Michael Minette

Senior Project Manager

Richland, Washington, United States

About

Professional Project Manager with over forty years of project management experience in solving complex combinations of technology, legal, financial, environmental, construction, operational and contractual challenges. Professional qualifications include being a Professional Project Manager, a Professional Engineer, an MBA in Finance, and extensive studies in contract, mineral, and environmental law. I have implemented over 40 nuclear cleanup and technology development projects.

Experience

  • Senior Project Manager at Minette Consulting
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Senior Technology and Project Manager for the development of advanced mineral and chemical processing. With over $3 billion and 140 successful projects over 43 years of project management I have strong project experience.

  • Photographer at Self-employed
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

    Photo documentarian across the Pacific Northwest. Published six photography books on the waterfalls, landscapes, and wildlife on the North American Pacific Northwest.

  • Retired at Self-employed
    Dec 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 mo

    Retired

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (17 yrs 3 mos)
    • Senior Project Manager
      Feb 2024 - Dec 2024 · 11 mos

      Senior Project Manager of the WCS Technology Review Team for the evaluation on the stability of nitrate salt sWheat nuclear wastes. Project manager on the mesofluidic separator geothermal testing. Project Manager or senior technical advisor on many Mesofluidic Technology development projects. Deputy Program Manager for the Hanford Waste Tank Vapors Program and the Waste Treatment Plant Support Program. Project Manager on Strontium Capsule beneficial reuse effort.

    • Team Lead Nuclear Materials Storage, Transportation, & Logistics
      May 2024 - Sep 2024 · 5 mos

      Team lead for the Spent Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation evaluation staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The nine staff includes five Nuclear PhDs, three senior technical advisors with masters, and a national expert with a Bachelors. The team has over 250 years of nuclear materials management expertise.

    • Team Lead Nuclear Systems Analysis & Senior Project Manager
      Feb 2020 - Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Team Lead Nuclear Systems Analysis & Senior Project Manager, Nuclear Sciences Division The Nuclear Systems Analysis Team models and tests detection systems and equipment. The team advances nuclear particle detection capabilities by enhancing system designs and by working to advance detection equipment designs. The team of nuclear engineers, physicists, and field engineers allows the group to advance technologies quickly from concept to field use. Senior Project Manager of the WCS Technology Review Team for the evaluation on the stability of nitrate salt sWheat nuclear wastes. Project manager on the mesofluidic separator geothermal testing. Project Manager or senior technical advisor on many Mesofluidic Technology development projects. Deputy Program Manager for the Hanford Waste Tank Vapors Program and the Waste Treatment Plant Support Program.

  • Project Manager II at Fluor Hanford, Inc.
    Oct 2002 - Oct 2007 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    2002-07 Project Manager Process Equipment Removal 234-5Z Plutonium Finishing Plant Project Manager for the removal of Plutonium processing equipment and the demolition on the main process facilities and the Hanford Plutonium Processing Facilities. As Project Manager, Responsible for all project elements including cost estimating, schedule, planning, engineering and implementation of the $184 million 250 man project. I also direct technology development efforts for decontamination systems and waste treatment as a technical authority for the plant. The team decontaminated 63 plutonium glove boxes to Low Level Waste and removed the process equipment from over 99 gloveboxes. My Teams earned Fluor $20.3 million in fee. 2005-06 Project Manager 232-Z Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) Project Manager for the decommissioning and demolition of the 232-Z Plutonium incinerator building. This $16.7 million, 50 person project was a major Tri-Party Agreement Compliance Milestone. The team took a project that was one year behind schedule and completed the demolition 9 weeks ahead of the TPA milestone. The CERCLA regulators commended the early demolition of one of the most hazardous nuclear facilities in the nation. 2005-07 Project Manager Plutonium Facilities Lay-up Plutonium Finishing Plant This $9 million project characterized, treated, and stabilized hazardous nuclear and chemical concerns in the main Hanford plutonium processing facilities. The Tri-City Herald said PFP is “ the most hazardous facility ever to be taken down by the Department of Energy in the United States” and the Hanford Advisory Board said PFP is the “Department Of Energy's most Hazardous facility to be demolished…”