We started the matching cycle for the SEED Engineering mentoring 4-Site
term on Tuesday. Already, we have 5 confirmed mentoring pairs plus at least
a dozen more potential mentors who have expressed interest in
following up with the SEED participant who requested them.
All 5 matches so far have been at a distance, where the mentoring
pair are based in different countries. Surprisingly, SEED’s
satisfaction measures consistently show no statistical difference
between mentoring pairs working locally and those working
at a distance. 46 more SEED pairs to match!
- Vice President and Fellow in Washington (State) accepted a
Senior Staff Engineer in Bangalore - Senior Staff Engineer in California accepted a Staff
Engineer in Bangalore - Director in Prague accepted a Member of the Technical
Staff in St. Petersburg, Russia - Senior Staff Engineer in Illinois accepted an MTS in
Prague - Senior Staff Engineer in California accepted a
Staff Engineer in Beijing
We are also getting ready for SEED’s Mid-Term Event. We hold in-person events
twice a year (plus 10 phone-in meetings). The 20 April event will
feature 3 executive speakers who have all also served as SEED mentors:
James Baty, Distinguished Engineer, Vice President, Chief Architect
Global Sales
- Roger Meike,
Research Director, Sun Labs - Noreen Krall, Chief Patent Counsel (Vice President)
In addition, the event will offer the SEED Showcase (3 SEED
participants presenting their current work), a tour of Sun’s
Executive Briefing Center, and an invitation to the Sun Labs
Bash (weekly after-work party).
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