W. Robert Nettles

Experience

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  Brookhaven National Laboratory

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2012

  FACE Experiment Operations Manager / Science Associate III

  Assumed full Operations Management responsibility for the FACTS-1 Global Climate Change Research Facility located in the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest including personnel safety and treatment performance, coordinating on-the-ground investigative team efforts across multiple research groups to achieve quality research product while fostering a safe, non-threatening work environment. Leverage the talents of team members, vendors and researchers to accomplish daily operational goals. Generate and maintain project data and metrics, procure and maintain essential equipment and supplies. Develop, enforce, and comply with all regulatory and administrative policies and procedures. Responsible for FACTS-1 Facility decommissioning. Achieved a cumulative facility run-time metric of 99.5% No lost time safety incidents during tenure at the facility Brookhaven Spotlight Achievement Award recipient 6 performance appraisals of Commendable Performance Operational integrity fostered over 250 research publications Trained and mentored facility technicians, users and investigators Developed procedures for improving operational efficiency and data integrity Developed searchable digital log and operators’ manual subsequently deployed at other facilities Composed facility safety training documents and programs Show less

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  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Dec 2012 - now

  Operations Manager - SPRUCE Project

  I currently serve as the Operations Manager, Technical Project Officer, and Principal Technologist for ORNL’s SPRUCE project, a remote, industrial scale, environmental manipulation research facility located in Northern Minnesota. My primary responsibility is to provide a quality platform for ORNL and collaborative research teams investigating ecosystem level responses of high carbon peatlands under environmental warming and elevated levels of atmospheric CO2. This support often takes the forms of technical and scientific staff supervision and mentoring, contract development and administration, budget oversight and accounts management, establishing, executing and monitoring preventative maintenance schedules and procedures, facility operations, research campaign coordination, instrumentation installation, maintenance, calibration and inventory, data collection, analysis and dissemination, operational and safety protocol development and monitoring health and safety issues on site. ttp://mnspruce.ornl.gov/ Show less