In 1989, Jay and two other prominent HPS members began Radiation Safety and Control Services, Inc. (RSCS), a company that provides a broad range of health physics services. Since its inception, this company has been extremely present and supportive of the health physics profession and the Society, being a frequent vendor at meetings, supporting activities such as the 5k run and open mike night, and having its personnel, including Jay, participate on HPS and AAHP/ABHP committees, presentation of papers, and development of standards.

From 1999–2005 Jay’s primary responsibility was as the Project Health Physics and Chemistry Manager on the Connecticut Yankee Decommissioning Project. He was a key member to the decommissioning management team responsible for managing all Health Physics and Chemistry functions for the Connecticut Yankee Decommissioning Project at the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Plant in Haddam, CT. In this position, he was responsible for development and implementation of the site radiological work planning programs, radiation protection program, and chemistry programs, focused on prevention against both external and internal exposures, effluent control, and licensed termination activities. He was also responsible for writing and implementing many aspects of the license termination plan.

Over the course of the existence of RSCS, Jay’s position has been Executive Director responsible for RSCS technical consulting, staff augmentation, laboratory operations, and management activities, oversight of RSCS decommissioning projects at several US facilities, and oversight of RSCS UK Company, RSK Radiological, LTD, performing several nuclear decommissioning and radiological projects in the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. He has also served as decommissioning advisor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at Chernobyl for assessing nuclear and radiological safety aspects of the New Safe Confinement and the Construction of the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. More generally, Jay is an RSCS Director Lead responsible for technical oversight of RSCS projects including nuclear, industrial and medical decommissioning, groundwater monitoring and assessments, radiological regulatory compliance projects, internal and external dosimetry assessments, and radiological computer application development.

Jay has an extensive list of over 40 publications and presentations including many at local and national Health Physics Society meetings. He has been an HPS member since 1990. His professional activities include:

Past President: American Board of Health Physics, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021

President: American Board of Health Physics, January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020

President Elect: American Board of Health Physics, January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019

Chairman: American Board of Health Physics, January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Member: American Board of Health Physics, January 1, 2014 – Present

Chairman: Governor's State Radiation Advisory Committee - State of New Hampshire 1993 – present

Chairman: Nuclear Ship Savannah Association, October 2012 – May, 2017

Member: Nuclear Energy Institute Task Force on Nuclear Plant Decommissioning, September 2013- present

Member: ISOE Working Group on Radiological Aspects of Decommissioning Activities at Nuclear Power Plants (WGDECOM), 2014 - present

Panel Chair: American Board of Health Physics Part I Exam Committee, January 2011 – January 2012

Member: American Board of Health Physics Part I Panel, January 2006 – January 2010

Member: ISOE Expert Group on Severe Accident Management developing nuclear industry international guidance following Fukushima, 2011 – 2014

Member: HPS Laboratory Accreditation Policy Committee, 2004 – 2010

Jay’s work on the ABHP and the ABHP Part I committee is of great importance. He has worked very hard on both panels reviewing and understanding processes for exam preparation and grading, acceptance of candidates for certification, and other processes. It is under his direction that the ABHP has moved towards electronic processes for application, application review, and examination. He also teamed with the AAHP, sponsoring and encouraging joint activities to provide transparency and ensure that both boards operate synergistically.

As President of the AAHP, Jay supported the change of the Secretariat from Burke & Associates to CMA and facilitated much of the transition. This was a quite difficult undertaking and one for which he provided much of his time and the expertise he has developed with managing large projects. Those of us who were in leadership roles with the Academy during this time truly appreciate his efforts in the overall improvement of the Academy’s business due to these changes. One could not succeed with all of these accomplishments without being of the highest ethics. In our work, experience, and friendship with Jay, he has always acted in the most ethical manner and had expectations and encouragement of such action in others.

We undersigned nominators have all known and worked with Jay for a number of years, some for decades. We find that he is a top-notch health physicist who not only excels professionally, but also supports the profession with his activities in the New England Chapter of the HPS, ABHP, AAHP, and through other venues as available. In addition, Jay gives back to the community by supporting and mentoring younger health physicists at both the technologist and professional levels by providing them work and research opportunities at RSCS. It is our common opinion that Jay is a great asset and representative of the profession and of Certified Health Physicists in particular and is a great candidate for the Joyce Davis award.

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Here are just a few details of Bill activities supporting the ABHP include:

• He worked on Prolydian Part II Items including the painful input of Microsoft© Word formatted questions into Prolydian
• Removing duplicate items from the Part II exam bank
• Established ABHP Teams Accounts for file sharing and better secure communication (Part 2 Panel, the ABHP, CMA, and the AAHP-ABHP Webmaster)
• Setting up and publishing, as a PDF, the Part II exams from Prolydian (2022 and 2023 exams were published from Prolydian)
• Established online grading using Prolydian for the 2023
• All while maintaining a pleasant and enjoyable work process

Please join me in thanking Bill for his dedication and service to the ABHP by building a sustainable and secure certification database process that will benefit the CHP program into the future. Please also join me in thanking him for his generous service to us all and the certification process.

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