tss resume december 2016

Experience in engineering line and project management focused on commercial inorganics and metals for nuclear applications in the field, energy technologies, and Federal (DoD/DOE) projects.

214 Briarcliff Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Home Phone: 865-481-6064

Tom SnyderObjective: Bring value and expand market presence through:

Focusing corporate commercial strengths and systems to deliver cross-functional projects for the commercial nuclear industry, DOE and the Department of Defense

Designing and commercializing processing systems for specialty metals, advanced materials, and high-risk process applications

Managing project groups to deliver systems and services on schedule and within budget

Overview: Experienced in managing process design and deployment projects from conceptual design and commercial feasibility validation through startup and operations optimization/support:

Markets: Refractory and nuclear metals production, nuclear and hazardous (PCB’s, asbestos) material management, ceramics applications including zirconia production, solid oxide fuel cells and laser optical coatings, signature suppression, and energy applications (steam generators and nuclear D&D/field services - Westinghouse and new plant projects GE-Hitachi Nuclear).

Technologies: Hydrometallurgy (ion exchange, solvent extraction, electro-winning/-refining, calcination), fuel cells (phosphoric acid system models and solid oxide fuel cell production facility design review), steam reforming, microwave processing, incineration, thermal desorption, evaporative crystallization, and isotopic enrichment.

Specific Materials: Uranium (from mining/yellow cake recovery through fuel production, spent fuel reprocessing, and UF6 processing); transition metals production (nickel, copper, zirconium, titanium, hafnium), rare earth and actinide recovery assessments; and destruction of PCB’s, asbestos and other hazardous materials through full scale operations support.

P&L Responsibility: Up to ~$15M/year (developing backlog of ~$35 M in projects in 2 years). Span of Control: 8 to 200 FTE’s. Acquisition Evaluations: Over 25 technologies and companies for commercial feasibility.

Attachment 1 summarizes overall highlights; Attachment 2 adds DOE/DoD site experiences.

Engineering and Project Management:Babcock and Wilcox: Technical Support Manager and Design Authority U-233 Project –

Reporting to VP Operations to manage Technical Support and Engineering Services (Project Key for BWXT/NFS); resolving staffing, QA, Operations, and Nuclear Safety issues; completing all first-of-its-kind process component testing; revising engineering infrastructure to meet DOE ISMS audit findings; doubling the BWXT project role; responding with DNFSB design issues

ABCOV: Chief Engineer, General Manager – Reporting to the LLC Managing Member in delivering ABCOV’s first commercial-scale system; managing design and fabrication improving client satisfaction, deliverable quality, and system reliability; installing the initial commercial process system for DoD Aberdeen PG

RWE NUKEM Corporation (RNC): Director of Engineering – Reporting to the President in supporting our utility wet waste processing system design/production/delivery; developing RNC’s Federal Projects Department; managing intellectual property and technical proposals

Thermatrix: Chief Technical Officer – Reporting to the president to manage new product designs and market development, intellectual property, follow-through with client systems

Duratek: Director of Engineering – Reporting to Sr. VP Engineering and Technology in managing the Oak Ridge Operations engineering support and projects group, analyzing acquisitions and technologies, and being technical lead on proposals

SEG: Director of Engineering – Reporting to Division President in managing Federal projects, technical proposals, technical field service support (wet waste processing/D&D) and R&D

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SEG: Process Development Manager: Reporting to the VP Engineering for projects and technical assessments; designing and validating new process operations through full scale

Profit and Loss Management Duratek: Director Waste Management Services – P&L - $12M/yr. P&L, $200K/yr. savings, 20% growth.Director NUKEM Engineering - Growing $10 M/yr. revenue, 27% margin and $35 M backlog.

Commercialization Experience:Babcock and Wilcox: Recruited by BWXT as Design Authority for ORNL’s U-233 Project (Hazard Category-2) high hazard uranium process facility EPC to disposition the U-233 inventory; achieving all project deliverables on schedule and budget. Additional B&W assignments include:

o Evaluating cost and feasibility for the Fluor-BWXT-Portsmouth D&D project converter segmentation facility design and nickel carbonyl processing for recycle

o Supporting the DOE NNSA’s CD-1 pit disassembly conceptual design review at SRS o Supporting the alternatives analysis for SRS 235-F Building decommissioningo Reviewing K-25/ETTP D&D Tc decontamination and scrap metal issueso Providing technical support for Fukushima water processing and fuel retrievalo Supporting West Valley, Chalk River, DUF6, WIPP, SRS LWS, and BLEU D&D proposals

Westinghouse Electric Corporation: Supporting W commercial divisions from the R&D Center:Nuclear Fuels Division: Determining commercial feasibility of fuel production alternatives to

down-select the most promising alternative (cost, product quality and environmental impact) to double Westinghouse uranium fuel production capacity; performing quality investigations regarding fuel pellet operations from green forms through sintering

Wyoming Mineral Corp. (WMC): Executing numerous engineering design and field projects in design/start-up for WMC’s first commercial plant to extract uranium from phosphoric acid; improving facility recovery efficiency from 50% to >90%; improving facility up-time by >50% and cutting operating cost by >30% in processing phosphate rock extracts to yellow cake; developing theoretical extraction model that scaled all bench and pilot plant data to predict the full plant output within + 5-10% accuracy

SEG: Supporting Synthetica due diligence for acquisition and startup of Steam Reforming for

processing “incinerable” radwaste feeds (w/o generating dioxin and furan emissions)Managing the converter nickel decontamination project for acceptable recycle; verifying the

process through design, construction, and operation of full-scale prototype to process U/Tc-contaminated nickel ingots to attain international release levels; attaining a signed Environmental Assessment and DOE contract to construct/operate a nickel recovery plant – DOE contract was declined when Westinghouse sold SEG

Managing design/costing and providing technical leadership for the W /SEG AMWTP bid Completing the installation of SEG’s mixed-waste vitrification facility: obtaining the RCRA B

thermal permit in <six months, developing system operating procedures, qualifying operators and completing the Y-12, full-scale, vitrification demonstration for retrieving and processing over 8 tons of mixed waste sludge from the West End Treatment Facility.

Western Zirconium: Leading the WZ team in completing the Fault Tree Analysis, mandated by Utah, to return WZ’s $12.5M/month revenue facility to operation after a catastrophic failure took plant off-line for two months; reducing the zirconia intermediate product cost by 50%, modifying crude/pure zircon fluid bed chlorinator process control, completing Hf-Zr separations modification from design through full-scale verification to reduce cost, improve purity, and eliminate mixed waste; designing a zirconia ceramic by-product through full-scale prototype technical, cost and market verification to double plant revenue; evaluating

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separations alternative of evaporative crystallization through full-scale demonstration, and optimizing waste management

Power Generation B.U.: Resolving field problems in change-out of PCB-transformer dielectricsMicarta Division: Resolving material quality issues for the industrial furniture division Advanced Energy Systems Division: Developing phosphoric acid fuel cell computer modelsNuclear Services Division: Designing and evaluating chemical decontamination processes

through field deployment, supporting nuclear power plant outages, and evaluating new waste management, processing and stabilization approaches

DOE: Installing and starting up the LLNL Nova Laser, anti-reflective, coating system and its transfer to operations; establishing the Westinghouse GOCO School for Environmental Excellence technology module (teaching it ‘88-94); and executing technology field demonstrations; completing the Westinghouse Idaho Nuclear Co spent fuel reprocessing facility design review (design changes avoided catastrophic failure from elevated temperature and accelerated corrosion, allowing completion of mission safely)

Development: Managing all testing, design and cost studies for SEG’s SRS M-AREA tank waste management bid (before joining SEG as process engineering and development manager); performing the design reviews and commercial feasibility evaluation for Westinghouse’ Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Production Facility investment; evaluating commercial feasibility for over twenty technologies commercial feasibility and/or acquisition including: tire pyrolysis for recycle fuel, bio-materials processing for recycle, thermal desorption for organic removal/recovery; evaluating environmental applications of avionic microwave systems for in situ devolatilization and managing the first field demonstration on the Savannah River aquifer; evaluating PCB chemical and thermal dechlorination technologies, providing technical lead for the Westinghouse DOE mixed waste task force (’87-89)

EnergX: Managing the CD-1 design review for MVST sludge retrieval/stabilization process design; analyzing alternatives for TWPC facility utilization for other DOE waste scopes

ReNuke/GE: Providing technical leadership for their services to GE’s New Plant Projects group (interfacing with utility clients to align GE’s ESBWR/ABWR NSSS with client specifications)

LMI/DOE: Reviewing DOE capital projects budgeted $200-600M in performing External Independent Reviews for DUF6 fluid bed conversion at Lexington/Portsmouth/Paducah, and Bulk Vitrification at Hanford

ABCOVTM: Installing the first commercial ABCOV asbestos system at Aberdeen Proving Ground (Aberdeen side); reducing operating cost (90%) and system cost (35%); improving process availability >85% for a solids-intensive operation to achieve cost parity with disposal

RWE NUKEM Corp.: Delivering three, turnkey, (~$1 million) nuclear waste water systems; winning >$35 M in Federal project revenues; growing a new service line

Thermatrix: Providing technical leadership as TCO for vent-gas processing system design and applications – clients included Dow Chemical and Pfizer. Integrating NOx and VOC destruction technologies to open new market; managing and expanding corporate IP; performing the strategic analysis of the company’s competitive position that resulted in its sale to Selas T Thermal

Duratek: Improving M-Area vitrification plant availability (from 52% to 98%); performing due diligence on Waste Management Federal Services and Thermatrix acquisitions

BD/Proposals:B&W: Supporting GNEP, WIPP, West Valley, K-25 D&D, Chalk River, DUF6, SRS LWS, LANL ER

proposalsRNC: Winning over $35 M in Federal Project in 18 months with a >60% win rate

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Duratek: Managing the winning, DUF6 Conversion Proposal Technical Volume (initial submission).ABCOV: Developing business plan to roll out ABCOVTM product line and services SEG: Technology/Design Manager for the $1.1 B Advanced Mixed Waste Processing Facility

proposal, the $100 M DOE Nickel Recovery Project, and the $40 M WETF sludge project

IP: Granted 42 patents; 10 trade secrets, 14 years’ project management at Westinghouse R&D; Evaluated over 25 technologies and companies for acquisition (including steam reforming, pyrolysis, rotary kilns, and vitrification); companies for commercial acquisition included Synthetica for SEG and Waste Management Federal Services, ARC, and Thermatrix for Duratek

EDUCATION:University of Dayton: 1968-70, Chemical Engineering, GPA 3.84/4.0University of Pittsburgh: B. S. (3.84/4.0) and Ph. D. (3.93/4.0) Chemical Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University: MBA (MSIA) - GPA 3.82/4 (7.36/9)

Clearances and Certifications: DOE (Q); Project Management Professional (PMP); Licensed Asbestos Supervisor; 2010 ASME Sarge Ozker Award for distinguished service and eminent achievement in commercialization of nuclear power/energy; George Westinghouse Signature of Excellence Awards

Employment History 1977-94 – Managed Westinghouse Electric projects commercializing new processes and technologies,

improving profitability, and optimizing new product/process: driving WZ operational restart (1978), optimized extraction, fluid bed chlorination and separation - developed ceramics by-product (’78-94); optimized Wyoming Minerals’ extraction plant operation (’77-81); developing metal decontamination processes through full scale deployment (‘85-88); leveraged W Defense Electronics technologies for environmental market applications (’91-93); supported Nuclear Services, Advanced Technology, and Nuclear Fuels Divisional decontamination projects and outage services (’77-94) and numerous Environmental Affairs projects for facility emissions and compliance

1994-97 – Promoted as Westinghouse SEG Process Development Manager (’94). Managed the chemical process development group and delivered the first, on-site, nuclear service project at Y-12 West End Treatment Facility (after the DNFSB stand-down of operations); delivered the first mixed-waste sludge vitrification project (’94-5). Promoted to Director of Engineering (1996) to provide technical leadership in developing life-cycle solutions for DOE clean-up at Hanford, Savannah River, Oak Ridge and Idaho – managed design and supported orals for the $1.1 Billion Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Bid and secured the sole-source, >$100 M nickel recycle project (1996). SEG was acquired by Duratek (‘97)

1997-01 – Managed Engineering Department transition during Duratek acquisition (’97), contributed $12 million Profit and Loss (20% growth) (’98), and supported strategic planning and acquisitions (’99-00); managed Technical Volume for the winning $568 M DUF6 Process Facility - recruited by Thermatrix, Jan. ‘01

2001 – Chief Technical Officer, Thermatrix (TMX): Reported to president as part of the executive management team to help turn from bankruptcy. Responsibilities included developing key business initiatives, leading strategic alliances, and performing critical market analyses to help turn and sell the TMX assets by December ‘01 - then recruited by RNC

2001-04 - Recruited by RWE NUKEM Corporation - achieved 60% Federal proposal win rate; delivered 27% margin on $3 million in revenue in the first project year. Recruited by ABCOV LLC (‘04)

2004 – 2008 – Recruited as Chief Engineer and General Manager to commercialize ABCOV’s asbestos destruction process; completed process optimization and plant installation; turned to consulting

2008 – 2009 – Clients included: EnergX, ReNuke/GE-Hitachi Nuclear New Plant Projects, ITSI; LMI, and Gem. 2009 – 2016 – Recruited by B&W to manage U-233 Technical Support and Engineering Services. Other

activities since have supported Portsmouth D&D actions for converter segregation and source removal, and for barrier nickel decontamination, BLEU D&D RFP development for NFS, and a number of proposals.

2016 – Present: Consultant

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Attachment 1: Selected Project HighlightsPlant Design and Start-up – Selected Experiences

Project Sponsor/Client Description ResultScreening Nuclear Fuel Production Processes to Double Capacity

W Nuclear Fuel Division, NFD

Commercial screening of uranium fuel production processes (ADU, AUT, Dry Route) for operation reliability, product quality, complexity of operations, environmental issues and life cycle cost to double W Fuel Production Capacity.

Down Selected UF6 to UO2

Fluid Bed ConversionFacility did not progress to detailed design due to industry downturn post TMI

Spent Fuel Reprocessing Pre-operational Analysis that Avoided a Catastrophic Failure due to A&E Design Flaw

W Idaho Nuclear Company, WINCO

System/facility design analysis (ops and corrosion) for the WINCO spent fuel processing system.

Modified operating points allowed safe completion of mission in ~12 Years and averted catastrophic failure in <22 months

Uranium Extraction Plant Operation and Design Analysis and Model from Bench through Operations for First-of-its-Kind-Plant

W Wyoming Mineral Division

(WMD)

Plant operation modeling and design analysis for the WMD commercial uranium-from-phosphoric acid, multi-cycle, extraction plant over a 2-year period.

Improved: recovery 50% to >90%; facility up-time by >50%; operating cost by >30% Model predicted ops +5-10%.

Uranium Ion Exchange Plant Operation and Byproduct Analysis for First-of-its-Kind-Plant

W Wyoming Mineral Division

(WMD)

Evaluated resin selectivity for cobalt recovery in the WMD 10,000 gpm continuous ion exchange facility to recover U from copper mine tailings.

Determined cobalt and rare earth extractions were viable commercially; project taken by U.S. Bureau of Mines

Zirconium Conversion Plant Recovery from Catastrophic Vent Gas Oxidizer Failure

W Western Zirconium

(WZ)

Performed detailed plant and Fault Tree analyses to drive WZ plant recovery from a disastrous failure of the process vent-gas thermal oxidizer which suspend operations for 3-4 months (production loss ~$12.5 M/month).

Determined cause and actions to prevent recurrence Obtained UT permission to restart Project started 17-year relation supporting WZ

WZ Plant Optimization Studies (16 years of projects) to Improve Reliability, Reduce Cost and Eliminate Mixed Waste.

W Western Zirconium

(WZ)

Optimized WZ plant operations (fluid bed chlorinator ops/control, separations process redesign, calcination), waste management and environmental impact. Developed ultrapure submicron ZrO2 powders.

Installed fluid bed chlorinator control systemReduced separations system reduced cost by ~20% Eliminated mixed wastesReduced calcination cost 50%Delivered by product design to add $50 M/yr. revenue

Anti-Reflective Coating System for the LLNL NOVA Laser – Delivering a First-of-its-Kind System

University of California LLNL

Managed field installation, redesign and startup of the prototype for LLNL NovaDeveloped computer control system and algorithm for the coating formulation and application system

Attained system and product acceptance by customer; project and team cited in publications

Launching Nuclear Plant Chemical Decontamination Product Line

W Nuclear Adv. Tech. and Nuclear Services Divisions

Supported whole-loop decontamination system design/prototype demonstration Led reagent evaluations and provide NPP outage support

Contributed to launching a new Westinghouse nuclear service

West End Treatment Facility (WETF) Mixed Waste Sludge Extraction and Vitrification – Completing First-of-Its-Kind Demonstration at Full Scale

DOE Y-12 Managed the SEG mixed-waste vitrification project: facility design, implementation, operator training, f start-up, procedures and DOE ORR

Met waste form disposition WACCharacterized WETF tanksWas a successful test case for Y-12 restart after DNFSB

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Plant Design and Start-up – Selected ExperiencesProject Sponsor/Client Description Result

Extracted/vitrified >8 tons of WETF mixed waste sludge

stand-down in the early ‘90’s

Paducah Nickel Decon. – First-Time Attainment of Release and Recycle at Full Scale

DOE Oak Ridge Operations

Led Paducah nickel ingot decontamination process design, validation, and full-scale operation for Westinghouse and SEG

Attained a signed EASecured >$100 M sole-source contract (from which W withdrew as they sold SEG)Developed design basis for the SEG induction melter for DOE shield block recycle

M-Area Vitrification Melter – Review to Improve Mediocre 52% System Availability

Duratek and SRS Analyzed field unit operating problems and design issues to redesign the Duratek M-Area vitrification system

Improved overall system availability from 52% to over 95% in completing mission

Commercial Plant Design Reviews for Emerging Solid Oxide Fuel Product

Westinghouse Led the intermediate and final design reviews for the Westinghouse Solid Oxide Fuel Cell manufacturing facility

Plant constructed, operated, and later sold to Siemens as W exited industrial operation

Nuclear Power Plant Commercial Wet Waste Processing Systems

RWE NUKEM / Three Utilities

Managed the design, fabrication and deployment for three waste water processing systems to the nuclear NPP’s

Each delivered on time and budget

Launched Federal Project Division

RWE NUKEM / DOE

Built a $25 M project backlog in under two years in transferring RWE technologies to DOE;

Project backlog > $25 M Staffed and trained ~10-15 engineers - Win Rate ~60%

Designed and Installed First Asbestos Commercial-Scale Destruction System

ABCOV/DoD Managed the bench testing and full-scale design to build and start up ABCOV’s first asbestos destruction facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground

DoD accepted unit; Reduced cost 90% to compete with disposal. Improved process availability from 65% to ~ 85% for a solids processing facility

Commercial Feasibility Assessments

Westinghouse, Duratek,

Thermatrix and RWE

Evaluated technologies and companies for commercial viability for acquisition or teaming

Evaluated > 20 systems and technologies; sample results include:o No-bid: Pit #9o Molten Metal Rejectiono No-bid: microwave tire

pyrolysis for recycle W GOCO Environmental School for Excellence Technical Leadership

W GOCO’s/DOE Developed and taught the two-day technology module in a six-week course

Successfully taught the course for 6 years with very high student evaluations

Design/Build/Operate U233 Stabilization Facility – Design Authority and Chief Engineer for a First-of-its-Kind Facility

BWXT/DOE Managing Technical Support and Engineering Services; resolving staffing QA, ES&H, Operational and Nuclear Safety issues; managing first-of-its-kind process maturation; revised engineering infrastructure to meet DOE ISMS audit findings; led DNFSB responses

Project is still under way

Design and Economic Evaluation for Converter Segmentation and Barrier Nickel Recycle

BWXT/FBP under DOE Contract

Performed economic and technical feasibility analysis for segmenting and decontaminating diffusion converters and commercial reuse

Conceptual Design Report

Fukushima Emergency Response

BWXT/Toshiba Supported water treatment and fuel removal designs – twice on site in Tokyo

Design reports – others fabricated systems

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Attachment 2: DOE/DoD Site ExperiencesY-12 West End Sludge Extraction and Vitrification Project - PM for Full Scale Demonstration with ORRK-25 Scrap Metal Recovery and Decontamination PM; Pond Sludge Stabilization Demonstration

Cognizant Manager – each was a full scale operation on pilot scale quantitiesX-10 Isotek U-233 Project Design Authority and Engineering/Technical Support Manager; TWPC

Operations Support; MVST Sludge Extraction/Stabilization Characterization and Design Support (per O435) for TWPC; and various ER and D&D bids

Paducah Cognizant Manager for the “Drum Mountain” ER bid; PM and Design Manager for Paducah Nickel Ingot Decontamination for Free Release; Paducah ER Technical Volume Manager for Navarro

Portsmouth PM for Converter Segmentation Conceptual Design and Nickel Carbonyl Demonstration EvaluationPPPO Technical Volume Manager for the winning AREVA/B&R/Duratek DUF6 design, construct and

operate bid; External Independent Reviews (2) for the DUF6 project prior to 2009Fernald E/R and D&D project support for Duratek; Westinghouse GOCO School for Environmental

Excellence (instructor)INL Design Manager for the Westinghouse AMWTP Bid (withdrawn due to sale of SEG); Cognizant

Manager for the Duratek Thermal Scope on AMWTP; Pre-operational design review for the WINCO vitrification facility; Westinghouse GOCO School for Environmental Excellence (instructor); IWTU and SBW Project analyses for BWXT

SRS PM for full-scale in-situ VOC Devolatilization Demonstration Project; Westinghouse GOCO School for Environmental Excellence (instructor); M-Area Vitrification Project Review; Fluor SWPF Bid Support (technical development and commercial maturation of process); M-Area Sludge Grouting Bid Design Manager; BWXT/Bechtel SRS Liquid Waste System bid support

Hanford Cognizant and design manager for RNC equipment supply projects for WTP; External Independent Review for the Bulk Waste Vitrification Project; Proposal and Technical Design Manager for the RNC Bulk Waste Vitrification Project; Westinghouse GOCO School for Environmental Excellence (instructor)

West Valley Technical support to the winning CH2M/BWXT BidLANL Duratek Cognizant Waste Services Manager; Technical support to the SN3/BWXT 2016 ER Bid

Aberdeen Proving Ground

PM and Design Manager for the ABCOV asbestos destruction system design, fabrication, installation and factory acceptance test

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