Roger Meike
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Steve Heller
Roger was an effective and delightful colleague at Sun Labs, where we were both Senior Research Directors. He was a hands on leader of hands on teams; his projects were exciting and fun. Roger has the ability to make ideas real, likely a result of his excellent people skills.
David G. Simmons 🇺🇦
As the Senior Director of Research at Sun Labs, Roger demonstrated an amazing ability to both allow the researchers he managed to "do their thing" and investigate what truly interested and inspired them while still managing to deliver results and meet deadlines. He was the consummate cat-herder in that we never felt 'herded' but always ended up at the right place at the right time -- we delivered the goods on time. He is a highly technical manager that always understood what I was working on, encouraged me to stretch myself, and knew when to give clear direction. He was always willing to dive right in and do the technical work right alongside us rather than simply telling us what needed to be done. A genuinely approachable and likable manager, I count Roger as one of the very best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working for, as well as counting him as a real friend. I would work for Roger again on any project, any time, no questions asked. He really is that good.
Steve Heller
Roger was an effective and delightful colleague at Sun Labs, where we were both Senior Research Directors. He was a hands on leader of hands on teams; his projects were exciting and fun. Roger has the ability to make ideas real, likely a result of his excellent people skills.
David G. Simmons 🇺🇦
As the Senior Director of Research at Sun Labs, Roger demonstrated an amazing ability to both allow the researchers he managed to "do their thing" and investigate what truly interested and inspired them while still managing to deliver results and meet deadlines. He was the consummate cat-herder in that we never felt 'herded' but always ended up at the right place at the right time -- we delivered the goods on time. He is a highly technical manager that always understood what I was working on, encouraged me to stretch myself, and knew when to give clear direction. He was always willing to dive right in and do the technical work right alongside us rather than simply telling us what needed to be done. A genuinely approachable and likable manager, I count Roger as one of the very best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working for, as well as counting him as a real friend. I would work for Roger again on any project, any time, no questions asked. He really is that good.
Steve Heller
Roger was an effective and delightful colleague at Sun Labs, where we were both Senior Research Directors. He was a hands on leader of hands on teams; his projects were exciting and fun. Roger has the ability to make ideas real, likely a result of his excellent people skills.
David G. Simmons 🇺🇦
As the Senior Director of Research at Sun Labs, Roger demonstrated an amazing ability to both allow the researchers he managed to "do their thing" and investigate what truly interested and inspired them while still managing to deliver results and meet deadlines. He was the consummate cat-herder in that we never felt 'herded' but always ended up at the right place at the right time -- we delivered the goods on time. He is a highly technical manager that always understood what I was working on, encouraged me to stretch myself, and knew when to give clear direction. He was always willing to dive right in and do the technical work right alongside us rather than simply telling us what needed to be done. A genuinely approachable and likable manager, I count Roger as one of the very best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working for, as well as counting him as a real friend. I would work for Roger again on any project, any time, no questions asked. He really is that good.
Steve Heller
Roger was an effective and delightful colleague at Sun Labs, where we were both Senior Research Directors. He was a hands on leader of hands on teams; his projects were exciting and fun. Roger has the ability to make ideas real, likely a result of his excellent people skills.
David G. Simmons 🇺🇦
As the Senior Director of Research at Sun Labs, Roger demonstrated an amazing ability to both allow the researchers he managed to "do their thing" and investigate what truly interested and inspired them while still managing to deliver results and meet deadlines. He was the consummate cat-herder in that we never felt 'herded' but always ended up at the right place at the right time -- we delivered the goods on time. He is a highly technical manager that always understood what I was working on, encouraged me to stretch myself, and knew when to give clear direction. He was always willing to dive right in and do the technical work right alongside us rather than simply telling us what needed to be done. A genuinely approachable and likable manager, I count Roger as one of the very best managers I have ever had the pleasure of working for, as well as counting him as a real friend. I would work for Roger again on any project, any time, no questions asked. He really is that good.
Experience
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PARC
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United States
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Research Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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Principal Architect
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Dec 2012 - Dec 2013
This was a one year assignment as part of the Computer Science Lab at PARC, to explore new technologies and develop customer prototypes and architectures focused on the Context Centric Networking (CCN) project (see www.ccnx.org). In addition to building client oriented CCN experiments using Amazon EC2 and local network testbeds, I helped bring a hardware component (~10TB switch) to move the work from solely a software implementation to a system that deals with the realities of deployment at… Show more This was a one year assignment as part of the Computer Science Lab at PARC, to explore new technologies and develop customer prototypes and architectures focused on the Context Centric Networking (CCN) project (see www.ccnx.org). In addition to building client oriented CCN experiments using Amazon EC2 and local network testbeds, I helped bring a hardware component (~10TB switch) to move the work from solely a software implementation to a system that deals with the realities of deployment at scale. This work has since been sold to Cisco. Show less This was a one year assignment as part of the Computer Science Lab at PARC, to explore new technologies and develop customer prototypes and architectures focused on the Context Centric Networking (CCN) project (see www.ccnx.org). In addition to building client oriented CCN experiments using Amazon EC2 and local network testbeds, I helped bring a hardware component (~10TB switch) to move the work from solely a software implementation to a system that deals with the realities of deployment at… Show more This was a one year assignment as part of the Computer Science Lab at PARC, to explore new technologies and develop customer prototypes and architectures focused on the Context Centric Networking (CCN) project (see www.ccnx.org). In addition to building client oriented CCN experiments using Amazon EC2 and local network testbeds, I helped bring a hardware component (~10TB switch) to move the work from solely a software implementation to a system that deals with the realities of deployment at scale. This work has since been sold to Cisco. Show less
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BlackBerry
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Canada
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Vice President of Advanced Research
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Nov 2010 - Sep 2012
Headed Office of the CTO and lead a group aimed at introducing new ideas to RIM during a tumultuous time at the company. Oversaw research in computer vision, robotics, digital health care, automotive, embedded systems and internet of things. Initiated invention of tablet computer as a printer - commercialized as Print-to-PlayBook. Lessons Learned: Distributed research teams are difficult, but not impossible to manage. Velocity of ideas is inversely proportional to distance from… Show more Headed Office of the CTO and lead a group aimed at introducing new ideas to RIM during a tumultuous time at the company. Oversaw research in computer vision, robotics, digital health care, automotive, embedded systems and internet of things. Initiated invention of tablet computer as a printer - commercialized as Print-to-PlayBook. Lessons Learned: Distributed research teams are difficult, but not impossible to manage. Velocity of ideas is inversely proportional to distance from the action. Show less Headed Office of the CTO and lead a group aimed at introducing new ideas to RIM during a tumultuous time at the company. Oversaw research in computer vision, robotics, digital health care, automotive, embedded systems and internet of things. Initiated invention of tablet computer as a printer - commercialized as Print-to-PlayBook. Lessons Learned: Distributed research teams are difficult, but not impossible to manage. Velocity of ideas is inversely proportional to distance from… Show more Headed Office of the CTO and lead a group aimed at introducing new ideas to RIM during a tumultuous time at the company. Oversaw research in computer vision, robotics, digital health care, automotive, embedded systems and internet of things. Initiated invention of tablet computer as a printer - commercialized as Print-to-PlayBook. Lessons Learned: Distributed research teams are difficult, but not impossible to manage. Velocity of ideas is inversely proportional to distance from the action. Show less
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Sun Microsystems
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Research Director and Director of Operations, Sun Labs
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Dec 2003 - Nov 2010
As research director, inspired and directed outstanding researchers to create and demonstrate technologies to influence the direction of Sun and the industry. Projects ranged from yotta-byte scale distributed storage systems to open source digital rights management to VoIP telephony. Created novel, Java-based, wireless sensor platform called SunSPOTs. Manager and primary investigator from concept to low volume worldwide production (25,000+ installed base in 34 countries and 100s of… Show more As research director, inspired and directed outstanding researchers to create and demonstrate technologies to influence the direction of Sun and the industry. Projects ranged from yotta-byte scale distributed storage systems to open source digital rights management to VoIP telephony. Created novel, Java-based, wireless sensor platform called SunSPOTs. Manager and primary investigator from concept to low volume worldwide production (25,000+ installed base in 34 countries and 100s of universities) designed to inspire students, researchers and hobbyists. Operated as start-up inside Sun; team built entire system from scratch - HW, OS, Java VM, tools, apps and service. HW and SW is open source and hundreds of user videos on YouTube. Java VM now used in FIRST robotics competition. As Director of Operations, oversaw IT needs of 200+ researchers, 7 websites, 6 physical labs, PR/publicity, documents, space planning and intern program for a world class research institution I stayed with Sun through the acquisition by Oracle and 9 months beyond. Lessons Learned: -Even large companies can be open to change. When it works, it's like a start-up, but with a lot more resources. -Smart people who challenge me keep me engaged. Show less As research director, inspired and directed outstanding researchers to create and demonstrate technologies to influence the direction of Sun and the industry. Projects ranged from yotta-byte scale distributed storage systems to open source digital rights management to VoIP telephony. Created novel, Java-based, wireless sensor platform called SunSPOTs. Manager and primary investigator from concept to low volume worldwide production (25,000+ installed base in 34 countries and 100s of… Show more As research director, inspired and directed outstanding researchers to create and demonstrate technologies to influence the direction of Sun and the industry. Projects ranged from yotta-byte scale distributed storage systems to open source digital rights management to VoIP telephony. Created novel, Java-based, wireless sensor platform called SunSPOTs. Manager and primary investigator from concept to low volume worldwide production (25,000+ installed base in 34 countries and 100s of universities) designed to inspire students, researchers and hobbyists. Operated as start-up inside Sun; team built entire system from scratch - HW, OS, Java VM, tools, apps and service. HW and SW is open source and hundreds of user videos on YouTube. Java VM now used in FIRST robotics competition. As Director of Operations, oversaw IT needs of 200+ researchers, 7 websites, 6 physical labs, PR/publicity, documents, space planning and intern program for a world class research institution I stayed with Sun through the acquisition by Oracle and 9 months beyond. Lessons Learned: -Even large companies can be open to change. When it works, it's like a start-up, but with a lot more resources. -Smart people who challenge me keep me engaged. Show less
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Pixlabs
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Redwood City, CA
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President
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2002 - 2010
Founder, CEO and janitor. One man company, from concept to architecture to coding to packaging to web design to order processing system to marketing. Developed application for photo organization and management which used and manipulated photo metadata. It was the first application I'm aware of to automatically organize photos into events based on time gaps. Developed popular program, PhotoFramer, for creating photorealistic, rendered mats and frames for digital images. (C# .NET… Show more Founder, CEO and janitor. One man company, from concept to architecture to coding to packaging to web design to order processing system to marketing. Developed application for photo organization and management which used and manipulated photo metadata. It was the first application I'm aware of to automatically organize photos into events based on time gaps. Developed popular program, PhotoFramer, for creating photorealistic, rendered mats and frames for digital images. (C# .NET, everything) Lessons learned: -Creating a successful business can be stressful, challenging, exciting and incredibly rewarding. -This is not unlike the other thing that I learned during this period: Being a parent can be stressful, challenging, exciting and incredibly rewarding. Show less Founder, CEO and janitor. One man company, from concept to architecture to coding to packaging to web design to order processing system to marketing. Developed application for photo organization and management which used and manipulated photo metadata. It was the first application I'm aware of to automatically organize photos into events based on time gaps. Developed popular program, PhotoFramer, for creating photorealistic, rendered mats and frames for digital images. (C# .NET… Show more Founder, CEO and janitor. One man company, from concept to architecture to coding to packaging to web design to order processing system to marketing. Developed application for photo organization and management which used and manipulated photo metadata. It was the first application I'm aware of to automatically organize photos into events based on time gaps. Developed popular program, PhotoFramer, for creating photorealistic, rendered mats and frames for digital images. (C# .NET, everything) Lessons learned: -Creating a successful business can be stressful, challenging, exciting and incredibly rewarding. -This is not unlike the other thing that I learned during this period: Being a parent can be stressful, challenging, exciting and incredibly rewarding. Show less
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Centillium Communications
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Semiconductors
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager, Software Engineering
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2000 - 2002
Successfully managed engineering team through acquisition (of Avio Digital) and redeployment. Drove team to build complete DSL router software stack. Hit my milestones and delivered products on time. (Gnu - Embedded C, engineering management) Lessons Learned: -Nerds are motivated by HOW you do things and hippies are motivated by WHY you do things. Successful projects often require both. Successful managers must be able to motivate either. Successfully managed engineering team through acquisition (of Avio Digital) and redeployment. Drove team to build complete DSL router software stack. Hit my milestones and delivered products on time. (Gnu - Embedded C, engineering management) Lessons Learned: -Nerds are motivated by HOW you do things and hippies are motivated by WHY you do things. Successful projects often require both. Successful managers must be able to motivate either.
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Avio Digital
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San Carlos, California
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Prinicipal Software Architect
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1998 - 2000
Transitioned engineering team from technology-based research environment to do-or-die-tying start-up environment. Distilled research projects and prototypes into a chip appropriate for commercialization. Drove development of networking technology, MediaWire (100Mbit over home phone wires), as well as several consumer devices (a Tivo-like video/audio/telephone/data recorder, digital TV/FM tuners, telephone interfaces etc) (MS Java, Gnu - Embedded C, team building, company… Show more Transitioned engineering team from technology-based research environment to do-or-die-tying start-up environment. Distilled research projects and prototypes into a chip appropriate for commercialization. Drove development of networking technology, MediaWire (100Mbit over home phone wires), as well as several consumer devices (a Tivo-like video/audio/telephone/data recorder, digital TV/FM tuners, telephone interfaces etc) (MS Java, Gnu - Embedded C, team building, company building) Avio Digital was acquired by Centillium Communications Lessons Learned: -Counting on one miracle going your way is taking a risk. Counting on a series of miracles going your way is a recipe for failure. -Great technology does not guarantee success Show less Transitioned engineering team from technology-based research environment to do-or-die-tying start-up environment. Distilled research projects and prototypes into a chip appropriate for commercialization. Drove development of networking technology, MediaWire (100Mbit over home phone wires), as well as several consumer devices (a Tivo-like video/audio/telephone/data recorder, digital TV/FM tuners, telephone interfaces etc) (MS Java, Gnu - Embedded C, team building, company… Show more Transitioned engineering team from technology-based research environment to do-or-die-tying start-up environment. Distilled research projects and prototypes into a chip appropriate for commercialization. Drove development of networking technology, MediaWire (100Mbit over home phone wires), as well as several consumer devices (a Tivo-like video/audio/telephone/data recorder, digital TV/FM tuners, telephone interfaces etc) (MS Java, Gnu - Embedded C, team building, company building) Avio Digital was acquired by Centillium Communications Lessons Learned: -Counting on one miracle going your way is taking a risk. Counting on a series of miracles going your way is a recipe for failure. -Great technology does not guarantee success Show less
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Interval Research
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Member Research Staff
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1993 - 1998
Where the rubber meets the sky - Technical lead (managed a group of 20 engineers) on projects to develop an integrated virtual machine, operating system, graphics environment and development tools for media oriented, embedded, consumer applications based on SmallTalk-80. Co-inventor MediaWire Digital Home Network (patents pending) and co-designer of the associated distributed digital consumer electronics architecture. Oversaw software development for “MediaBox” audio/video disk recorder… Show more Where the rubber meets the sky - Technical lead (managed a group of 20 engineers) on projects to develop an integrated virtual machine, operating system, graphics environment and development tools for media oriented, embedded, consumer applications based on SmallTalk-80. Co-inventor MediaWire Digital Home Network (patents pending) and co-designer of the associated distributed digital consumer electronics architecture. Oversaw software development for “MediaBox” audio/video disk recorder and Media/Web Pad. (Smalltalk-80, StrongARM) Technical due diligence for many of Paul Allen’s investments. Identified opportunities, reviewed business plans, evaluated technical teams and assisted investment staff. Investments included Starfish, Web TV, Silicon Gaming, Metricom, Terrastor, United States Satellite Broadcasting. Evaluated joint venture and acquisition opportunities including Apple Newton, First Person (Java), Intel, Sony, Panasonic. Developed new strategy and restructuring of Asymetrix. Research projects on consumer news, on-line communities, audio communications systems (designed and implemented prototypes - MPW C++) Conducted basic consumer research on new electronic devices (screeners, interviews etc.). Spun off Avio Digital, Inc Lessons Learned: Money can sometimes be substitued for time. Show less Where the rubber meets the sky - Technical lead (managed a group of 20 engineers) on projects to develop an integrated virtual machine, operating system, graphics environment and development tools for media oriented, embedded, consumer applications based on SmallTalk-80. Co-inventor MediaWire Digital Home Network (patents pending) and co-designer of the associated distributed digital consumer electronics architecture. Oversaw software development for “MediaBox” audio/video disk recorder… Show more Where the rubber meets the sky - Technical lead (managed a group of 20 engineers) on projects to develop an integrated virtual machine, operating system, graphics environment and development tools for media oriented, embedded, consumer applications based on SmallTalk-80. Co-inventor MediaWire Digital Home Network (patents pending) and co-designer of the associated distributed digital consumer electronics architecture. Oversaw software development for “MediaBox” audio/video disk recorder and Media/Web Pad. (Smalltalk-80, StrongARM) Technical due diligence for many of Paul Allen’s investments. Identified opportunities, reviewed business plans, evaluated technical teams and assisted investment staff. Investments included Starfish, Web TV, Silicon Gaming, Metricom, Terrastor, United States Satellite Broadcasting. Evaluated joint venture and acquisition opportunities including Apple Newton, First Person (Java), Intel, Sony, Panasonic. Developed new strategy and restructuring of Asymetrix. Research projects on consumer news, on-line communities, audio communications systems (designed and implemented prototypes - MPW C++) Conducted basic consumer research on new electronic devices (screeners, interviews etc.). Spun off Avio Digital, Inc Lessons Learned: Money can sometimes be substitued for time. Show less
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NoolaTech
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Redwood City
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Consultant
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1991 - 1993
Created the software for a product called Studio Magic, a PC card that created special effects on live video. Four of us created HW and SW that was runner up for best new product at COMDEX in 1992. Provided contract programming to customers such as Lucasfilms Soundroid project. (MS Visual C, MPW C++, Mac App) Lessons learned: -Good marketing is really important to product success. Created the software for a product called Studio Magic, a PC card that created special effects on live video. Four of us created HW and SW that was runner up for best new product at COMDEX in 1992. Provided contract programming to customers such as Lucasfilms Soundroid project. (MS Visual C, MPW C++, Mac App) Lessons learned: -Good marketing is really important to product success.
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WaveFrame
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Boulder, Colorado
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Software Engineer
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1988 - 1991
Co-created pioneering digital audio workstation. Wrote software for a DSP-based, digital mixing system and one of the worlds first disk-based audio recording systems. Worked with big name musicians like Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel. In 2004, WaveFrame was recognized with a technical achievement Academy Award for its significant impact on the film industry. (C, Windows) Lessons Learned: -A lot of progress in business is driven by two things: trade shows and enemies. -I… Show more Co-created pioneering digital audio workstation. Wrote software for a DSP-based, digital mixing system and one of the worlds first disk-based audio recording systems. Worked with big name musicians like Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel. In 2004, WaveFrame was recognized with a technical achievement Academy Award for its significant impact on the film industry. (C, Windows) Lessons Learned: -A lot of progress in business is driven by two things: trade shows and enemies. -I like visionary start-ups! Show less Co-created pioneering digital audio workstation. Wrote software for a DSP-based, digital mixing system and one of the worlds first disk-based audio recording systems. Worked with big name musicians like Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel. In 2004, WaveFrame was recognized with a technical achievement Academy Award for its significant impact on the film industry. (C, Windows) Lessons Learned: -A lot of progress in business is driven by two things: trade shows and enemies. -I… Show more Co-created pioneering digital audio workstation. Wrote software for a DSP-based, digital mixing system and one of the worlds first disk-based audio recording systems. Worked with big name musicians like Stevie Wonder and Peter Gabriel. In 2004, WaveFrame was recognized with a technical achievement Academy Award for its significant impact on the film industry. (C, Windows) Lessons Learned: -A lot of progress in business is driven by two things: trade shows and enemies. -I like visionary start-ups! Show less
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Martin Marietta
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United States
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Mining
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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1985 - 1988
Developed techniques for applying novel Artificial Intelligence techniques to network management for Space Station. (Lisp, Symbolics) Lessons Learned: -It doesn't feel so good to be a little fish in a big sea. -Beware the BCM = Big Company Mentality Developed techniques for applying novel Artificial Intelligence techniques to network management for Space Station. (Lisp, Symbolics) Lessons Learned: -It doesn't feel so good to be a little fish in a big sea. -Beware the BCM = Big Company Mentality
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