On 25 April, we selected the 52 participants in the PreSEED Engineering
mentoring program for the June – December 2008 term. There were 65
applicants to the term from Sun’s Software Division worldwide but not
all applicants were eligible because of incomplete applications, or a
mismatch with the scope of the program.
Tanya Jankot and I are now preparing for next month’s announcement of
the 2008-2009 Recent Hire and Established Staff terms of the SEED mentoring
program. Because of PreSEED’s success, we are redesigning the
scope of all three mentoring groups (PreSEED, SEED Recent Hires, and SEED
Established Staff) to fit together better. We have a flow chart already
and will be announcing the new scope’s details soon.
The next steps for new PreSEED participants are:
- Participants will create their 10 name Mentor Wish Lists
due on 5 May 2008 (9 a.m. Pacific time)
by way of the internal web site. - Participants will work with Tanya Jankot to personalize the
participant web pages she will create.
About the New Participants 65 Applicants 52 PreSEED Participants Selected Work Locations: China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Russia, USA Division: 100% Sun Software Group Gender of Participants: * female: 8 [ 15% ] * male: 44 [ 85% ] Grade Level: all Members of the Technical Staff, levels two to four (MTS 2-4) 14 Previously Applied to SEED, 27% Countries of origin this term include: Austria, China, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Russia, Slovakia, UK, USA, Viet Nam
Software Chief Technologists
Bob Brewin (Distinguished Engineer and Vice President) and
Tim Marsland (Fellow and Vice President) are PreSEED’s pilot term Champions.
Greg Papadopoulos (Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development) is the SEED
program executive sponsor.
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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