Education & Professional Experience

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, June 1972

Kansas Wesleyan University AB, Math & Physics, Magna Cum Laude honors, May 1964

Employment Background:

2007-Present – Project Advisor to the Director at Argonne National Laboratory.

• Assist project teams in recruiting critical staff, training that staff as needed, developing the required project documentation, and lead internal Director’s Reviews of the projects at the Critical Decision points and in preparation for CD and other formal departmental reviews. Was recruited to rejoin Argonne to be the Project Manager for the UChicago Argonne FRIB (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) proposal; MSU (Michigan State University) won this competition.

2006-2008 – At the request of the Director of the Office of Science,

• I was assigned to a part-time detail (3 weeks at ITER; 3 weeks at home laboratory repeatedly over a two ½ year period) as a project management consultant to ITER, Cadarache, France. This period straddled my employment at Argonne and Fermilab.

1997-2007 – Various positions at Fermilab including:

• 2001-2007 – Head of the Fermilab Office of Project Management Oversight.
• 1999-2001 – Detail to ORNL as Project Director for the Spallation Neutron Source.
• 1997-1999 – Construction Manager for the US CMS (Compact Muon Source) project with some 30 US institutions (universities & other laboratories) with all the activity managed from Fermilab.

1991-1997 – Argonne National Laboratory as Project Director for construction of the APS.

• Led a peak workforce of 500 people in the construction of the civil structures and design, fabrication, test, installation, and commissioning of the machine hardware.

1980-1991 – Director of the Construction Management Support Division in DOE Office of Science.

• It was in this role where I served as the Executive Director of the SSC Site Selection Task Force and developed and implemented the DOE/SC Project Management System that serves as the model for DOE Project Peer Reviews today. See description under Work Experience above.

1977-1980 – Senior Engineer in the Office of Program and Project Management under the Office of the Controller in the Energy Research and Development Administration.

• As a Branch Chief, I was responsible for the departmental oversight of projects in one-half of the entire agency including Defense Programs, Division of Physical Research, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve.

1975-1977 – Project & Program Manager in the San Francisco Field Operations Office of the Atomic Energy Commission.

1972-1975 – Senior Development Engineer in the GE Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, CA.

1967-1972 – Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, where I completed my Ph.D. thesis “Nuclear Structure Studies following Negative Muon Capture in Doubly Magic Nuclei” at the 184” Cyclotron.

1964-1967 – Competed for and was awarded an AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) Special Fellowship in Nuclear Science and Engineering and was admitted to graduate school in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, CA.

1964 Summer Attended a Summer Institute in Interplanetary and Space Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.