managed, provided oversight, and mentored within the areas of Startup, Commissioning, Operations, and Maintenance. His commercial nuclear experience also includes managing the production of licensing submittals, oversight of construction work activities, support of engineering analyses, and the completion of testing to meet design commitments and acceptance criteria for nuclear power plants. He has worked with and is familiar with DNSFB, NRC, and DOE requirements and programs both nationally and internationally.
Mr. Rahn is a graduate Western Michigan University and a member of the American Nuclear Society.
Mr. Ben Johnson holds an M.S. degree in Fire Protection Engineering, a B.S., in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in both Fire Protection and Mechanical Engineering. His experience includes 35 years of work in fire protection and mechanical engineering supporting U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) (Hanford Site, Richland, Washington) and commercial nuclear power plant engineering and operations. He is intimately familiar with DOE's Fire Protection Program requirements, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Codes and Standards, the International Building Code (IBC), and International Fire Code (IFC).
Mr. Johnson, in his current role as a Fire Protection Engineer, supports the DOE by performing external independent reviews of prime and sub-contractor fire protection program implementation and related nuclear safety documentation to ensure compliance with applicable industry codes, standards, and other DOE requirements. Ben provides oversight of fire protection systems designated important to safety to ensure these systems are maintained properly and are able to perform their intended safety functions. Additionally, he assists federal personnel that are assigned duties in fire protection and reports identified issues and recommendations to DOE division directors, or their designees, for disposition.
Ben has served as Bechtel National, Inc.'s, (BNI's) Senior Fire Protection Engineering Supervisor and contractor level Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) for design and construction of fire protection systems at the River Protection Project - Waste Treatment Plant (RPP-WTP) project. He has worked as a qualified Deputy Fire Marshal (DFM) on the Hanford Site, has held the position of Fire Protection Manager for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC), and has been the System Engineer and Design Authority for fire protection systems at the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP).
Mr. Bill Smoot has over 40 years of experience in the nuclear industry including at the Naval Reactors Shipyards, the Department of Energy Richland Operations Office and Office of River Protection, and various support contractors located at the Hanford Site where he performed radiological, quality, occupational safety and construction program direction and oversight.
Mr. Smoot has been responsible for development of radiological and quality programs in both the DOE and Contractor organizations. This includes development of oversight and acceptance activities for construction of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Project at Hanford. As Director of Quality Assurance for ORP and then Acting Assistant Manager for Environmental, Safety, Health, and Quality, Mr. Smoot developed an NQA-1 and Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management compliant Quality Assurance Program supporting oversight of the Tank Farms and Waste Management Project. As a member of the Naval Reactors Field Office at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Mr. Smoot was responsible for oversight of the shipyard's Radiological Controls and Reactor Defueling programs.
Mr. Daniel Geary has a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. Mr. Daniel Geary is a Nuclear Safety Engineer with seven years (7) of experience gained from working within the Department of Energy's Hanford site and commercial nuclear operations. Daniel has experience with the development and maintenance of DOE-STD-3009-94 and -2014 DSA and TSR, accident analysis using DOE-STD-5506 methodology, hazard analysis, and facility hazard categorization. Daniel has expertise with the Unreviewed Safety Question process.
Mr. Geary, in his current role as a Nuclear Safety Analyst, supports the Department of Energy safety basis review team for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP). Daniel has provided review and approval support for safety basis documents for the Low Activity Waste facility, along with the development of the WTP Unreviewed Safety Question process and accompanying Out-of-Scope Documents and Facilities report. Mr. Geary has also been actively involved in assessments of the Chemical Safety Management Program.
Mr. Geary provided support for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company. He authored an Evaluation of Safety of the Situation for Solid Waste Operations Complex (SWOC). Daniel codeveloped the initial draft of the DOE-STD-3009-2014 Safety Basis for Waste Handling Facilities, authored Accident Analysis documentation for T Plant Safety Basis, and was the Technical Authority and Software Subject Matter Expert for SWOC Compliance Matrix. Mr. Geary was also a primary point of contact for Unreviewed Safety Question evaluations.
Mr. Don Seaborg has over forty (40) years of experience serving the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Don's project experience has encompassed design, construction, readiness preparation, operation, stabilization, and the demolition of complex large facilities. Many of the requisite projects have held significant nuclear, chemical, or explosive hazards and provide technical challenges and risks to worker safety and the environment. Mr. Seaborg has provided federal oversight during contractor implementation of sitewide programs for environmental, safety, health, quality, emergency management, construction, engineering, conduct of maintenance and operations, radiological controls, nuclear and criticality safety. Don has extensive experience leading, mentoring, and advising senior leadership and federal staff from the development and implementation of strategies and plans, to guiding challenging organizational changes during improvement initiatives.
Mr. Seaborg earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington and is a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
Don acquired certification as a Senior Energy Official during an integrated exercise with the Monticello Nuclear Generating Station. He was recognized by multiple agencies for his leadership skills. Significant accomplishments included completing a re-write of the NFO site permitting and work authorization process and transferring that process from federal management to the M&O contractor. This was a complex and difficult culture change that required extensive diplomacy, integration skills, and interactions with contractor executive.
Job Titles:
- DOE Richland Operations Office Assistant Manager for Safety and Engineering
- Fluor Daniel Hanford 's Manager of Industrial Hygiene Programs
Mr. Doug Shoop is a results oriented professional with thirty plus (30+) years of proven leadership and management experience within the federal government, private industry, and academia. Doug has developed high quality and efficient programs in complex hazardous waste site remediation, nuclear facility operations, and effective environmental, safety and health management systems.
As the Manager and Deputy Manager of the Department of Energy's (DOE), Richland Operations Office for over 11 years, he was responsible for the management and oversight of the cleanup of the 586 square mile Hanford nuclear site. He managed and oversaw multiple Hazard Category 2 and 3 nuclear facilities, facility decontamination and decommissioning activities, and numerous large environmental restoration sites with complex radiological, chemical, and biological hazards. Mr. Shoop is an effective leader with strong interpersonal and teaming skills and is adept at producing change under technically challenging and stressful conditions.
Doug holds an M.S. in Industrial Hygiene, from the University of Montana, BS in Medical Microbiology from Montana State University and is a retired Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH).
As Fluor Daniel Hanford's Manager of Industrial Hygiene Programs, Mr. Shoop successfully restructured the industrial hygiene program, including company-level manuals, technical procedures, exposure database/records management, analytical and instrument laboratories, etc. The program had been widely criticized by the DOE, workers, technical experts, and the public.
Mr. Eddie Ashe has over thirty years of nuclear industry experience, including twenty-five years related to nuclear safety as a consultant addressing critical needs. His experience includes all aspects of safety analysis including: development, maintenance, and implementation of hazard analysis programs; accident analysis; control selection; preparation and review of documented safety analysis (DSA) for DOE facilities; integrated safety analysis (ISA) for NRC facilities; preparation and review of technical safety requirements (TSR) documents, and unreviewed safety question determinations (USQDs) preparation and training. Mr. Ashe has contributed to probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) for light water reactors and advanced reactors. He has served as the primary radiological and chemical consequence analyst for several facilities and has provided consequences for all types of release scenarios.
Mr. Ashe has B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Economics from North Carolina State University.
Mr. Eric McKamey has over 32 years of experience in the nuclear industry to include Project Management, Radiological Engineering, Health Physics, Radioactive Materials Licensing, Radiological Facility Design, Regulatory Compliance, Nuclear Medicine, Radioactive Waste Management, Chemistry, Training, D&D, Remediation, Operations and Startup in naval and commercial nuclear power plants, DOE facilities and nuclear medicine manufacturing.
Mr. McKamey is a Certified Health Physicist (CHP) and holds an M.S. in Health Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mr. McKamey has been responsible for developing and implementing numerous radiological technical basis documents and technical evaluations for CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) at the Hanford Site. These include Radiological Engineering Methods Technical Basis Document as a radiological work planning guidance document and Open Air Demolition Dispersion Modeling for facilities contaminated with plutonium and Retrieve Core Samples from the 105-KE Reactor Core. He was also responsible for development of technical evaluations for the Idaho Treatment Group (ITG) at the Advance Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the Waste Retrieval and Cargo Container projects.
Mr. George Pannell has over fifty (50) years of experience in the Nuclear Field, Plant Operations, Instrumental & Controls Systems (I&C) Design and Maintenance, Electrical Systems Design and Maintenance, Utility Management Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Licensing Interface, Department of Energy (DOE) Licensing Support and Nuclear Event Emergency Management. He is a hands-on nuclear professional with expertise resolving problems requiring engineering and operations experience. His key strength is his comprehension of total project operations and the ability to effectively manage staff and personnel. Mr. Pannell is well regarded for his understanding of Licensing Management, Concept, Planning, Design, Testing, Engineering, Production, Operations, Quality Assurance, Nuclear Safety Oversight, Emergency Management, and Emergency Preparedness.
Mr. Pannell graduated with honors from the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program and has an Associate's degree in Electrical and Electronics Technology from Penn State University.
Mr. Pannell served the lead for the Nuclear Utility Industry collective effort (22 utilities) to qualify Rosemount and Foxboro process transmitters to post accident reactor containment conditions, the testing was done at the Wyle Laboratory in Huntsville, AL. The program was successful thereby resolving another key post TMI EQ issue.
Mr. Gregg Nishimoto has over 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry with a demonstrated ability to exceed deadlines while keeping costs within budget. His experience includes 7 years testing naval nuclear propulsion plants, over 23 years of managing high-profile projects at Rocky Flats and Hanford, and participation in numerous readiness assessments.
He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, both from the University of Southern California.
Mr. Nishimoto served as a Chief Test Engineer for three submarine overhauls receiving naval commendations. At DOE, he has managed many high-profile projects including remediation of plutonium in the ductwork, actinide solution processing, repackaging of plutonium residues, and solid waste removal from Hanford's 200 Area, earning him a Secretary's award for Superior Project Management.
Mr. Jeff Howell graduated from both the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power Prototype and the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School. Jeff has thirty plus (30+) years of nuclear operations experience including; oversight and performance of construction, startup testing/commissioning, transition/turnover, maintenance/work control, operational readiness, operations, operations oversight, Conduct of Operations Mentoring and safety related activities at Federal Government-Owned, Contractor-Operated (GOCO) facilities (DOE, DoD), and commercial, industrial, and nuclear sites.
Mr. Howell, in his current role provides Commissioning and Operational Readiness support to the Department of Energy (DOE). Jeff supports the oversight of operational readiness activities, coordinates oversight, issue assessments, and issue resolution with multiple organizations. He makes assessments and decisions regarding program requirements, and risks encountered in operational readiness, and commissioning.
Mr. Howell provided support to Northwind Services LLC, Idaho Falls, ID and served as the Test Director /Test Engineer. He performed testing/commissioning roles and responsibilities as a Level III Test Engineer (lead/director) per requirements of ANSI/ASME NQA-1-2008, Subpart 3.1, Appendix 2A-1. Jeff developed a systematic process that identified, tracked, and ensured that all fittings that were disturbed during an extensive yearlong outage were leak checked satisfactorily. Resulting in a new Company wide procedure for performance of leak checks. This process was also identified as a best practice by the DOE ORR team.
Mr. Howell provided support to DOE, Idaho National Lab INL, IWTU Prior to becoming a Test Director/Test Engineer he served as Subject Matter Expert for Construction Complete/Turnover, startup/testing and cold commissioning testing for a Haz Cat 2 facility (new construction) for the IWTU DOE Project Office.
Mr. Howell provided support to Uranium Disposition Services, DUF6 Conversion Project as a Test Director/Turnover Coordinator. He developed and authored the Test Summary Reports for 43 systems to provide objective evidence that the system had been tested satisfactorily at all levels including vendor or factory testing, construction testing, and system testing such that they were ready to proceed into hot start up testing. Jeff also developed turnover packages that provided documented evidence that each system was built, and tested, and acceptance criteria were satisfactorily met to provide assurance the system was ready to enter Hot Startup testing. Including, completion of as built verifications, incorporating design changes that resulted from the test program.
Mr. Howell was assigned to a team of mentors that was charged with implementing OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program and a custom tailored Integrated Safety Management System to the civilian work force for Navy Region Southeast. He was assigned to Naval Air Station Key West which became the first defense department installation to receive VPP Star status. He went on to mentor several other installations throughout the southeast and they eventually earned the VPP Star status as well.
Mr. Jeff Ranschau has over twenty-five years of experience in safety basis document development and implementation, and industrial hygiene/safety program development and operations oversight at Department of Energy (DOE) sites including Hanford, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Savannah River Site (SRS), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is a Nuclear Safety Engineer with significant experience in the development and maintenance of Documented Safety Analyses (DSAs), Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs), and safety basis support documents at DOE sites. He has developed safety basis documents to implement the requirements of 10 CFR 830 and associated DOE orders, standards, and guides including DOE-STD-3009. He has also developed safety basis documents for transuranic (TRU) waste operations that implement the controls and technical information of DOE-STD-5506.
Mr. Ranschau has a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering Technology and a Master of Industrial Safety/Hygiene from the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Jim Wicks holds a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Naval Architecture, and Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jim is a hands-on senior manager who has served in various operations, engineering, nuclear safety, radiological protection, and conduct of operations in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Environmental Management nuclear facilities and NAVSEA naval shipyards. His education and skills were refined in the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Program. He provided world-class conduct of operations and disciplined compliance to operational formality, personnel safety, and nuclear safety culture.
Mr. Wicks, in his current role, provides support to the Department of Energy (DOE) in Nuclear Safety, Quality Assurance and Packaging and Transportation Safety.
Mr. Wicks provided contract support to DOE non-reactor facilities reviewing nuclear safety documentation. Recent activities include participation in an Independent Project Review (IPR) for the WIPP site reviewing the readiness to submit the critical decision CD2/3 request to DOE for the new Permanent Ventilation System project, including informal review of the Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA) and review of the PUREX Facility's DSA draft change in preparation for grouting tunnels to stabilize the contents. Jim completed the assessment of the Richland Operations Office Nuclear Safety Division's training and qualification of their Nuclear Safety Staff.
Mr. Wicks provided contract support to the Department of Energy's Enterprise Assessment (EA) team to assess nuclear safety documentation and Safety Bases (DSA/TSR) throughout the complex. The team provided technical assessment and evaluation of the new Los Alamos temporary waste facility (TWF) Safety Basis. Jim was a team member of the WIPP facility assessment of the revised DSA/TSRs following the fire and radiological events of February 2014.
Mr. Joel Fox has over 32 years of experience in the nuclear industry, most recently working on the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of River Protection (ORP). Before that, Joel was a branch head in the Reactor Engineering Division at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Joel has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Portland State University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Washington State.
Joel was a Facility Representative (FR) at the ORP WTP Operations Oversight Division (OOD) and was qualified in the High-Level Waste (HLW) facility. Joel performed detailed oversight and assessments of construction, start-up, commissioning, and operations across the entire WTP site to identify actual and potential issues adverse to safety and quality. Routine responsibilities included conducting and documenting routine (daily) facility walk-downs and assigned program assessments to observe and assess the safety and operational performance. These activities evaluated contractor compliance with authorization basis, documented safety analysis, design procedures, code, and standard, or dangerous waste permit requirements and the requirements of 10 CFR Part 851, Worker Safety and Health Program. These oversight activities are documented in Assessment and Surveillance Reports in the Integrated Contractor Assurance System (ICAS). When indicated, findings were issued and tracked via ICAS to ensure contractor corrective actions were complete and effective.
Prior to qualifying as a FR, Joel was a Safety Systems Oversight engineer in the WTP Engineering Division (WED). Joel's primary assignment was an oversight in the design phase of the WTP Low-Activity Waste (LAW) and Laboratory (LAB) HVAC/Mechanical/Off-Gas Treatment systems. This included related work on radial HEPA filters, carbon bed adsorbers, and ammonia scrubbers. Routine responsibilities included performing surveillances and assessments on various HVAC and Mechanical Systems, Structures and Components (SSCs) to ensure contractor compliance with relevant DOE regulations, industry standards, contract requirements, safety basis requirements, and applicable system requirements. Joel's work in the comprehensive review of system design documentation as well as system design work control and change control processes was essential in the development of accurate design materials.
As a Nuclear Engineering Supervisor at Puget sound Naval Shipyard, Joel was responsible for engineering, technical, and radiological services such as procedure development, process implementation, problem resolution, radiological engineering, quality, and safety oversight to support the maintenance of shipboard radiological shielding and liquid storage tanks, reactor plant ventilation, and nuclear preservation/coating systems on a wide variety of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered surface ships and submarines. The branch was typically staffed with ten Cognizant System Engineers.
Joel was the acting OOD FR training coordinator from a construction focus to commissioning and operational oversight during the transition period. The FRs perform a vital field oversight role of all contractor work, and the comprehensive qualification process often requires more than one year to complete. Joel employed his many years of nuclear facility experience to craft an efficient qualification process from onboarding, completing required training, and ultimately acquiring all the necessary field knowledge for FR candidates to competently represent DOE management in the field. Joel also developed the examination materials and conducted the final qualification activities -designed to verify satisfactory FR candidate preparation to perform their difficult role. During a six-month assignment as the acting OOD director, DOE further relied on Joel's expertise focused on developing strategies to integrate the WTP and Tank Farms oversight groups.
Joel was a member of several interview panels and selection boards for SSO and FR candidates.
Mr. John D. Williams has over thirty (35) years of Federal experience in the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy, the Department of State, and the private sector, including international assignments in Russia. Mr. Williams has provided safety analysis support for the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), Spent Nuclear Fuels Project, the Waste Management Project, and the Hanford Waste Tank Farms. He has also supported the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Rocky Flats facilities. Over his career, John has established expertise in program and project management, nuclear and chemical safety, ISMS preparations, readiness review preparations, implementation verification reviews, quality assurance program development, hazards evaluations, waste management, due diligence reviews and safeguards and security. He has extensive experience in nuclear safety basis development and the development of strategic plans, and extensive program and project management.
Mr. Williams holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Hamline University, a Master equivalent in Nuclear Engineering from the Naval Reactors Program, and is a Certified ISO 14001, Environmental Management System, Lead Auditor.
Mr. Williams served as the Review Team Leader for the of River Protection (ORP) Safety Basis Review Team. In this capacity he was responsible for ensuring the quality and efficacy of all ORP reviews of safety basis related deliverables for the Waste Treatment Project. John was also a member of the joint ORP/BNI Senior Management Safety Design Integration Team. He was responsible for coordinating efforts to accelerate completion of safety basis documents and resolve safety basis related issues. In this capacity Mr. Williams was a principal driving force for the accelerated completion of the LAW Facility documented safety analysis and was focused on solving similar issues for the HLW facility.
Job Titles:
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- Management & Technical Consulting Services
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