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Comings and Goings Within CCS (1Sep94)
(from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 39, 1 September 1994)

CCS has had some staff changes over the past few months.

Lisa Wells left NOAO in August after working for CTIO for five years, and
then for Kitt Peak and CCS for two years. Lisa has been active in user
support, especially IRAF, and has become a familiar face to visitors that
need data reduction assistance. But Lisa has not gone too far away - she is
now a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at the University of
Arizona. Best of luck to you, Lisa. We will probably be seeing lots of you as
a visiting astronomer to the NOAO Observatories as you pursue the latest
supernova!

Jeannette Barnes is now working for the AAS 1/2 time as a user support
coordinator for electronic manuscript submissions to the AAS-affiliated
journals. Prospective authors may contact her with questions regarding
electronic manuscript submissions and the AASTeX package by sending e-mail to
aastex-help@aas.org. Jeannette will continue with her support duties at NOAO
but on a 1/2 time basis. You can still find her in her same office, room 86.

David Bell has joined CCS as a Software Support Consultant. David will be
receiving his PhD in astronomy from the University of Illinois in the next
few months. He has been an IRAF user and general computer consultant at the
UIUC for the past five years while he has been working on his degree. David
is available to assist visitors and staff with general computer problems,
including IRAF questions and assistance. David can be reached by e-mail at
dbell@noao.edu, and his office is in room 90.

Three new staff members have joined the Mountain Programming Group this year.

Diana Kennedy started in March and is responsible for the deployment of the
CTIO Arcon software at Kitt Peak. She also provides software support for
telescope pointing. Previous to NOAO Diana worked in Tucson at IBM designing
and writing microcode, and has taught mathematics at the University of
Arizona and at Rutgers. She has a BS and MA in Mathematics and a MS in
Computer Science. She also served two years in the Peace Corps in Cameroun.

David Mills started on 31 May, and was hired into a one year position to
implement the WIYN GUI and to help with WIYN commissioning. He has 15 years
of experience with astronomical software. His previous position was at the
University College London where he worked with STARLINK, the IUE project, and
the Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph at the WHT on La Palma. David has also
worked with the UCL Echelle spectrograph (AAT), a research project using
transputers, the European Space Operations Centre, the Hipparcos and Giotto
satellites, the Clarke Lake Radio Observatory, and data from Voyager. His
degree is a BSc in Astronomy from the University College London.

John Hughes started in February in a half-time position. He is responsible
for the programming for the NSO South Pole project, which was done in OS/2.
He will travel to the South Pole as part of the team for two months beginning
in November. John has ten years of experience (mainly as a consultant) with a
variety of computing environments. Some of the projects he has worked on
include: pagers, FAX communication, Mt. Graham site testing, 6803 devices,
dBase IV programming, documentation for NASA, and machine tool control. This
fall John is completing his BA in Philosophy (with a minor in Linguistics) at
the University of Arizona, and is interested in AI and knowledge theory.

Steve Grandi, Bob Marshall

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