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David A. Lamar, Vice President of Engineering, oversees all activities at the Richland Technology Center. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Montana State University in chemical engineering. He was an engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute from 1986 to 1998, and has worked on and managed several key glass melter projects over the past ten years. He was also previously in charge of a program for demonstrating arc plasma applications in a radioactive environment for the treatment of low level and mixed waste at Department of Energy sites. Major projects on which Mr. Lamar worked include designing and overseeing construction of an Advanced Vitrification Technology melter which expanded the number and types of waste that could be processed, the Hot-Cell Restoration Program, which involved developing methods to evaluate, categorize, catalog and remove special case radioactive wastes at the DOE Hanford site, and characterization of the West Valley Demonstration Plant in which Mr. Lamar oversaw a team of scientists and engineers in characterizing and assessing the waste at the site and performing an analysis of appropriate remedial efforts. Mr. Lamar has also been involved in various assessment, surveillance and permitting projects at Hanford and other Department of Energy sites as well as commercial sites such as Three Mile Island. This work has given Mr. Lamar a broad understanding of the environmental regulatory arena, and the permitting process for hazardous and radioactive waste processing operations. Mr. Lamar was the recipient of three R&D 100 Awards in 1997 and 1998. | 