Harrison Kerschner

Experience

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  U.S. Navy

  Jan 1971 - Jan 1991

  Naval Officer

  Career naval officer: Program Manager, Non-Ionizing Radiation, Bureau of Medicine & Surgery, Undersea Medicine, Washington DC; Deputy Director, Radiation Health Division (Code 105.5), Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; Military Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Defense Language Institute (Monterey, Ca) - Arabic. Deep-Sea Diver, Nuclear Weapons Officer, Surface Warfare Officer.

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  Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Company

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1996

  Radiological Control Manager - Nevada Test Site

  Directed large health protection organization of ~200 staff in support of underground nuclear testing. Functional components included: radiological controls, nuclear dosimetry, environmental monitoring, nuclear instrumentation, industrial hygiene, litigation support, health physics, and radiological engineering/decontamination services.• Strengthened areas of technical weakness by aggressive staff recruitment and implementing professional development programs.• Streamlined organization by reducing layers of management.• Improved company profits in cost-plus-award fee contract.• Decreased indirect costs of operations by 20 percent.• Implemented cost avoidance measures greater than $1 million.• Received DOE Weapons Recognition Award for implementing 10CFR835 Radiological Controls Program at the Nevada Test Site.• Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST) Member. Show less

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  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2002

  The Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility design project is a national strategic capital acquisition tied to treaty disposition of excess nuclear weapons material. Technical areas of responsibility: criticality, radiological engineering, nuclear safety, safeguards and security, classification, and plutonium technology. • Significant improvement in technical deliverables, client relationships, off-site staffing, project management, while increasing annual business volume; Effective management of one of PNNL’s largest 1831 contracts Show less

  • Fissile Material Manager-Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  • Independent Oversight

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1998
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  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2006

  Deputy Manager, Device Assembly Facility (Nevada Test Site)

  The DAF is a secure nuclear explosive hazard category 2 nuclear facility with the following missions: Nuclear Explosive Operations, Underground Test Readiness, Sub-critical experiments program, disposition of damaged nuclear weapons; and programs in support of national security interests. • Successful completion of a National Nuclear Security Administration-led Operational Readiness Review meeting a key NNSA Secretarial Security Initiative• Successful completion of a time critical, highly visible Nuclear Explosive Safety Master Study Show less

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  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - PNNL

  Jan 2006 - now

  Directing mitigation actions across the PNNL campus to correct NFPA 70 underrated electrical equipment discrepancies Leading a National Security Directorate project for increasing Research & Development mission capability. This is accomplished through approved safeguards and security program upgrades, nuclear facility modification, and modeling of operational work controls. Led a $20 million program for the decommissioning, deactivation, demolition, and disposition of Battelle Memorial Institute’s Research Technology Laboratory Complex, a 10-building radiological research complex sited on 15.2 acres.• Completion accelerated by 2 years meeting residential release criteria for radiological and chemicals/metals contaminants• Release of liability achieved Led completion a $37 million facility life extension program and an additional $15 million in infrastructure investments. Successful implementation of a new safety basis and installation of four new hot cells and three gloveboxes. Achieved operational readiness. Lead a team of engineers and construction staff managing life-extensions for the Department of Energy nuclear research facility, the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory and the 331 Life Sciences Building, 318 Calibrations Facility, and the 350 Maintenance Building .

  • Program Manager, Underrated Electrical Equipment Program

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Project Manager, Safeguards Inventory Limit Upgrade

    Jan 2015 - now

  • Program Manager, Research Technology Laboratory Disposition

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Manager, Radiochemical Processing Laboratory

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2015

  • Project Manager 300 Area, Capability Replacement Laboratory

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2008
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  None

  Jan 2018 - now

  Semi Retired

  Leading a multi-organizational team focused on strategic alignment for protecting export control high-risk assets and technical information & data. A Laboratory-level key initiative.