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LEADERSHIP TEAM
	GEORGE MILLER has played a critical role in the national security mission at LLNL since 1972 and has led every aspect of the nuclear weapons program at the Laboratory, from design through development, testing, deployment to the stockpile and retirement. As LLNL Laboratory director since 2006, he has directed management and operations and applied the resources necessary to meet its core missions related to weapons, Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) integration, the National Ignition Facility (NIF), and the reduction of global threats from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Read More about George Miller
	STEVE LIEDLE is a Bechtel principal vice president with 24 years of Department of Energy (DOE)/ National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) experience and a history of bringing improved productivity and processes to DOE/NNSA sites. As deputy general manager at the DOE/NNSA Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., which plays a vital role in DOE’s Nuclear Weapons Complex, he implemented Six Sigma process improvement tools at both Y-12 and the Oak Ridge cleanup contract, which realized savings of $101 million in 2005–06. Read More about Steve Liedle
	MELISSA ALLAIN has 25 years of legal experience and has been Laboratory counsel for Lawrence Livermore since 2005. She has provided legal oversight and support to the LLNL contract and its related activities and has served as the Laboratory ethics officer. Before coming to LLNL, Allain served in-house guiding Fortune 100 enterprises on tailoring and implementing best corporate practices in governance, ethics and compliance . In private practice she advised on environment, safety and health compliance, insurance coverage and remediation cost recovery, and dealt in the criminal enforcement context with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Defense and several other federal and state agencies . She also represented clients in civil litigation, including toxic tort actions, and in administrative proceedings including government contract matters. Allain received her doctor of jurisprudence from Harvard Law School.
	HAROLD CONNER, JR, has 40 years of Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) experience leading non-nuclear, nuclear, low-hazard and high-hazard operations. He has a record of cost effectively and safely managing and revitalizing facilities and infrastructure at Savannah River Site (SRS), Y-12, K-25, and Idaho National Laboratory Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). He was in a leading management role at SRS for Washington Group from 2000 to 2007, where he led infrastructure management, defense programs, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear materials management and spent fuels. Conner is a Six Sigma champion and has achieved exemplary safety records at SRS. He also has received several DOE Secretary and NNSA awards for outstanding facilities accomplishments. Conner began his professional career at Lockheed Martin advancing from site manager to vice president of Environmental Safety, Health and Quality to executive vice president and chief operating officer with oversight responsibility of all INEEL operations, including nuclear and non-nuclear programs, environmental management, engineering, construction, maintenance, infrastructure services and emergency preparedness. Conner received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee and South Carolina, and is active in the National Organization for Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the Board of Public Education Partners in Aiken County, S.C.
	DONA CRAWFORD has 31 years of computational management experience at Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories. She was associate director, Computation, at LLNL from 2001 to 2007, with responsibility for the operation of high-performance computers, scientific visualization facilities, high-performance storage systems, network connectivity, multiresolution data analysis, mathematical models, scalable numerical algorithms, computer applications and services that enabled LLNL mission goals and scientific discovery through simulation. Icons for the computing environment provided include the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program’s BlueGene/L (BG/L) machine and the ASC Purple machine. BG/L is the fastest computer in the world, and Purple is ranked No. 4. With Sandia from 1976 to 2001, Crawford went from project leader in the Computation Department to director of the Model-based Design and Manufacturing Integration Program. She participates in more than 30 professional organizations and is on the board of directors of the Civilian Research and Development Foundation and the advisory board of the Council on Competitiveness High Performance Computing. She leads and chairs professional review teams, panels and boards. Crawford received the Computerworld Honors Award (2006) and was named 2005 Woman of the Year in Science in Alameda County. She received a master’s degree in operations research from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Redlands, Calif.
	Since 2002 TOMAS DIAZ DE LA RUBIA has been the Associate Director for CMLS, managing programmatic science for the National Ignition Facility (NIF), Defense and Nuclear Technologies and Advanced Simulation and Computing; emerging programs in weapons of mass destruction countermeasures; and basic science programs for the Department of Energy and Laboratory-directed research and development. He leads the directorate’s discovery-class science at the intersection of chemistry, bioscience, biotechnology and materials science to support LLNL programmatic missions in stockpile stewardship, Nuclear Weapons Complex integration, National Ignition Facility (NIF) and global security. At LLNL since 1989, he has been Materials Program leader for NIF, deputy division leader for science and technology in the Materials Science and Technology Division, and scientific capabilities leader for Computational Materials Science. He is a member of the Materials Research Society and was on its board of directors from 2001 to 2005 and a member and fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Research from State University of New York, and has authored more than 150 publications. He has organized and chaired more than 30 conferences on materials science, simulation and modeling. He has been invited to speak at more than 50 conferences and universities internationally. Diaz de la Rubia received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the State University of New York and completed his doctorate in 1989.
	JOHN DOESBURG has 37 years of experience applying science and technology for development of global security solutions. Since leaving the U.S. Army as commanding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command in 2004, he has been University of Tennessee - Battelle’s Director of Homeland Security Programs and a program director in the National Security Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He leveraged his relationships with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence community to enhance ORNL capabilities, increase Work For Others, and lower costs to the Department of Energy. During his 34-year army career, Doesburg served as senior chemical and biological defense officer and was responsible for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) defense policy and operations. As physical science officer for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, he prepared national policy recommendations for decisions at the presidential level regarding chemical and biological arms limitations and agreements, including the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, where he was a member of the U.S. delegation and a principal negotiator. Doesburg received his master’s degree-equivalent in national security from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oklahoma. He has received the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal with seven oak leaf clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster. He has authored numerous classified publications on WMD, chem-bio warfare, vaccines and homeland defense.
	BILL GOLDSTEIN has 21 years of leadership experience in physical science at Lawrence Livermore. As associate director of Physics and Advanced Technologies since 2000, he has had responsibility for a broad range of physics research and development, including nuclear, particle and accelerator science; condensed matter and high-pressure physics; fusion energy; medical physics and biophysics; optical sciences and instrumentation; and high-energy-density physics. He has been a strong contributor to stockpile stewardship by generating data that underlies advanced codes and simulations. He oversees the Livermore branch of the University of California’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and the Institute for Laser Science and Applications, which strengthens collaborations between LLNL laser researchers and the academic community. For more than a decade, Goldstein has supported major National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy Office of Science and Department of Homeland Security program goals. He led the creation of the Jupiter Laser Facility and, in 2006, oversaw completion of Titan, a unique new Jupiter Laser Facility capability. Goldstein is a postdoctoral research associate, Theoretical Physics Group, at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Columbia University, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Physical Society and on the board of directors of the National Science Foundation Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology at UC Davis. He has received numerous awards and has authored or co-authored more than 70 papers in the fields of elementary particle theory, nuclear physics, atomic physics, X-ray physics and plasma spectroscopy.
	BRUCE GOODWIN has been the associate director of Defense and Nuclear Technologies at Lawrence Livermore since 2001. He has been a key player in the success of the LLNL nuclear weapons program since 1981, first at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then at LLNL since 1985. He led the process to certify LLNL nuclear weapons and was responsible for establishing priorities, developing strategies and designing and maintaining LLNL’s nuclear weapons; for the past six years he has been responsible for leading the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Goodwin designed LLNL’s proposed reliable replacement warhead to streamline manufacturing, and developed the JASPER facility, which markedly reduced the costs of tests. He won the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award for innovative weapons science for demonstrating that plutonium behaves in a fundamentally different way than previously thought – now the basis for understanding weapons performance. Goodwin received his doctorate and master’s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from City College of New York. He is a member of the American Physical Society, a recipient of many awards and the author of numerous publications. As one of the world’s leading theoretical experts in plutonium and implosion dynamics, he often presents weapons physics to the community, officials and members of Congress.
	PAM HORNING was vice president, Operational Assurance with BWX Technologies from 2005 to 2007. She was responsible for ensuring that consistent and rigorous operational and safety best practices and continuous improvement were applied across BWXT’s 15 Department of Energy (DOE) and commercial sites, all of which involved complex, high-consequence nuclear and national security operations. Horning began her career in BWXT’s Naval Operations Division in 1983 and held positions of increasing responsibility, from quality assurance engineering and operations management, to project management, to directing enriched uranium operations and uranium manufacturing modernization. She has 24 years of experience in nuclear operations, 16 at DOE/National Nuclear Security Administration sites, and a record of leading initiatives across the DOE Complex that resulted in improved performance, enhanced safety and increased efficiency. Horning chairs the DOE Energy Facility Contractor Group (EFCOG) and is currently an EFCOG sponsoring director for infrastructure management and safety analysis. She received a DOE award of excellence in 2005 and a Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site Improvement Award. She received her master’s degree in engineering administration from George Washington University in Washington D.C. and her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University in Indiana.
	TAMMY JERNIGAN was principal deputy associate director of the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore from 2001 to 2007. Her responsibilities encompassed a broad range of research and development activities, including basic and applied science, strategic human capital management, workforce planning, recruiting, mentoring, training and succession planning. From 1985 to 2001, Jernigan was a NASA astronaut and served in key technical and management positions with a leadership role on five high-visibility, high-consequence space shuttle missions. She was also lead astronaut for Space Station External Maintenance; deputy for the Space Station; acting deputy chief of the Astronaut Office; and chief of the Mission Development Branch. She has 22 years of experience in scientific and operational leadership. Jernigan received a doctorate in space physics and astronomy from Rice University in Houston, Texas; a master’s degree in astronomy from the University of California in Berkeley; and a master’s in engineering science and a bachelor’s degree) in physics from Stanford University. She is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the Association of Space Explorers and the National Academy of Sciences, Space Studies Board. She has won numerous awards, citations and commendations including the NASA Distinguished Service and Outstanding Leadership medals. She was selected as a member of the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2004 and has been keynote speaker for hundreds of academic, corporate and government audiences.
	Stephen Johnson was Director of the Office of Contractor Assurance at Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC), where he was responsible for contractor assurance system functions including management and independent assessment; event reporting, lessons learned; worker feedback; issues management and performance measures. Johnson has 15 years of senior management experience with WSRC in the areas of conduct of operations, training, performance-based self-assessment and oversight, safety management and nuclear activity startup. Johnson is a former nuclear-trained submarine officer with more than 24 years of U.S. Naval service, earning the rank of captain and serving as commanding officer of a fast attack nuclear submarine. The highlight of his command tour was an extended under-ice Arctic deployment. Johnson also served as commanding officer of the Submarine Training Facility in Charleston, S.C. Johnson received his bachelor’s degree in marine engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and studied systems analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
	From 2003 to 2007, DAVE LEARY served as Lawrence Livermore deputy director for Operations and associate director for Laboratory Services, during which time he was responsible for all LLNL business operations, including budget and financial controls. In his 34 years with the Laboratory, he has reorganized and revitalized functions and operations, standardized tools and instituted internal controls that resulted in significant cost savings. Leary came to LLNL as a member of the Safeguards and Security Department. He joined LLNL Business Operations in 1988. In 1990 he became the Property Management Division lead and developed a property management system that is regarded as best in class in the Department of Energy (DOE) Complex. Leary was named department head of Business Services in 1994, and under his leadership, the department received several awards for streamlining operations and reducing costs, including the Hammer Award, the DOE Quality Award, and the California State Quality Council Award. Leary is a member of the DOE Personal Property Management Council, chair of the LLNL Performance Assurance Board, and chair of the LLNL Strategic Operations Forum. He was an original member and former chair of the Nuclear Security Information Exchange. He received his master’s degree in police science and administration from Washington State University, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Illinois State University.
	ALLEN MACENSKI has 37 years of Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) experience, including nine years of oversight and involvement in Department of Energy programs. As Bechtel’s ES&H services manager, he recently implemented four ES&H initiatives, including assistance to the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, Savannah River Site, and Yucca Mountain to prepare and submit a compliant worker safety and health program. As assistant general manager of ES&H at the Nevada Test Site from 2003 to 2006, he revitalized the safety culture by instituting a comprehensive ES&H program. He reduced the lost-time accident rate from 0.61 to 0.22, and implemented four ES&H Six Sigma initiatives yielding millions of dollars in savings. He also worked with the national weapons laboratories, National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office, and other government agencies to develop integrated ES&H programs. Macenski began his Bechtel career in 1997 as manager of Environmental, Safety, and Health Services, supporting projects worldwide, including 957 safety professionals at DOE sites. He has been managing corporate health, safety and security programs since 1970. He is an active member in two quality assurance organizations — the Energy Facility Contractors Group Quality Working Group and the Bay Area Quality Assurance Association. Macenski holds a master’s degree in environmental/occupational health sciences from California State University . He also has a law degree from Northrop University School of Law in Inglewood, Calif., and is a certified safety professional and a registered environmental assessor.
	ED MOSES has 18 years of experience developing Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) laser systems and 30 years of experience developing and managing complex laser systems and high-technology projects. As associate director (AD) for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Program from 2005 to 2007, he was responsible for completing construction and bringing into full operation the world’s largest optical instrument for achieving ignition in the laboratory and for studying inertial fusion energy. He has been instrumental in sustaining the program’s current strong performance. Moses joined Lawrence Livermore in 1980, becoming program leader for Isotope Separation and Material Processing, and deputy AD for Lasers. From 1990 to 1995, he was a founding partner of Advanced Technology Applications, which advised clients on proposing on and designing high-technology projects. He returned to LLNL in 1995 as assistant AD for program development, Physics and Space Technology. Moses received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Cornell University in New York. He has won numerous awards, including the 2003 NNSA Award of Excellence for Significant Contribution to Stockpile Stewardship, the 2004 DOE Award of Excellence for the first joint LLNL/Los Alamos National Laboratory experiments on NIF, and the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Lasers and Optical Sciences. He holds seven patents in laser technology and computational physics.
	CHERRY MURRAY has 22 years of experience, 12 at the executive level, in managing large multidisciplinary research and development projects. She is an accomplished scientist and member of three national science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As Lawrence Livermore’s deputy director for Science and Technology (S&T) from 2004 to 2007, she developed LLNL’s strategic S&T plan and set standards for scientific research and program quality. She developed and maintained the core capabilities needed to support LLNL’s long-term science needs for stockpile stewardship, Nuclear Weapons Complex integration, the National Ignition Facility, nonproliferation and Work for Others programs. She also developed LLNL’s strategic S&T plan and sets standards for scientific research and program quality. Previously at Bell Labs, Murray went from staff scientist in 1976 to senior vice president in 2000. She has served on more than 80 national and international scientific advisory committees, governing boards and National Research Council (NRC) panels. She was elected vice president of the American Physical Society (APS) for the year 2007 and will rotate into the presidency in one year. Murray holds a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has authored more than 70 technical papers in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and has two patents in near-field optical data storage and optical display technology.
	STEVE PATTERSON has 17 years of experience managing large National Nuclear Security Administration projects and programs, 10 years as a professor of precision engineering, and 25 years of hands-on experience from his precision engineering business. Currently, he directs the development of cutting-edge precision engineering technology in support of Lawrence Livermore’s mission, including weapons, the National Ignition Facility, and global security programs, as well as the other science and technology directorates. Patterson works closely with multiple directorates to ensure the simultaneous integration of technologies from large-scale, complex, applied physics systems to microscale engineering. He has implemented Earned Value Management Systems on all engineering projects and reduced personnel costs by nearly $1 million. Before joining LLNL in 2003, Patterson spent 10 years as a distinguished professor of precision engineering at the University of North Carolina. From 1970 to 1979, he worked for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirkland Air Force Base. He retired from active duty as Captain and was promoted to Major in the Air Force Reserve. He has a doctorate and master’s degree in applied science from the University of California at Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
	Gerald Paulson served as program manager for Operations Assessments at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he was responsible for the oversight of five associate directors and a staff of about 2,000 people, including nuclear safety, environmental safety and health, security, facility management, and project experts. From 2002-2006 Paulson served as a program manager of the LANL/BWXT contract, where he played an important role in bringing key nuclear facilities back on line following LANL’s 2004 stand-down. Jerry has 23 years’ experience in managing operations and safety in DOE-regulated and NRC-licensed nuclear facilities. Paulson also held several key management positions at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. He has extensive experience in developing and implementing Integrated Safety Management System activities for facility-level hazards. He holds a doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Montana State University.
	LINDA RAKOW has more than 20 years of experience in financial management at Lawrence Livermore. Chief financial Officer at LLNL since 2004, Rakow manages a $1.6 billion budget and provides financial leadership, including the development and implementation of enterprise financial systems. Previous positions at LLNL include assistant deputy director for Business and Finance and assistant deputy director for Strategic Operations. She served as assistant associate director (AD) for Program Planning for the National Ignition Facility (NIF), assistant AD for Program Planning for the National Security Office, and business manager for Defense and Nuclear Technologies. She worked at the Nevada Test Site for 10 years, first studying site ecology and then leading a team that created a database for the nuclear testing program. Rakow received her master’s in business administration from the University of the Pacific in California and her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She is a member of the Department of Energy Financial Management Systems Improvement Council, Financial Executives International and the Financial Managers Strategic Initiatives Committee.
	FRANK RUSSO, a Bechtel principal vice president, has 34 years of operations and business experience and a history of saving millions of dollars at Department of Energy (DOE) facilities. As president and general manager of the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Plant at Idaho National Laboratory, Russo directed all company activities and used Lean Six Sigma methods to integrate business systems and operations, accelerating production 1,000 percent and achieving $6 million in annual savings. The project also recorded 3.1 million job-hours with no lost-time accidents, reducing the total case incident rate from 1.6 to 0.7. From 2001 to 2005, Russo was general manager of the Idaho Completion Project and director of program management for Bechtel BWXT. He began his Bechtel career in 1973 in procurement, supporting 10 international and domestic nuclear projects. He gained his nuclear regulatory, construction and operations skills during the construction, startup and operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Plant and the Palo Verde Electric Plant, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in project execution and program management. Russo is a Certified Project Management Institute instructor and Six Sigma champion. He has trained 2,500 DOE and Nuclear Weapons Complex site personnel on DOE Order 413.3. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Pace University and attended Stanford University’s Executive Management Program.
	PAM SMITH has more than 20 years’ experience at Lawrence Livermore, having previously served as the acting associate director of Laboratory Services from May 2006 to September 2007. She has extensive experience in financial controls, supply chain management, information resources management, procurement, material distribution and property management. She served as deputy associate director of the Business Directorate from October to December 2007 and was named acting associate director in January 2008. Throughout her career she has promoted business processes that were risk-based, cross functional and cost effective, as well as streamlined and integrated. Smith joined the Laboratory in 1987 as the relocation coordinator in the Supply and Distribution Department. Since then, she has held a number of increasingly important senior management assignments, including Supplemental Labor Office group leader, deputy leader of Property Management, Service Support Division leader, Business Services deputy department head, Technical Information Department head, and Innovative Business and Information Services department head. Smith received a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of California at Davis in 1966.