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Frank Russo is leaving LLNL.
Frank Russo is leaving LLNL.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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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.
He Came, He Saw, He buried the lab under a pyroclastic flow of Bechtelian proportions.
Will the next Bechtel manager, please sign in.
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.
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.
bonus for shuting down the super block: could it be the Inspector general and Justisdepartment investigations have caught up to Frankie
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.
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.)
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.
December 11, 2009 12:19 PM
Nah he got promoted with a raise. LLNS is just a stepping "cow pie" for Bechtel.
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.
. . . aren't his staff former UC types?
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.
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.
“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.
Don't kid yourself. He did something wrong and he has been told to leave by the DOE.
Can we send ALL of the Rectal Boys from the top down and please take GM and EM too, especially the latter.