Fermilab Director Profiles
Jim Strait
LBNE Project Manager
As the LBNE Project Manager, I have the overall responsibility and authority to execute the LBNE Project, and to meet the approved scientific, cost and schedule goals of the project.
In this role, I lead and direct the development of the technical, cost and schedule baseline for the project and the construction of the project defined by the approved baseline. I also prepare for and establish management systems, consistent with DOE and Fermilab Project Management orders and structures, to ensure that the project is successfully executed. I also represent the Project in interactions with the LBNE collaboration, Fermilab management, management of other participating national laboratories, and the Department of Energy.
As the LBNE project manager, I report to the laboratory director. I head the LBNE project management office and appoint key personnel.
During my career at Fermilab, which began in 1985, I led the US project to design and build advanced magnets and other accelerator components for CERN's Large Hadron Collider. I served as head of the Particle Physics Division from 2004 until 2008. I also spent a year and a half working with CERN physicists on LHC commissioning.