Professional Staff
The following information presents a brief overview of consulting staff qualifications and experience. Complete
resumes for senior staff can be accessed by clicking on the staff name below or from our
page.
Mr. Ray Johnson is the Academy’s President and Director of Training. He has presented over 350 seminars,
workshops, and short courses in radiation safety, radiation risk assessments, radiation health risk communication,
emergency response, radon measurements, quality assurance, communication skills, and personality types. Mr.
Johnson is a retired U.S. Public Health Service Officer with 40 years of experience in radiation safety. He was
the Project Supervisor for Regulatory Compliance Support contract with the National Institutes of Health for 12
years. During that time he was responsible for the task completion and quality assurance for all radiation safety
audit activities completed under that contract.
Mr. Johnson has authored over 300 books and publications on radiation protection and risk communication. He was
the President of the Health Physics Society (1999-2000) and is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the
American Industrial Hygiene Association, the Conference of Radiation Program Control Directors, the Society for
Risk Analysis, and serves on the National Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Johnson is also a very experienced radiation safety instructor. He has presented several hundred workshops
and short courses on radiation protection, radiation risks, risk communication, radiation measurements, quality
assurance, and communication skills.
Mr. Johnson was featured in article published in the Washington Post,
Very Hot Commodities, by Steven Levingston, December 29, 2003.
Dr. Fellman has 17 years of experience providing radiation safety services for a variety of government and
commercial clients. Projects include compliance auditing along with preparing license applications and amendments.
He leads Academy decommissioning efforts and has managed final status surveys at several licensed facilities. Dr.
Fellman has also provided licensing and program implementation services for several veterinary facilities
providing iodine therapy to cats.
In addition, Dr. Fellman serves as the RSO on sealed source gauge distribution license for an international
manufacturer of industrial gauges. He also is a member of a highly qualified team of health physicist evaluating
radiation dose to Federal nuclear weapons program workers.
With a previous employer (1990 – 1999), Dr. Fellman served on four major Federal CERCLA and/or FUSRAP RI/FS
projects and remedial design investigations. He was responsible for all technical radiation related issues on
these projects and also played a key role in communicating technical issues regarding radiation to members of the
public. He also provided worker oversight, training, site-specific health and safety plan development and
implementation, and associated radiation monitoring activities. He has revised the USEPA’s drinking water health
effects criteria documents on alpha radiation, beta/gamma radiation, and radium, performed a radiological site
assessment at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, and evaluated potential release of radioactive
contaminants to groundwater at a RCRA permitted landfill in Ohio.
Dr. Fellman has also provided litigation support services to clients in the oil production industry related to
the presence of radium-contaminated pipe scale at oil and natural gas production sites.
Mr. Austin has over 17 years experience working at facilities licensed by the NRC or an Agreement State
licensed for the use of radioactive materials. He specializes in instructing radioactive material users on
shipping radioactive materials and waste management and disposal. His work experience includes preparing license
applications, amendments, and renewals for a variety of radioactive material users, particularly biomedical
research and commercial distribution. Mr. Austin serves as the lead consultant for several clients and has
prepared DOT exemption applications for a major airline transporting hazardous materials.
Mr. Austin is the RSO for the Academy and is responsible for the radiation safety regulatory compliance for the
Academy’s licensed activities including radioanalytical analysis of swipe and leak test samples as well as
calibration of portable radiation detection instruments.
Previously, he served as the Chief, Radioactive Materials Control Section, Radiation Safety Branch, National
Institutes of Health, from 1994-2001. He ran the NIH program to manage the acquisition, inventory, and disposal of
radioactive materials for approximately 3000 research laboratories which included supervising five government and
20-22 contract employees. He directed the radioactive waste portion of a comprehensive laboratory waste contract
which exceeded $4 million annually and the radioactive materials acquisition program which was approximately $5
million per year.
Kelly Austin is the Academy’s newest Senior Health Physicist providing health physics consulting and training
to hospitals, universities, and nuclear industry. She develops and presents new training courses in medical health
physics and operational radiation safety.
Previously as a Training Program Specialist at NIH she managed a diverse radiation safety training program that
provided education to over 4,000 individuals per year, presenting over 130 specialized courses. She designed
training materials and courses such as web-based training packages, PowerPoint presentations, self-study modules,
annual refresher training courses, and basic introductory courses. She also coordinated emergency response drills
for firefighters, police, and HP staff to reinforce contamination monitoring/decontamination techniques. She
directed an advanced, intensive, 3 day radiation safety training course for senior research staff.
Ms. Austin also served as a Health Physicist with NIH for more than 12 years. Responsibilities included
assisting the RSO in drafting license amendments, security issues, drafting and implementing a new program for
“Release of Patients Containing Radioactive Material.” She authored “Radiation Safety Emergency Response Notebook”
and “Radiation Safety Reference Notebook for Clinical Center Patient Care.” She has experience managing the
radiation safety aspects of nuclear medicine, PET, inpatient/outpatient therapies, radiation oncology, and
clinical research labs. She also served as Chief, Clinical Center Unit (5/1994 – 6/1995) and was responsible for
direct supervision of 4 Clinical Center Health Physicists (HP) and as the Assistant Chief for the Radiation Safety
Operations Section of the RSB (5/1994 -2/1996), assisting in the supervision of 12 HP’s.
Mike Jedlicka is a Health Physicist providing consulting services that include on-site management of MARSSIM
decommissioning projects. He also manages the Academy’s Analytical Laboratory ensuring that sample analysis is
conducted according to procedures. For nearly two years he provided radiation safety regulatory compliance support
services to NIH including conducting routine surveillance of active radiation labs for contamination and dose
rate, conducting emergency response activities, providing radiation instrument repair and calibration, performing
sample preparation and laboratory analysis in radiation counting lab, decontamination and decommissioning of
laboratories and patient care areas, and supervising of hot-lab procedures utilizing high quantities of
potentially volatile radioactive material.
Mr. Jedlicka is also the principal instructor for the Academy’s courses on liquid scintillation counting and
operational radiation safety including surveying, emergency response, and use of personal protection equipment.
Ms. Ramos is the Academy’s Technical Specialist who is the architect of the Academy’s
RadTrainOnline.com computer based
training system. Prior to joining the Academy in October 2002, she earned a Master’s degree from Rice University
in Houston, Texas in Computational and Applied Mathematics, 1999. Through this rigorous program, she was able to
develop the necessary and sufficient skills of web application design.
Since the debut of the innovative and industry-leading RadTrainOnline.com in July 2003, she has designed
and implemented custom web-based training portals for a large federal agency and several high-tech
companies. RTO now provides over 20 different courses available to the public along with custom on-line
training content provided to client companies across the US. She provides primary technical support for the
Academy’s computer-based training offerings with thousands of trainees nationwide.
Her experience goes beyond just web page design and includes incorporation of a variety of tools and
knowledge to result in successful web application development including computer programming, database
administration, use of graphic design tools and web design.
Mr. Johnson joined the Academy in 1995 to provide business administration services including payroll, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, and marketing. He has extensive skill and experience using a variety of computer
tools and software. He continues to oversee all the business administration functions with one full-time and one
part-time assistant.
Mr. Johnson also serves as the corporate Quality Manager. In particular he ensures that Academy services meet
(or exceed) client expectations. Mr. Johnson, along with all Academy staff, seeks to bring long-term value to our
client relationships. |
