Career Mentorship Colloquium Details
Ten things I needed to know to work in IBM.... but that nobody told me about
Author: | Laurent Montaron IBM |
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Date: | January 23, 2008 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Committee: | David Atkins |
Abstract
Laurent Montaron will expose a slice of the life of software engineers in IBM and share some tips on how to be the most successful from day one. He will illustrate with example from his own career and other engineers with whom he worked closely.
Biography
Laurent Montaron has about 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He joined Sequent Computer Systems in 1993 as a software engineer, then moved to Sequent US-based headquarters in 1997 prior to the IBM-Sequent merger in 1999. Sequent was the leader in SMP (and later ccNUMA) Unix-based systems and specialized in large-scale, mission-critical relational database deployments. Laurent's background and specialty is software engineering on high-performance Unix-based servers, though his career included the creation of a Professional Services group, assignments in Customer Service and Technical Account Management. Since 1999, Laurent has been managing IBM engineering teams working with key RDBMS, Middleware and Tools vendors (including IBM Software Group, Oracle, Sybase, CA). Laurent currently manages the SAP Strategy and Enablement activity in IBM Systems Group.REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED