Sr. Safety Analyst, PE, PMP

Summary

·         Mechanical Engineering

·         Nuclear Safety / Authorization Basis

·         Risk Assessment  (Risk/Safety assessment techniques including probabilistic risk analysis, process hazards, data and fire analysis)

·         Systems Engineering

·         Reliability Engineering

·         Project/Program Management

·         Nuclear Engineering

·         Startup engineering

·         Procedure development and training class design and execution

·         Quality Assurance (including NQA-1, QARD, and software Verification & Validation)

·         Waste Form Qualification

·         Deactivation and Decommissioning Projects

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Nuclear Engineering, University of Arizona, 1989

Licenses and Certifications

Professional Engineer, Mechanical (Washington #35884)

Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute

Qualifications

Mechanical Engineering

·         Radioactive, hazardous/dangerous waste tank Independent Qualified Registered Professional Engineer assessments in accordance with the requirements of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC)

-- Hanford Integrated Disposal Facility Leachate Tank System

-- Several Hanford 300 radioactive waste tank systems

·         Development of data packages in support of the FFTF D&D EIS

·         Supporting author of the River Protection Project System Plan.  This engineering report demonstrates how the Department of Energy will use the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant to meet the 2018 Tri-Party Agreement (TPA) milestone M-62-00A for processing 10% of the waste by mass and 25% by activity; and together with Supplemental LAW Treatment and Supplemental Treatment and Packaging of transuranic waste to complete the treatment of the waste by 2028.  It provides documentation of a Hanford Tank Waste Operations Simulator (HTWOS) model run.

·         Primary author of the River Protection Project Low-Activity Waste Supplemental Treatment Technologies Report.  This engineering report is a main part of the deliverable associated with completion of the TPA Milestone M-62-08 to support acceleration of Hanford tank waste treatment.  The report evaluated technical, financial and contractual aspects of several treatment options.

·         Commercial Grade Item (CGI) Dedication experience on the Waste Treatment Plant and Spent Nuclear Fuel projects

·         Principle for remotely operated hardware projects through all aspects of the life cycle (cradle to grave) at the Hanford site; major successes included the Mobile Color Camera System, Riser Inspection System, in-crib surveillance platforms, spent nuclear fuel under-water videography (including sludge depth measurement and barrier door measurement), numerous D&D projects

·         Facility modification and work package preparation and implementation for jobs throughout the Hanford site including use of the Job Control System (JCS) and pre-job briefings; familiar with the Automated Job Hazards Analysis system (AJHA)

·         Principle for the TWRS single-shell tank ventilation systems upgrades needs analysis

·         Project Manager for a biological decomposition gas generation study for low-level radioactive waste packages

·         Design, fabrication, functional testing, and practical implementation of tooling to disassemble and clean a nuclear component grapple for the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF)

·         Familiarity with sections of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel code and UBC

Nuclear Safety / Authorization Basis / Risk Assessment

·         Hanford Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) evaluator for TWRS, 300 Area Stabilization Project and Spent Nuclear Fuel Project

·         Nuclear safety representative and primary author/analyst/ facilitator for K Basins hazard and accident analysis and Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR)

·         Generation of the safety analysis documentation for the K-Basins Cask Transportation & Facility Modification sub-project

·         Nuclear safety representative and primary author/analyst for 300 Area Stabilization Project authorization basis transition plus principle for their USQ program development, training, and qualification

·         Analysis knowledge: FTA/ETA, FMEA (including RPN), HAZOPS, AIChE PHA

·         Independent reviewer of the TWRS and K-Basins fire safety report

·         Co-Technical Program Chair for the ANS topical, Risk-Based Performance Assessment and Decision Making

·         N-Reactor Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA)

·         Knowledgeable with the following standards/orders:

- DOE-STD-3009-94, DOE-STD-1027-92

- DOE Order 5480.21, 5480.22, 5480.23

- DOE Order 5480.19, Conduct Of Operations Requirements For DOE Facilities

- Integrated Safety Management (ISM)

- 10CFR830, Nuclear Safety Management

- AIChE Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) for Process Safety and Risk Management

- Kepner-Trego Problem Solving and Decision Making

Systems Engineering

·         WTP Optimization Studies Plan principle author and Project Manager for 5 of 9 studies for Bechtel National Inc.

·         WTP Interim Design Optimization Studies Project Manager.  13 optimization studies were completed which recommended hundreds of million dollars of savings

·         Systems Engineer for the Hanford tank farms (Tank Waste Remediation System - TWRS): functions and requirements (F&R), architecture, and technical requirements specifications

·         Principle contributor in the development of a conceptual design for a proposed prototype hazardous, radioactive liquid waste treatment facility including functions and requirements documents (FRDs), process flow diagrams (PFDs) and interface control diagrams (ICDs)

·         Project Manager of TWRS Systems Engineering Management Plan (SEMP) and a high level reliability, availability, maintainability, and inspectability (RAMI) plan

Reliability Engineering

·         Primary authorship of the WTP RAMI engineering design guide and follow-on revisions

·         Integral independent contributor to development of WTP Project RAMI figures-of-merit

·         Contributor to initial development of multi-million WTP RAMI program (trend, project execution plan, RAMI design guide development, software execution plan)

·         Supervisor for all WTP RAMI projects for six months (tasks included Pretreatment design change application, Pretreatment Technical Integrated Baseline Development Team task, High-Level Waste RAMI data development); tasks included directing up to 13 direct engineers and interfacing between Process Technology, Engineering disciplines, Commissioning & Testing, Nuclear Safety and senior management

·         RELEX trained: Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Reliability/Maintainability Prediction, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)/Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Weibull, Markov

·         Knowledgeable with the following standards:

- DOE Order 430.1, Life-Cycle Asset Management (Similar to AFSCM-375)

- IEEE 1082, IEEE Guide for Incorporating Human Action Reliability Analysis for Nuclear Power           Generating Stations

- MIL-STD-499, Military Standard Systems Engineering Management

- MIL-STD-499A, Engineering Management

- MIL-STD-721C, Definitions of Terms for Reliability and Maintainability

- MIL-HDBK-217F, Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment

- MIL-HDBK-338B, Electronic Reliability Handbook

- MIL-HDBK-470A, Designing and Developing Maintainable Products and Systems

- MIL-HDBK-472, Maintainability Prediction

- NSWC 98/LE1

- EPRD / NPRD

- Telcordia

Project / Program Management

·         Managed the data development effort resulting in data packages to support the FFTF D&D EIS

·         Subcontractor Hanford Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) Program Manager: managed up to 6 contracts and 40 staff at both on-site and 3 remote locations:

- Indefinite Deliverable / Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)

- Technical Service Agreement (TSA)

- Staff Augmentation

- 10 sub-contractors

·         Principle role on the SAIC Richland office management team with many responsibilities including: leading business development efforts, office manager delegation, time-card approval, generation of over 30 proposals, resolution of personnel issues, environmental compliance & safety officer, and Washington State engineer-of-record

·         Project Manager for many optimization studies (see the Systems Engineering section)

·         Project Manager for the Hanford Accelerated Waste Treatment Mission Optimization Studies

·         Principle for specification compliance matrix for a waste retrieval project

·         Waste Form Qualification for the WTP, a +$5B engineer, procure, construct, project (EPC):  responsible for managing 7 waste form qualification deliverables and direct interface with DOE technical representatives and all areas across the WTP.  Management of technical staff consisting of +30 multiple contracted staff with numerous advanced degrees, and multiple physical locations.  Immobilized High-Level Waste work was performed to QARD (DOE/RW-0333P) requirements

·         Task Manager for numerous K-Basins safety analysis tasks

Nuclear Engineering

·         Independent reviewer of the K-Basins FSAR Criticality chapter

·         ALARA assessments and radiation field mapping for jobs throughout the Hanford site

·         Nuclear fuel computational analysis for the space and defense nuclear programs and development of fuel for use in the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor

·         Nuclear physics computational analysis for irradiation effects on reactor component lifetime

·         Shielding analysis for radioactive hot cells (FFTF Interim Examination & Maintenance cell and the Radio-isotope Thermal Generation Project) utilizing MCNP and Micro-Shield

·         Responsible for ~40% of the FFTF core reload design, cycle 11B.1

Startup Engineering

·         Responsible for readiness assessment in preparation for the Operations Readiness Review of the Hanford site Waste Receiving and Packaging facility (WRAP) a 51,000 ft² building used for receiving, examining, and preparing contact-handled (<200 mr/hr) wastes (LLW, MLLW, and TRU) for final disposal.  Developed and utilized lines of inquiry for the engineering and quality assurance areas. 

·         Supported Corrective Actions and Root Cause Analysis in preparation for re-start of the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) after it was closed due to an explosion in a chemical storage tank.

·         Supported startup testing for miscellaneous Hanford Tank Farms projects.

Procedures/Training

·         Primary authorship of the WTP RAMI design guide and follow-on revisions

·         9 technical publications prepared and presented at Professional Society Meetings / Conferences

·         Cognizant engineer and procedure writer for implementing Hanford TWRS Basis for Interim Operation (BIO); over 40 operating procedures were generated or revised

·         Specification writer for the Chernobyl Shelter Implementation Project (which involved working with a multi-national engineering team both locally and in Germany)

·         Development and implementation of the Hanford 300 Area Stabilization Project USQ program

·         Responsible for writing several sections of the Hanford 300 Area Stabilization Project Administrative Handbook (including USQ, Authorization Basis development, ALARA, Criticality, and parts of other chapters)

Quality Assurance

·         Principle for Excel spreadsheet independent verification and validation of Hanford Tank Farms Waste Transfer Compatibility Program

·         Principle for verifying and validating (V&V) a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technical software package in an NQA-1 / QARD environment

·         Completion of all activities associated with work resumption in the WTP Engineering and Information Technology (IT) departments.  Additionally, technical support was provided to the WTP Senior Management one-over-one review team for most of the other WTP work resumption plans

·         Root Cause Analysis, corrective action management, and training support at the Hanford plutonium finishing plant (PFP)

·         Hanford Waste Receiving and Processing facility (WRAP) self-assessment in preparation for Operational Readiness Review (ORR) and initial startup

·         Knowledgeable in the following NQA-1 and QARD (DOE/RW-0333P)

Deactivation and Decommissioning

D&D planning, surveillance and characterization experience gained on the following Hanford site projects: 

·         308 ion-exchange pit

·         B-Plant

·         U-Plant

·         300 Area Stabilization Project (including 328 hot-cell D&D planning)

·         Several 200 east and west crib deactivations

·         Miscellaneous K-Basins pit clean-outs

 

Employment

·         Associate, 6/2004 – Present, Consulting, Richland, WA

·         Program Manager, 2/2000 – 6/2004, SAIC, Richland, WA

·         Project Manager/Senior Engineer, 8/1996 – 2/2000, Parsons, Richland, WA   

·         Senior Engineer, 7/1989 – 8/1996, Westinghouse Hanford Company, Richland, WA

Specialized Training

·         Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

·         Process Hazards Analysis (AIChE), HAZOP, What-If Analysis, Checklist Methodology, and Quantitative Risk Assessments

·         Kepner-Trego Problem Solving and Decision Making

·         SAIC Project Management I, II, and III (Firm Fixed Price)

·         SLATE (System Level Automation for Everyone) – an enterprise product development solutions and developer and product data management software in a comprehensive object-oriented database format

·         Familiarity with DOORS-IT and RDD-100

·         Relex RAMI software (Fault Tree/Event Tree, FMEA/FMECA, Maintainability Prediction, Markov, Reliability Block Diagram, Reliability Prediction, Weibull)

·         Basics of Plutonium

·         40-hour HAZWOPER (expired)

·         DOE Radiation Worker II (expired)

·         Past DOE "Q" and “L” clearances

Affiliations/Honors

·         Treasurer, 2001/02/03/04 -- 05, Washington Society of Professional Engineers (WSPE)

·         MathCounts (a middle-school math competition) Program Volunteer (1999 - 2004)

·         Co-Technical Program Chair, 1998, ANS-sponsored Risk-Based Performance Assessment and Decision Making

·         Chair, 1990, Tri-Cities Engineers Week Activities

·         Secretary, 1990, WSPE

·         Member, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Nuclear Society (ANS), Project Management Institute (PMI)

·         Citizenship:  U.S.