Mr. Berube has more than 30 years of technical and management experience in the fields of environmental protection and environmental compliance. From 1987 to 2003, Mr. Berube was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy. He directed his staff in the development of a wide range of products and services for facilitating compliance with all Federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act. Mr. Berube currently serves as a Management Advisor.
Mr. Bump has more than 27 years of nuclear facility experience, with more than 16 years of management and supervisory experience. Mr. Bump provides industrial hygiene and radiological control consulting services for the U.S. Department of Energy and commercial clients. This support includes industrial hygiene program development, procedure development, health and safety plan revisions, and technical support. As a Certified Health Physicist, Mr. Bump provides a wide range of consulting services in radiological control, including developing plans for deactivation, decommissioning, and demolition of radiological facilities and proving radiological engineering support for design, testing, and operation of new processes.
Ms. Butler has more than 15 years of industrial hygiene field and program experience, which includes 7 years of management experience. Ms. Butler provides employee health hazard evaluations, exposure monitoring, regulatory compliance assessments, injury prevention recommendations, and case management. She is well-versed in health and safety issues pertaining to a variety of operations as well as research and development: construction, radiological, hazardous waste treatment/environmental cleanup, weapons research, and semiconductor manufacturing. She has proven ability in complex, multiple-task, high-profile environments.
Mr. Craig has 25 years of experience in environmental impact analysis and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document preparation. He has served as project manager, analyst, or technical reviewer on a large number of environmental impact statements and environmental assessments. He has conducted and managed power plant siting studies and nuclear power plant relicensing documents and has broad experience in conducting public meetings and hearings for NEPA documents.
Dr. Fellman’s career in health physics has been focused on the areas of environmental radioactivity, regulatory compliance, and education. He has extensive experience performing environmental site characterizations and risk assessments as well as assisting radioactive materials licensees with all aspects of their radiation safety programs, including preparation of license applications, radiation safety manuals, standard operating procedures, and decommissioning funding plans. He also performs regulatory compliance audits and presents radiation safety training at the Academy training center as well as at client sites. As manager of the Radiation Safety Academy Division, Dr. Fellman leads a team of health physicists and administrative staff who provide radiation safety training and consulting services to a variety of private and public sector entities.
Mr. Fix’s professional career extends over 35 years. During this time, he has held numerous technical and project management roles during his employment with Dade Moeller & Associates, Inc., Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Northwest Energy, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and the University of Washington. Mr. Fix’s expertise is associated with occupational and environmental dosimetry external dosimetry, standards and regulations, and occupational dose reconstruction. He has held several national roles such as chair of the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program Oversight Board, chair of the Health Physics Society Standards Committee, and the U.S. External Dosimetry Team Lead for the DOE/Russia Mayak Worker Study collaboration.
Mr. Fomous is a Vice President for Business Development. He has nearly 30 years of extensive environmental and regulatory experience in the United States, Europe, and Central Asia, including statutory, policy, and litigation issues at the international, national, and state level. He has developed, analyzed, and executed environmental and regulatory policies and plans for various Federal agencies including the Departments of Energy and Defense, General Services Administration, and Federal Aviation Administration. Mr. Fomous was in the military for more than 20 years, representing the U.S. Army in environmental litigation and serving as legal counsel in its most complex and costly lawsuits, including as lead attorney at the Army’s largest Superfund site, Rocky Mountain Arsenal. Mr. Fomous is also the President of Dade Moeller Technical Services, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business affiliate.
Dr. Gibbs has more than 30 years of military, industrial, and government experience in project and program management, technical integration, research, design, operations, safety, licensing, international collaboration, oversight, and training. His experience is divided between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), DOE contractors, and electric utility companies. Dr. Gibbs currently serves as a Management Advisor for Dade Moeller & Associates and its clients.
Mr. Grover has more than 30 years of experience managing a broad range of engineering organizations, programs, projects, and contracts including 9 years as President of CH2M HILL Hanford, Inc. (CHI), a special-purpose subsidiary company providing technical services in support of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site remediation. In addition, his experience includes management of engineering and design functions with an emphasis on environmental remedial action and equipment and test facility design to support nuclear technology development.
Mr. Herrington has 26 years of experience in the full spectrum of occupational safety and nuclear facility safety programs. He has provided extensive programmatic and technical support to clients in the nuclear and commercial industries, particularly in the areas of occupational safety, environmental protection, emergency preparedness, health physics and radiological engineering, and nuclear facility safety. This work was related primarily to compliance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations and the U.S. Department of Energy safety, security, and environmental protection orders and standards, and the Code of Federal Regulations. He has proven ability in technical projects involving nuclear facilities, management of nuclear materials, and safety and environmental projects.
Mr. Ikenberry has 22 years of professional experience in environmental and occupational health physics, serving as both technical contributor and project manager. His major interests are in environmental radiation protection, radiological assessment, regulatory analysis and implementation, and accident/safety analysis. He has been a principal contributor to several major U.S. Department of Energy environmental impact statements and has been doing technical analysis for Yucca Mountain Repository activities since 1997. Mr. Ikenberry is currently the Vice-Chair of American National Standards Institute Accredited Committee N13 on Radiation Protection.
Mr. Kenoyer has 30 years of management and technical leadership in the Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene fields. His experience emphasizes line, project and program management, operational health physics and industrial hygiene, radiation protection instrumentation calibration and performance testing, occupational safety, generation and characterization of complex pollutant atmospheres, inhalation toxicological studies, and emergency preparedness. Currently, Mr. Kenoyer is Manager of Task 3, Dose Reconstruction Research, providing support to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to perform individual dose reconstructions for claimants under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
Ms. Kimpan has 16 years of experience in workers’ compensation, workers’ compensation research, and State and Federal policy, most recently with issues related to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. During 2004, she completed an Energy Fellowship with United States Senator Jim Bunning. Ms. Kimpan speaks nationally as an expert on workers’ compensation insurance data and systems and research. She interprets complex numerical and statistical information and translates it into an understandable form for technical and non technical audiences, including state legislatures and the media. Her experience includes senior management in a regulatory agency, legislative drafting, passage, and implementation, data interpretation and report writing, project management and problem solving, strategic decision-making, operational and programmatic budget authority, staffing and personnel development, and public relations.
Dr. Maher is a Certified Health Physicist with more than 29 years of experience conducting and managing radiological, safety, and environmental protection programs applicable to commercial clients and Federal agencies such as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel with extensive experience in designing, developing, and implementing nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare defense strategies. Dr. Maher is Manager of Task 5, Dose Estimation and Reporting, providing support to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to perform individual dose reconstructions for claimants under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.
Ms. Martin has 22 years of experience in records and information management activities supporting the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and government contractors. Her duties include managing records management activities, supporting litigation activities, researching discovery requests, managing projects and tasks, creating index databases and directing and participating in related activities, establishing in-house records centers, developing records systems, developing and presenting training, performing audits and evaluations, and directing records restoration activities. Ms. Martin is an active member of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators and currently serves on the International Awards Committee.
Mr. McCartney has 13 years of professional experience in health physics and nuclear engineering at commercial nuclear power stations, DOE facilities, and NIOSH. He currently supports the NIOSH Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act project as supervisor of the Tool Development group, which develops software applications for calculating internal and external dose. Mr. McCartney has provided technical support in quantitative and qualitative analysis of radioactive material. He had technical responsibility for several count room facilities, including development of procedures and technical basis manuals, ensuring statistical accuracy of results and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Mr. McCormack has 31 years of broad experience in effectively managing environment, safety, and health-related programs, projects and staff. His leadership, management, and communication skills have been applied across a wide range of consulting and operational activities encompassing occupational, operational, and environmental safety; radiological and nonradiological risk assessment; policy and regulatory development; and communication of complex issues to a wide range of audiences in a variety of settings. Mr. McCormack has distinguished himself in the innovative application of risk management to decision processes, and is a strong strategic thinker and team builder. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and implementation; program, project and organizational management; nuclear facility licensing, safety analysis, and environmental impact assessment; and health physics and risk management.
Mr. Potter has 28 years of experience assisting the regulated community with the understanding, compliance, and practical application of environmental protection requirements for solid and hazardous waste, groundwater, surface and drinking water, air quality, toxic substances, and hazardous materials releases. His professional strengths include regulation analysis, long-range strategy development, permitting and compliance assistance, and policy, guidance and plan preparation. Mr. Potter is a senior project manager with the expertise to balance schedules, budgets, and company resources to achieve client and corporate objectives.
Mr. Rollins has 28 years of technical and management experience in the field of health physics and risk assessments related to the entire nuclear fuel cycle. He served as a Project Manager providing technical support to government, utility, and commercial clients in the areas of multimedia (groundwater, surface water, atmospheric) environmental pollution assessments and health protection and emergency preparedness. Mr. Rollins developed, implemented, and provided technical support for health and radiation protection and emergency planning programs at commercial nuclear power stations where he managed health physics departments responsible for the implementation and oversight of radiation protection programs. Mr. Rollins is currently performing environmental research and dose reconstruction tasks in support of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s effort to reconstruct energy workers' occupational radiation exposure for determination of probability of causation for diagnosed cancers.
Mr. Safarik has 18 years of experience as a consultant in health and safety in general industry and construction including health care, food processing, transportation, communications and government in environmental health, industrial hygiene, and occupational safety.
Mr. Shipman has more than 38 years experience in writing, editing, and managing the production of documents in many scientific and technical disciplines, including 21 years of experience as Technical Production Manager/Writer/Editor on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)-related documents for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He has worked on almost 20 environmental impact statements and a number of environmental assessments, primarily for DOE, and has produced three Environmental Reports for nuclear power plant relicensing. He has worked on major documentation projects for DOE, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of the Navy. Mr. Shipman is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication.
Mr. Sohinki has been a member of the Senior Executive Service for the past 17 years and has more than 30 years of experience in the field of nuclear energy (civilian and military uses). During his service with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), he managed major national security programs associated with planning the nuclear weapons complex of the future and the development of a new supply of tritium to support the nuclear weapons stockpile, and the Department’s safety enforcement program, which has contributed significantly to improving safety performance throughout the DOE Complex. Before joining DOE, he had 14 years of legal experience on the regulatory and industry sides of commercial nuclear power. This experience includes representation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) technical staff in reactor licensing and enforcement proceedings, service on the personal staffs of two NRC Commissioners, and legal representation of and consultation for two commercial nuclear utilities. His accomplishments as a member of the Senior Executive Service resulted in his receipt of a Presidential Rank Award as well as several DOE commendations for outstanding service.
Mr. Stempfley is a Professional Engineer, registered in the States of Michigan and Ohio. He has 18 years of experience covering a broad range of nuclear, radiological, environmental, and industrial safety disciplines. He has served in managerial, supervisory, project/task lead, engineering, and technical support capacities with an emphasis on personnel protection and safety, project management, employee and contractor oversight, and expert technical/engineering guidance. His background includes Naval Nuclear Power and DOE and NRC facility work.
Ms. Tranbarger has provided technical and project management assistance in radiation protection for Dade Moeller & Associates and other companies. She has extensive experience with DOE operations and facilities at the Hanford Site. Nearly all of her 15 years of experience have been in applied operational health physics with extensive hands-on experience. During her professional career, she has provided support to DOE contractors as a technical authority for internal dosimetry, external dosimetry, workplace air sampling, self-assessment, contamination control, and radiological procedures. She has provided regulatory compliance support for the Tank Farms and Spent Nuclear Fuel operations and engineering organizations at the Hanford Site. In addition, she has performed internal and external dose reconstructions in support of the Department of Health and Human Services under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
Mr. Treat is a Chemical Engineer with 35 years of experience providing engineering, technology, operations, and management support to commercial and government enterprises, primarily in the areas of radioactive waste management and environmental restoration. His technical accomplishments include pioneering the development of joule-heated glass melting and grouting processes for immobilizing radioactive wastes, and developing a patented barrier for closing hazardous and radioactive waste sites. He has published more than 50 reports and has participated in 10 expert panels on various waste management and environmental restoration topics. Mr. Treat is currently on the Board of Directors of Dade Moeller & Associates.
Ms. Wright has 15 years of health physics-related experience and extensive knowledge of regulatory compliance with the U.S. Department of Energy rule on Occupational Radiation Protection (10 CFR 835). She developed the Westinghouse Hanford Company (WHC) RPP and accompanying baseline compliance validation process for 10 CFR 835, which was promoted as a model example within the DOE complex by DOE, EM-1. In addition, she coordinated, facilitated, and tracked closure of more than 1,000 milestones associated with the implementation of 10 CFR 835 to document full compliance with RPP requirements. She has participated in numerous audits, surveillance, assessments, self-assessments, and inspections in the areas of ALARA, dosimetry, radiation safety training, instrument maintenance and calibration, entry control, posting and labeling, and industrial health and safety.
