{"597030":{"#nid":"597030","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Seminar (ECE 2001A\/ECE 8001A)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker: \u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Scott Wilkinson -- ECI Telecom\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0026#39;s Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EBeyond Engineering: Marketing, Sales, \u0026amp; Management with an Engineering Degree\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E Your career as an engineer can take you to some unexpected places, many of them outside of what is considered \u0026ldquo;pure engineering\u0026rdquo;. Using an autobiographical and anecdotal format, Dr. Wilkinson will walk through career branches and options from small startups to large conglomerates, from low-level employee to the leader of a pivotal group, from a job in a lab to a job with a million frequent flier miles, and from a job that\u0026rsquo;s pure engineering to a career beyond engineering. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio: \u003C\/strong\u003EDr. Wilkinson has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years, working with technologies and solutions ranging from fiber to the premises to long haul transport, Carrier Ethernet to MPLS, and traditional to modern SDN\/NFV-enabled networks. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and author in trade publications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his current role as Senior Portfolio Marketing Manager for ECI Telecom, Scott operates as a bridge between the development and sales organizations, helping to evangelize ECI\u0026#39;s industry-leading suite of optical transport and packet switching solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScott spent eight years as the Vice President for Product Management and System Engineering for Hitachi\u0026rsquo;s North American telecommunications division. Prior to Hitachi,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nScott worked for both startup companies and large telecommunications equipment\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nproviders in Silicon Valley and the telecom corridors of New Jersey and Dallas, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Wilkinson earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTechnology in 1996 where his research focused on integrating semiconductor LEDs and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nVCSELs with silicon circuits and micro-machines (MEMS). He earned his B.E.E., also from Georgia Tech, in 1990.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeminar with Dr. Scott Wilkinson -- ECI Telecom\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar with Dr. Scott Wilkinson -- ECI Telecom"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2017-10-05 23:42:59","changed_gmt":"2017-10-05 23:45:44","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-10-11T13:20:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-10-11T14:10:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-10-11T14:10:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-10-11 17:20:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-10-11 18:10:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-10-11 18:10:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}