From jneighbo at nrao.edu Mon Nov 1 09:59:31 2004 From: jneighbo at nrao.edu (Jennifer Neighbours) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:59:31 -0500 Subject: [Alma_na] No NA DH meeting today... Message-ID: Greetings! Please forgive short notice -- there will not be a NA DH video conference today. Jennifer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jneighbo at nrao.edu Mon Nov 15 08:11:22 2004 From: jneighbo at nrao.edu (Jennifer Neighbours) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:11:22 -0500 Subject: [Alma_na] Appointment of NA ALMA Site IPT Lead Message-ID: Date: 15 November 2004 To: NA ALMA team From: Fred K. Y. Lo and Adrian Russell, NA ALMA Project Manager (Interim and Designate) Copy to: JAO, European NA ALMA team, NSF(AST) Subject: NA ALMA Site IPT lead We are pleased to announce that Eduardo Donoso will become the new NA ALMA IPT lead, to replace Simon Radford who has now joined Caltech to work on the Cornell-Caltech 25-m telescope project. The JAO has also endorsed this appointment. Since Eduardo Donoso joined ALMA in February 2004, he has been in charge of Site construction activities in Chile, preparing the bids for the construction of the NA ALMA deliverables, and the outfitting of the Santiago ALMA Central Office and offices of the ALMA Executives. Before joining ALMA, from 1998 to 2004, Eduardo Donoso was a consultant to Chilean companies in site construction management and engineering coordination of large construction projects in Chile, mainly in Port Business, Fishmeal and Paper and Forest Products industrial projects. The last of these projects was a 1.2 billion dollar Pulp Mill project developed in Valdivia, in southern Chile. He was appointed Site Manager for the contracts of excavation and well drilling, road construction, building foundations, steel structure and siding contracts in the 2001-2002 season, and then Contracts Manager for the miscellaneous contracts in electro-mechanical erection until the end of the project in late 2003. He was also involved in the logistics of transportation of plant machinery from the Chilean ports to the site, which included heavy-weight special trucking operations, fluvial transport in barges, and designing and building of bridges and river-side facilities for these activities. >From 1993 to 1998 he was Port Administrator of Corral Port in the south of Chile, managing this company dedicated to forest products exports and industrial projects equipment imports. >From 1986 to 1993, he worked for Lirquen Port, the leading private Port company in Chile, as Head of Port Operations (1986-1990) and then as Technical Manager, until 1993. >From 1978 to 1996 he worked as Site Manager in different construction projects in building, highway, and industrial projects for private companies and Government agencies in Chile. He graduated from the University of Chile with a Civil Engineering degree in 1978, obtaining the maximum distinction qualification. He is married to M?nica and has four boys, Juan Eduardo (23), Felipe (22), Pablo (17), and Mart?n (12). His family is still living in Valdivia, south of Chile, to move soon, when construction starts in San Pedro. Please join me in welcoming Eduardo...as the NA Site IPT lead. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: