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Many of you know and have worked with Fred Baes, our current Health Physics Society (HPS) webmaster. Serving in this position for over 20 years, Fred brought HPS into the virtual world. At the end of last year, Fred decided it was time to move on, and he will be retiring as of 31 December 2020. All of the Web Ops team wishes him the very best in his new ventures.

To fill this void, HPS President Eric Goldin formed an ad hoc committee to search for a new webmaster. The committee was chaired by Web Ops Editor in Chief Barbara Hamrick and included current Webmaster Fred Baes, Treasurer Ali Simpkins, Society Operations Editor and Media Liaison Craig Little, and staff members Heide Rohland and Jill Drupa from Burk & Associates, Inc. Well over 100 résumés were reviewed, and we selected a small number to interview, based on the specific technical skills enumerated in the résumés. In the end, the committee unanimously recommended Ramesh Reddy Bobbu to the HPS Executive Committee.

Ramesh was brought up in the temple town of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, India, and received a bachelor of engineering in computer science prior to making his home in the United States in 2002. He has years of experience as a developer, support specialist, server administrator, and team leader. He will be working very closely with Fred over the next two months to learn all the unique aspects of the HPS website and help keep us connected to the world.

Ramesh, his wife, his daughter (5 years old), and his son (2 years old) currently reside in Virginia. Coincidentally, both his children share the same birthday, which is coming up in the next week. Please welcome Ramesh to the HPS family. He can be reached through support@hps.org. We hope that all will be able to meet him in person at the 2021 HPS Annual Meeting currently planned for Phoenix, Arizona, 25–29 July 2021.