Ms. Rumble is a consulting engineer with over thirty-six years of technical and management experience.  She has excellent human relations and communications skills, and proven planning and problem-solving expertise.  She has extensive experience in the following areas:

¨       Program/Project Management (15 years) (Certified Project Management Professional)

¨       Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) (13 years) (Qualified as a Senior NCS Engineer and NCS Manager)

¨       Nuclear Safety (NS) and Integrated Safety Management (Qualified as NS Engineer and NS Manager)

2009-Present    Paschal Solutions, Inc., Hixson, TN

Ms. Rumble is a Consultant providing technical and management services to government and commercial nuclear facilities.  Ms Rumble has been providing technical support in the areas of nuclear criticality safety (NCS) and nuclear safety to the Nuclear Safety Group for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

1999-2009         NISYS Corporation, Duluth, GA

Ms. Rumble is a Consultant providing technical and management services to government and commercial nuclear facilities.  Ms Rumble has been providing technical support in the areas of nuclear criticality safety (NCS) and nuclear safety to the Nuclear Safety Group for the Paducah Environmental Remediation Project at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP). The technical support includes development and management of safety basis documentation; development of Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) determinations and screenings; NCS documentation development and peer reviews; and the management and integration of hazard analyses, safety management program documentation, and nuclear facility training qualification requirements.  Ms. Rumble also develops procedures, policies, and training modules for the Nuclear Safety Program at PGDP.  Prior to working at the PGDP, Ms. Rumble provided technical support to Integrated Safety Management at Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. in Erwin, Tennessee and provided NCS support and USQ determinations and screenings at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.  These efforts are performed in compliance with 10 CFR 830 (DOE) and 10 CFR PART 70 (NRC).  In addition, she served as the NCS subject management expert on the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) Team for the K-25/27 High Risk Equipment D&D Project, performing an ORR and a Readiness Assessment.

1987-1999         Lockheed Martin Utility Services, Inc., Piketon, OH

Ms. Rumble was an Engineering Manager at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, with responsibility for the Project Management, Planning, Analysis, and Construction Engineering.  She managed and controlled an annual project budget in excess of $25M.  In another assignment, she managed the Nuclear Safety Group during the transition of the plant from DOE ownership and oversight to NRC regulation (10 CFR 76).  She is familiar with DOE, NRC and OEPA licensing and permit regulations. 

1976-1986         Goodyear Atomic Corporation, Piketon, OH

Gaseous Diffusion Enrichment Plant involving nuclear criticality safety, environmental regulatory compliance, and environmental projects management.

1973-1975         University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Ms. Rumble was an Instructional Technologist in the Physics Department, with responsibilities for scheduling and setting up physics laboratory sessions, teaching the graduate teaching assistants, providing backup to teaching assistants in lab sessions, and consulting with faculty concerning proposed new lab exercises and equipment.  She also authored the Physics Lab Manual used for many years at the University of Cincinnati.

M.S. Nuclear Engineering (magna cum laude), University of Cincinnati (1976)

B.A. Physics (cum laude), Taylor University (1972)

Active DOE “Q” Clearance

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institute, since 1994

Project Management Training Instructor

Nuclear Criticality Safety Training Instructor

Nuclear Safety Training Instructor

Qualifications at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant include:

-    Senior Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer

-    Manager, Nuclear Criticality Safety

-    Nuclear Safety Engineer

-    Independent Technical Reviewer

-    Manager, Nuclear Safety

-    USQD/UCD Preparer/Reviewer

-    Safety Basis Training Instructor

Member, American Nuclear Society

-    Division Treasurer and Training Committee, Nuclear Criticality Safety Division

-    Working group member of ANSI/ANS 8-26, “Criticality Safety Engineer Training and Qualification Program”

-    Board Member, Professional Women in American Nuclear Society

-    Previously ANS Membership Chair and Mentorship Chair

Member, Project Management Institute

-    Active member of Bluegrass PMI (Lexington, KY)

Ms. Rumble is experienced in management of engineering/project management organizations and in the performance and review of nuclear safety/nuclear criticality safety analyses.  Projects she has worked on or is currently working on are listed below.

Nuclear Safety/Criticality Safety

¨Ms. Rumble has thirteen years of direct experience in Nuclear Criticality Safety including the development of nuclear criticality safety evaluations (NCSE) and performing NCSE peer reviews at the Portsmouth and Paducah sites.  She performed implementation and annual surveillances and provided NCS training to managers, supervisors, and fissile material workers.  She is a qualified Senior NCS Engineer and qualified NCS Manager for the Paducah Environmental Remediation Project and is a working group member of ANSI/ANS 8-26, “Criticality Safety Engineer Training and Qualification Program”. 

¨Ms. Rumble provided inputs and reviews of safety basis documents for the DOE Hazard Category (HC) 2 Facilities and the UF₆ Cylinder Yards at the Portsmouth Site.  

         ¨Performed as Nuclear Criticality Safety Subject Matter Expert for the Operational Readiness Review for the Decontamination and Decommissioning of the

              K-25/27  High Risk Equipment Project at ETTP in Oak Ridge.

¨During her employment with Lockheed Martin at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Ms. Rumble’s responsibilities in the criticality safety arena included:

¨       Managing the Nuclear Safety Group (Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Criticality Safety)

¨       Providing key interface between Nuclear Safety Group and the Nuclear Regulatory Affairs Group to provide input to the NRC Certificate of Compliance and the Compliance Plan.  Managed the activities assigned to the Nuclear Safety Group to meet the commitments in the Compliance Plan. 

¨       Providing one-on-one briefings with the Portsmouth site NRC Resident Inspectors.

¨       Developing policies and procedures for the plant Nuclear Criticality Safety Department

¨       Providing Program Management for the NCS Corrective Action Plan

¨       Performing technical reviews of over 50 NCS evaluations for which original engineers’ qualifications had not been documented. 

¨       Developed and chaired the Nuclear Criticality Safety Subcommittee to provide oversight to the NCS program at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.  Developed the Charter, associated procedure, and qualified plant-wide team to provide reviews of NCS documentation, NCS assessments, and NCS administrative procedures.

¨       Performed nuclear criticality safety evaluations, assessments, and walkthroughs for all uranium feed and sampling facilities, high and low enriched uranium and mixed waste storage areas, laboratories, and maintenance facilities

¨       Perform Integrated Safety Management and Assessments for multiple projects at Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. in compliance with the NRC.  Managed and performed the annual updates of the Integrated Safety Analyses for seven nuclear operations/facilities.

Engineering Management

¨Managed and controlled Project Management, Planning, Analysis, and Construction Engineering for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, with annual project budget in excess of $25M.  Developed task order process of obtaining augmented staff for design, nuclear criticality safety, safety analysis, and other engineering services

¨       Managed the Nuclear Safety Group during the transition of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant from DOE ownership and oversight to NRC regulation (10 CFR 76).  Provided interface between Nuclear Safety Group and the Regulatory Affairs Group.  Developed policies and procedures for the plant Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS).  Provided guidance and leadership in the development of about 175 NCS design basis documents.  Provided Program Management for the NCS Corrective Action Plan. 

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¨Developed and provided Project Management training to project participants at the Paducah and Portsmouth plants.  Courses included Project Planning, Developing Project Proposals, Cost/Schedule Control Systems, Change Control, and Project Close-out.

¨Developed and chaired the Nuclear Criticality Safety Subcommittee to provide oversight to the NCS Program at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.  Developed Charter, associated procedure, and qualified plant-wide team to provide reviews of NCS documentation, NCS assessments, and NCS administrative procedures.

¨Developed and implemented Mentorship Programs for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Engineering Organization and for the American Nuclear Society.  Developed and provided training and facilitated off-site meetings with mentors for the Engineering Organization.  Developed Mentorship Program for New Attendees for American Nuclear Society, determined mentor-protege matches, trained participants, and provided follow-up with the ANS Membership Committee.

¨Facilitated Customer Satisfaction Surveys for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Engineering Organization and resulting retreats for brainstorming and scheduling actions in 1992 and 1998.

¨Managed engineers and supporting technical personnel who were in-field systems engineers for the manufacturing systems that staged and built Centrifuge Machines for the Portsmouth Gaseous Centrifuge Enrichment Plant.

¨Provided project management and procurement coordination in multiple capacities, including Project Manager for all environmental and waste treatment projects (Control of Water Pollution Act, RCRA, TSCA, etc.), Section Manager for Environmental, Waste, and Auxiliary Project Management, and Section Manager for Procurement Coordination for the Gaseous Centrifuge Enrichment Plant.  Developed and provided cost and schedule control systems criteria and site application training to over 200 personnel at the Gaseous Diffusion and Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plants at Portsmouth.

Licensing

¨streams) and water (outfalls).  Provided systems requirements for environmental projects to the design engineers.

¨Provided key interface between the Nuclear Safety Group and the Regulatory Affairs Group during the NRC Certification process, transferring the regulatory oversight from the DOE to the NRC.  Provided one-on-one briefings with the Portsmouth site NRC Resident Inspectors.

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