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NAME: Deborah A. E. Niemenski

POSITION: Health Protection Specialist/Health Physicist, Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) Team, Princeton Site Office, Office of Science, U. S. Department of Energy

WORK EXPERIENCE:

1993-Present : Health Protection Specialist/Health Physicist, Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) Team, Princeton Site Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Princeton NJ, responsible for providing DOE health protection oversight (both operational, environmental) including regulatory compliance, program management, and conducting audits and inspections.

1992-1993 : Health Protection Specialist, Batavia Area Office, U. S. Department of Energy, Batavia, Illinois, responsible for providing DOE health protection oversight (both operational, environmental) including regulatory compliance, program management, and conducting audits and inspections.

1990-1991 : Health Physicist/Radiological Services, Nuclear Energy Services (NES), Inc., Danbury, Connecticut. Responsibilities involved providing a variety of radiological/health and safety services to clients ranging from universities to major corporations. Developed several radiological protection procedures for major universities. Wrote proposal for NES involvement in project involving siting of low level radioactive waste disposal facility.

1988-1990 : Health Physicist/ Radiological Services, Dames and Moore, Pearl River New York. Duties involved performing health physics field work and providing radiological/health and safety services for governmental and industrial clients. Participated in preparing license application for the state of Illinois Low Level Radioactive waste disposal facility. Served as on-site health physicist for remediation projects of major corporate clients. Conducted radiation surveys for industrial clients including serving as project manager. Prepared a variety of radiological and Health and Safety procedures for industrial clients.

1986-1988 : Biotechnology Laboratory Coordinator, Rutgers University.

1985-1986 : Health Physics Technican, Eberline Analytical Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Remediation work for a New Jersey Remediation Project.

1984-1985 : Radiobiology/Health Physics Technician, Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology, Newark, New Jersey. Provided health physics technician services for a small biomedical research facility.

EDUCATION:

MS Rutgers University, Radiation Science, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1990

BA Kings College, Biology, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1980

Additional graduate courses in Environmental Science, 1991-1992

PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFICATIONS
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AAHP Associate, American Academy of Health Physicists

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