Rod Salazar came to the APS in August 1993 to work for the XFD X-Ray Optics Group in the group's x-ray and crystal-fabrication labs. He transferred to the UTIG a year later. Previously, Rod had worked in the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Group at Amoco Corp.'s research center in Naperville, Ill.
Tim Smith recently transferred from the Accelerator Systems Division of the APS, where he worked for more than two years in the Diagnostics Group. He came to the APS from the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) in Newport News, Virginia, where he spent about four years as a systems integration engineer. Before joining CEBAF, Tim worked on an accelerator program at Los Alamos as a systems engineer.
Bob Ferry, the newest APS Floor Coordinator, also recently transferred from the Accelerator Systems Division, where he worked for five years, ultimately as the head installation coordinator for the APS storage ring. He came to the APS from Fermilab's Accelerator Division, where he worked as a member of the Cryogenics Group from 1972 to June 1990.