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Exceptional Performance Recognition Awards – FY 2011

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 Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011.

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The following employees received awards:

Accelerator Division

Kermit Carlson

Kermit Carlson is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his dedicated service to keeping the Pelletron operating for electron cooling. He repaired and improved the Pelletron many times during the Collider run, and his expertise was crucial to keeping the luminosity integrating.

Fernanda Garcia

Fernanda Garcia is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her outstanding leadership in Linac operations. She has been the driving force behind many improvements and implemented many of them herself, resulting in a greatly improved Linac.

Chris Jensen

Chris Jensen is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership in the successful completion of the Gap Clearing Kicker project. This resulted in reduced beam losses for the Main Injector, and served as a prototype for the NOvA kickers.

Jerry Leibfritz

Jerry Leibfritz is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his efforts in transforming the New Muon Laboratory (NML) into a first-rate SRF test facility. He not only managed the Accelerator Division effort on NML, he also oversaw the civil construction of the new beam and refrigerator buildings.

Lionel Prost

Lionel Prost is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his sustained leadership in the operation and improvement of the e- cooling system resulting in record-setting luminosity. He made extensive improvements to the operation of the Pelletron/Recycler system for electron cooling beam, and also made detailed beam measurements that led to improvements of the cooling process.

Greg Saewert

Greg Saewert is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his efforts in the invention and development of a fast CW high voltage electron gun pulser—a key technical contribution to the successful demonstration of a novel hadron beam collimation technique based on hollow electron beams.

Accelerator Physics Center

Stephen Geer

Stephen Geer is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his successful leadership of the organization of a new US national Muon Accelerator Program and subsequent leadership of the transition of Fermilab’s Muon Collider Task Force into the MAP.

Shekhar Mishra

Shekhar Mishra is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his leadership in establishing the Fermilab-India collaboration on Project-X. He realized a unique opportunity for the Indian Atomic Energy to contribute and initiated a series of discussions which resulted in the establishment of the collaboration.

Nikolai Mokhov

Nikolai Mokhov is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his sustained substantial contributions through leadership in energy deposition studies for many machines and projects, including the Tevatron, Booster, Main Injector, LHC/LARP, ILC, Muon Collider, mu2e, LBNE, as well as for leadership of the Run II bent crystal collimation experiment T980.

Giulio Stancari

Giulio Stancari is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for key scientific and technical contributions he made to the successful demonstration of a novel hadron beam collimation technique based on hollow electron beams. His leadership in carrying out extensive beam studies in the Tevatron led to important results that have been published in Physical Review Letters.

Alexander Valishev

Alexander Valishev is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for key scientific and technical contributions he made to the successful demonstration of a novel hadron beam collimation technique based on hollow electron beams. He organized studies and took the lead in the corresponding computer modeling and data analysis.

Center for Particle Astrophysics

Dan Bauer

Dan Bauer is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his heroic service above and beyond routine excellence when he superbly managed the aftermath of a serious fire in the Soudan Underground Laboratory which threatened two key Fermilab experiments. Thanks to his efficient handling of the situation, both MINOS and CDMS quickly came back online with minimal damage or delay.

Computing Division

Michael Diesburg

Michael Diesburg is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his strong technical accomplishments in the technology and software needed to process and analyze Run II data, and for significant contributions to enabling Run II data to be collected, processed, and analyzed in a timely manner.

Timothy Kasza

Timothy Kasza is presented an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his innovative approaches to dealing with numerous operational problems and equipment failures, and for exceptional dedication to keeping computer rooms running to ensure delivery of Run II data for the summer conferences.

Stephan Lammel

Stephan Lammel is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his strong technical accomplishments in the technology and software needed to process and analyze Run II data, and for significant contributions to enabling Run II data to be collected, processed, and analyzed in a timely manner.

Qizhong Li

Qizhong Li is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for her strong technical accomplishments in the technology and software needed to process and analyze Run II data, and for significant contributions to enabling Run II data to be collected, processed, and analyzed in a timely manner.

John MacNerland

John MacNerland is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his innovative approaches to dealing with numerous operational problems and equipment failures, and for exceptional dedication to keeping computer rooms running to ensure delivery of Run II data for the summer conferences.

Brian McKittrick

Brian McKittrick is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his exceptional dedication as Incident Manager to dealing with critical incidents and in coordinating efforts to keep computer rooms running to ensure delivery of Run II data for the summer conferences.

Frederick Snider

Frederick Snider is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his strong technical accomplishments in the technology and software needed to process and analyze Run II data, and for significant contributions to enabling Run II data to be collected, processed, and analyzed in a timely manner.

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his innovative approaches to dealing with numerous operational problems and equipment failures, and for exceptional dedication to keeping computer rooms running to ensure delivery of Run II data for the summer conferences.

Margaret Votava

Margaret Votava is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of her strong technical accomplishments in the technology and software needed to process and analyze Run II data, and for significant contributions to enabling Run II data to be collected, processed, and analyzed in a timely manner.

Adam Walters

Adam Walters is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his innovative approaches to dealing with numerous operational problems and equipment failures, and for exceptional dedication to keeping computer rooms running to ensure delivery of Run II data for the summer conferences.

Facilities Engineering Services Section

Jolie Macier

Jolie Macier is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of her leadership in preparation for the Mission Readiness Peer Review in July 2011 that resulted in successful completion and laudatory comments by a peer review team and recognition of best practices. She made this significant contribution while continuing to perform as the FESS Site Services Department Head.

Particle Physics Division

Michael Cherry

Michael Cherry is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his contribution to the realization of the DZero R2-D0 Power Transfer Switch units and their successful operation. Because of his outstanding effort in the creation and installation of these units, D0 Detector data quality is greatly improved.

Ray Culbertson

Ray Culbertson is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his outstanding and widespread contributions to the success of the CDF physics program and for his leadership of CDF’s computing effort for the past few years. In addition, he was an author to over a dozen peer reviewed publications and is recognized globally as an expert in New Physics signatures with photons in the final state.

Dmitri Denisov

Dmitri Denisov is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions and dedication to the DZero experiment through his service as a co-spokesperson of the experiment during nearly the entire Tevatron Run IIb period. His tireless efforts have been essential to the productivity of the DZero experiment throughout its history.

Ben Kilminster

Ben Kilminster is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his exceptional efforts in leading the CDF low mass Higgs search analyses, his development of many of the innovations that have led to improved analysis sensitivity, and his successful leadership of the Higgs Discovery Group for the past two plus years.

Rob Roser

Rob Roser is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for the extraordinary leadership he has provided in guiding the CDF Collaboration to its many successes. In his many leadership positions, his efforts and achievements to making CDF a world-class experiment are well above the norm, as he was always looking for ways to help the experiment succeed.

Geoff Savage

Geoff Savage is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his exceptional performance as slow controls coordinator and online computer expert for the DZero experiment. His dedication and numerous valuable and timely contributions facilitate reliable operation and improve detector uptime, which enhances the physics productivity of the DZero experiment.

Technical Division

Lance Cooley

Lance Cooley is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award in recognition of his scientific leadership in the design, engineering, construction and commissioning of the Integrated Cavity Processing Apparatus, a lab-based facility to allow R&D on SCRF cavities with the goal of improving the ultimate parameters of acceleration and quality factor.

Charles Cooper

Charles Cooper is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his engineering management of the design, construction and commissioning of the Integrated Cavity Processing Apparatus, and for the development of a breakthrough tumbling process at FNAL.

William Robotham

William Robotham is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his engineering work on the fabrication of magnets for the Gap Clearing Kicker Project, ultimately resulting in timely installation and the ability to run higher intensity beam in the Main Injector to support the neutrino program.

Gueorgui Velev

Gueorgui Velev is awarded an Exceptional Performance Recognition Award for his management of the fabrication of magnets and PFL’s for the Gap Clearing Kicker Project, ultimately resulting in timely installation and the ability to run higher intensity beam in the Main Injector to support the neutrino program.

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