William O Mullane
Moved up the satellite chain from control systems in the European Space Operations Centre to the science end of the missions in ESTEC and discovered Gaia. Started with C++ and moved on to Java and Enterprise level systems. Did some serious ground breaking numerical programming in Java.
Managed a reasonable sized team and collaborated with the 300+ scientists and programmers on the Gaia Data Processing project. Next became responsible for all the science ground segments in ESAC Spain as manager of managers.
Now responsible for all the data comming from Rubin Observatory and getting it to the community.
Session
Rubin is now about one year in operations and DM has delivered several Data Previews including DP2 which contains the extensive and good commissioning data. We will show some results (yes pretty pictures ) of our superb pipelines, discuss some of the challenges of moving and processing TBs of data from Chile and to serving Ks of users. We will perhaps mention a few lessons learned. Rubin has also transitioned from a stand alone project to being embedded in an organisation - we shall ponder organisational inertia and team vs organisational clashes.