Since 9 July, we have been in the SEED 2008-2009 Mentor Matching Cycle.
That is, the 84 Engineering mentoring program Participants (Mentees)
have created and prioritized their 15-name Mentor Wish Lists and I am
in the process of sequentially contacting
the highest priority potentially available mentor for each of them.
In this first 15 days, 67 or 80% have been matched so far.
There are two terms being matched at the same time:
- September 2008 – September 2009 Recent Hire Term
which already has 20 out of 23 matched - September 2008 – March 2009 Established Staff Term
which already has 47 out of 63 matched
We have a parallel project in the works this summer, using the services
of Alice, my second-term High School Summer Intern. Alice
is creating simple profile SunWeb pages for Sun executives (Fellows,
Distinguished Engineers, Principal Engineers, Vice Presidents, Directors…)
and all SEED potential mentors who do not yet have profile pages.
Many executives get profile web pages created automatically, like
those on Sun’s
Executive Bios web page. However, not all of us are exalted enough
to rate such a high-visibility page. Sun Labs solves this problem with its
People at Sun Labs/CTO
web page. Staff in our division are offered an easy tool to create both
internal and external web pages. However, not everyone is in CTO or
Labs. Alice has the fun job of creating SunWeb pages for over 120 accomplished
SEED mentors who did not get one some other way. About 250 SEED mentors already
had web pages (some of them created by Alice last summer). Internal web pages
are extremely useful to Sun Engineering staff all over the world who are
seeking expertise or help.
More information on the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program
is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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