Sun STARS around the globe: Mike Briggs
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
Mike Briggs was recently awarded the distinguished title of Sun Principal Engineer. This position represents the point in an individual's technical career where their contributions have extended beyond organizational boundaries and beyond the demands of their regular job function. We have worked closely with Mike in our current role and couldn't agree more!
How long have you been employed with Sun?
I joined in 1984 as employee 340.
Where are you located?
Alamo, CA about 30 miles East of Menlo Park.
What is your current job role?
My current title is Principal Engineer. My main mission in life at Sun is to foster collaboration and to enable engineers (primarily customer facing) to contribute to, and participate in the community.
Past roles at Sun have included Regional Systems Engineer Manager and Technical Product Marketing Manager.
Please highlight past or current special projects that you have worked on at Sun.
I'm part of a small team that is behind OneStop and CEpedia. OneStop is arguably the most successful collaboration at Sun, and the CEpedia is hot on its heels.
I edit a monthly newsletter called the Technocrat that goes out to 2200 subscribers. We recently shipped our 48th issue.
I spend a lot of time with search. This includes coding and architecting IC Search, as well as hosting search for OneStop, CEpedia, SAE, Sun Solution Centers, and the Communications and Healthcare Industries.
Name 1 - 2 people (internal or external to Sun) that you would like to have lunch with.
Neal Stephenson. I'd love to hear how and when he thinks Virtual Worlds and Metaverses are going to become an intrinsic part of our lives.
Favorite blogs or websites? Mike has a personal page on Sun's internal CEpedia site.
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