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Friday, December 11, 2009
Frank Russo leaving LLNL
Anonymously contributed: Frank Russo is leaving LLNL.
36 comments:
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Gee, he just got here. Must have screwed up pretty good.
Mission accomplished. The hatchet man has done his job and successfully destoryed LLNL under UC care, putting most of us out to pastures for the wolves to eat while he enjoys his 100% salary plus perks and benifits. It's always nice to be the top dog.
Good riddance! He was a wolf in sheep's clothing! Better yet, he was a wolf with the face of a sheep. Nice guy contributing to the demise of one of the most respectable national institution! Yes, it is DOE/NNSA's fault but he is condoning their actions.Why isn't he protesting DOE decisions? Is he being wacked for doing so.
Cast aside the weak and incompetent who aren't commited to the vision of Lawrence and UC and in 5-10 years we will recover from LLNL's Great Depression of 2007.
So who's on the hit list next? This JA needs to be gone for good. He doesn't need a new assignment, he needs to go away forever. Like get out of town and stay out of town. May the next bunch of people he screws over will dislight him as much as UC / LLNL people do. Get along little doggy, get along.
Frank Russo leaving???? why would he give up his $300,000 a year job, car allowance and housing allowance? and fore go his $100,000 bonus for shuting down the super block: could it be the Inspector general and Justisdepartment investigations have caught up to Frankie
This is a Bechtel slot.They'll pick someone else for their two year stint in Siberia and we will keep wondering when someone is going to show up with all this great business knowledge they keep promising
Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works.
If the LLNS partners' contract is anything like the LANS contract, specific high-level jobs are reserved for specific partners' employees.
So if this is the case at LLNL, you might expect this AD slot to be filled by another Bechtel import for a two-year rotation to do a job they have no long-term vested interest in.
This is how it works at LANL. They won't fill such jobs from the inside.
Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open [P]AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works.
The NNSA launched LLC management at LLNL and LANL because they want them to work differently. The changes going on are not a function of just some individuals' personalities. We're in a new ballgame.
I heard Rechtel has a project in deep trouble that FR is supposed to get them out of - how will that work if you don't have anyone to lay off or dazzel with BS?
Russo served his mandatory 2 years so that he could get fully vested in the LLNS pension. It's a sweet deal for the Bechtel implants. Why stay any longer?
So much for commitment to the laboratory's success. We are now starting to see the management model of the future: instead of demonstrating over 20+ years that you actually understand the place, senior LLC members will parachute in for 24 months, then exit.
Frank Russo, the Laboratory’s principal associate director for Operations and Business, has been reassigned by Bechtel National Incorporated to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant in Richland, Wash., where he will serve as general manager beginning Jan. 18.
Don Boyd will assume Russo’s LLNL responsibilities as the acting principal associate director, effective immediately.
“Russo has been an integral and essential part of the team that successfully competed for the contract to manage the Laboratory, and he has done an outstanding job at leading the Laboratory’s operational and business components for the past two years,” Director George Miller said.
“His tremendous breadth of experience and strong, open leadership style have been essential to the Laboratory’s transition under the new contract. Frank has been enormously action-oriented and has provided me exceptional advice that covers broad segments of the Laboratory. He has been central to many of the highest priority reform initiatives in the Laboratory including the revision of the planning, budgeting and tracking of all support costs and the improved work-control system. Frank will be sorely missed.”
Boyd brings a wealth of experience to this position, having successfully served in multiple senior operational leadership roles during his career. He joined the Laboratory as a staff member in Engineering in 1977 and held several positions including group leader for ultrasonic and radiography and deputy section manager for nondestructive evaluation in the Energy Sciences Division. He left the Laboratory in 1983 for opportunities with Battelle Memorial Institute, including serving as the deputy director for Operations at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2000-2006.
Boyd rejoined LLNL in 2007 as the deputy principal associate director in Global Security. He attended the U.S. Military Academy, has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in material science from UC Davis, earned through the LLNL continuing education program.
“Don is exceptionally well qualified to take on this acting role and I am confident that he will continue to promote and foster the critical institutional operational and business initiatives we have underway for a more efficient, safe, and effective Laboratory,” Miller said.
Frank Russo is a good man and his only fault may be that he expected people to not only show up for work, but to work hard. Something that most of "The Lazy-L" folks aren't accustom to. I am a long time LLNL employee (working in O&B) and I am sad to see him go. LLNL needs a few more like Frank to get her back on an even keel. Those posting the negative comments have obviously not worked for the man.
Russo is a hatchet man who could give a rats as-s about the people at the facility. He is ruthless hitman whereby you should expect 2000 or more of your people to be gone in the first years and downsizing every year after that. He'll be there to cut your throat, put you in the street and sign onto your pension plans so he can bleed that too Expect to lose anything that you have which was good or beneificial to you as an employee unless you are ULM.
Talk about large knee pads. Hum baby Hum. A clear indication that birds of the same feather do in fact flock together.
“Russo has been an integral and essential part of the team that successfully competed for the contract to manage the Laboratory, and he has done an outstanding job at leading the Laboratory’s operational and business components for the past two years,” Director George Miller said.
I've worked at Hanford and a couple of other sites - including LLNL.
Don't pay attention to the whiner's here. You've been through much bigger challenges over the years than Frank's coming to your site. You'll do fine - you have to remember that LLNL has been through only one contract transition and many can't accept the fact that the DOE expects them to change the "campus" atmosphere here.
Look back on this blog string in a year and see which of us was more correct.
To bad Franks Deputy Goodwin is staying. Let's hope Don Boyd can see the light and make necessary changes before Paul R., Steve W. or god forbid Clymo are put in charge. They are Bechtel club members for life.
With our luck you guys will send this guy to Los Alamos. By the way, thanks again for sending us the stellar and magnanimous Bret Knapp. OK, we give up, you win!!
I have had the pleasure to work with the names mentioned in these blogs have found them to be intelligent, competent men who appreciate hard, honest workers. The whiners never last long under their rule, but the people who show up on time and do their jobs right never have a bad thing to say about them.
Sounds to me like a bunch of ungrateful people who need to move on. You all should be thankful you have jobs because you would get eaten up in any other environment. Grow-up, quite whining and welcome to the real world.
36 comments:
Gee, he just got here. Must have screwed up pretty good.
Mission accomplished. The hatchet man has done his job and successfully destoryed LLNL under UC care, putting most of us out to pastures for the wolves to eat while he enjoys his 100% salary plus perks and benifits. It's always nice to be the top dog.
So the LLNS ship is sinking, time to transfer to another ship.
Good riddance!
He was a wolf in sheep's clothing!
Better yet, he was a wolf with the face of a sheep.
Nice guy contributing to the demise of one of the most respectable national institution!
Yes, it is DOE/NNSA's fault but he is condoning their actions.Why isn't he protesting DOE decisions?
Is he being wacked for doing so.
"Veni, Vidi, Vesuvius"
He Came, He Saw, He buried the lab under a pyroclastic flow of Bechtelian proportions.
Will the next Bechtel manager, please sign in.
Not whacked. Just moving to his next Bechtel assignment - his two years here are up. Expect to see others moving along soon.
Good riddance.
The culture clash has reached Olympus.
The beginning of the decline has ended.
Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works.
Someone who openly admits the Disaster of 2007 and begins the process of mending.
Now get rid of than damned Soderstrom.
Cast aside the weak and incompetent who aren't commited to the vision of Lawrence and UC and in 5-10 years we will recover from LLNL's Great Depression of 2007.
December 11, 2009 10:09 PM
So who's on the hit list next? This JA needs to be gone for good. He doesn't need a new assignment, he needs to go away forever. Like get out of town and stay out of town. May the next bunch of people he screws over will dislight him as much as UC / LLNL people do. Get along little doggy, get along.
FR ED is still needed to thin out ULM. Like that will ever happen.
Frank Russo leaving???? why would he give up his $300,000 a year job, car allowance and housing allowance? and fore go his $100,000
bonus for shuting down the super block: could it be the Inspector general and Justisdepartment investigations have caught up to Frankie
This is a Bechtel slot.They'll pick someone else for their two year stint in Siberia and we will keep wondering when someone is going to show up with all this great business knowledge they keep promising
Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works.
If the LLNS partners' contract is anything like the LANS contract, specific high-level jobs are reserved for specific partners' employees.
So if this is the case at LLNL, you might expect this AD slot to be filled by another Bechtel import for a two-year rotation to do a job they have no long-term vested interest in.
This is how it works at LANL. They won't fill such jobs from the inside.
I heard that Russo was transferred to Hanford.
"Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works."
Can someone name one?
I've haven't been too impressed with the ones I know. (Not a defense of FR, but it seems to be a very shallow talent pool.)
Now, will some competent LLNL lifers please apply for the open [P]AD slot so that the Leader of Business and Operations understands how LLNL works.
The NNSA launched LLC management at LLNL and LANL because they want them to work differently. The changes going on are not a function of just some individuals' personalities. We're in a new ballgame.
Thank God he is going.. maybe he will take his dirt bag staff with him..
I heard Rechtel has a project in deep trouble that FR is supposed to get them out of - how will that work if you don't have anyone to lay off or dazzel with BS?
Russo served his mandatory 2 years so that he could get fully vested in the LLNS pension. It's a sweet deal for the Bechtel implants. Why stay any longer?
so I'm at Hanford. What specifically did Russo do that brought your anger? What can we expect?
Gee, he just got here. Must have screwed up pretty good.
December 11, 2009 12:19 PM
Nah he got promoted with a raise. LLNS is just a stepping "cow pie" for Bechtel.
So much for commitment to the laboratory's success. We are now starting to see the management model of the future: instead of demonstrating over 20+ years that you actually understand the place, senior LLC members will parachute in for 24 months, then exit.
LLNL Public Affairs
December 15, 2009
Russo leaving Lab, reassigned to Richland, Wash.
Frank Russo, the Laboratory’s principal associate director for Operations and Business, has been reassigned by Bechtel National Incorporated to the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant in Richland, Wash., where he will serve as general manager beginning Jan. 18.
Don Boyd will assume Russo’s LLNL responsibilities as the acting principal associate director, effective immediately.
“Russo has been an integral and essential part of the team that successfully competed for the contract to manage the Laboratory, and he has done an outstanding job at leading the Laboratory’s operational and business components for the past two years,” Director George Miller said.
“His tremendous breadth of experience and strong, open leadership style have been essential to the Laboratory’s transition under the new contract. Frank has been enormously action-oriented and has provided me exceptional advice that covers broad segments of the Laboratory. He has been central to many of the highest priority reform initiatives in the Laboratory including the revision of the planning, budgeting and tracking of all support costs and the improved work-control system. Frank will be sorely missed.”
Boyd brings a wealth of experience to this position, having successfully served in multiple senior operational leadership roles during his career. He joined the Laboratory as a staff member in Engineering in 1977 and held several positions including group leader for ultrasonic and radiography and deputy section manager for nondestructive evaluation in the Energy Sciences Division. He left the Laboratory in 1983 for opportunities with Battelle Memorial Institute, including serving as the deputy director for Operations at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory from 2000-2006.
Boyd rejoined LLNL in 2007 as the deputy principal associate director in Global Security. He attended the U.S. Military Academy, has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in material science from UC Davis, earned through the LLNL continuing education program.
“Don is exceptionally well qualified to take on this acting role and I am confident that he will continue to promote and foster the critical institutional operational and business initiatives we have underway for a more efficient, safe, and effective Laboratory,” Miller said.
"Thank God he is going.. maybe he will take his dirt bag staff with him.."
. . . aren't his staff former UC types?
Frank Russo is a good man and his only fault may be that he expected people to not only show up for work, but to work hard. Something that most of "The Lazy-L" folks aren't accustom to. I am a long time LLNL employee (working in O&B) and I am sad to see him go. LLNL needs a few more like Frank to get her back on an even keel. Those posting the negative comments have obviously not worked for the man.
December 14, 2009 6:56 PM stated I'm from Hanford, what should I expect?
Expect a new business model that includes downsizing, layoffs without dignity and a bonus to Bechtel.
He's coming to chew gum and kick butt, and he's fresh out of gum.
December 14, 2009 6:56 PM
Russo is a hatchet man who could give a rats as-s about the people at the facility. He is ruthless hitman whereby you should expect 2000 or more of your people to be gone in the first years and downsizing every year after that. He'll be there to cut your throat, put you in the street and sign onto your pension plans so he can bleed that too Expect to lose anything that you have which was good or beneificial to you as an employee unless you are ULM.
Talk about large knee pads. Hum baby Hum. A clear indication that birds of the same feather do in fact flock together.
“Russo has been an integral and essential part of the team that successfully competed for the contract to manage the Laboratory, and he has done an outstanding job at leading the Laboratory’s operational and business components for the past two years,” Director George Miller said.
For every month that position is not filled LLNL can keep one real worker for a year.
December 14, 2009 6:56 PM
I've worked at Hanford and a couple of other sites - including LLNL.
Don't pay attention to the whiner's here. You've been through much bigger challenges over the years than Frank's coming to your site. You'll do fine - you have to remember that LLNL has been through only one contract transition and many can't accept the fact that the DOE expects them to change the "campus" atmosphere here.
Look back on this blog string in a year and see which of us was more correct.
December 15, 2009 8:30 PM
Don't kid yourself. He did something wrong and he has been told to leave by the DOE.
To bad Franks Deputy Goodwin is staying. Let's hope Don Boyd can see the light and make necessary changes before Paul R., Steve W. or god forbid Clymo are put in charge. They are Bechtel club members for life.
With our luck you guys will send this guy to Los Alamos. By the way, thanks again for sending us the stellar and magnanimous Bret Knapp. OK, we give up, you win!!
December 18, 2009 1:14 PM
Can we send ALL of the Rectal Boys from the top down and please take GM and EM too, especially the latter.
I have had the pleasure to work with the names mentioned in these blogs have found them to be intelligent, competent men who appreciate hard, honest workers. The whiners never last long under their rule, but the people who show up on time and do their jobs right never have a bad thing to say about them.
Sounds to me like a bunch of ungrateful people who need to move on. You all should be thankful you have jobs because you would get eaten up in any other environment. Grow-up, quite whining and welcome to the real world.
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