BIOGRAPHIES of speakers from Ecco Seminar, June 2002

 

Ambassador Linton F. Brooks
Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
National Nuclear Security Administration

Ambassador Linton F. Brooks was sworn in as the Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on October 30, 2001. The NNSA carries out the national security responsibilities of the Department of Energy. In this position, Ambassador Brooks will direct the NNSA's nonproliferation programs involving nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. The office promotes international nuclear safety and supports programs that ensure the security of nuclear weapons materials in Russia and other countries. The nonproliferation office also supports research and development of detection systems for biological and chemical agents.

Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Ambassador Brooks served as Vice President and Assistant to the President for Policy Analysis at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), a federally funded research and development center located in Alexandria, Virginia from 1994 to 2001. As such, he was responsible for broad policy analyses of issues of national importance. Ambassador Brooks came to CNA following an extensive career in government service. During the Bush Administration, he served as Assistant Director for Strategic and Nuclear Affairs at the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and in the State Department as Head of the United Stales Delegation on Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Strategic Arms Reductions (START) Negotiator. In this latter capacity, he was responsible for final preparation of the START I Treaty, which was signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow on July 31, 1991. In December 1992, he performed a similar function during the final preparation of the January 3, 1993, START II Treaty. Thereafter, he served as a consultant on START II ratification to the Clinton Administration.

Before becoming Head of the United States Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks in April 1991, Ambassador Brooks served for two years as Deputy Head of the Delegation, holding the rank of ambassador. He joined the delegation after spending over three years as Director of Arms Control on the staff of the National Security Council, where he was responsible, among other things, for all aspects of United States strategic aims reductions policy and nuclear testing policy during the final third of the Reagan Administration.

Ambassador Brooks' National Security Council service culminated a thirty-year military career. Prior to his retirement as a Navy captain, Ambassador Brooks served at sea in destroyers, ballistic-missile submarines and attack submarines, commanded the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS WHALE (SSN 638), and served in a variety of Washington assignments relating to nuclear policy, military strategy, and arms control.

Ambassador Brooks holds a BS in physics from Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Navy War College and has published a number of prize-winning articles on naval and nuclear strategy.

 

Steven Clagett
Director, Nuclear and Missile Technology Divisions
Office of NonProliferation Controls and Treaty Compliance

Steven Clagett has been with the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, since 1989. He is currently the Director of the Missile Technology Division and the Acting Director of the Nuclear Technology Division of the Office of NonProliferation Controls and Treaty Compliance. Prior to becoming Director, he served as senior engineer with the Nuclear Technology Division where he was responsible for regulatory issues dealing with the export of nuclear items and also advised on exports of missile related items.

He has represented Commerce at the various Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and Zangger Committee negotiations. He has also represented Commerce at COCOM negotiations on Marine Technology and in other transportation-related areas. He is a member of the transportation technical advisory committee (TRANSTAC) and the Society of International Affairs.

He holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University and a Masters in Engineering Administration from George Washington University.

 

Dr. Richard T. Cupitt
Special Advisor
Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Commerce Department

Dr. Richard T. Cupitt currently serves as the Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. Prior to joining the Department of Commerce in late January 2002, Dr. Cupitt worked as the Associate Director and Washington Liaison for the Center for International Trade and Security of the University of Georgia (CITS/UGA), and as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. Dr. Cupitt received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1985, and has taught at Emory University and the University of North Texas before returning to the University of Georgia. In addition to his most recent book, Reluctant Champions: U.S. Presidential Policy and Strategic Export Controls-Truman, Eisenhower, Bush and Clinton (Routledge, 2000), Dr. Cupitt has co-edited two other books on export controls and has a co-authored book forthcoming. His articles on export controls have appeared in many scholarly journals. He has contributed to the work of several national study commissions, served on US delegations to international export control conferences, and regularly testified before Congress on export controls. Dr. Cupitt has conducted fieldwork on export controls in more than a dozen countries and has served as a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the OECD. Dr. Cupitt is a former Governor's Fellow with the Georgia World Congress Institute and a National Merit Scholar.

 

Renee De Frees
Project Coordinator
GeoLogistics Services, Inc. Alexandria, VA

For the past two years Renee has held the position of Supervisor, Household Goods/General Cargo Operations. She is responsible for worldwide shipment coordination and communications for
household goods and general cargo shipments for USAID and Department of Energy (DOE) programs. She oversees the work of two employees for the above mentioned programs. She also oversees data input and all tracing and tracking of shipments both domestically and internationally. DOE general cargo
shipments include highly sensitive, hazardous, and radioactive goods to FSU and Eastern Europe.

Prior to this, from 1993 - 1999, she was the Household Goods Project Coordinator for Matrix International Logistics, Inc. She coordinated the shipping of personal effects/household goods of USAID clients. Her duties included the coordination with agents to ensure the goods were packed in conjunction with the client's specifications, the specific country restrictions and the USAID regulations. She interfaced closely
with agents all over the globe to ensure timely delivery and customs clearance. She developed trouble-shooting skills dealing with unpredictable carriers, dangerous transit conditions due to civil unrest and unstable political climates and inclement weather. She has extensive experience in shipping both ocean and air freight to the FSU, Middle East, Far East, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Europe, Africa and Central & South America.

 

Erin Golsen
Executive Assistant to the Director
Office of Nonproliferation Controls & Treaty Compliance
Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Commerce Department

Erin Golsen is an export policy analyst with the Office of Nonproliferation Controls and Treaty Compliance in the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Ms. Golsen's portfolio at BIS has included the Chemical Weapons Convention regime and the negotiations to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention. Currently Ms. Golsen is the Special Assistant to the Office Director, with a particular focus on the deemed export program.

 

Peter C. Green
Deputy Director, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Peter C. Green has been the Deputy Director of the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program within the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation since 1996. Prior to this, he was a senior staff member of the Office of Technology Utilization within the Office of Science Advisor since 1991. There, his responsibilities included development and interpretation of policy, guidance, and agreement clause language as well as aspects of implementation pertaining to the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement and Work-for-Others technology transfer mechanisms within the DOE national laboratories.

Mr. Green was a research and new product development manager, new venture analyst and research engineer in the specialty chemical and polymer industry since 1965. He is the inventor or co-inventor of four issued U.S. patents, and was session chairman for the "Chemicals in Secondary and Tertiary Oil Recovery" series of technical papers at an American Chemical Society annual meeting.

Mr. Green received his M.B.A. from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Arts in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

 

Edward G. Holland
Senior Special Agent
Office of Export Enforcement
Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Department of Commerce

Ed first worked in BXA's Enforcement Washington Field Office in Herndon, Virginia, and now is with its Headquarters office. Prior to BXA, he spent eight years with the U.S. Customs Service as a Special Agent, a Senior Paralegal Specialist, a Customs Inspector, and a Management Analyst. He served eight years in the Marine Corps with a last tour of duty as a Platoon Sergeant in Northern Iraq.

 

Karen Jones
Manager, Export Compliance and Training
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Karen Jones joined Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001 as Corporate Export Licensing Manager. After conducting a directed corporate-wide export compliance audit, Mrs. Jones was appointed Manager of Export Compliance and Training. Mrs. Jones is responsible for coordinating corporate export compliance programs and ensuring executing remedial actions resulting from the audit.

Previously, Mrs. Jones served thirteen years with the Department of State. After tours in the USSR and Colombia, Mrs. Jones served with the Chief Financial Officer representing budget and appropriations issues for the Bureau of Political Military Affairs including the Office of Defense Trade Controls. Mrs. Jones joined the Office of Defense Trade Controls in 1997 and worked licensing and commodity jurisdiction issues.

 

Mitch Martin
Vice President
GeoLogistics Services Inc.
(formerly Matrix International Logistics, Inc.)
Alexandria, Virginia

Mitch has been with Matrix International Logistics, Inc./GeoLogistics Services for 12 years. As Vice President for the past five years, Mitch has been responsible for overseeing U.S. government and commercial projects in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and in developing regions worldwide. He coordinates efforts of U.S. and overseas offices to achieve project goals, and has overall responsibility for the Rates and Routings Department. He negotiates rate contracts and advises on all routing possibilities and has a thorough knowledge of rates and methods of transportation to and within the FSU.

Prior to this responsibility, he was an Ocean Freight Manager for Matrix International Logistics, Inc. under Cooperative Threat Reduction-Single Shipper contract. He was responsible for management and oversight of all ocean shipments for Matrix pertaining to VOCC or NVOCC shipments. Mitch also held the position of Manager, General Cargo Division and was responsible for the daily operation of the general cargo department overseeing ten project coordinators, two computer operators, and one rates and routing coordinator. He handled all export/import of general commodities including ocean, air, rail, and truck shipments as well as hazardous, frozen and refrigerated shipments.

Mitch has an MPA, Public Administration, International Track, from George Mason University, 1994. He also has a BA, International Relations, from George Mason University, 1983.

 

Sarah Maynard
Customs Team Leader
Los Alamos National Laboratory

In 1989, Sarah established and has since run the Customs Office for the Property Management Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is also the Chair of the Laboratory's Export Working Group. Sarah has been with the Laboratory since 1983, starting out in a technical organization, then working in the Materials Management policy group before going on to Transportation and Property Management. She has an MBA from the College of Santa Fe, is a Certified Professional Property Manager and a Licensed Customs Broker. Sarah was Vice Chair of ECCO in 1998 and Chair in 1999.

 

Thomas E. McDonald, Jr.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Classification Group, S-7

Tom's formal education is in the area of electrical engineering. He completed his undergraduate work that the University of Oklahoma and graduate work at the University of Colorado. He served four years in the Army, was on the faculty of the EE Dept. at the University of Oklahoma, and worked several years in industry before joining the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1972 as a technical staff member. During his 30 years at Los Alamos he has served in a number of technical and management positions and has worked on such projects as superconducting energy storage and power transmission, magnetic and inertial confinement fusion, solar power, and high-speed imaging for nuclear testing diagnostics and neutron and proton radiography. He worked for several years in the intelligence group at Los Alamos in the area of export control and participated in developing the Militarily Critical Technologies List. Tom has been a member of the Classification Group at Los Alamos for about two years where, among other things, he reviews technologies for export control and generally helps ensure compliance with the export control regulations.

 

Elly Melamed
Acting Director
Nuclear Cities Initiative
National Nuclear Security Administration
U.S. Department of Energy

Elly Melamed is the Acting Director of the Nuclear Cities Initiative in the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security of NNSA. Before coming to NCI, she worked in the Office of Environment Safety and Health, as Director of the Office of Human Radiation Experiments and then as Director of the Office of Records, Research, Data and Access in the area of Health Studies. In this latter capacity she worked on a radiation effects research program in the Russian closed nuclear city of Ozersk.

Elly has a B.A. from Oberlin College and a M.A. (and the course work for a Ph.D.) in European History from the University of Chicago.

 

Janice E. Owens
Export/import Licensing Officer
Office of International Programs

Ms. Owens joined NRC's Office of International Programs as an export/import licensing officer in July 2000. Along with the other members of NRC's licensing staff, she is responsible for reviewing and processing specific export/import license applications in accordance with the legal requirements of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended, and with the policies and practices in NRC regulations, 10 CFR Part 110. She consults regularly with Executive Branch agencies on matters affecting international nuclear cooperation and trade, and evaluates information provided and conclusions reached by these agencies on specific export/import applications. She develops guidance and recommendations for NRC's five Commissioners when their review and approval is needed to issue an export/import license.
Prior to joining NRC, Ms. Owens worked for many years at a private sector consulting firm whose clients included US government agencies, national laboratories, as well as selected foreign and domestic private organizations. As a lead member of the firm's international practice, she focused on projects promoting the development and implementation of international nuclear nonproliferation policies and programs
In addition, for approximately six years, Ms. Owens was employed by the non-profit organization National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), the Washington, DC-based organization representing the interests of Public Utility Commissions in all 50 states as well various US territories. Shortly after joining NARUC, she became the Director of its Nuclear Waste Program Office serving as the principal liaison between the state commissions and the US Department of Energy. By providing information to the Commissions and coordinating their interactions with DOE, Congress, and many other interested parties, she developed a thorough understanding of issues associated with civilian at-reactor spent fuel management and storage and evaluation of the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site as a potential deep geologic repository for permanent disposal of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

 

Robert Rawls
Program Officer
Robert attended Auburn University, James H. Faulkner State Junior College, and University of Southern Mississippi studying engineering, accounting and industrial management. Robert graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi's Department of Business in 1979 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management.

Robert began his federal career in September 1982 with the Social Security Administration. He worked as a Benefits Authorizer at the Program Service Center in Birmingham AL. (continued on reverse)

In 1987, Robert accepted a position as a Customs inspector with the U.S. Customs Service in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Robert began the process of learning Customs procedures and maritime operations.
In 1991, Robert was promoted to the position of Senior Customs Inspector and transferred to the Port of Huntsville, AL. Here he worked with state, local and other federal agencies dealing with the investigation of various illegal activities. He served as the firearms instructor

In June 1999, Robert was promoted again to the position of Program Officer in the Outbound Programs section of the Office of Field Operations at U.S. Customs Service Headquarters in Washington D.C. He was initially assigned the responsibility of managing the Currency program, Outbound Compex, and budget.

In January 2000, Robert took over the Exodus programs. He is now responsible for being the central point of contact for all Exodus related issues, Embargoes (OFAC, Cuba), Liaison to Other Government agencies, State, BXA, OFAC, DEA, and ATF, Exodus Training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Exodus Handbooks, GAO/OIG Audits updates, the Accountability Reports and the Strategic Plan for Outbound Programs.

Robert served as an Instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) at Glynco, GA on a temporary detail and as a part of the Exodus Training classes.

 

Mary Carol Shannahan
Director, Policy and Planning, Foreign Visits,
Assignments and Travel
U. S. Department of Energy

Mary Carol Shannahan graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1966 and has been with the U.S. Department of Energy since 1979. She joined the Office of Environment, much of which is now Office of Science. In 1981 she became the Financial Manager for Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In 2000, she became Director, Policy and Planning, Foreign Visits, Assignments and Travel. Her focus is the integration of policies and programs that coordinate and account for departmental interactions with foreign nationals.

 

Gregory C. Slovik, P.E.
Deputy Division Director
Office of Nuclear Material Protection
U.S. Department of Energy

Greg has been the Deputy Division Director for the Office of Nuclear Material Protection for the past year. Greg came to the MPC&A program in 1996 with an extensive background in nuclear engineering and is a licensed professional engineer. He started out as a MC&A subject matter expert for both the Luch and Krasnoyarsk 26 (K-26) project. After working on several MPC&A teams, Greg was selected in 1999 to work at DOE Headquarters to assist in the overall management for all of the MinAtom complex weapons sites. After working for two years at DOE Headquarters as a contractor and 21 years of service at Brookhaven National Lab, he moved into his present position as Deputy Division Director at DOE.

 

Thomas Taylor
Homeland Security Division
Office of Intelligence
Department of Energy

Tom Taylor is an Intelligence Research Specialist, working in Homeland Security of the Department of Energy's Office of Intelligence. Responsibilities include threat assessments for customers within the Department and liaison with similar functions outside the Department, primarily Defense and the Intelligence Community. He has just come from a fellowship to the US Senate, working for Senator Fred Thompson and the Senate Government Affairs Committee. Previously, he was the program manager for Nuclear Nonproliferation Intelligence, working primarily in the Middle East, specifically focused on Iraq and Iran. Much earlier, he worked briefly for the State Department providing security management of all new and major renovations in the Middle East, to include technical, counterespionage, and personnel security. Prior to that, Thom Taylor was a career intelligence officer in the US Air Force directing joint intelligence planning in support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Department of Defense.


 

Susan Terranova
Senior Attorney
U. S. Customs Service
Office of Regulations and Rulings
Penalties Branch, International Trade Compliance Division

Susan Terranova is a senior attorney in the Penalties Branch in Customs International Trade Compliance Division, which renders administrative decisions in Customs cases involving seizures of merchandise and the assessment of monetary penalties for violations of the customs and navigation laws as well as the laws of other federal agencies which are enforced by the Customs Service. The Division also reviews cases on appeal to Customs Headquarters and has oversight of several Customs administrative programs.

She is the author of the Customs national guidelines for mitigation of export control and other violations, as well as several policy statements in the area of export controls. She has represented the Customs Service in various private industry seminars on export control matters and is a guest instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement training facility.

 

Faye Zimmerman
High Risk Personnel Property
Office of Resource Management
U.S. Department of Energy

Faye Zimmerman began her career in 1968, working for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Germantown, Maryland. She has been with AEC, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), and now the Department of Energy (DOE) for close to 34 years. Faye worked in the logistical area of personal property management for the Office of Administration from 1978 until June 2000, at which time she joined the Office of Resource Management. Among other duties, Faye is the Office of Resource Management's point-of-contact for fleet management and high risk property.

 

Anatoli (Toli) Welihozkiy
Team Leader, Licensing Operations
Office of Export Control Policy and Cooperation (NA-242)
Office of Nonproliferation and International Security (NA-24)
Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20)
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Department of Energy

Mr. Welihozkiy has been with the Office of Export Control Policy and Cooperation, and predecessor offices, since May 1992. Before coming to the Department of Energy, Mr. Welihozkiy worked for the Department of Commerce from 1982 to 1992 in the Bureau of Export Administration (now the Bureau of Industry and Security) where he served in several management positions, including as Program Manager responsible for developing the foreign availability assessment program for export controlled technologies as mandated by the Export Administration Act of 1979, and as management liaison for the Exodus program with U.S. Customs. Mr. Welihozkiy completed 23 years of active and reserve duty in the U.S. Navy and retired from the Naval Reserve in 1994 as a Commander.

Mr. Welihozkiy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian Area Studies from Rutgers University. He earned a Masters of Arts degree in Soviet Studies from the University of Kansas, and while attending Graduate School, a commission as an Ensign, U.S. Navy Reserve, from the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp (NROTC). He also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Economics from the Foreign Service Institute, Department of State.

 

Date Last Modified/Reviewed: Monday, July 2, 2007 4:21 PM