Vicky White In the past eight months some things have become clear to me, as I’ve had the honor and opportunity to see the entire lab as its chief operating officer. We are here to do science and to support a worldwide community of users. This could not happen without the amazing dedication of operations people from across the lab. They maintain and operate our site and buildings, our accelerators, detectors and computing. They feed us and keep us safe,…
Vicky White In January I wrote about my first three months in the job of COO. The next three months were just as eventful and have seen progress on many fronts, as well as a few bad days with operational or safety issues that could have been avoided with better planning and work processes. We began updating the laboratory’s Contractor Assurance System and started up a Policy Board. We also formulated a new single-page lab agenda, published internally in draft,…
Tim Meyer This summer, Fermilab will welcome Tim Meyer as its next chief operating officer. Meyer is currently the head of strategic planning and communication at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. He will succeed Vicky White, who will retire this summer after more than 30 years at Fermilab. “Tim brings a broad set of experiences in laboratory operations, management and commercialization initiatives that map nicely into our vision for Fermilab,” said Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer. “He…
Vicky White Vicky White, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, wrote today’s column. In these challenging budget times, it is important that the laboratory provides computing services to its employees and users in the most cost-effective and efficient way possible. Currently a number of core computing tasks, including the Service Desk, desktop support and some underlying services, are performed by a combination of Fermilab employees and contractors from at least four different companies. In an effort to streamline operations we have…