Nathan
Schulz
Program Manager and Health Physicist 2 based in San Francisco, CA, owning site-level safety and compliance programs and leading cross-functional projects in DOE-regulated accelerator and nuclear environments.
I'm a Program Manager and Health Physicist 2 with experience owning site-level safety and compliance programs and leading cross-functional projects in DOE-regulated accelerator and nuclear environments. My work sits at the intersection of technical safety program ownership, regulatory compliance, and operational execution — designing the systems, workflows, and reporting tools that keep complex programs organized, audit-ready, and running well.
I hold a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Radiological Health Engineering from Texas A&M University, with experience translating technical and regulatory requirements into practical processes and field execution. My professional experience spans program operations, project planning and execution, contractor coordination, work authorization, risk-based controls, and leadership reporting.
Program & Project Management
- Program ownership & operations
- Project planning & execution
- Contractor coordination
- Stakeholder management
- Work authorization
- Risk-based controls
- Readiness planning
- Leadership reporting
Compliance & Operations
- DOE-regulated program operations
- Audit-ready documentation
- Training programs
- Field verification
- Renewal cycles
- Corrective-action follow-through
- Technical procedure implementation
Systems & Process Improvement
- Workflow design
- System implementation & migration
- Excel dashboards
- SharePoint / Power Automate
- Metrics tracking & reporting automation
- AI-assisted workflow development
- Program owner for four site-level programs — Radiation Generating Devices (RGDs), Radiological Training, Radiological Work Permits (RWPs), and Search & Survey — covering program operations, recurring deliverables, stakeholder coordination, compliance, and process improvement.
- Radiation Protection project lead for CUIR (Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization), a multi-year, multi-contractor infrastructure project — coordinating project readiness, dose forecasting, staffing/schedule/cost estimates, contractor training requirements, work controls, and four-week lookahead planning.
- Leading modernization of SLAC's electronic Radiological Work Permit system, migrating from an internally developed database to the Mirion eRWP platform and translating existing program requirements, workflows, user roles, and permissions into the new system.
- Manages RWP program operations for 60+ active permits under quarterly renewal — coordinating review, approval, issuance, closeout, and retirement — while personally supporting higher-complexity, job-specific permits from planning through field execution.
- Leads end-to-end radiological planning and field execution for contractor-performed industrial radiography projects, with on-site oversight and authority to authorize work, pause operations, and approve removal of radiological boundaries at completion.
- Oversees compliance and operational readiness for 100+ Radiation Generating Devices (≈85 active at any time); built and deployed a SharePoint/Power Automate compliance tracker for 100+ records, automating reminders for leak tests and operator training expirations.
- Built and deployed a CUIR project dashboard used in daily leadership meetings, consolidating dose, survey, workforce, and control data into daily and weekly metrics across 1,000+ personnel-day entries and 60+ active project days.
- Presents CUIR dose forecasts, work controls, training plans, and project readiness to ALARA Committee stakeholders and department leadership, supporting approval and execution of major project work.
- Maintains radiation worker training compliance for approximately 750 SLAC personnel site-wide; trained and onboarded roughly 160 workers for CUIR during peak project periods.
- Manages recurring Search & Survey and Area HP workflows across accelerator sectors 0–10 and 20–30, tracking survey completion and reporting program readiness to leadership.
- Prepared dose investigation reports and performed audits, technical peer reviews, and analytical assessments in a highly regulated naval nuclear environment.
- Managed implementation of Varskin+ skin-dose calculation software across Naval Nuclear Laboratory Radiation Health departments, coordinating adoption of a standardized technical tool and workflow.
- Supported environmental radiation monitoring, medical qualification checks, whole-body counting, gamma spectroscopy, dose assessment, and emergency response activities.
- Analyzed P&IDs, equipment data, drawings, and vendor documentation to support facility calculations.
- Evaluated overpressure scenarios, developed process flow diagrams, and supported Process Hazard Analyses using PHA Pro.
Minors in Mathematics and Radiological Health Engineering.
Selected work projects and tools built to support compliance operations, reporting, and program management.
RGD Compliance Tracker
SharePoint and Power Automate system for tracking 100+ radiation generating devices with automated expiration reminders, operator training tracking, and multi-view compliance dashboards.
CUIR Dose Dashboard
AI-assisted Excel dashboard for real-time dose and field survey reporting across a multi-year infrastructure project. Converts 1,000+ data entries into daily and weekly compliance summaries used in leadership meetings.
Open to conversations about program management, technical operations, compliance, and anything interesting. Feel free to reach out.