Nathan
Schulz
Health Physicist and Program Manager currently residing in San Francisco, CA. I own compliance programs, build operational systems, and lead cross-functional work in high-consequence regulated environments.
I'm a Health Physicist and Program Manager with four years of experience in DOE-regulated research 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. My professional experience spans program ownership, cross-functional project leadership, compliance tracking, contractor coordination, and leadership reporting.
Program Management
- End-to-end program ownership
- Compliance tracking & renewals
- Contractor onboarding & training
- Operational readiness planning
- Risk-based controls
Tools & Automation
- Excel dashboards & reporting
- SharePoint / Power Automate
- AI-assisted workflows
- Metrics & compliance tracking
- Leadership reporting
Cross-functional Work
- Stakeholder coordination
- Committee presentations
- Field & contractor management
- Workflow simplification
- Multi-team project execution
Domain Knowledge
- Regulatory compliance (DOE, CA)
- Safety & risk program design
- Work authorization workflows
- Documentation & audit readiness
- Technical writing & training
- Own and operate four compliance programs end-to-end — equipment authorization, work permitting, training, and safety surveys — in a DOE-regulated research environment. Each program covers the full cycle: design, tracking, renewals, corrective action, and leadership reporting.
- Radiation Protection project lead for CUIR (Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization) — a multi-year, multi-contractor infrastructure project. Responsible for readiness planning, dose forecasting, staffing and cost estimates, contractor training requirements, and ongoing field coordination across active project phases.
- Presented project readiness, work controls, and compliance status to an executive safety committee twice, securing approval for both a full-scale mockup phase and active project work.
- Built and deployed a SharePoint/Power Automate compliance tracker for 100+ equipment records, including automated expiration reminders, multi-view dashboards, and regulatory status tracking — replacing a manual tracking process.
- Built and deployed an AI-assisted reporting dashboard used in daily leadership meetings, converting 1,000+ data entries across 60+ project days into clean daily and weekly compliance summaries.
- Manages work authorization program: 60+ active permits under continuous quarterly renewal, with 15–20 higher-complexity permits personally handled from scoping through closeout.
- Maintains radiation worker training compliance for approximately 750 staff site-wide; trained and onboarded roughly 120 workers for the current infrastructure project, delivering multiple sessions per week during peak periods.
- Performed dose investigation reports, audits, and peer reviews.
- Managed implementation of Varskin+ skin dose calculation software across NNL Radiation Health departments.
- Supported environmental monitoring, whole-body counting, gamma spectroscopy, and dose estimation.
- Executed monthly TLD dosimetry monitoring with Harshaw 8800 TLD Reader.
- Analyzed P&IDs and process data for natural gas process safety engineering projects.
- Completed equipment calculations, evaluated overpressure scenarios, and scribed for 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.