BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 12.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:William J. (Bill) Toth is retired from a 35-year career in the Oak Ridge\, TN area\, primarily working at the Oak Ridge National Laborato ry as a systems engineer and manager. \; Bill is currently working on initiatives that more fully develop his ideas regarding an integral approa ch to safety and security in high-consequence industries.\nBill started as an electrical and electronics systems engineer working in the aerospace i ndustry at General Dynamics in Ft Worth. \; He was responsible for dev elopment of a crash recorder system for the F-16 and F-111 fighter jet and bomber and other avionics systems. \; After five years in Texas\, he and his wife returned to their home in East Tennessee to raise their famil y. \; \; Here he took a position at the Y-12 National Security Com plex working on facility security and life safety systems. \; In this context he finished his master&rsquo\;s degree in Industrial Engineering.& nbsp\; In 1996 he &ldquo\;volunteered&rdquo\; to be a part of a team worki ng on nuclear security issues in Russia under the Nunn-Lugar initiative.&n bsp\; The program moved to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where he continued this work for nearly 25 years\, traveling not only to Russia but around the world protecting nuclear and radiological material. \;& nbsp\; He completed his PhD in Organizational Systems where his research i nterest was organizational dysfunction leading to high consequence events such as espionage\, mass-killings\, and high-consequence industrial accide nts. \; At ORNL\, he was a group lead and program manager and retired in 2021. \; Bill&rsquo\;s wife\, Cathy\, runs a successful software te sting business\, for which Bill serves as executive coach. \; They hav e three children\, two of which are engineers\, that live in various parts of the country. \; Bill and Cathy live now somewhat quietly with an e nergetic chocolate Labrador retriever that they rescued during the Covid l ock-down. \nAttendees need to pre-register. To register\, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net \;\nThe zoom link will be sent out a few da ys before the meeting.\n DTEND:20230120T003000Z DTSTAMP:20240319T104903Z DTSTART:20230119T230000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Finger Lakes Chapter presents “A Systems Approach to Mitigating H igh Consequence Safety and Security Events” by William J Toth\, Ph.D. UID:RFCALITEM638464241430306248 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
William J. (Bill) Toth is retired from a 35 -year career in the Oak Ridge\, TN area\, primarily working at the Oak Rid ge National Laboratory as a systems engineer and manager. \; Bill is c urrently working on initiatives that more fully develop his ideas regardin g an integral approach to safety and security in high-consequence industri es.
\nBill started as an electrical and electronics systems engineer working in the aerospace industry at General Dynamics in Ft Worth. \; He was responsible for development of a crash recorder system for the F-1 6 and F-111 fighter jet and bomber and other avionics systems. \; Afte r five years in Texas\, he and his wife returned to their home in East Ten nessee to raise their family. \; \; Here he took a position at the Y-12 National Security Complex working on facility security and life safe ty systems. \; In this context he finished his master&rsquo\;s degree in Industrial Engineering. \; In 1996 he &ldquo\;volunteered&rdquo\; t o be a part of a team working on nuclear security issues in Russia under t he Nunn-Lugar initiative. \; The program moved to the Oak Ridge Nation al Laboratory (ORNL) where he continued this work for nearly 25 years\, tr aveling not only to Russia but around the world protecting nuclear and rad iological material. \; \; He completed his PhD in Organizational S ystems where his research interest was organizational dysfunction leading to high consequence events such as espionage\, mass-killings\, and high-co nsequence industrial accidents. \; At ORNL\, he was a group lead and p rogram manager and retired in 2021. \; Bill&rsquo\;s wife\, Cathy\, ru ns a successful software testing business\, for which Bill serves as execu tive coach. \; They have three children\, two of which are engineers\, that live in various parts of the country. \; Bill and Cathy live now somewhat quietly with an energetic chocolate Labrador retriever that they rescued during the Covid lock-down.
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