Currently Project manager for CNL Whiteshell ILW bagless transfer port project - providing interface with sorting and conditioning unit (SCU) to allow 55-gallon drums to be filled and in-drum compacted. Project Manager for Hanford 324 Building Disposition Project structural modification design project.

Project Manager and Engineering Manager for Task Order 2 of Atkins A&AS contract with the DOE, Office of Nuclear Energy, which was the design, fabrication and Technology Readiness Level 5 testing of a prototype welding system, which could perform simultaneous welding of four small simulated Standardized Transportation Aging and Disposal (STAD) canisters for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). My scope of work included facilitating technical meetings involving multiple team partners (specialist welding system supplier, major US nuclear power station operator and major US SNF dry storage systems supplier), running status meetings, managing mechanical design work performed in-house, managing a test article fabrication subcontract, overseeing testing, and coordinating the work performed by geographically diverse team partners. In addition, was required to prepare and present progress and technical reports at DOE headquarters in Washington, DC, and lead monthly status calls involving the DOE and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Worked as the Project Manager for Task Orders 17, 18 and 21 as part of EnergySolutions Assistance and Advisory Services (A&AS) Contract with the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Nuclear Energy.. Task Order 17 was a spent nuclear fuel (SNF) transportation cask design study involving multiple team partners and was required to produce conceptual designs for a bare SNF transportation cask and a transportation cask that carries SNF in damaged fuel cans. Task Order 18 was a project to produce a generic design for small Standardized, Transportation, Aging and Disposal (STAD) canister systems for SNF and also involved multiple team partners. Task Order 21 was a project to develop standardized SNF canister design concepts and perform operational studies of innovative approaches, in order to increase the DOE’s understanding of potential alternatives to using current dual purpose canister technology. My scope of work included facilitating technical workshops involving multiple team partners, running status meetings, managing work performed in-house and coordinating the work performed by geographically diverse team partners, controlling cost, schedule and scope, preparation and presentation of progress reports and technical reports at DOE headquarters, and the production of technical reports.

Worked as a test engineer with a team that commissioned a test platform at the EnergySolutions Engineering Laboratory (ESEL) facility in Richland, WA, which is designed to demonstrate the performance of a prototypic pulse jet mixing system within a test vessel that will be used in the WTP at the DOE Hanford Site. For the test work, my areas of responsibility included, for the test vessel, the performance of construction acceptance testing, system integrated testing, vessel correlation and verification of prototypic piping and instrumentation.

Participated in a design and operability review of the U.S. DOE Office of River Protection WTP High Level Waste facility systems. The review was led by the DOE ORP and was conducted by multidisciplinary teams of established engineering experts in nuclear facility design, radiochemical engineering, and radiochemical process operations; with myself being a member of the Mechanical Handling Systems review team.

Worked as the PM for DOE Advisory and Assistance Servcies (A&AS) contract Task Orders 11 and 12. Task Order 11 was a project that involved multiple team partners and was required to produce a preferred systems concept for the consolidation of the used nuclear fuel currently stored at shutdown and operating US nuclear power station sites, and expected future arisings. Task Order 12 was a project that involved multiple team partners and was required to generate ideas, recommendations and design concepts for Standardized Transportation, Aging and Disposal (STAD) canisters for used nuclear fuel.

From July 2009 to May 2012, I worked as the Project Manager for the Autosampling System (ASX) Project, which involves completing design and engineering, procurement, fabrication and testing work for the ASX system for Bechtel National Inc. (BNI); the contractor for the DOE Hanford River Protection Project – Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, Richland, WA. In this position I was a direct report to the Vice President, Engineered Systems - Western Operations. The multi-task nature of the ASX work scope requires me to manage several independent tasks; each of which have their own schedule, budget and, in some cases, resources. The tasks include detailed design and engineering for the autosampling equipment to be installed in the Pretreatment (PTF) and High Level Waste (HLW) facilities, and the management and engineering support of multi-million dollar fabrication contracts for the supply of equipment for the Laboratory, Low Active Waste, Pretreatment and High Level waste facilities. I interfaced directly with BNI for day-to-day running of the project and my responsibilities included production of monthly status reports, bi-weekly status reporting, monitoring and control of project spends and resources, review and processing of contract changes, preparation of Baseline Change Requests (BCRs) to capture additional work scope, and technical and financial analysis of fabrication vendor claims and preparation of justifications to support these claims for submission to BNI.

From July 2008 to July 2009, I worked as the Deputy Project Manager on the ASX Project. In this position, I was a direct report to the ASX Project Manager and my responsibilities were to coordinate and project manage the design and engineering work activities that were necessary to complete the detail design of the ASX equipment for the pretreatment and high level waste facilities, and support the fabrication and testing (by a local vendor) of the ASX equipment for the LAB and LAW facilities. To facilitate the use of approved interim changes at fabrication facilities, via the use of red-line changes, I wrote a Field Change Control procedure for the ASX project and provided classroom training to engineering, quality assurance and procurement personnel. I also produced cost, schedule and technical proposals for submission to BNI, in response to requests for proposal, and generated baseline change requests to capture changes in work scope resulting from fabrication activities. From April 2009 to July 2009, I was required to manage the entire ASX Project and my responsibilities expanded to include management of the 90% and 100% design packages for Autosampler-15 (included Hydrogen build-up in process prevention measures) and the fume hood receipt stations (provide for receipt and reuse of sample bottle carriers), customer invoicing verification, control of project spends and resources, direct interface with BNI for day-to-day running of the project, review and processing of contract changes, and management of the fabrication contract for the supply of equipment provided for the Laboratory and Low Active Waste facilities.

In July 2007, I became the engineering manager for the K Basins, Closure, Stabilization and Packaging (KBCSP) project. During this time I led the engineering team through a period of change, as our contract with Fluor Hanford evolved into working on directed tasks for a new conceptual design for the Sludge Treatment Project and working to the requirements of DOE Order 413.3A (Program and Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets) and (at the time) the draft DOE Standard 1189 (Integration of Safety into the Design Process). The main task was the production of a 30% design package (process, mechanical and C,E&I deliverables) for the retrieval of sludge from the engineered containers in the K-West basin to underwater staging tanks, which will allow the sludge to be dewaterered, via ultrafiltration, and mixed, prior to transfer to a drum grouting process. This work included leading a team of Fluor Hanford, PNNL and EnergySolutions engineers in developing sludge retrieval and conditioning concepts as part of the alternatives analysis process, and leading workshops with client representatives to develop functional requirements. On an individual basis, I produced a measurement specification for the STP assay systems and developed philosophies for process control, sample and analysis, and assay, which were distributed project wide and became standard sources of reference for discussions with the WIPP Remote Handled-Transuranic Waste (RH-TRU) Central Characterization Program.

Following relocation from Idaho to Washington State, I worked as a Project Engineer on the K Basins, Closure, Stabilization and Packaging (KBCSP) project for the DOE Hanford Site. In this role I reported directly to the Project Manager and was the Buyer’s Technical Representative (BTR) for a contract with BIL Solutions Inc. (BIL) for the supply of technical services and equipment for a RH-TRU Imaging Passive Active Neutron (IPAN) system, and a future contract for the fabrication of a sludge assay system, which was to be used in conjunction with the IPAN system to non-destructively assay highly radioactive sludge. The BTR role required that I manage the technical aspects of the IPAN contract and as such was responsible for ensuring, via design reviews, technical meetings, action tracking and consultation with fellow engineers, that the technical products supplied by BIL met the project’s design, quality, schedule and customer requirements. I also wrote the Software Requirements Specification for the KBCSP Data Management System (DMS) and subsequently was the BTR for the DMS supply contract that was placed with the software engineering company INSEI in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In addition to my Project Engineer work, I also acted as the Project Manager during his periods of leave and business trips; with responsibility for managing the KBCSP project team and interfacing directly with our customer: Fluor Hanford.

In July 2004, I was promoted to the position of Design Engineering Manager on the Advance Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP), Idaho, with responsibility for providing design support to the project and delivering all of the internal improvement projects work. I managed a multi-discipline team; comprising of design engineers, CADD engineers and administrative personnel, which supported the project in resolving complex technical issues, performing management assessments of key activities and working processes, managing and completing improvement projects from conceptual design through to implementation, and working with the project to manage and identify technical risks. The team was also responsible for providing a computer-aided drafting service to the project, and operating and maintaining the AMWTP Engineering Document Control; with the Design Engineering Manager being the approval authority for all design changes, calculations and drawings. I also led the team during the DOE operational readiness review for the Treatment Facility and was USQ qualified to perform screens, reviews and approvals.

In July 2000 I commenced work on the Advance Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) as the Radiometric Lead Design Engineer. In this role I was the design authority and technical lead for the Non-Destructive Assay (NDA) systems (box assay, drum assay and real-time radiography), the criticality incident detection and alarm system, and the stack discharge and workplace radiological monitoring systems, all of which were designated as safety significant systems and were required to comply in entirety with the project’s 10 CFR 830.120 implementing quality procedures.My work on AMWTP began with the design, procurement and technical management of the contracts (total value $17 million) for the above systems. Located within the Boise, Idaho, design office, I worked with vendors and personnel from all facets of the AMWTP organization (design office, ES&H, operations, project management, planning, site construction) in order to deliver my systems and equipment to the project site. In February 2002, I moved to the project site where my work involved the production and execution of Construction Acceptance Testing and Turnover (CATT) packages, and interfacing with the site construction subcontractor and commissioning teams to provide management, technical and design support on installation and testing activities. I was also a member of the BNFL Inc teams, which successfully completed the corporate and DOE operational readiness reviews for the Characterization Facility, qualified the Treatment Facility radiological stack discharge monitoring systems to meet the requirements of ANSI N13.1, and obtained WIPP certification for the drum assay and real-time radiography systems.In addition to my lead engineer responsibilities, between August 2003 and July 2004, I acted as the Deputy Design Engineering Manager and was responsible for the management of the design team during several extended periods to cover my manager during leave and temporary assignments.

Seconded from the UK to work on the River Protection Project - Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), Richland, WA, with responsibility for providing co-ordination and technical direction in the conceptual and functional design of radiometric instrumentation as related to nuclear facilities. My work involved producing user requirements specifications for radioactive waste drum monitoring systems, advising process and I&C engineers on the application of radiometrics for workplace, stack discharge and process monitoring; and producing project design guides covering the use of radiological monitoring instrumentation.

Following the completion of design activities, I followed the Waste Treatment Complex project to the construction site at BNFL Sellafield where, reporting to the Commissioning Manager and with a team of six engineers, I was responsible for the commissioning of the drum assay and radiological monitoring systems. The work involved producing test documents, coordinating the work of suppliers and construction workers, providing progress reports and determining solutions to technical faults. I also designed and expedited a program of tests on the drum assay systems, which were required to demonstrate the reliability and capability of these systems to the UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII). I also worked as a consultant to two BNFL Sellafield clients, providing technical support on the specification, procurement and use of radioactive waste assay systems.

Reporting directly to the Project Manager, I worked in the Sellafield Waste Treatment Complex (WTC) project design office as the lead engineer responsible for the design, specification and procurement of three Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) drum assay systems (X-ray, passive neutron coincidence counting and high resolution gamma spectroscopy) and several radiological monitoring systems (criticality incident detection and alarm, radiological surveillance and stack monitoring). In conjunction with my team of two senior engineers, I prepared cost estimates, instrument measurement specifications, user requirements specifications and a basis of design document for the plant environmental monitoring. I was a standing member of the WTC Design Committee and was the Chairman of a WTC radiometric instrumentation working party, which I set up in order to co-ordinate the efforts of myself, my team and physicists and applied physicists (based at Sellafield) in designing and applying PCM assay systems and equipment to meet the project’s requirements.

Reporting to a Senior Engineer within the Systems and Equipment Engineering Department, in Risley, Warrington, I was responsible for producing several sections of the environmental monitoring cost estimate for the Sellafield MOX Fuel Plant. The work involved analyzing the plant layout drawings and using company standards and manufacturer’s technical and cost information to develop estimates comprising of equipment costs, design and engineering man-hours, electrical load schedule and a description of the proposed systems and equipment. Other projects that I worked on were an electrical and instrumentation scope document for the proposed Nirex Deep Waste Repository (DWR) and a study report on the electrical interface requirements for emergency organizations and systems between the BNFL Sellafield and Chapelcross nuclear sites, and conceptual neighboring nuclear reactor sites.

Reporting to a Senior Engineer within the Systems and Engineering Department, I undertook a one year training scheme, which involved attendance at courses covering radiological protection, business appreciation, graduate development and presentation skills, and on-the-job training. The latter training involved performing on-site (Sellafield) software configuration, testing and documentation updating of a new distributed control system, production of a study report on available Programmable Logic Controller technologies, and the production of study reports on national and international Criticality Incident Detection standards and technology.

Following graduation, I was employed within the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) group at the British Telecommunications Research Laboratories (BTRL). Reporting to an Executive Engineer, with a technician reporting to me, I was responsible for the design, development and testing of encoder and decoder circuit boards, which were used to interface variable and constant bit rate video codecs to two fast-packet switching network demonstrators, in order to evaluate and demonstrate the performance of these types of video service over such networks. This work involved coding field programmable logic arrays, designing, building and testing printed circuit boards, and preparing and delivering oral presentations to my peers and senior management. In addition to the above, I undertook periods of research involving the study of research papers, and interviews with overseas research institutes and BTRL personnel, in order to produce overview papers on the subjects of “Intelligent Networks”, conceptual broadband services and the “Synchronous Digital Hierarchy” for use by senior management.

I obtained a minor sponsorship award from British Telecommunications and undertook an honors degree course in Physical Electronics at the University Of Warwick, England, during which time I spent summer secondments at the British Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Ipswich, and the St. Paul's District Office in London. At the BTRL, I completed a project, which involved programming a DSP56000 digital signal processor to operate as a Digital Adaptive Filter (provides echo cancellation on speech circuits) and the preparation and presentation of a report documenting my work. My work in London involved the analysis of fault repair statistics (type of fault, time to repair, location of fault) and the development of metrics for use by my Manager and his staff in assessing the performance of individual repair centers.

After completing my apprenticeship, I spent one year working as a telephone apparatus installer, which involved cabling-up customer’s homes and premises and connecting them, via overhead or underground cables, to a telephone exchange. I was then transferred to work in a Strowger telephone exchange with responsibility for the maintenance and repair of electromechanical switches. During this period I undertook a Higher National Certificate course in Electronics, which I successfully completed in 1985, and attended practical and theoretical training courses on Strowger telephone exchanges.

Upon leaving school, I commenced a three-year apprenticeship in telecommunications. During this period, I undertook a Technical Education Council course in Telecommunications, which I successfully completed in 1983. I attended three, four-week duration, training courses, which included lectures on all aspects of the telephony network, and practical work, e.g. wiring, soldering, fault finding, cable installation and use of electrical circuit diagrams. I was also seconded to work with engineers on a variety of different jobs, examples being telephone exchange installation, fault investigation, repeater station maintenance, network planning and underground cable installation.