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EXPERIENCE SUMMARIES FOR KEY PERSONNEL

 

Jack L. Rhoades

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Over 30 years of senior management experience in the Safeguards and Security, Nuclear Operations, Operational Safety, Environmental Restoration, and Radioactive Waste Management fields at DOE, EG&G, Lockheed Martin, and small businesses. Extensive knowledge of project management systems, operational readiness reviews, Safeguards and Security (S&S) assessments and surveys, Integrated Safety Management Systems (ISMS), DOE prime contract proposals, red team reviews, and DOE contract transitions. Has been intimately involved in preparing winning DOE prime/mini-prime contract proposals, S&S Teams, ORR Teams, ISMS Teams, and transition plans. Has prepared over six transition plans and has served on three DOE prime contract transition teams.

KEY PROJECTS
Management Consultant, 2004 – Present
Provide expert knowledge on Hanford and Las Vegas Market Analyses, proposals, transition plans and schedules, red team reviews, S&S assessments, surveys and reviews, ORR’s, and safety reviews (ISMS).

Advanced Technologies and Laboratories (ATL) International, Inc., Richland, WA
Vice President for Richland Operations 2000 – May 2004
Responsible for directing ATL’s Business Development for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Increased ATL sales from $1M/yr to $3.1M+/yr. Heavily involved in the preparation of mini-prime proposals for DOE/NNSA Albuquerque Service Center, FFTF, 222-S Analytical Laboratory, Nevada Security Services, etc. Also responsible for directing major on-site support contracts to the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of River Protection, (ORP) and Richland Operations Office (RL). These support contracts included a $10M five-year contract to provide S&S assessment and survey support to NNSA HQ and a $750K five-year contract to provide S&S assessment and survey support to RL. Expert personnel were provided in S&S, nuclear safety, nuclear operations, operational readiness reviews, integrated safety management systems, operational assessments, environmental, occupational safety, and quality. These contracts require a detailed understanding of DOE Orders, Manuals, nuclear regulations, contractor procedures, SAR’s, etc. The DOE Orders/Manuals include 413.3, 425.1B, 450 series, 470.1 series, 5634.1, 5480, 830, ISMS Team Leader Hand Book, etc. Attended DOE Readiness Review Team Lead/Team Member Training during 2003.

Consultant, Las Vegas, NV 1998 --2000
Provided care to aged parents and consulted part-time on DOE, DoD, NASA, and Las Vegas Convention Authority proposals. Provided expert advice on Proposals and Transition Planning.

Lockheed Martin Hanford Corporation, Tank Waste Remediation System Project (TWRS), Richland, WA
Director 1996 – 1997

Responsible for preparing the Lockheed Martin TWRS organizational structure and contract transition plan. At the same time also prepared the Lockheed Martin TWRS Privatization
Management Operating Procedures. During the transition period was responsible for Planning, Integration and Control, for the $300+ million TWRS Project. This included developing the TWRS Project organizational structure, award fee basis, operational assessments, and mapping the DOE/Lockheed Martin organizational interfaces. The TWRS Project was at this time the largest national DOE Project and included both Tank Farm Operations and the Waste Treatment Plant.

Lockheed Env. Systems & Technologies Co., Advanced Program Support, Las Vegas, NV
General Manager 1992 – 1996

Overall management, coordination, and direction of operations associated with radioactive and hazardous soil decontamination/volume reduction and remediation. Primary emphasis was directing environmental restoration projects and assuring that all management systems associated with planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling the projects were complete, understood, followed, and consistent with Lockheed Management Corporate Directives, Policies, and Practices. Heavily involved in preparation of the Fernald and Hanford ERMC proposals; Lockheed contract transition at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory; the Hanford Management and Integration proposal; Hanford Privatization proposal; and the Nevada Test Site proposal. Participated in Idaho National Engineering Laboratory transition planning. Spent six months, on INEL transition team, coordinating the transition effort for Site Services and ES&H.

EG&G Rock Flats, Environment and Waste Management, Golden, CO
Deputy Associate General Manager 1990 – 1992

Assisted the Associate General Manager in a dynamic and hostile environment with intense pressure from the public and federal/state regulators. Successfully formulated and established an entire Environmental Restoration organization and management structure (800 employees), from scratch. Provided the DOE grounded experience necessary to develop and direct the successful Environmental Restoration Program planning and budgeting strategy competing against nuclear weapons production. Participated in Red Team Reviews for EG&G at INEL. Served as Derivative Classifier.

EG&G Rock Flats, Resumption Pu Operations, Golden, CO (on loan from EG&G Idaho) Director 1989 – 1990
Participated as an original team member for the EG&G transition team. During transition, directed a 50-person multi-site team (EG&G Idaho and EG&G Rocky Flats) responsible for preparing a Nuclear Weapons (plutonium) Operations Phased Resumption Management Plan for the Rocky Flats Plant. Within two months, pulled together a transition/multi-site team and prepared a path forward, for resumption of operations. This plan, (for resumption of Plutonium Nuclear Weapons Operations), defined/prioritized issues, described tasks, estimated schedules, and provided the process to demonstrate compliance (Operational Readiness Review). Served as Derivative Classifier.

EG&G Idaho, Operation and Capital Projects Engineering, Idaho Falls, ID
Group Manager 1988 – 1989

Directed nine work units with 100-120 technical staff, responsible for EG&G construction project management ($200 million), AE design, and Title III inspection. New work growth increased staffing levels from 80 to 130 during FY-89 and FY-90. Reduced cost per drawing from $3,000 to $2,216 during FY-89. Productivity suggestions resulted in over $4.5 million savings for customers during FY-89.

US DOE, Richland Operations (RL) Office, Richland, WA
Assistant Manager for Facilities and Laboratory Management 1987 – 1988

Directed three divisions with 60-70 technical staff, responsible for Richland Operations Office (RL) construction projects ($500 million); RL site service ($175 million) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s R&D Programs ($220 million/year). Team Leader Sector VI Energy Team, for National Continuity of Government Program. Directed implementation of new performance appraisal system for R&D contractor. Implemented cost effectiveness/productivity program into the R&D and engineering/construction contractor organizations.

US DOE, Richland Operations (RL) Office, Richland, WA
Assistant Manager for Operations 1984 – 1987

Directed three divisions with 60-70 technical staff, responsible for RL’s $700 million/year nuclear operation oversight and assessments. This included nuclear material production; defense radioactive waste management; research reactor operations; reactor fuel deployment and supply; and decommissioning of shutdown nuclear facilities. Selected for a temporary assignment by the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, DOE-HQ, to set up a new ES&H Coordination Office for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs. Represented RL on the DOE Task Force responding to the Chernobyl accident. Initiated and carried through to completion RL’s first major public affairs program with significant public involvement, i.e., Hanford Defense Waste EIS.

US DOE, Richland Operations (RL) Office, Richland, WA
Assistant Manager for Safety, Environment, and Security 1982 – 1984

Directed two divisions with 50-60 technical staff, responsible for RL’s compliance programs. This included safety, health, emergency preparedness, safeguards, security, and quality assurance oversight, assessments, appraisals, and audits. Selected by DOE-HQ to participate as a field office expert in two Comprehensive Safety Appraisals and two Comprehensive Security Inspections and Evaluations, of other field offices (Albuquerque Area Offices Pantex, Bendix, and LANL plus, Oak Ridge and Savannah River). Co-authored a comprehensive presentation on the “DOE Safety System and RL’s Program for Enhancing Productivity and Safety.” This presentation was made numerous times at the Assistant Secretary level, to other field offices, and to contractors. Developed a risk/benefit methodology for prioritizing security requirements at RL. The approach was unique enough that DOE-HQ requested numerous presentations to HQ, other field offices, and national laboratories. Selected by DOE-HQ to serve on a national task force sponsored by DOE and the Environmental Protection Agency to study applying the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to DOE facilities.

Various Positions 1967 – 1982
Held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility and authority within the Atomic Energy Commission and Energy Research and Development Administration. Work mainly involved Hanford’s nuclear weapons research program, radioactive waste management, tank farms and burial grounds oversight and assessments. Served as classification analyst.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

B.S. Physical Metallurgy, Washington State University, 1965
B.S. Mining Engineering and Geology, Texas Western College, 1961

SECURITY CLEARANCE
DOE “Q” clearance

 

 
   

 

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