Dr. Green has a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, NY (1977), Master of Science in Civil Engineering (1979) and Doctorate in Civil Engineering (2001) from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
Between his Master’s and Doctoral degrees, 1979 to 1991, he was a Structural Engineer and Engineering Manager for the A/E firm Burns & Roe, Inc., Oradell, NJ where he was involved with the design and construction of new nuclear power plants and the evaluation and modification of existing nuclear power plants including Clinch River Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor (LMFBR), Oak Ridge, TN; Hanford 2 (now Columbia Generating Station), Richland, WA; Clinton Power Station, Clinton, IL; Cooper Nuclear Station, Brownville, NE; Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Port Clinton, OH; and Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC.
Dr. Green retired from full-time employment with the Bechtel Corporation at the end of 2022 having worked onsite at the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) under construction for the DOE at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN. Previously, he worked at the Vogtle 3&4 Nuclear Power Plants under construction in Waynesboro, GA for Southern Nuclear and was the Technical Lead in charge of all aspects of the reactor containment vessel and internal structures design on the small modular reactor development project, Generation mPower, Frederick, MD.
Prior to joining Bechtel in September 2011 he was an Engineering Consultant for the steel industry, the Technical Director of the Steel Joist Institute from 2004 to 2010, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL from 1998 to 2004.
Dr. Green was a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute’s Cold-Formed Steel Committee on Specifications since 1999 and Chair of Subcommittee 3 – Connections and Joints since 2010; he was also a member of AISI’s Committee on Framing Standards. The CFS COS and COFS ceased operations in 2023 and they are currently being reorganized to be a part of other existing code writing associations.
He is a member of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Task Committee 11 (TC11), Nuclear Facilities Design, which is responsible for AISC N690, Specification for Safety-Related Steel Structures for Nuclear Facilities and Task Committee 6 (TC6), Connections, for AISC 360 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings.
He is a Distinguished Member of the Structural Stability Research Council having served the organization since 1994 and currently serves as Bylaws Chair and Historian and was a member of the Executive Committee for than fifteen years.
He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Structural Engineers Institute of the ASCE.
Dr. Green is a Registered Professional Engineer in South Carolina.