Martha McKean is a procedure writer and editor with over 13 years of experience drafting and revising operational, technical, and administrative documents for DOE nuclear waste projects. She currently works as a Technical Writer III and supervisor at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project at Idaho National Laboratory. Her experience includes dedicated writing roles supporting waste retrieval activities and document reviews. She ensures procedures are developed, reviewed, approved, and distributed and that regulatory and operational requirements are accurately reflected.

1. MarthaMcKean
870 Crestmont Avenue, Idaho Falls, ID
208-569-3648
Fiddlegirl1@msn.com
Career Focus Procedure Writer/Editor, with strong aptitude for conduct of operations, experienced in
creating/modifying technical documents, reports, forms, plans, and procedures.
Experience
Summary
 Supervisor of Document Services/Control Control/Records Management -liaison between
upper/senior-level management and members of department. Assign and track work. Create
and send reports to management. Provide input in annual reviews and rank department
individuals. Interface with DOE/CBFO and CCP on document reviews. Dedicated writer for
Retrieval. SME for Document Services/Control. Create and issue documents in EDMS.net.
 Acting Lead of Document Services/Document Control – liaison between upper/senior-level
management and members of department. Assign and track work. Create and send reports to
management. Provide input in annual reviews and rank department individuals. Interface with
DOE/CBFO and CCP on document reviews. Dedicated writer for Retrieval.
 Over 13 years experience drafting and revising operational, technical, and administrative
documents, procedures, reports, and forms for DOE project sites.
 Dedicated, sole procedure writer to support Retrieval activities and CCP document reviews
 Dedicated, sole procedure writer to support the Intermediate Level Transuranic Storage Facility
(ILTSF) and Transuranic Waste Retrieval Startup DOE-funded nuclear waste projects.
 Dedicated, sole procedure writer on task team with the mission to rewrite site procedures to
harmonize with Conduct of Operations and facilitated document review meetings.
 Ensures procedural documents are developed, reviewed, approved, and distributed to
appropriate personnel.
 Ensures that operational, technical, administrative and program requirements are accurately
integrated into procedural documents.
 Prepares, routes, and tracks procedural documents through all stages of the review cycle.
 Ensures that all procedural document review comments are properly dispositioned and
incorporated as applicable.
 Assembles and maintains the appropriate documentation for procedural document history files.
 Conducts hazard identification walkdowns and procedure validations with operators in the field.
 Provides customer support through interfacing with document owners, requestors, operators,
and reviewers.
 Performs other administrative duties as requested.
Professional
Experience
Technical Writer III/Supervisor – Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment
Project, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
09/2015 – Present
Technical Writer III/Acting Lead – Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment
Project, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
03/2013 – 09/2015
Contract Technical Writer – Red Inc. at the Advanced Mixed Waste
Treatment Project, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
02/2012 – 03/2013
Technical Writer III – Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project , Idaho
National Laboratory, Idaho
08/2005 – 09/2011
Technical Writer/Editor – Radioactive Waste Management Complex,
Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho
02/2003 – 07/2005
Computer
Skills
Microsoft Word 2003 & 2007 • Microsoft Outlook
Nuclear
Training
OSHA 24 hour • Rad Worker I • Hazard Evaluation • Human Performance Improvement
KEYS Observation • Unreviewed Safety Question Training • Respectful Workplace and Diversity
Training •Write Right • Introduction to Excel • 12-hr Building and Sustaining Trust Leadership
Training •
Education B.A., History, Idaho State University, Pocatello/Idaho Falls, Idaho
Exchange Student, Trinity College of Illinois, Seville, Spain
2000
1982