Steven H. Brown’s Background in Health Physics
SHB Inc., Centennial, CO. President, 2007–present: President
Provides health physics, nuclear safety, and related radiological consulting services to the mining, oil and gas and water treatment sectors and to State and Federal agencies who regulated their radiological materials and activities.
During the period 2008–2015, as contractor to SENES Consultants Ltd, Richmond Hill Ontario Canada, established and managed the SENES US office, providing health physics and radiological consulting services to the US uranium recovery industry. Managed staff of seven health physicists including four CHPs.
Shaw Environment and Infrastructure, Englewood CO. 1992–2007 (Shaw Purchased IT Corporation In 2002)
- Vice President Radiological Operations
- Radiation Safety Officer – USNRC License of Broad Scope
- Sr. Radiological Consultant
- Director, US Department of Energy Business Development (Western US)
Dames and Moore, Denver, CO. Director, DOE and Nuclear Programs, 1987–1992
Responsible for procuring and managing work assignments with U.S. DOE field offices and sites and commercial nuclear facilities. Built a nuclear services division “from scratch” which included operational (e.g., profit/loss) responsibility for an organization grown to over 50 professional and support staff including establishment of several new company offices (Albuquerque, NM; Idaho Falls, ID; Richland, WA.).
Dames and Moore, Springville, NY. Sr. Radiological and Nuclear Safety Engineer, West Valley Demonstration Project, 1985–1987
Performed radiological engineering, hazard, and nuclear safety analysis and risk assessments for decontamination and conversion of a former nuclear fuel reprocessing plant for the processing and vitrification of high-level nuclear waste.
Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer, Rockwell International, Albuquerque, NM. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
As member of the original WIPP Joint Integration Office (JIO), was the JIO health physicist and radiological engineer. As such, was contributor to a number of early WIPP radiological and nuclear safety related assessments and documents including the WIPP Safety Analysis Report and Waste Acceptance Criteria (WIPP-WAC) for both Contact and Remote Handled TRU wastes.
Principal Safety Analysis Engineer, Rockwell International, Rocky Flats Plant, Golden, CO 1982–1985
Performed radiological and probabilistic risk assessments (PRA) for the 8 nuclear weapons plants at Rocky Flats that processed depleted and highly enriched uranium and plutonium; co-authored Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) for these plants.
Manager, Western Regional Office, Radiation Management Corp., Denver, CO. 1980–1982
Established and managed a health physics consulting office for RMC (Chicago, Philadelphia), providing health physics and radiological consulting services to the US uranium recovery industry.
Manager, ES&H and Radiation Safety Officer, Westinghouse Electric (Wyoming Mineral) Corporation, Uranium Operations, Lakewood CO 1975–1980
Licensed and provided radiological operations oversight for 5 commercial-scale licensed uranium recovery facilities. Line manager for industrial hygiene and safety, radiation protection and environmental compliance functions and corporate radiation safety officer under numerous NRC/Agreement state operating licenses. Supervised HQ and uranium recovery plant staffs including over 40 hygienists, health physicists, industrial safety, and environmental professionals and technicians.
Instructor, School District of Philadelphia, Pa 1971–1975
Instructor secondary school subjects of physics, chemistry, and mathematics.