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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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