On 3 April, we announced PreSEED-2, the second pilot mentoring term aimed at helping Sun Engineering staff who have been getting almost all “Sun Standard” (2 or Standard-level) performance ratings onto a path which may lead them to higher engagement. PreSEED-2 applications can be submitted as of 14 April; the term will run June-December 2008. The first PreSEED pilot term is currently under way, running from March-September 2008. The PreSEED-1 metrics and feedback so far are good and the same or better than metrics of a regular SEED worldwide term. Between the announcement and 14 April, eligible Sun Software Members of the Technical Staff who are interested should talk with their managers about this opportunity.
The PreSEED-1 pilot participants are among those invited to the SEED
mentoring program’s MidTerm Event. The event starts with a dinner
tonight (after the Sun Labs Open House
closes), then continues with presentations tomorrow. 111 Sun attendees are
registered so far. About 20 of those SEED mentees, mentors, or managers are
calling in from locations around the world, including Zaventem Belgium, Velizy
France, Bangalore India, Prague Czech Republic, and Tokyo Japan.
Speakers will include:
Jonathan Schwartz (Chief Executive Officer and President)
Marc Tremblay (Sun Fellow, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Microelectronics)- Tiki Dare (Director Trademark & Marketing Legal) speaking on
OpenSolaris - Chris Frank (Senior Staff Engineer, Industrial Design Architect, & SEED Alumnus, Sun Systems Group) speaking on “Out of the Box: Initial Experiences Create Lasting Impressions”
Darryl Gove (Senior Staff Engineer, SEED Mentor & Alumnus, Sun Software Group) speaking about his new book
Solaris Application Programming
Nicole Yankelovich (Principal Engineer, & SEED Mentor, Sun Labs)
speaking on
“Wonderland: Using a 3D Virtual World for Collaboration”
After the speakers tomorrow, there will be a tour of Sun’s Menlo Park
Enterprise Technology Center by Rob Snevely, SEED Mentor and author of
Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology.
PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program.
More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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