Personal Goal Achieved
Wednesday Jul 16, 2008
So back in 1998, while I was the Technology Manager for Sun Ray, I set a goal for myself of winning the Chairman's Award (as it was called at the time). This is a very prestigious award at Sun, and is remarkably hard to win. I worked myself near to death for years trying to win this award, to no avail.
3 years ago I left the Honeycomb Team in the Labs a few months before they won the award (now called the Sun Innovation Award). Once again, close, but no cigar.
So I'm very happy, and feel honored, that the Sun SPOTs Team has won an Innovation Award for FY08. This is a very high honor indeed, and I am pleased to be a part of such a fantastic team that has produced an innovation worthy of such high honor. This was certainly a Team effort, and everyone associated with the project deserves the recognition. So, my hat is off to my team members for getting me somewhere I have aspired to for many years.
Team Members:
- Roger Meike, Senior Director
- Randy Smith
- Vipul Gupta, Distinguished Engineer
- Ron Goldman
- Derek White (Squawk)
- Eric Arseneau (Squawk)
- Arshan Poursohi
- Pete St.Pierre
- Bob Alkire
- Del Peck
- Leo Hirsch
Again, this was a Team effort of enormous proportions. The Hardware folks delivered unmatched quality with a stunningly low level of returns and errors. The Software team (Squawk and the Sun SPOT Team) delivered some remarkably stable software, and we have seen the adoption of Sun SPOTs increase through both sales and our Sun SPOT Open Grant Program.
But without our users, customers, champions and supporters, we'd be toiling in obscurity, so it is really thanks to all who use Sun SPOTs, are enthusiastic about Sun SPOT, and the entire community. Thank you.
[ I'm rated PG-34!! ]
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Congratulations!!! :-)
Congratulations!