Mr. Kerr has more than 30 years of experience in management,
oversight and individual contributions in design engineering,
project management, business development and nuclear licensing.
Mr. Kerr's clients and customers include the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U. S. State Department, the US Department of
Defense, privately and publicly held enterprises and Iran's
Ministry of Water. Mr. Kerr brings more than 17 years of nuclear
facility safety, emergency preparedness and nuclear licensing
experience. Accomplishments in the facility safety and licensing
include;
Nuclear Facility Safety Specialist
Mr. Kerr served to manage and perform nuclear safety and
emergency preparedness responsibilities for restoration and
decommissioning activities for Fluor Hanford, Inc. His responsibilities
included hazard and accident analysis, hazard categorizations,
documented safety analyses, document review, application of
the unreviewed safety question process, cost account management
and subcontract technical oversight. Mr. Kerr was the project
point of contact for nuclear activities at nine deactivated
nuclear facilities and 650 inactive waste sites. The project
scope included long term surveillance and maintenance, nuclear
and radiological facility decommissioning, waste site investigation
and remediation and groundwater management. He also provided
license oversight and risk analysis for technology transfer
investigations related to delineation technologies, one piece
removal technologies and insitu vitrification of solid waste
burial grounds containing transuranic and mixed wastes.
Mr. Kerr performed broad duties of a nuclear facility safety
specialist for the Environmental Restoration Contract (ERC)
for Bechtel Hanford, Inc. His responsibilities encompassed
the establishment and implementation of the nuclear/facility
safety program for the ERC, program oversight, integration
of necessary project emergency preparedness activities and
subcontract technical representative (STR). As STR, Mr. Kerr
developed, managed task agreements, fixed price and fee incentive
subcontracts for engineering and analytical services. Facility
applications included reactor deactivation, reactor decommissioning,
long term surveillance and maintenance, waste site restoration
and ground water remediation. Mr. Kerr was key to the establishment
and leadership of the Hanford Environmental Restorative Initiative.
This initiative resulted in a demonstration that successfully
authorized the first CERLCLA regulated license approved for
a major plutonium facility, the Plutonium Concentration Facility
(224-S). He worked with the headquarters and filed office
staff of the U. S. Department of Energy and the Defense Nuclear
Facility Safety to establish and complete the authorization
for the decommissioning. Mr. Kerr also led the analytical
and licensing efforts earning 100 % of applicable contract
award for three nuclear facilities. His customer interface
and liaison with Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board representatives
were instrumental in the successful contact performance. Mr.
Kerr was also a core author and provided technical support
for the development of the US Department of Energy guidance
for the integration of environmental and safety protective
requirements into deactivation, decommissioning, and environmental
restoration activities (DOE-STD-1120).
In 1989 Mr. Kerr brought his project management skills to
the nuclear safety program for the Westinghouse Hanford Company.
Approximately one year after transitioning to nuclear safety,
he managed the nuclear safety program and personnel for environmental
restoration and decommissioning, including emergency preparedness
integration, for applicable investigation, time critical response
and removal actions. The group's accomplishments under his
guidance included, significance program cost savings ($122,600,000
reprogramming) improved organizational performance (25% cost
reductions), nationally recognized risk assessment for retired
nuclear facilities. Several Westinghouse Quality-Engineering
Excellence awards to individual and groups resulted for the
cost savings and risk assessment work.
Project Management/Engineering
Mr. Kerr successfully performed project engineering and management
of nuclear facility design and operations for the Westinghouse
Hanford Company and Rockwell Hanford Operations. His responsibilities
included project definition, baseline estimates and schedules,
operational acceptance, design and quality oversight, cost
account management and project oversight of applicable environmental
assessment. Mr. Kerr led projects for high level liquid waste
storage tanks, modifications for high heat tank primary ventilation
systems, waste transfer facilities, laboratories and environmental
compliance projects.
Mr. Kerr successfully completed diverse responsibilities
as a staff engineer for international and domestic business
operations for the Morrison-Knudsen Company. He successfully
performed project management assignments of project execution,
preoperational testing, operational startup, design review,
procurement oversight, contract acquisition, business development,
market analysis and contract performance assessment. Mr. Kerr
acquired a broad base of project experience included, petroleum
storage and transshipping, coal to methanol development, wood
fired power, forestry planning, communications, and environmental
restoration. His progressive responsibilities included maintaining
a limited power of attorney for approximately 60 million dollars.
Major projects included the Trans Panama Pipeline, Point Salinas
International Airport, and the Buka-Asam Coal Mine, and the
Denver Aerospace Remediation Project.
Mr. Kerr executed the duties of a project engineer for radioactive
liquid waste and laboratory facilities for Vitro Engineering.
He provided leadership of multi-disciplined design team with
services including conceptual design, baseline budgets and
schedules, primarily and final design, field engineering and
functional testing and acceptance requirements of nuclear
facility and infrastructure projects. Mr. Kerr also acted
as manager of Project Estimating and assisted in personnel
development.
Construction Projects
Mr. Kerr executed responsibilities of resident engineer and
area manger for water related projects to the Ministry of
Water and Power in Iran. The projects included flood protection
systems, surface and ground water recharge, domestic and irrigation
water wells, irrigation pipelines, canals, bridges and roads.
He was responsible for local procurements and financial agreements
for field operations. Mr. Kerr was also responsible for the
in country support of expatriate personnel, fleet maintenance
facilities, and long range procurement of imported goods and
materials. Mr. Kerr's leadership was credited in higher than
expected profits for the irrigation waster delivery system
at Dashtenaz and for reducing the cost of the well drilling
and development in the northern reaches of Iran.
Mr. Kerr was a project manger for new and renovated commercial
banking facilities for the First Virginia Bankshares Corporation.
His responsibilities included design, procurement, construction
and custody transfer of banking facilities and leased facilities.
Mr. Kerr was instrumental cost improvements for long term
supply contracts of specialized materials to significantly
reduce the cost of construction.
Mr. Kerr also performed project supervision duties for commercial
and residential construction and land development. Projects
included institutional facilities, townhouses, garden apartments
and detached houses with the attendant infrastructure.
BA, Industrial Technology, Construction Theory, Washington
State University, Pullman, Washington
