Speaker's Title: Senior Director, Portfolio Marketing

Seminar Title: Beyond Engineering: Marketing, Sales, & Management with an Engineering Degree

Abstract: Your career as an engineer can take you to some unexpected places, many of them outside of what is considered “pure engineering”. 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’s pure engineering to a career beyond engineering.  

Speaker Bio: Dr. 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.

In 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's industry-leading suite of optical transport and packet switching solutions.

Scott spent eight years as the Vice President for Product Management and System Engineering for Hitachi’s North American telecommunications division. Prior to Hitachi,
Scott worked for both startup companies and large telecommunications equipment
providers in Silicon Valley and the telecom corridors of New Jersey and Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Wilkinson earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology in 1996 where his research focused on integrating semiconductor LEDs and
VCSELs with silicon circuits and micro-machines (MEMS). He earned his B.E.E., also from Georgia Tech, in 1990.