Ken Harrawood is SIMCO’s President and Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico. Ken is an accomplished executive with more than 36 years of project/program management experience gained within the nuclear and hazardous waste industries, both domestic and international. He proudly served in the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power program for eight years. Subsequently, he has developed broad DOE complex-wide environmental cleanup experience while at several of the generator sites that ship to WIPP, including those throughout the western U.S. He was responsible for the safe startup of operations at the DOE’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project located at the Idaho National Laboratory and the transuranic waste program at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Ken has also held key leadership roles at the DOE’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state; the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Colorado; the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the West Valley Demonstration Site in New York state; and at the Sellafield Site in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining SIMCO, Ken served as the Program Manager for the Bechtel-led team at the U.S. Department of Defense’s first-of-a-kind Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado where he was responsible for the safe destruction of more than 780,000 World War II-era chemical weapons munitions. Ken holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Technology from Excelsior College.