Leadership Team
Steven Stein, Director
Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security
Phone: (206) 528-3340
As the Director of PNNL’s Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security, Mr. Stein works with the State and Local Emergency Management, Public Safety, and DHS Operational Field Organizations. The overriding objective of the Center is to enhance the partnership between the federal, state and local organizations in the region and DHS to better articulate and prioritize technology needs and to accelerate deployment of new and emerging technology solutions regionally and nationally.
Over the course of his thirty year career, Mr. Stein has distinguished himself in the public and private sectors through his leadership of large, complex, multidisciplinary projects that focus on evaluation, development, testing, and insertion of new technologies. Mr. Stein managed numerous multi-million dollar programs focused on radioactive waste management and disposal nationally. These programs advanced new remediation technologies through public and regulatory acceptance to commercial practice. The teams were composed of members from nearly all the major national laboratories, commercial technology providers, and numerous universities. Mr. Stein has extensive experience working with regional and state governments, serving as the Hanford Site Liaison to the Offices of the Governors of Washington and Oregon, and the regional and state regulators as well as the regional EPA. Over the last ten years, he has placed more emphasis on technology acceptance and technology insertion with the explicit objective of creating new commercial ventures in electronics and telecom markets. Mr. Stein has also worked extensively with the financial community, including venture capital and banking institutions, to finance these new ventures.
B.S., Geology, Washington State University
Mary E. Peterson, Deputy Director
Homeland Security Programs National Security Directorate
Phone: (509) 372-4655
Since joining Battelle in 1982, Ms. Peterson has held positions as a line manager of 60 technical people, key client account manager, program manager and project manager for projects totaling over $20 M, technical contributor, principal investigator and most currently, Deputy Director of Homeland Security Programs. She has provided leadership for establishing long-term and strategic R&D contracts, co-development, and commercialization business. Within the past four years, she has established client relationships in the electronics industrial sector and national security sector. In addition, she has completed assignments involving strategic capability development, cost reduction, and facility utilization. Her management expertise has focused on program development and line management.
In her assignments, she combines leadership and technical skills to plan and execute program strategies and to enable staff interactions and multidisciplinary networking for R&D innovation with an emphasis on technology deployment. Her accomplishments include capability and business growth in new areas, hiring of high quality staff, addressing complicated staff and business issues, managing safe operations of 20 laboratories, connecting staff with clients, and enabling staff development and advancement.
B.S., Montana State University (Bozeman), Chemical Engineering
Ann Lesperance, Deputy Director
Regional Programs
Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security
Phone: (206) 528-3223
Ms. Lesperance has been with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 1990. In her current capacity she is the Deputy Director Regional Programs Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security located in Seattle, Washington. Her primary focus is developing regional programs to accelerate the demonstration and deployment of new Homeland Security technologies. To accomplish this, Ms. Lesperance works with state and local emergency responders and public safety officials to understand and help prioritize their operational needs and requirements. She also builds regional coalitions of emergency management professionals to partner with Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies and manages program implementation in the field.
In addition to her efforts to support Homeland Security, Ms. Lesperance has over 20 years of experience in domestic and international environmental and public health analysis, project management and program development. In the international arena she has managed water sustainability projects in Mexico City, worked with Russian managers on the cleanup of radioactive waste sites, and explored drug discovery and conservation strategies in Peru and Chile. Prior to joining PNNL, she worked for a private consulting firm in Los Angeles, CA and USDA is Atlanta, GA and Los Angeles. She served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in the Andes Mountain in Ecuador where she initiated community development, energy and environmental programs with USAID, and the United Nations.
She is also the Chair for the Advisory Board at the University of Washington School of Business Center, for International Business Education and Research and is a Fellow at the World Affairs Council in Seattle.
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Environmental Science and Latin American Studies
M.S., UCLA, Public Health, School of Public Health, Environmental Science and
Engineering Program