Fermilab, United States
I started my career in project management in the oil and gas industry up in northern Canada. The winters above the Arctic Circle were extreme. The month of February, on average, would be around minus 40 degrees C without wind chill – the second you walked outside, you would feel the moisture in your nose crystalize. It was a different world, with maybe six hours of sunlight – but the summers were beautiful and sunny. Project controls is the same idea no matter what industry you work in, so it was easy to translate what I learned in the past to Fermilab: to build plans and schedules, analyze costs and estimates, measure performance and build reports. I’ve been working on LBNF/DUNE for a few years now, and I love that DUNE is a once-in-a-lifetime project – there’s no other project like it in the world! And I get to learn how they build neutrino detectors, which I never would have learned otherwise.