Senior Security Specialist
Key Qualifications
- 40 years of experience supporting the DOE on the Oak Ridge Reservation
- 30 years of experience providing engineering support
- 10 years of experience providing security and classification support
Education
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 1972
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Christian Brothers College, Memphis, TN, 1966
BS, Mathematics, Memphis State University, TN, 1960
Experience Summary
Mr. Boroughs is a Mechanical Engineer with over 40 years of experience supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Mr. Boroughs provided engineering and program management support for the East Tennessee Technology Park for over 30 years. For the past 10 years, he has been providing security and classification support, reviewing and determining classification levels for scientific and technical documents associated with DOE operations on the Oak Ridge Reservation. Mr. Boroughs currently works as a consultant, serving as a Subject Matter Expert in uranium enrichment technology and classification and information control principles and quality assurance methods.
Present Position
Senior Security Specialist, Strata-G Staffing Services, LLC, Knoxville, TN, 02/2014 – Present
- Provides subject matter expertise on classification and security issues for UCOR, the DOE Environmental Management Contractor for the Oak Ridge Reservation.
Classification Consultant, Classification and Information Control Office (CICO) – UCOR (K-25), Oak Ridge, TN, 07/2011 – 01/2014
Classification Consultant, Office of Science and Technical Information (OSTI) (IIA), Oak Ridge, TN, 06/2010 – 06/2011
- At OSTI, formulated and entered abstracts and keywords for about 2000 classified documents (originally in K-25 Library) into a classified data base
Classification Consultant, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, 02/2006 – 2010
Classification Consultant, CICO – BJC (K-25), Oak Ridge, TN, 02/2010 – 07-2011
Subject Matter Expert/Authorized Derivative Classifier (ADC)/Quality Assurance (QA), CJ Enterprises, Inc. (K-25), Oak Ridge, TN, 03/2003 – 04/2011
- Conducted Management Assessments, served as subject matter expert, and as Derivative Classifier, performed document reviews.
Part Time Consultant, Y-12 National Security Site, Oak Ridge, TN, 06/2002 – 09/2002
Classification Officer/ Engineer, K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge, TN, 1966 – 2001
Classification Officer, K-25, Oak Ridge, TN, 06/1998 – 06/2001
- Served as an East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) Classification Officer implementing significant changes in the large-scale-classification-review program, providing guidance in the formulation of an inorganic membrane classification guide, and provided guidance to the operation of the CICO.
Classification Specialist, CICO at K-25, TN, 03/1997 - 05/1998
- Determined classification issues associated with numerous buildings at K-25 and co-authored documents reporting results, reviewed classified documents for possible downgrading or declassification, reviewed information documents prior to publishing to determine classification category and level, reviewed scientific and technical documents for approval of release to the public, reviewed materials for UCNI information, and completed ADC, ADD, UCNI, and General Course for Classification Officers/Analyst Training.
Technical Support Engineer, Enrichment Facilities Technical Support Organization, K-25, Oak Ridge, TN, 04/1995 - 02/1997
Technical Program Manager, Process and Long Range Technical Support Organization, Oak Ridge, TN, 1986 – 03/1995
Group Leader, Three Site Gaseous Diffusion Technology Development and Implementation Support Program, Oak Ridge, TN, 1978 - 1985
Development Engineer, Compressor Shaft Seal Technology Design and Development, Oak Ridge, TN, 1975 - 1978
Development Engineer, Axial Flow Compressor Numerical and Experimental Design, 1969 – 1975
Development Engineer, Axial Flow Compressor Development involving Air Research Compressor and Full Size Plant Compressors, 1966 -1969
- Initiated effort to improve optimization of cascade stage operating temperature, which will simultaneously reduce SWU production costs and decrease chlorofluorocarbon emissions.
- Directed numerical and experimental work for compressor internal sealing methods that reduces SWU production costs at operating gaseous diffusion plants.
- Promoted the use of lower viscosity lube oil in the gaseous diffusion plants as a means to reduce horsepower losses and costs.
- Coordinated formulation of a benefit/cost study, which shows that the multi-site technical groups more than pay their own way and contributes to reduced SWU production costs.
- Directed numerical and experimental work and documentation of an axial compressor differential thermal expansion study that results in improved shaft seal and axial compressor reliability.
- Initiated the successful effort to design and test a Freon shaft seal applicable to power recovery turbines.
- Analyzed and documented the effect on cascade operation of axial compressor performance level variation based upon test loop data.
- Team member that adapted an axial compressor off-design analysis computer code to the special case of double inlet gaseous diffusion compressors. This code was an invaluable tool for stage-compressor analysis for twenty years.
- Formulated an improved method for optimization of axial compressor-stage operating point determination for use in the gaseous diffusion plant improvement program.
- Provided compressor and seal technology guidance to the Molecular Laser Isotope Separation Program.
- Served as editor of an annual multi-site technical programmatic baseline plan that eliminated the publication of nine other reports.
- Contributed to a multi-site task team to identify and evaluate a replacement coolant for the gaseous diffusion plants.
- One of the principal developers of the adjustable and fixed vane axial compressor concept applicable to the gaseous diffusion plants which saves more than five million dollars annually.
Professional Development/Training
- Authorized Derivative Classifier
- Authorized Derivative Declassifier
- Export Controlled Information (ECI)
- Fluid Dynamics of Turbomachinery
- Fluid-Sealing – American Society of Lubrication Engineers
- General Course for Classification Officers/Analysts
- Japanese Methods for Productivity and Quality – Deming
- Kepner-Tregoe
- Management Skills for Engineers
- Radiological Worker II
- Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI)
- DOE Q -clearance
Report Illustrations
Classification Issues of Facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park (U), K/CG-1179, Oak Ridge, September 1998, CONFIDENTIAL
Classification Review of Building K-1420, Decontamination and Uranium Recovery Facility (U), K/CG-1171, Oak Ridge, May, 1997, CONFIDENTIAL
Classification Review of Gaseous Diffusion Facilities at the East Tennessee Technology Park (U), K/CG-1176, Oak Ridge, December, 1997, CONFIDENTIAL
Benefit-Cost Analysis Update for the Process and Long Range Technical Support (P&LRTS) Program, K/ETO-125, Oak Ridge, April, 1993, UNCLASSIFIED
Process and Long Range Technical Support (P&LRTS) FY-1993 Baseline Plan, K/ETO-1995, Oak Ridge, October, 1992, UNCLASSIFIED
Adjustable Blading Compressor-Implementation on GDP Operating Flexibility, K/PS-695, January, 1984, Oak Ridge, UNCLASSIFIED
Applicability of the OO Adjustable Vane Compressor to the GDP Cascades, K/PS-1079, April, 1985, Oak Ridge, UNCLASSIFIED
Effect of Internal Leakage on Compressor Performance, K/PS-1113, September, 1985, Oak Ridge, UNCLASSIFIED
Axial Compressor Performance Level Variation (U), K/PS-1182, March, 1986, Oak Ridge, CONFIDENTIAL
Axial Thermal Differential Expansion Characteristics of Gaseous Diffusion Axial Flow Compressors (U), K/PS-1235, December, 1986, Oak Ridge, CONFIDENTIAL
Special Awards
- Member of team awarded outstanding engineering achievement by Oak Ridge chapter Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers for the adjustable vane compressor application.
- Member of team awarded for excellence in correcting the root cause of repeat seal startup and treatment failure, and implementing quality improvements to seal system operation.
- Member of team that received special recognition for extensive contributions to the successful in-process testing of a replacement coolant in a gaseous diffusion plant.
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