Employment History
Employment History |
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E. Ivar Husa |
Summary- Only one true 'employment change' from college (Battelle Northwest to UNC in 1986) up through 1999. The rest are simply a succession of Hanford contractor changes. Each assignment, back to the early 1980's, has had a computer-related component to it.
Visit the Software Projects page for more details.
Techwriter/Editor, Manpower |
Assigned as temporary to Bechtel National, editing procedures, plans, and reports. |
Senior Engineer, Wasrtren |
Researched and entered data into the US Department of Energy's occurrence reporting system, ORPS. |
Senior Software Engineer, |
Vista subcontracted my services to Bechtel National in support of the Operations Research Model (ORM) for Hanford's Waste Vitrification Plant. I worked with programmers using Lanner Witness modeling software to simulate the filling and draining of the many process vessels. More |
Senior Engineer, CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc (CHG) |
Work primarily with underground waste tank characterization data, supporting the use of Tank Waste Information Network System (TWINS) and the Best Basis Inventory Management (BBIM) software. My role is often to troubleshoot systems, provide special data reports, and create custom software for data processing. More |
Principal Engineer, Lockheed Martin Hanford 1989-1995
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Tank Waste Remediation System Corrosion Engineering group. Local PC expert, responsible for their web page and special software development projects. Developed engineering bibliography software in Visual Basic. Developed videotape library software also in Visual Basic. Submitted a number of Great Ideas (an employee suggestion program), and submitted a cost savings proposal for $1M, savings. More |
Principal Engineer, Westinghouse Hanford, TWRS Data
Management Systems group (rolled into LMHC). |
Charter member of a group created to raise the quality of data management in Tank Waste Remediation System. Extensive contacts among data system developers. Helped create the award-winning Surveillance Analysis Computer System (SACS). More |
Staff Administrator, United Nuclear Corporation 1986-89
(rolled into WHC) Engineering Surveillance group.
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Developed tracking database for ASME boiler and pressure vessel inspections. Also developed procedures for, and performed, surveillances on N-Reactor's core, which included video camera inspection, ultrasonic inspection, and eddy current inspection (the latter under supervision of an non-destructive examination (NDE) contractor, Ztech). More |
Engineer, Battelle
Northwest 1975-78, 1980-86 |
Carried out experiments for special process development involving welding (primarily), swaging, and drawing. Worked closely with corrosion group, such as on programs studying intergranular stress corrosion in stainless steel weldments. More |
| Journeyman Welder, Gem Welding (Seattle, WA) Summers 1964-75 |
Job shop welding using gas-tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding, shielded metal arc welding, and oxy-fuel welding. More |
Vocational Instructor, Columbia Basin College, Richland
WA |
Visual Inspection and Materials classes in the NDE program (1987-92) and DOS computer class in the Business program (1994-95). |
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Ivar can be reached via ivar@owt.com or
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Kennewick,WA 99336
509 735-2254
Updated: February 5, 2003