This morning, I matched the last of the mentors in the PreSEED-2
worldwide pilot mentoring term for Sun’s Software group. This
term runs from June – December 2008. All of the mentors in this
term are Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, Senior Staff
Engineers or equivalent titles (that being the target title range
for mentors in this program) and all of the mentees are Members
of the Technical Staff or equivalent titles.
This represents a 31 day matching cycle (5 May - 5 June 2008). 69% were matched in the first 14 days. 59% were matched with their 1st or 2nd priority mentor. 27% were matched with their 3rd or 4th priority mentor. 14% were matched with a mentor 5th or lower in priority. 35% of the mentoring pairs work in the same geographic location. 65% work at a distance from each other. 24 of the mentors this term are also SEED participant alumni (47%). 20 of the mentors this term have been SEED mentors before (39%).
After PreSEED-2, PreSEED will no longer be a Pilot program.
The next PreSEED term will be worldwide for all of Engineering (not just Software),
to run January-June 2009, with applications in November 2008.
Software Chief Technologists
Bob Brewin (Distinguished Engineer and Vice President) and
Tim Marsland (Fellow and Vice President) are this 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 part of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program.
More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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