Executive Council Directory

As Business Manager and Chief Financial Officer for Savannah River Remediation LLC, Sandra Fairchild is responsible for all aspects of financial, procurement, contract, information technology and budget management affecting SRR, the Liquid Waste Contractor located at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The current contract value is $3.1 billion.

Ms. Fairchild has over 28 years of diversified experience in the fields of technical planning and controls management, procurement, contracts administration, accounting, earned value management, pension and benefits administration, information technology including cyber security, risk management and governmental negotiations. She is licensed by the state of South Carolina as a certified public accountant.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Fairchild was Chief Financial Officer for Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC) Liquid Waste contract and Management and Operations organizations. In these positions, her responsibilities involved the oversight of $1 billion annual operating programs with highly diverse missions.

During her career, she has held positions of increasing financial management responsibilities, including WSRC Operations Business Unit controller, with responsibilities for financial oversight of $500 million construction projects, and WSRC Closure Business Unit controller, where she had responsibilities for financial oversight of Environmental Management and National Nuclear Security Administration programs.

Prior to working at SRS, Ms. Fairchild was senior auditor for the South Carolina State Auditors Office. In that capacity, she had responsibility for oversight of companies receiving federal or state funding.

Ms. Fairchild is an honorary lifetime member of the Aiken Junior Women’s Club, a member of the Aiken High School Booster Club and serves as Treasurer for the Aiken Technical College Foundation.

Education

• College of Charleston Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
• Certified Public Accountant

Michael Graham is a Bechtel Principal Vice President and serves as Manager of Functions for the Nuclear, Security, and Environmental (NS&E) Global Business Unit.  In this role, Graham oversees all functions that deploy staff to projects and programs; he also serves as the functional manager for NS&E’s Project Managers. He oversees the performance and staffing of projects for the nuclear industry, as well as commercial and government projects in the Security and Environmental business lines.

Previously, Graham was associate director of Environmental Programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, responsible for managing the Laboratory’s $3 billion program to remediate legacy radioactive and hazardous waste sites resulting from Manhattan Project and Cold War activities.

Before his tenure at Los Alamos, Graham served as head of Bechtel Savannah River, Inc. from 2006 to 2008. Graham also held key management positions for Bechtel at sites including the Idaho National Laboratory and the Hanford Site in Washington state. Prior to Bechtel, Graham held senior technical and leadership positions at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Graham received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his doctorate and master’s degrees in geological sciences from Indiana University.

Jeff Stevens is Vice President of Operations for BWX Technologies, Inc., where he oversees operations for the Technical Services Group at 14 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites.

Mr. Stevens has 30 years’ experience in managing government and commercial delivery organizations. He has led complex nuclear programs, including the decommissioning of DOE’s three gaseous diffusion facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn., which spanned 4.9 million square feet and housed more than 328 million pounds of radioactively-contaminated material; the

Savannah River Site’s Waste Management organization; and the Rocky Flats decommissioning program. Jeff has implemented cultural change, overhead reductions, corporate restructuring/integration and infrastructure development.  During his career, Mr. Stevens has led more than 100 decontamination and decommissioning, waste management and remediation projects at more than 60 nuclear/radiological sites, integrated decommissioning programs in 400 facilities, decommissioned more than 150 facilities, remediated 65 sites, and made more than 12,000 waste shipments.

A graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Mr. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering, with minors in Metallurgical Engineering and Mineral Economics. He served as Lieutenant in the United States Navy, where he was selected for the elite Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program, earning engineering officer certification from the Navy and the Department of Energy.

Morgan Smith is the president and the chief executive officer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, which is responsible for the management and operation of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A Bechtel executive, Smith joined CNS in 2014 to serve as the CNS chief operating officer and manage the operations of both sites.

Smith has more than 36 years of prior technical and managerial leadership experience within the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. He performed significant roles in planning and implementing the consolidation of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory into a single organization and, in 2014, applied that experience to initiate the consolidation of Pantex and Y-12 under one U.S. Department of Energy contract.

As general manager of Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory from 2009 through June 2014, Smith had direct management of that laboratory and co-managed the Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation in partnership with the general manager of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. He and his co-manager led approximately 7,000 employees—who performed nearly $2 billion of work annually at five sites for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program—under a joint contract with DOE and the Navy.

Smith also served as president of Bechtel Bettis, Inc., and as general manager of Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. He managed contracts with DOE and the Navy that had combined revenues of more than $600 million and approximately 3,500 employees at three main sites and eight major field offices. He also managed and oversaw resources for new reactor and propulsion plant design, component design and testing, materials development and testing, technical support for procurement of all Navy reactor cores, placement of spent fuel into dry storage, and new ship construction and operating fleet support.

As president and general manager of Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Smith managed approximately 900 employees at multiple sites with an annual operating budget of $110 million and annual subcontracts averaging approximately $600 million.

Smith’s career has been focused on leading disciplined nuclear operations and improving performance in high-risk environments. His technical background includes design; development; and fabrication of reactor control drive mechanisms, steam generators and refueling equipment.

Smith holds a B.S. in civil engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and has completed various project management and leadership development programs with Westinghouse, Bechtel and the University of Michigan.

Greg Meyer has over 35 years of nuclear operations and safety experience. As senior Vice president for Operations, Greg is responsible for Fluor Corporation’s Environment and Nuclear business line, which includes operations serving the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration and the National Decommissioning Authority in the UK.

Before joining Fluor, Greg served four years at B&W Pantex, half that time as President and General Manager. In addition to his career at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant, he has held significant senior management positions in operations, project management, and project support at three other Department of Energy sites: Hanford, Richland, Washington; Savannah River, Aiken, South Carolina, and Rocky Flats, Golden, Colorado. He has been a nuclear operations project manager, a safeguards and security director and an Environment, Safety, Health and Quality director.

Mr. Meyer completed a 24-year career in the U. S. Navy. A graduate of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, he served on five nuclear submarines and two submarine squadron staffs. Highlights of his career included assignment as Commanding Officer of the USS Scranton (SSN-756) and an overseas diplomatic post in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was the Joint Chiefs of Staff Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and a senior member of the U.S. Delegation that negotiated the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty.

Mr. Meyer received his BS in marine engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and MS in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the National War College. He is certified as a Certified Safety Professional and Project Management Professional.

Michael Lempke is president of the Nuclear and Environmental Group at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions division. He is responsible for HII’s work in nuclear operations; nuclear engineering and design; project management; environmental services; nuclear production facilities; site remediation and waste management; infrastructure, ecological and health and safety support; records management; and fabrication services.

 Lempke previously served as vice president of energy programs at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, where he was responsible for overseeing Department of Energy programs, as well as commercial nuclear and industrial products businesses, and formulating strategy to yield new energy and inorganic growth markets.

 Before joining Newport News Shipbuilding in June 2016, Lempke was vice president of Integrated Strategic Decision Support at Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc., and held positions of increasing responsibility within the Department of Energy. In 2012, he was named associate principal deputy administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the associate administrator for infrastructure and operations. Prior to that, he had a long and successful career at Naval Reactors, where he held senior leadership positions including manager of the Naval Reactors Laboratory Field Office, and director of Acquisitions at Naval Reactors Headquarters. Lempke also served as a Navy Supply Corps officer in the United States Navy.

 Lempke earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Arizona State University and a master’s degree in acquisitions management from The George Washington University. He holds certificates in negotiation and influence and international business strategy from Georgetown University. Upon retirement from government service in 2014, he was awarded the NNSA Gold Medal of Excellence for Distinguished Service.

 Huntington Ingalls Industries is America’s largest military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services to partners in government and industry. For more than a century, HII’s Newport News and Ingalls shipbuilding divisions in Virginia and Mississippi have built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder. HII’s Technical Solutions division provides a wide range of professional services through its Fleet Support, Integrated Missions Solutions, Nuclear and Environmental, and Oil and Gas groups. Headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, HII employs nearly 37,000 people operating both domestically and internationally.

Elizabeth (Liz) Porter currently serves as Senior Vice President, Federal Energy & Environment for Leidos Civil, where she oversees an organization that provides world class environmental science, energy and engineering solutions/services to all our federal, state and local clients including the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

 Previously, Ms. Porter served as the DoDIN & Mission Partner Program Director, for Leidos Defense. In this capacity, she was responsible for the oversight of the Defense Information System Agency Global Services Management-Operations task orders in support of Joint Information Environment.  These task orders include efforts focused on new Joint Force Headquarters, Joint Regional Security Stacks, Mission Partner Support and multiple other DISA Enterprise Services.

 Prior to that she served as the Director of Energy Initiatives, Corporate Engineering & Technology (CE&T) at Lockheed Martin.  In that role, she was responsible for developing and executing the strategy for the energy campaign working closely with business areas and corporate strategy and business development to leverage capabilities and grow the business in the expanding energy market from February 2009 to April 2012. Selected by the Department of Energy and MIT as first-ever recipient of the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative Award (Corporate Implementation) in 2012.

 Throughout her career, Ms. Porter has led several critical initiatives for Lockheed Martin, including advanced programs (proposal execution) management, engineering and operations management for the Defense Messaging System, database design and software development for the Global Transportation Network all for Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems.  She started her career with Lockheed Martin’s Space Systems Company (prior General Electric Astro) as a solar array design and electrical power subsystem engineer.

 Ms. Porter graduated from Villanova University with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and from the University of Colorado with a master’s degree in Business Administration. Ms. Porter’s serves on the Industrial Advisory Board to the Engineering Department at Villanova University, and on the advisory board of the Montgomery County Business Round Table for Education.

Dr. Kelly Beierschmitt serves as the Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Laboratory is a principal contributor to the U.S. Department of Energy mission to maintain the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Los Alamos uses innovative science and technology to enhance global nuclear security and protect the world. Los Alamos has an annual operating budget of approximately $2.7 billion, roughly 12,000 employees, and a nearly 40-square-mile site featuring some of the most specialized scientific equipment and supporting infrastructure in the world.

Kelly has worked more than 30 years in the service of critical DOE missions. Most recently, he was the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology and Chief Research Officer for Idaho National Laboratory (INL) where he had responsibility for setting the scientific and engineering agenda and overseeing the research, development, demonstration and deployment of the critical missions for the laboratory.

Prior to joining INL, Kelly worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for 13 years where he served as Associate Laboratory Director for both the Neutron Sciences and the Nuclear Science and Technology Directorates. He also served as ORNL’s Director of Environment, Safety, Health and Quality. Kelly moved to Oak Ridge from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he held several roles both in the sciences and support functions.

Kelly began his career at the Pantex Plant, where he served as a nuclear explosives engineer, developed some of the earliest Safety Analysis Reports, retooled high explosives operations and developed one of the earliest Master Safeguards and Security Agreements. Kelly’s entire career has emphasized the synergistic integration of science, technology and engineering with operational excellence to ensure effective mission delivery in a wide array of research and development environments – ranging from forefront experimental research in physical sciences to developmental engineering requiring hazardous nuclear operations.

Kelly has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Risk, Reliability Engineering) from Texas Tech University and a BSc in Engineering Mathematics from West Texas A&M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Certified Safety Professional in Comprehensive Practice, and a member of the American Nuclear Society, Materials Research Society, and other professional societies.

As the MSTS President, Mark Martinez provides leadership and management direction for the effective and efficient execution of all operations at the Nevada National Security Site and leads development of a visionary and executable strategic plan.

Martinez has 30 years of experience managing complex and multidisciplinary nuclear, technical, business, operational and site services. He spent the past 23 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), most recently leading as Vice President and Principal Associate Director for Operations and Business, working to implement key strategic initiatives and operations and infrastructure improvements.

While at LLNL, Martinez gained both programmatic and operational expertise through diverse assignments and developed key relationships with employees and external stakeholders. He was a senior Test Director, responsible for executing LLNL experimental activities at the Nevada National Security Site, which encompassed comprehensive oversight of complex technical; construction; environment, safety and health; quality assurance; security; external communications; and other management functions for large-scale projects.  He also served as the Program Leader for the Nuclear Materials Technology Program, the Nevada Experiments and Operations Acting Program Leader, and the Deputy Principal Associate Director in the Weapons & Complex Integration.

Martinez has a strong background leading transformations. At LLNL’s Weapons and Complex Integration, he strengthened the rigor and changed the culture to a high-performing team. In addition, the National Nuclear Security Administration requested Martinez’s leadership in leading improvements in multi-nation nuclear defense experiments in Nevada.

Frank R. Sheppard, Parsons Senior Vice President and Salt Waste Processing Facility
(SWPF) Project Manager, had 21 years of Federal Government experience prior to
entering into the private sector for the past 9 years. Mr. Sheppard joined Parsons in
September 2011 as the Contracts Manager and assumed the role of Project Manager
April 2015. Mr. Sheppard is responsible for safe project execution and delivery,
including Construction, Testing and Commissioning and Operation of SWPF.
Prior to joining Parsons, Mr. Sheppard ran a successful Small Business consulting
company, The League, LLC, providing contract and management consulting services to
small and large businesses working on, and competing for, Department of Energy and
Department of Defense contracts. Mr. Sheppard’s 21 year Federal service began with
the U.S Navy at Lakehurst, NJ and the Office of Chief of Naval Operations. Mr.
Sheppard joined the Department of Energy Headquarters in 1995 working in the
Environmental Management’s (EM) Rocky Flats Program Office and then supported
the Assistant Secretary for EM in creating the Office of Acquisition Management where
he served as Director as a Senior Executive Service member through 2005.

Mr. Morrison is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in Electrical Engineering and has over thirty years of combined experience in executive management and managing operations, engineering, maintenance, safety, QA, and training and procedures programs. In December of 2011, Mr. Morrison was named President for EnergySolutions Government Group. In this role, Mr. Morrison was responsible for overall strategic direction and execution of all Government Services for EnergySolutions. In 2015/2016 Mr. Morrison helped secure the sale of the EnergySolutions Government Group to Atkins, an international nuclear business based in the UK. He served as Executive Vice President of Atkins Nuclear North American Group with overall strategic and operational responsibility for all Government and Commercial Services for North America. In September of 2016 Mr. Morrison accepted a position as President of Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services. In this role Mr. Morrison has overall responsibility for strategic direction and execution of all Federal Services in North America.

He also currently serves as the chairman of the EFCOG Board of directors along with memberships on various other boards. Past management assignments include Manager of the SRS Site Utilities Department, responsibilities included the oversight of Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering for production and distribution facilities for steam, domestic water, electrical distribution, fire water, sanitary wastewater collection and treatment, process water, river water, service water, chilled water, and deionized water at the Savannah River Site.  During his career he has provided leadership for several key Site initiatives to improve safety posture, cost effectiveness, and human performance.  Previous positions include Plant Manager of the Solid Waste Management Facility (SWMF), with responsibilities for the safe and environmentally sound storage, treatment, and disposal of SRS TRU, Low-level, Hazardous, and Mixed Waste inventory.  He has also held positions as Maintenance and Engineering Manager for both the F-Area and H-Area Waste Handling Facilities, Operations Manager for both the F-Area Waste Handling Facility  and the SWMF, and Manager of Training and Procedures, QA, Radcon, and Safety Programs within the Operations Business Unit. Mr. Morrison also served as the Chief Engineer and Technology Manager for the Waste Management Area Project. In this capacity he lead the engineering and technical resources in support of Waste Management operations, projects and programs. Specifically, shift technical, process oversight, development and optimization, cognizant systems engineering, design authority, technical safety documentation, engineering studies, environmental regulatory and compliance issues and criticality analysis.

Mark Whitney is the Executive Vice President and General Manager for the Nuclear & Environment (N&E) Strategic Business Unit of AECOM’s Management Services Group. He is responsible for operations for AECOM’s work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and government and commercial nuclear facilities in Europe, Asia, and Canada.

More specifically, Mr. Whitney oversees N&E-led operations in high-level radioactive waste (HLW) management at DOE’s Savannah River Site and the Hanford Site (Savannah River Remediation and Washington River Protection Solutions, respectively); the demolition and remediation of Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear facilities by URS | CH2M Oak Ridge at the East Tennessee Technology Park; Transuranic Waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico, by the Nuclear Waste Partnership; and decontamination and decommissioning of the Dounreay Fast Reactor and operation of the Low-Level Waste Repository in the UK.  He also oversees N&E support for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Project (WTP) and at National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) sites across the U.S.

Prior to joining AECOM, Mr. Whitney spent 11 years as a member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service with the DOE, serving in a variety of leadership positions, most recently as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management. In addition, Mr. Whitney served as the acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and the Manager of Environmental Management’s Oak Ridge Office. Within NNSA, he was the acting Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, where he oversaw the operations of the Department’s global nuclear security and nonproliferation programs, and Assistant Deputy Administrator for Nonproliferation and International Security.

He also served as the Executive Director of DOE’s Moscow Office, where he led the Department’s in-country activities on nuclear security, nonproliferation, and energy security, including power plant construction projects in Zheleznogorsk and Seversk that provided replacement heat and electricity capacity to enable the shutdown of the last Russian plutonium production reactors.

Previous positions include: President, Global Strategies Consulting; International Services Business Unit Manager, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC); and Director of Russian Programs, Institute for International Cooperative Environmental Research — Florida State University (FSU).

Mr. Whitney is a graduate of DOE’s Nuclear Executive Leadership Training Program and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an MBA in Finance & Investments.