ANSI 3.1 Sr HP Technician with IH and Environmental Safety Credentials. 19 years experience

Bret D. Brown

HP / IH / Technical Writing

904 County Road 120

Valley Head, AL 35989

Tel: 423.802.0049

Email: bret.brown@yahoo.com

Objective

A Position in Health Physics, Technical Writing, or Environmental Safety where over 19 years of experience will add value to your company.

Experience

01/04 - 11/07

Edge Flooring, LLC, Dalton, Georgia

Plant Manager

Responsible for start-up of corporate production facility

Technical writing; effective end-user manuals of plant process and maintenance instructions.

Developed and implemented corporate safety program

Responsible for plant operations group, shipping, receiving,and quality control. Member of the National Safety Council

9/2003 – 1/2004

Nuclear Fuel Services/ Bartlett Nuclear

Health Physics Technician

Union Carbide Facility, Lawrenceburg, TN

Assisted in Site Characterization and drafted remediation plans

for buildings once used for uranium enrichment

Alpha contamination surveys/ Remediation

04/00-09/03

Ring Container Corporation-Plant #37

Shift Manager

Duties included: Managed operation of plastic blow molding facility providing containers for the dairy and fastfood industries. Responsible for regulatory compliance, production efficiency, personnel staffing and scheduling, quality control, resin management, shipping and receiving, maintenance, and training.

01/96-04/00

Soil Restoration and Recycling (SR2)

Summit Facility Manager

Duties included: Managed entire operation of thermal desorption facility treating petroleum contaminated soils.

Technical writing of site specific remediation procedures and plant operational instructions.

Safety Officer

Duties included: Coordinated soil remediation activities at a Tennessee State Superfund site. Responsible for personnel safety, monitoring, sampling and OSHA compliance.

3/6/95-4/21/95

Clinton Nuclear Power Station (Bartlett)

Senior Health Physics Technician

RWP writing for work on the refuel floor for vessel disassembly/assembly. Provided job coverage for all refuel activities. Performed all types of radiological surveys.Performed industrial hygiene duties including confined space testing and monitoring, confined space ventilation, heat stress analysis and air sampling for toxic atmospheres.

6/20/94-11/18/94

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant (Bartlett)

Senior Health physics Technician

RWP writing. Provided steam generator job coverage, lower containment job coverage, and auxiliary building job coverage. Performed routines, roving, and all types of radiation, contamination and air sample surveying.

3/14/94-5/27/94

Brunswick Steam Electric Plant (Bartlett)

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Assigned to drywell support during 11th refuel outage.RWP writing for all types of radiological surveying and personnel job coverage in locked high radiation/ high contamination areas. Provided job coverage during CRD removal and rebuild. Became familiar with Bartlett’s Remote Monitoring System and utilized this system for monitoring workers in the drywell.

9/13/93-11/19/93

Clinton Nuclear Power Station (Bartlett)

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Serving as Senior Health Physics Technician stationed on refuel floor for refueling activities, vessel disassembly/reassembly, chemical decontamination, GE shroud bolt modification, and all types of job coverage and radiological surveys.

9/21/92-7/23/93

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant (Bartlett)

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Providing job coverage for Impell on the fire penetration inspection project. Set-up communications and video for job coverage of lower containment and steam generator. Provided steam generator, refuel floor and auxiliary building job coverage. Also, did routine surveys.

7/20/92-9/7/92

Oconee Nuclear Power Station(GTS)

Senior Health Physics Technician

RCP coverage and routine outage surveys

9/16/91-12/6/91 & 2/24/92-5/8/92

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant (Bartlett)

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Providing job coverage for steam generator shot peening. Set-up audio/video system for S/G work.

1/26/90- 6/11/91

Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant

Senior Health Physics Technician

Served as a Reactor Building Refuel Floor Health Physics Technician. Provided job coverage during removal of drywell head,mirror insulation, reactor head, dryer and separator; defuel and refuel and all related refuel floor activities.

8/27/90- 11/9/90

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant (IRM)

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Working at lower containment control point providing job coverage; RTD cut-out, check valve work,rover duties; all types of air and smear surveys.

2/26/90-5/25/90

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant

Senior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Auxiliary Building: control point,decontamination crew, filter change out, resin transfers,RHR/SI pump repairs/modifications, rover/balance of plant,snubber/hanger/pipe support modifications, valve repair, ISI and general outage coverage.

9/5/89-2/15/90

Brunswick Steam Electric Plant

Junior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Performing senior health physics technician duties during recirc pipe replacement under supervision.

6/19/89-8/18/89

McGuire Nuclear Power Station

Junior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Counting room: alpha smear counting, beta/gamma smear counting, and GM counter. Containment: control point and general containment coverage.

4/5/89-5/25/89

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Bartlett)

Junior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Supporting free release of material to clean areas including beta/gamma dose rating surveys. Performed all types of air sampling; smear contamination surveys; reactor building BOP job coverage; and personnel decontamination assistance.

12/27/88-3/30/89

Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant

Junior Health Physics Technician

Performed radiation/contamination surveys, control points, personnel decontamination, free release of equipment.

9/26/88-12/12/88

McGuire Nuclear Power Station (Bartlett)

Junior Health physics Technician

Provided health physics coverage during steam generator U-bend stress release, with eddy current and tube plugging during nozzle dam installation and removal; including multiple badging and strict dose control. Performed health physics coverage by remote video and head set communication and in person. Performed all types radiation/contamination surveys including air sampling, radiation and contamination level determination in vicinity of steam generators. Performed highrad health physics coverage under supervision of a senior health physics technician.

5/12/88-9/22/88

D.C Cook Nuclear Power Station

Junior Health Physics Technician

Duties included: Responsible for radwaste shipping and receiving, provided job coverage under direct supervision of senior health physics technician, control points

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Education

CHATTANOOGA STATE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Chattanooga, TN

Associate of Applied Science, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene

May 1995, GPA 3.9

ACADEMY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Annapolis, MD

Certificate of Competence, Nuclear Power Utility Radiation Protection

1987 – 1988, GPA 4.0

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Tempe, AZ

Biology 1980 – 1982

Skills

Project Management

Technical Writing

Personnel training

Team Building/Motivating

Excel Spreadsheets

Quality Control

Regulatory Compliance

Certificates

05/95 O.S.H.A. 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations Workers Training

O.S.H.A. 29 CFR 1910.20 Hazardous Waste Operations Supervisor Training

05/96 Flour- Daniels Supervisor Safety Seminar

References Professional and personal preferences available upon request

(This résumé was posted on 15 December 2007.)