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MJW Senior Staff Profiles

Name:	Bernard M. Olsen, MS, CHP

Title:	Senior Health Physicist

Current Job Responsibilities

Currently, Mr. Olsen is serving as a supervisory internal dose reconstructor for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Dose Reconstruction Program. He provides health physics support, including technical basis document and procedure preparation, dose reconstruction and data analysis, to assist with dose reconstructions for claimants under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. He also performs dose reconstruction research.

Career Summary:

Mr. Olsen has over 30 years of professional health physics experience. He has participated over a period of 2 years in the design and implementation of characterization, remediation, and final status surveys for a decommissioning nuclear power plant. He has also developed a technical basis manual framework for instrumentation at a DOE facility. He has performed programmatic and compliance-based independent assessments of a major DOE environmental restoration program and of a commercial nuclear power plant. He has also served in the following capacities:

Project HP at a DOE facility - open land demarcation project

Project engineer/Lead HP - remediation and restoration project for a decommissioning nuclear power plant

Staff augmentation at a DOE facility - instrumentation technical basis manual development

Assessor - independent assessment of a nuclear power plant radiation protection program

Lead Assessor - independent assessment of a DOE environmental restoration program

Agency prototype CERCLA site radiological assessment report

Chair of intra-agency committee developing CERCLA site radiological assessments

Liaison to a State for LLRW Policy Amendments Act of 1985 implementation

Radiological assessments - occupational, environmental

Dosimetry evaluations - external, internal, extremity, environmental, NVLAP

Audits - compliance, programs, systems

Characterizing gamma and neutron energy spectra in work environments

Technical evaluations of claims

Characterizing portable pulse height analysis instruments for field applications

Regional NRC-licensed instrumentation calibration laboratory manager

Emergency planning coordinator

Environmental laboratory supervisor

Work Experience

MJW CORPORATION:
     Senior Health Physicist, 2002 - Present

OTHER:
     Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., Project Health Physicist, (0.3 years)
     Duke Engineering & Services Inc., Project Engineer/Lead HP, (2.2 years)
     American Technologies Inc., Senior Health Physicist, (0.2 years)
     Millennium Services Inc., Senior Health Physicist, (0.2 years)
     Delphinus Engineering Inc., Health Physics Specialist, (0.2 years)
     Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Radiological Controls Office:
          Project Health Physicist, Health Physics and Dosimetry Branch, Radiation Health Division, (9 years)
          RADIAC Program Manager, Support Branch, Radiological Training Division, (3 years)
          Health Physicist, Technical Assistant to the Director, Radiation Health, (4 years)
          Radiological Emergency Planning Coordinator, (3 years)
          Health Physicist, Health Physics Laboratory Branch, (5 years)

Educational Background

B.S., Chemistry, Physics and Math Minors, Wagner College, 1967
M.S., Radiological Health, Harvard University, School of Public Health, 1977
M.B.A., Golden Gate University, 1981

Certifications

American Board of Health Physics (Comprehensive): 1994. Recertified: 1998, 2002, 2006

Professional Affiliations

National and New England Chapter Health Physics Society plenary memberships since 1976
American Nuclear Society member since 1996
Health Physics Society History Committee: Member 1996-99; Chair 1997-98
New England Chapter, HPS: Director 1982-84; President-Elect 1995-96; President 1996-97

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