R. Wayne Steffey

R Wayne Steffey

PMO Project Management Group Leader for HFIR

Wayne Steffey currently serves as the Project Management Group Leader for the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and is working with the HFIR Upgrades Project Office (HUPO) as the interim Project Manager for the HFIR Beryllium Reflector Replacement (HBRR) & Pressure Vessel Replacement (PVR) projects.  He has over thirty-five years of commercial and government project management experience, including Department of Defense, Department of Energy and international collaboration projects.  Wayne has a Master’s degree in Project Management from Western Carolina University and serves on numerous DOE project cost and schedule review committees. He is certified as a Project Management Professional.

Jul 2023 – present:  PMO Project Management Group Leader for HFIR

                                    Project Manager: HFIR Be Reflector Replacement (HBRR)

                                    Project Manager: Pressure Vessel Replacement (PVR);

2020 – 2023:            PMO Project Management Group Leader for Neutron Sciences Directorate (NScD)

2017 – 2020:            Project Management Group Leader for NScD

2009 – 2017:            US ITER Project Controls Manager

2006 – 2009:            US ITER Project Sr Project Controls Analyst

2002 – 2006:            Software Systems Engineer, Spallation Neutron Source (SNS)

2000 – 2002:            Controls Database Analyst, SNS

1993 – 1999:            Project Manager, World Computer Systems

1985 – 1993:            Principle Programmer/Analyst, Presearch Incorporated

B.A. Mathematics / Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 1985

Masters, Project Management, Western Carolina University, 2009

Project Management Institute