Friday September 16, 2005

Little Known Facts about Marketeers



The ides of September have come and gone so I decided to send an "organizational update" around Sun describing the marketeers involved in the OpenSolaris project.  I thought I'd share some of the "little known facts" from my message.  Because little known facts can be interesting and fun.  In alphabetical order by first name:

About Laura Ramsey:

Turned down a job as Sports Promotional Intern with the SF 49ers for a job at an SRI spin off (Artificial Intelligence)
Had a longer run in corporate marketing than CATS had on broadway...1984
Was the PR contact for the Solaris 2.0 announcement in 1991
Was a speechwriter for Ray Noorda, at Novell back in the day when they thought the network was the printer
Lives in the Massachussetts countryside, with Blue the Nakota mustang, Butterscotch the bunny, Penny the Boxer, Pippen and Coke the cats, her two daughters, and her own personal rock star husband
Has lived in California twice, Colorado twice and Massachussetts twice
Drives a bright yellow VW bug
Favorite gum is Juicy Fruit; believes in chocolate chip cookies for dinner

About Patrick Finch:

Recently married
Sometimes, when doing too many things at once, can relate to the guy in the film "Memento"
Lived in a tent for 8 months in 1996
Went to the same high-school as one of the Beatles, a British heavyweight boxing champion, 2 footballers who played for England (with distinction) and a national gameshow host
Likes Westerns
First job at Sun was cold-calling people who didn't call Sun anymore and might be dead (some of them were)
Collects old-school Adidas trainers
Is English, has a wife from Sweden, and a brother in America. Naturally, lives in the Netherlands
First Sun desktop was an IPX, bless it
In 1990, saved a sheep from a fate worse than death

About Sara Dornsife:

Has been in marketing for 18 years
Has a background in color management and graphic design software
Has done the Silicon Valley circuit: Apple, Symantec, and Sun
Came to Sun through the acquisition of Cobalt Networks where she worked on the
Cobalt Developer Network
Sent out the Solaris x86 Blvd street signs
Fled California because of the cost, the traffic, and the schools
Misses San Francisco and the ocean
Moved to Austin, TX - just because it is cool
Husband is a stay-at-home dad for their 2 children (one girl and one boy)
Works from home (because Sun is a very cool place to work)
Does hotroom Vinyasa Yoga as often as possible - Namaste

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