Inside NIRMA Spring 2021

Lifetime Member Profile
MEET MARGIE JANNEY,
CRM/NS/FED
Margie Janney, CRM/NS/
FED, is the Chief of the
Digitization, Processing, and
Records Branch in the Office of the
Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
at the NRC. In addition to being
the NRC’s Agency Records
Officer, her responsibilities include
records and information policy and
operations, as well as managing the
Document Processing Center.
Prior to her joining OCIO,
Margie worked on the Yucca Mountain project as a contractor for
10 years and at the NRC for 6 years.
Margie has more than 30 years of experience in the
information management field. She became a Certified Records
Manager in 1995 and, in 1996, became the first Nuclear
Information Specialist to sit for and pass the test. She became a
Federal Records Specialist in 2018.
Margie has been a member of NIRMA since 1992 and has
held many leadership positions, including serving two terms on the
Board of Directors as Treasurer. In 2015, Margie was awarded
NIRMA’s Lifetime Membership award.
What are the locations you have worked at
and positions held?
I started my first records management job in 1990,
working for Koh Systems, whose contract was taken
over by TRW. I was as a contractor (“Nuclear Records
Manager”) for the Department of Energy’s Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management on the Yucca
Mountain Project. Dan Graser was my Federal
customer. We were working on the Licensing Support
Network (LSN) in anticipation of the licensing of a high
-level nuclear waste storage facility. The LSN would be
the vehicle that all parties to the proceeding would
submit their discovery material.
Dan moved on to the NRC to work on the LSN
there. A couple of years later, a bunch of us were at
happy hour (Marty Cummings, Dan, me, and others).
Dan told me that he needed to hire someone to write
procedures for him; did I know of anyone? I blurted
out, “Dan, what do you think I do?” I started working
for Dan as a Federal Senior Records Analyst in 2000,
writing guidance for the parties to get their electronic
documents loaded onto a server and connected to the
LSN that the NRC built.
In 2006, I got a promotion into NRC’s Office of the
Chief Information Officer, where I was the lead over
Records & FOIA Privacy Branch. Over the 14+ years
in OCIO, I’ve been the lead (at one point or another) of
records policy, records operations, the Document
Processing Center, FOIA, privacy, information
collections, information quality, public meeting notices
the Public Document Room, Technical Library, and the
internal and external web sites.
What are your Professional Affiliations?
• Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM)
• NIRMA
• American Council for Technology-Industry
Advisory Council (ACT-IAC)
When did you join NIRMA?
I joined in 1992. My first symposium (yes, the
annual conference was originally called that ) was San
Francisco. I have maintained my membership ever
since, including paying for it out of my own pocket
when I occasionally wasn’t allowed to attend the
conference.
What are the NIRMA Leadership positions
you have held?
In 1995, I was the Treasurer for that year’s annual
symposium, held in DC. It was sponsored by TRW and
DOE. At that time, sponsorship was a big deal, and a
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