Fermilab recognized a group dedicated employees for their outstanding contributions with Exceptional Performance Recognition Awards. The employees were nominated by their divisions and sections for the awards. Fermilab Director Pier Oddone handed out the awards at a reception on the 15th floor of Wilson Hall on June 26.

"While everybody is doing their job in a great way to make this organization work as well as it does, there are people who go beyond that and put in extra effort and those are the people who we recognize today," Oddone said.

Paul Czarapata
Accelerator Division

Paul Czarapata is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for outstanding leadership in the Accelerator Division, including leading the effort to improve the reliability of the accelerator complex and also for leadership in maintaining and improving the engineering standards at Fermilab.

Keith Gollwitzer
Accelerator Division

Keith Gollwitzer is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for leadership in the effort to increase the antiproton stacking rate in the Antiproton Source.

Patrick Hurh
Accelerator Division

Patrick Hurh is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership in the development of the high gradient lithium lens for antiproton stacking.

Robert Mau
Accelerator Division

Robert Mau is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for organizing and coordinating the accelerator shutdowns.

Ralph Pasquinelli
Accelerator Division

Ralph Pasquinelli is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contribution to the design, fabrication, installation, and commissioning of the 1.7 GHz Schottky monitor for the Tevatron, as well as his contribution to the effort to increase the antiproton stacking rate in the Antiproton Source.

Cheng-Yang Tan
Accelerator Division

Cheng-Yang Tan is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his design and commissioning of the Tevatron longitudinal and transverse bunch-by-bunch dampers and antiproton PBJ—critical instruments for high luminosity Collider Run II operation.

Stephen Werkema
Accelerator Division

Steve Werkema is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership and analysis in the effort to increase the antiproton stacking rate in the Antiproton Source.

Sheila Cisko
Computing Division

Sheila Cisko is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her dedication to the advancement of many projects and collaborations by her excellence in all aspects of the video conferencing user experience.

Panagiotis Spentzouris
Computing Division

Panagiotis Spentzouris is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership and technical excellence in the development of a successful multi-institution proposal for funding of a major part of US accelerator modeling efforts.

Margaret Votava
Computing Division

Margaret Votava is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her technical excellence and devotion to the software engineering needs of two major components of the Fermilab program (ILC and CDF) and for outstanding efforts in communications and collaboration.

Humberto Gonzalez
Particle Physics Division

Humberto Gonzalez is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his excellent technical leadership in the production of the CMS Silicon Forward Pixel project.

Cary Kendziora
Particle Physics Division

Cary Kendziora is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his outstanding and innovative work in the development of the Liquid Argon Materials Test Stand, a key element in the international R&D program working towards the development of large Liquid Argon TPCs for neutrino physics, proton decay, and other physics research.

John Krider
Particle Physics Division

John Krider is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his excellent technical leadership in the production of the CMS Silicon Forward Pixel project.

Jonathan Lewis
Particle Physics Division

Jonathan Lewis is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his innovative organization and leadership of the CDF online group, and for creation and implementation of speed and efficiency gains in the front end crate readout.

Erik Ramberg
Particle Physics Division

Erik Ramberg is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership in establishing, upgrading, and operating a world-class Test Beam Facility, which has won the respect of the detector R&D community and brought people from around the world to work here.

Marco Verzocchi
Particle Physics Division

Marco Verzocchi is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership in the timely development, implementation, and testing of the trigger suite that prepared and enabled DZero to efficiently utilize high instantaneous luminosities by integrating the inputs from the Run IIb trigger upgrade into the DZero detector trigger system.

Ruben Carcagno
Technical Division

Ruben Carcagno is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contributions to the construction and commissioning of the Vertical Test Stand, an invaluable tool for the Laboratory R&D efforts on the Superconducting Radio Frequency technology.

Camille Ginsburg
Technical Division

Camille Ginsburg is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her contributions to the scientific leadership and the design and calculations in support of the construction of the Vertical Test Stand, an invaluable tool for the Laboratory R&D efforts on the Superconducting Radio Frequency technology.

Andrew Hocker
Technical Division

Andrew Hocker is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contributions to the design and scientific leadership in support of the construction of the Horizontal Test Stand, an invaluable tool for the Laboratory R&D efforts on the Superconducting Radio Frequency technology.

Timergali Khabiboulline
Technical Division

Timer Khabiboulline is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contributions to the RF design and testing of the first successful 325 MHz Superconducting Spoke Resonator built in the world.

Valeri Poloubotko
Technical Division

Valeri Poloubotko is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contributions to the engineering design of the Vertical and Horizontal Test Stands, two invaluable tools for the Laboratory R&D efforts on the Superconducting Radio Frequency technology.

Andreas Jansson
Accelerator Physics Center

Andreas Jansson is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his design and commissioning of a novel type of beam instrumentation, the 1.7 GHz Schottky monitor, for the Tevatron Collider and also a similar type monitor, the 4.8 GHz Schottky, for the LHC.

Robyn Madrak
Accelerator Physics Center

Robyn Madrak is presented an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her design, fabrication, and successful test of a new type of RF vector modulator—a 325 MHz high power vector modulator based on ferrites for amplitude and phase control of multiple cavities for the HINS program.

James Steimel
Accelerator Physics Center

James Steimel is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his design and commissioning of the Tevatron longitudinal and transverse bunch-by-bunch dampers and antiproton PJB—critical instruments for high luminosity Collider Run II operation.

Robert Webber
Accelerator Physics Center

Robert Webber is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his design, fabrication, and successful test of a superconducting 325 MHz Single Spoke Resonator cavity—a novel type of the cavity for acceleration of low energy H-beams.

Oliver Gutsche
CMS Center

Oliver Gutsche is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his major contributions to, and leadership by example and recruitment of, the preparation of US CMS software and computing operations for real data.

Jeter Hall
Particle Astrophysics Center

Jeter Hall is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his seminal contributions to the first year of existence of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics by generating ideas for astrophysics measurements beyond those in use in his primary experiment and pursuing them to the point they represent significant future potential directions for research.

Dean Hoffer
Directorate Section

Dean Hoffer is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his exemplary support of the Project Management of a number of projects which over the past couple of years have come to advanced approval and for his support of the organization in its broader use of project management techniques.

Allen Schmitt
Facilities Engineering Services Section

Allen Schmitt is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his outstanding performance in chairing the FESS HVAC and safety committee, as well as his leadership, thoroughness, and analytical comparisons that brought consensus to recommendations that have improved safety and helped establish a solid basis for HVAC cost comparisons.