Ram William Tuli

Phoenix, AZ
(480) 592-0808

EDUCATION:

MS, Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
BS, Electrical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1993
Naval Nuclear Power School, 1985

WORK SUMMARY:

Senior engineer with over 10 years of experience in risk and reliability assessment of complex technological systems, including 6 years of safety analysis and risk management for chemical facilities used by the U.S. Army to destroy chemical weapons and nerve agent. I am experienced in modeling accident phenomena (both internal and external events), fault tree development, data analysis, human reliability assessment, consequence analysis and risk assembly. I also have 4 years of actual plant experience as a nuclear-trained electrical operator in the U.S. Navy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Natural Science Research (NSR), (March 2002 - Present)

• Vice President of Engineering, Tempe Facility, Arizona

• Served as principal investigator for The Umatilla Chemical Disposal Facility (CDF) Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA). I was responsible for ensuring QRA was completed on time and budget. The 11-volume preliminary draft was published in June 2001 and included well over 8,000 pages.
• Served as lead seismic analyst for all SAIC CDF QRA efforts (5 years). This activity included working closely with seismic subcontractors to develop seismic hazard curves and detailed fragility estimates for all risk-significant components and structures within the chemical agent storage and destruction facilities.
• Served as lead lightning analyst for all SAIC CDF QRA efforts (5 years). This activity included identifying potential lightning risks associated with chemical weapons and energetic materials. Lightning was/is the dominant public storage risk contributor for all eastern chemical weapon storage sites.
• Served as lead tornado analyst for all SAIC CDF QRA efforts (6 years). This activity included identifying potential direct and indirect risks associated with tornadoes at the CDFs.
• Served as lead transportation analyst for all SAIC CDF QRA efforts, including programmatic decision making efforts regarding the use of protective onsite containers (6 years).
• Developed electrical distribution system fault tree models for all CDF QRAs. This included an effort to evaluate offsite power reliability at the Umatilla CDF to determine the number of emergency diesel generators that should be required to meet limiting conditions of operations.

• Assisted in software reliability tools development to analyze advanced reactor control systems
• Prepared and presented lectures for workshops designed to assess and improve work processes at nuclear power plants

• Assisted in applied plasma and fusion research studies

• Qualified senior-in-rate load dispatcher, reactor electrician, shutdown reactor electrician, electrical rover and switchgear operator
• Appointed division group supervisor in 1989 (overseeing 20 – 30 personnel)
• Prioritized, scheduled, coordinated and directly supervised the execution of corrective and preventative maintenance
• Implemented and oversaw numerous electrical and division reactor plant engineering alterations
• Updated division material history log books documenting results of all surveillance testing and corrective maintenance
• Coordinated and directed 12 quarterly reactor safety injection tests
• Represented division at department and shipyard meetings preparing ship for extensive reactor plant overhaul

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

Secret (June 1998 - March 2002)

Tuli, R., Wu, J-S., and Apostolakis, G., "Expanding Root-Cause Analysis to Include Organizational Factors and Work Processes," Conference Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Safety Culture in Nuclear Installations, Vienna, Austria, 24 - 28 April, 1995.

Tuli, R., Apostolakis, G., Kazarians, M., and Wu, J-S., "Organizational Factors and Root-Cause Analysis," Proceedings of the IchemE 29th Loss Prevention Symposium, Boston, MA, July 30 - August 2, 1995.

Tuli, R., Apostolakis, G., and Wu, J-S., "Incorporating Work Process Evaluation into Root-Cause Analysis," Conference Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Safety of Operating Reactors, Seattle, WA, 17 - 20 September, 1995.

Robbins, L., Tuli, R., and Christman D., "Special Consequences Analysis Conditions for a Chemical Weapons Disposal Facility," Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM), New York City, 13-18, September, 1998.

Tuli, R., and Apostolakis, G., "Incorporating Organizational Issues into Root-Cause Analysis," Trans IchemE, Vol. 74, Part B, Feb 1996.

Tuli, R., Apostolakis, G, and Wu, J-S, "Identifying Organizational Deficiencies Through Root-Cause Analysis," Nuclear Technology, Vol. 116, Number 3, Dec 1996.

Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Phase 1 Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-96/2601, September 1996.

Pueblo Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Phase 1 Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-96/2602, November 1996.

Blue Grass Agent Disposal Facility Phase 1 Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-96/1118, January 1997.

Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Phase 1 Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-96/1120, March 1997.

Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Phase 1 Quantitative Risk Assessment, Revision 1, SAIC-95/2542, May 1997.

Current Industrial Practices for Creating and Maintaining Safety Culture, SAIC, Draft, January 1997.

Consideration of Improvements to Better Assure the Development and Maintenance of Effective Safety Cultures at CDFs, PLL Assessment #34, July 1998.

Pueblo Chemical Depot Risk Reduction Integrated Process Team, Risk Reduction Options for the Pueblo Chemical Depot, SAIC-04-007-016, August 1998.

Blue Grass Risk Reduction Integrated Process Team, Risk Reduction Options for the Blue Grass Chemical Activity, SAIC-04-007-018, Second Draft, September 1998.

Quantitative Risk Assessment of Chemical Agent Storage at Newport Chemical Depot,
SAIC-04-007-026, June 1999.

Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Electrical Power Reliability Study, March 2000.

Amico, P., Bayley S., Hillstrom, J, Mohamed, A., Boyd, G., Robbins, L., Bradley, D., Sharff, S., Ching, C., Szymanski, C., Collins, E., Tuli, R., Christman, D., Urbanski, T., Funk, J., Williams, C., Grimes, P., Winfrey, C., Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-04-087-001, Preliminary Draft, June 2001.

Major Reports (as supporting author)

Brandyberry, M., Boyd, G., Bailey, R., Bayley, S., Childs, C., Christman, D., Claret, J., Dougherty, E., Grimes, P., Harshaw, K., McComas, T., Pickrell, C., Robbins, L., Tuli, R., Valentine, M., Williams, C., Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-96-2600, December 1996.

Impact on Risk Estimates of the Correlation of Weather to Lightning Occurrences, SAIC-04-009-026, Draft, February 1999.

Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Process Operational Diagrams, September 1999.

Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Process Operational Diagrams, October 1999.

Amico, P., Bayley S., Hillstrom, J, Mohamed, A., Boyd, G., Robbins, L., Bradley, D., Sharff, S., Ching, C., Szymanski, C., Collins, E., Tuli, R., Christman, D., Urbanski, T., Funk, J., Williams, C., Grimes, P., Winfrey, C., Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility Quantitative Risk Assessment, SAIC-04-036-001, Preliminary Draft, September 2000.

Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Battle "E" Ribbon, Navy Good Conduct Medal, Navy Expeditionary Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, and Sea Service Ribbon (with two stars).

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc., Award for Outstanding Achievement in Electrical Engineering.
Academic Excellence, The College of Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award for Academic Achievement (highest GPA of all graduating Electrical Engineers).

PROFESSIONAL:

EIT, State of California, 1994
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Not current)
Member of Power Engineering Society (Not current)

SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Member of the American Legion
Member of the Harford County, MD Historical Society
Docent, Hays House, Bel Air, Maryland
Member of the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association of America

REFERENCES:

(Available upon request)