DECwest Alumni Page


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Welcome to the home page of the DECwest Alumni club!

Use this page to find the whereabouts of friends who have left the site-formerly-known-as-DECwest, owned by the company-formerly-known-as-DEC.  Each entry has a personal web page link, the name of their current employer, a few sentences describing their work or interests, and their e-mail address.  If you want to update your entry or have a question, please use the links at the top of the page.

Life after DEC/Compaq:



Name, Web Site

EBDw

Company

Did What / Doing What?

Email Address

Abdul Rahman Ismail

 

Intel Corporation

 

abdul.r.ismail /at/ intel /dot/ com

Abe Klagsbrun

1995 - 99

 

Was: Technical writer for the Windows NT Systems group documenting system BIOSs, Windows NT, and Visual C++.

Went to: Cacheflow as a technical writer, documenting proxy and security appliances. 1999-2001

Then went to: Microsoft as a technical writer for IIS, then ADS, then back to IIS. 2001-2005

Now: Looking for freelance work in technical writing.

abekl5000 /at/gmail /dot/ com

Alan Healy

 

Enterprise Solutions Center / Deciding what to do next

healy /at/ qwest /dot/ net

Alex Wu

1997 - 98 Battelle Memorial Institute Data Center Project Manager

alexcfwu /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Amy Lenox

1993 - 99

 

At DECwest I worked in the storage group.  Just had third child, Antti, in April '04.

lenoxaj /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Andrea Borning 1997 - 99

I was in the Windows NT Systems Group and worked on the Intel to Alpha port of the Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler.  Set up the builds and looked into build breaks and bugs.  Also worked on the port of the C runtime libraries and Visual Basic.  My next job was as a Research Engineer at Insightful Corporation which I enjoyed very much.  I was just recently laid off (June, 03) and so have had a very relaxing summer.

bh732 /at/ scn /dot/ org

Andy Kegel

IBM

NT development manager for NUMA systems

andy /at/ kegel /dot/ org

Anil Goyal 1987 - 90

Worked on the C/C++ compiler 1987-90. Currently living in India.

ag53_98 /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Babu K. Chandrasekhar

1997 - 00

Dell Computer Corp.

I used to in the Digital Clusters for Windows NT team writing device drivers for Memory Channel and ServerNet.  Right now I am with Dell Inc. developing Dell Remote Access Card software (DRAC), in the OpenManage group.

babu_chandrasekhar /at/ yahoo /dot/ com, babu_chandrasekhar /at/ dell /dot/ com

Barbara Leahy

1994 - 97

Hewlett-Packard

At DECWest did systems projects, such as writing a device driver, working alignment fault issues, and more.  Today I'm on the Microsoft campus working with the networking group on hardware/software development.

barb /at/ leahyjr /dot/ com

Beau Monday

 

 

beaumonday /at/ qwest /dot/ net

Benn Schreiber

1986 - 97

XenSource

THEN: Mica, Ozix, NT. NOW: Director of Business Development for XenSource.

benn /at/ starwhite /dot/ net

Bill Hilton

I was laid off from F5 Networks in July and am now available for work.  In my spare time I fish and work on my property.

billy2m /at/ starband /dot/ net

Bill Jorgensen

 

Cascade Consulting Company

Technical Recruiter

bill /at/ cascadejobs /dot/ com

Bill Muse

 

Raising two daughters and spending my wife's money

billmuse /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Bill Roman

 

Windows NT Systems Group from 1997 through the end, primarily supported power management on Alpha platforms.  Now looking for work as a Linux kernel/driver developer.

roman /at/ songdog /dot/ eskimo.com

Bill Watson

1988 - 97

GloVentures, LLC

Did:  DECwest storage group.

Doing:  Actively releasing our cell phone location based game - look for it soon.  But I've started my search for the next gig (need to earn a salary).  Always willing to receive any leads from others.   :-)   Open to anywhere in the world.

billwa992 /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Bob Schuetz 1990-91 BanTec

Then: Northwest District Software Manager, but took directions from everyone and anybody!

Now: Vice President Professional Services. 

rjschuetz /at/ aol /dot/ com
Brad Slusher 1994 - 96

Microsoft Corporation

Did Then: Hardware support and tracking tools for the NT Group porting NT 4.0.

Do Now: Product Manager working in the Online Services Group.

bradsl /at/ live /dot/ com

Bruce Lowe

1991 - 97

VERITAS Software Corp

brlowe /at/ veritas /dot/ com

Bruce Butts

SmartRun Systems

 

bruceb /at/ seanet /dot/ com

Carey Fujii

1986 - 99

DocuSign

Director of Operations

dafuj /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Carl Appellof

 

VERITAS Software Corp

Kathy and I have moved from the Seattle area to San Luis Obispo, CA.

Carl.Appellof /at/ altavista /dot/ net

Carl McAdams

 

IBM (formerly Sequent computer)

IA64 Bios engineer

carlmc /at/ us /dot/ ibm.com (work), mcadams /at/ or /dot/ freei.net(home)

Cary Davidson

1987 - 01

Auburn Mountainview High School

Was doing graphic design and illustration at DECwest then started Davidson Creative. Started teaching high school graphic design, illustration, photography, video, and screen printing in 2002. Also coaching varsity boys and girls soccer.

cdavidson /at/ auburn.wednet /dot/ edu

Cathie Richardson

Issaquah School District & Gymnastics East

Working for the school district and teaching gymnastics.

cathie.richardson /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Charlie Wickham

Microsoft Corporation

 

charlwi /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Cherie Morgenroth (formerly Cherie Kass)

 

Walker Richer &Quinn, Inc.

I was at DECwest from 1985 to 1990. I've been with WRQ since 1992, and am the program manager for Reflection X and NFS.

cheriem /at/ wrq /dot/ com

Chris Cole

 

I'm a vendor to Microsoft, working on COM+ 2.0.

ccole /at/ pacifier /dot/ com

Christian Saether

1985 - 94

Brocade Communications

Been with a group started by Pete Benoit as a startup (Therion Software) Spring 2004 to do server provisioning/management in a SAN.  Acquired by Brocade late spring 2005.  Office in Kirkland.  Still coding..

cds /at/ clustor /dot/ com

Chris(tine) Estes 1997 - 99 Affiliated with Windermere Real Estate

Digital, and more specifically DECwest, gave my husband, Stu, and me a tremendous gift -- the opportunity to move from New Hampshire to the Pacific Northwest.  We've both lived through the Digital and Compaq changes (Stu got out before the acquisition was final) and continue to watch as the wonderful company and culture that we were part of has evolved / disappeared.  But, for me, even that has been a gift.  It has driven me to choose a career opportunity where the choices are mine, where the business is mine -- to cultivate and grow.  I know who to thank when things go well, and I know who to have a good 'talking to' when things hiccup.

My new real estate business is all about exceptional service and building a business by referral.  I look forward to catching up with the DECwest alumni over time.  I would be happy to be of assistance if anyone in your life has need of real estate services, no matter where they live.  No one should have to find a service person in the Yellow Pages!

CEstes /at/ windermere /dot/ com

Claudia Sawisch cesaw /at/ msn /dot/ com

Cory J. Bear

Softbear.com

 

coryjb /at/ softbear /adot/ com

Craig Huber 1995 - 99 Bocada

Sr. Product Manager at a third startup in the last four years - What's that saying ... "the third time's the charm"?  Also doing photography as time permits -- see website (needs updating).

craighuber /at/ verizon /dot/ net
Craig Seeger 1998 - 00 Isilon Systems

One of the last in COG, now IT Manager.

seeger /at/ isilon /dot/ com
Craig Wright 1993 - 06

Worked in AdvFS in Tru64 Unix.
Dodged one rif, then another.
But I couldn't keep dodging forever.
Rif'd in 2006, soon to be unemployed.

craig /at/ hp /dot/ com

Dan Reger

 

Legato Systems, Inc.

Product Manager - NetWorker Module for Microsoft Exchange Server

dreger /at/ legato /dot/ com

Darin Perrigo

SonoSight

Building handheld ultrasound devices for medical use.

darinp2 /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Darren Sawyer

Network Appliance

Manager - Performance Engineering

sawyer1 /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Dave Swanson

1986 - 94

Calypso Medical

Currently doing contract GUI work in C#.

dp.swanson /at/ verizon /dot/ net

Dave Wagner

1996 - 99

Google

 

dwagner00 /at/ gmail /dot/ com

David M. Chinn

1994 - 99

dmc /at/ acm /dot/ org

David Fleskes 1988 - 94 Ocean Objects, Inc.

I run a consulting company for the last 10 years (15 people total now) which writes financial software for the mortgage industry.    We live in Washington DC.

DECWest was a great place... lots of memories/stories.

dfleskes /at/ oceanobjects /dot/ com

David Lawlor

1989 - 92

Worked on Ozix - still have the mug.  Now in Austin, Tx at an EDA startup

dl /at/ austin /dot/ rr /dot/ com

David Peretz

1996 - 97

pere /at/ seanet /dot/ com

David Pursel

1987 - 1995 Humble patent attorney at DECwest. Relocated to Texas and was AMD patent counsel for Texas and points east. Then moved to California to be chief patent counsel for LSI Logic, and later promoted to general counsel. Retired and moved to Redmond, WA, in 2006.

DavidTheDoughBoy /at/ gmail /dot/ com

David Robinson

davidmrobinson /at/ msn /dot/ com

David W. Snow 1988 - 03 Aging Safely, Inc. DavidWSnow /at/ agingsafely /dot/ com

David Steinmetz

1995 - 00 IBM

Editor at Rational Software, IBM Software Group. (Joined Rational in 2002.) I was a managing editor at DECwest. 

dsteinme /at/ us /dot/ ibm.com

Deb Girdler

DebGirdler /at/ aol /dot/ com

Debbie Graham

1992 - 99

Symantec

Working for the Storage Foundation for Windows team on Volume Manager.

debbie /at/ zipcon /dot/ net

Debbie Walkowski 1988 - 91 Metia, Inc.

At DECwest I was a technical writer for the Network group and "corporate" writer for HR and some of the management team.

After leaving DECwest, I worked as a freelance tech writer and also wrote 19 software trade books. Now I work as a technology writer and e-learning developer for a UK-based marketing/PR/AR firm in the Kirkland office.

dwalkowski /at/ comcast /dot/ net
Dennis J. Doherty 1987 - 96 Isilon Systems

Worked on AdvFS. Tuxedo, and the Unix Commands and Libraries.

djd /at/ rumpuscat /dot/ com
Dick Funk 1989 - 02  

Held various software engineering management jobs from utilities group, to commercial features, to test and quality, to group manager.  Started when DECwest was it all one big engineering organization and ended up managing the forty descendents that remained in the Digital-UNIX/Compaq-Tru64-UNIX organization.  Had a lot of fun along the way.

Left in April 2002 for the exciting world of software startup businesses.  Seemed like a good idea at the time...

Now in the ranks of the unemployed and looking for an interesting position.

funk /at/ nwlink /dot/ com

Dilip M. Hardas   Omicron Consulting   dhardas /at/ omicron /dot/ com

Don Goodrich

1997 - 99

Northrop Grumman Corp.

I was at DECWest from Dec '97 through Sep '99 as part of the NT Clusters crew.  Now I am part of the Space Technology team in Space Park, Los Angeles.

Don.Goodrich /at/ cheerful /dot/ com

Donna Goodman

1996 - 99

HCL CapitalStream.

At DEC I worked on 'DCNT' Digital Clusters for Windows NT' or what to do about the blue screen of death. I was at Unisys for about 8 years in the IT infrastructure management space. Transitioned from engineering to product marketing. Was separated from them in one of the never ending lay-offs. What was amusing is that they had just hired a new team of ex Digital Marketing VPs. Oh the circle of life. Landed very quickly in a company based in Seattle that provides process automation for commercial lending.

donna.goodman /at/ capitalstream /dot/ com

Donna (Meikle) Jenness

donnajenness /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Doug Barlow

1989 - 94

The Soft Pedal Shop

Left Microsoft in 2002, after writing the Smart Card Subsystem for Windows while in the Cryptographic Service Provider Group.

Now I'm semi-retired, doing private consulting in between motorcycle trips.

DougB /at/ softpedal /dot/ net
Doug Girling 1996 - 98 Microsoft Corporation

After the Commodity Graphics group was ejected by the "Q" continuum, I set up shop at bSquare. I'm currently in Microsoft's Automotive group.

floatplane /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Edward G. Shoemaker (shoe)

 

Microsoft Corporation

Sr. Program Manager

edward01shoemaker /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Ed Quinn

1995 - 99

The Boeing Company

WAS THEN:  Sysadmin supporting ports of builds 866 through 2100.

IS NOW:  Contracting as Windows & Linux sysadmin and VMS sysmgr at Boeings.

ed.quinn /at/ toast /dot/ net

Ed Serrano

Unisys. Mission Viego, CA

eduardo.serrano /at/ unisys /dot/ com

Elaine Bishop 1995 - 03 After DEC, spent >3 1/2 years at Cray Inc. as a technical writer. Left to see if I can get some of my creative writing published and to fix up the house for downsizing. Both daughters graduated from college so no more tuition bills! elainepbishop /at/ yahoo /dot/ com
Elke E. Noetzel 1984 - 94 Nike, Inc.

Worked in Software Services for Dick Williams and then Jerry Bryant. 

Went to California State University San Bernardino where I was the manager of the ID card system which ran on a UNIX base.

Took a year off sold our home put everything in storage and then travel the US for a year.  My son-in-law works for Intel in Oregon so we settled here and I became employed with Nike at their world headquarters here in Beaverton Oregon, I work in US Apparel.  Love the company and you will never see grounds like this at any employer in the world.

elke.noetzel /at/ nike /dot/ com

Eric Getsinger

 

 

e /at/ getsinger /dot/ com

Eric W Moore

Intel Corporation

Working in the marketing/training group for Intel's compiler and performance products.

emoore /at/ acm /dot/ org

Eric Rehm

1992 - 96 University of Washington School of Oceanography Graduate student studying optical oceanography. eric /at/ scn /dot/ org

Ernie Lou

 

Microsoft Corporation

Global Partner Marketing

erniel /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

F. Avery Bishop

 

Microsoft Corporation

Program Manager

faveryb /at/ msn /dot/ com

Francoise Rowe-Pendleton 1988 - 95

Invitrogen (Contractor)

 

Married fellow DEC employee, Herb Pendleton, in 1994; had two sons, Miles Rowe Pendleton (b. 1998) and Bryce Rowe Pendleton (b. 2001). Married now 12 years.

I joined Oracle from 1995 to 1999; then joined IBM as a Contractor/Web Information Manager from June 2000 to January 2005. Currently, I work for Invitrogen, a biotech company, out of their Eugene, OR office, as a Contractor/Web Information Manager for their external site.

We moved from Venice Beach, CA in October 2001 up to Eugene, Oregon, in order to educate the boys within Eugene's 4J School District/foreign language immersion school program -- part of the school choice option for Eugene's 4J School District. Herb retired in January 2002, became a Substitute Math Teacher and teaches part-time for Eugene's Bethel School District / High School Math. He still runs and joined the local Master's Track organization.  Life has been good. We love Oregon, our sons are growing and in great schools and we are all healthy and happy.

frowe_pendleton /at/ hotmail /dot/ com
G David Felt 1998 - 00 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Currently Test Lead and Support Lead for Brocade ARM Software. We built a Boot from San software package that automates the whole process from mgmt of the array, fabric and servers including Das 2 San and iSCSI support. dfelt /at/ brocade /dot/ com

Greg McCaddon

1989 - 02

Realty Executives Professionals

I finally nabbed a fulltime job as an IT / Facilities Manager for a small real estate franchise with big aspirations to increase their offices to a total of 62 in Washington and Oregon. I just finished outfitting their 2nd office with a 35+ system network and phones.

gmccaddon /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Jac Walsh

1986 - 99

King County Library System

With DECWest Facilities Team until "retired" after the Compaq take over.  I am now employed in the Human Resources Department of the King County Library Service Center in Issaquah.

Jlwalsh /at/ mail /dot/ com

Jagdish Joshi 1991 - 92 BJ Consultants

Worked at Sun.  Worked at Disney.  Have own Consulting company focusing on Computer Security.

doordarshan /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

James Livingston

1992 - 99

NEC Solutions (America), Inc.

At DECWest, did lots of different things on the NT Alpha porting project, including being the platform engineer for the Mikasa and managing the continuing engineering group.

Currently a system software engineer serving as an internal consultant on I/O and network fabric architectures relevant to servers made by NEC.

james.Livingston /at/ necsam /dot/ com

Jan D’Addamio

1988 - 02

XKL, LLC

I worked on OZIX testing, DECvet, and AdvFS and then took the HP early retirement package.

I'm currently doing O/S work in assembler.

jdaddamio /at/ smith /dot/ alumnae /dot/ net (home), jan /at/ xkl /dot/ com (work)

Janet Schneider

1994 - 96

Microsoft Corporation

I worked on Windows NT HAL, firmware and drivers for the Alpha platforms at DECwest.

I'm now working in the personal storage driver group at Microsoft.

Janet.Schneider /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Jay Bruce

F5 Networks, Inc.

I'm working on the BIG/ip product.

j.bruce /at/ f5 /dot/ com

Jean Jorgensen

1994 - 96

 

Attorney at Law

jean /at/ jeanlaw /dot/ com

Jeff East

1985 - 88

Microsoft Corporation

I ran the I/O drivers team for Mica/Prism. I returned in 1992 to help port Windows NT to Alpha. Currently, I'm in the SQL Server product group, as the manager of the Release Services team.

jeffe /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Jeff Glaum

 

Microsoft Corporation

I’m now in the Windows CE Kernel Base Development Group.

jeffgla /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Jeff McLeman

1992 - 94

MochaWorks, Inc.

President and CEO.  MochaWorks provides services and products in the embedded Java space.

jeffmc /at/ mochaworks /dot/ com

Jim LeSage 1985 - 88 Hynomics

Two stints at DECWest 85 to 88 then again in the Mid 90s. Currently VP Engineering at Hynomics. Ignore the website we are being stealthy. We are looking for a Principal level SW Engineers with a very solid math background if anyone is unhappy.

jlesage /at/ hynomics /dot/ com

Jim Teague

 

Microsoft Corporation

Program Manager

jimte /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Joe Mitchell

 

Legato Systems, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

jrm1 /at/ isomedia /dot/ com

Joe Notarangelo

joenote /at/ nwlink /dot/ com

Joe White

 

Pacific Lutheran University

Visiting Professor of Music (Orchestra)

whitejp /at/ plu /dot/ edu (work), jpw /at/ bialystock-bloom /dot/ com

John Bingham

 

DECwest until it was not DECwest

bingham552 /at/ aol /dot/ com

John Coombs

1985 - 88

 Dell Computer Corp.

I was the PRISM hardware product manager from August 1985 to December 1988. After my 7 years at DEC East and DECwest, I was product line manager for the SPARCcenter2000 at Sun Microsystems, started European marketing & sales operations at Auspex, and managed the real-time and file server product lines at SGI.

From 7/99 through 01/02 I was VP of marketing at CALEB Technologies, an Austin-based airline operations-recovery software company (57% share! in a volatile! market).

For the last year, I've been doing market research & long-term planning for the Precision workstation group at Dell, Inc.

jcoombs /at/ gsbalum /dot/ uchicago.edu

John DeRosa

1992 - 96 Fisher Communications I'm now Director of Web Development for the Fisher Interactive Network division.

stugots /at/ qwest /dot/ net

John Faust

1990 - 94

 

94-97 - US West Advanced Technologies, Boulder, CO, working on the "Information Superhighway".  Once it worked, marketing decided they couldn't make money on it and cancelled the project.

97-02 - Equator Technologies, Inc., working on software for Equator's chip targeting digital audio and video applications.

02-present - Raven Technologies, Inc.  Contracting back to Equator.

Currently looking...

john /at/ raventech /dot/ org

John Gilbert 1987 - 94  

Finished my 21 years with DEC at DECwest.  Had a great time until company politics changed the role of the site.  Went off to Autodesk for a few years, and then to Network Computing Devices, where I was when the dreaded "dot com bubble" burst.  Now playing with dynamic Web stuff on NT/XP and Linux - good fun!

john_gilbert00 /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

John Madsen

 

 

JohnMadsen /at/ comcast /dot/ net

John Metzger

 

Adobe Systems Inc.

I’m now a senior engineering manager in Core Technology responsible for the out of box experience.

metz123 /at/ comcast /dot/ net

John Painter

 

Dover Synergy

Worked on DEC OSF/1 and storage management projects at DECwest.  Now I am a high-end "jack of all trades" in Architecture, Frameworks, and Analysis in a company I've co-founded

tjp /at/ conflux /dot/ net

John Parchem

Microsoft Corp.

 

johnp /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Joseph King

 

 

joseph.f.king-3 /at/ worldnet /dot/ att.net

Joseph Traub

1993 - 95

Amazon.com

Working at Amazon on their associates team as a software engineer

jtraub /at/ dragoncat /dot/ net (home), jtraub /at/ amazon /dot/ com (work)

Judy Fox

 

 

judy_fox /at/ msn /dot/ com

Kamran Ravakoli 1997 - 99 Adaptec, Inc. Ported Kernel drivers to Alpha platform, worked on bios and pci issues. kamrantav /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Karen Rask

1997 - 99

Microsoft Corporation

Product Manager

krask /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Kathryn Ormiston

1990 - 99

Singingfish.com

 

ormiston /at/ singingfish /dot/ com

Kathy Appellof

1989 - 00

 

Very happily retired living on the Central Coast of California.  Carl and I live in a beautiful new home that's located on the 6th fairway of the Cypress Ridge Golf Course.  Check out http://www.cypressridge.com.

kappellof /at/ charter /dot/ net

Kellie Phillips

1992 - 99 Hewlett-Packard

I am the SMB go-to-market manager for the Imaging and Printing Organization. I've been in Boise for the past 8 years - now moving to Vancouver - Dec. 2007...

kellie_phillips /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Ken Abramson

1982 - 96

NEC

At DECwest: microcode firmware, diagnostics, simulations, CAD, software, multiprocessor OS research

Now at NEC: manage the server technology engineering group

Ken.Abramson /at/ necsam /dot/ com

Ken Martin    

Worked on AdvFS from 1994 until the next round of layoffs.  Yes, I'm one of the last few people left here - at least for now....

fletcher /at/ catsreach /dot/ org

Ken Serack

1986 - 00 DocuSign

I'm back at DocuSign, being an Ops geek!  

kserack /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Ken Thomas

Tegic Communications

Senior Product Manager

kthomas /at/ tegic /dot/ com

Kerry Thalmann 1987 - 88 Intel Corporation

Former DECwest HW designer working on memory bus controller ASIC under Mike Wallulis.  In the 17 years since I left DECwest, I worked at Intel for 7½ years, was self-employed as a photographer for 5½ years (see web site), and now back at Intel for four years.  I live in Beaverton, OR and have three kids (10, 10 and 6½). I coach 4th grade basketball, and I have to say, my 4th graders could probably beat our "mighty" DECwest team from back in 1987-88.  Why not, everybody else did.

kerry /at/ thalmann /dot/ com

Kevin Dunlap

Cisco Systems, Inc.

dunlap /at/ acm /dot/ org

Kevin Farlee

 

Legato Systems, Inc.

 

kevin /at/ farlee /dot/ com

Kim Peterson

Amazon.com

Latched on with the performance group at Amazon, featuring some other DECwesters.

rkimpeterson /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Kris Barker

 

Express Metrix, LLC

Co-founder and CEO. Express Metrix was founded on 09/01/00, and sells the Express line of desktop asset management products. (Express was formerly a WRQ, Inc. product line.)

kbarker /at/ expressmetrix /dot/ com

Kurt White 1983 - 93

Yoh Company LLC

Currently contracting at ATTWS as Project Manager deploying E911 Phase 2 across the country.

ksjcdwhite /at/ aol /dot/ com
LeeAnn Stivers 1988 - 05 Nature Vision Took HP Early Retirement package Oct. 2005 to start new career. I'm now teaching (environmental ed for NatureVision) and going to school (Masters in Teaching). What's next? Maybe trying out life as a middle school science teacher in 2007/2008! (Hardest work I ever loved!) leeann_s /at/ comcast /dot/ net
Liane (Hume) Hanson 1987 - 02

Illustrator/Web designer/editor. Left with the bulk of the UNIX engineering group in November, 2002. Enjoying this unexpected time at home, but looking for similar work. Will do windows

steve.liane /at/ verizon /dot/ net

Linda Loux

1996 - 00

Rosetta Inpharmatics

One of the last to leave COG.  Went to work for Rosetta right away.  It was a biotech start-up that was acquired by Merck.

Linda_Loux /at/ Merck /dot/ com

Liz Hunt

1986 - 95

We're back in the great northwest!  Living in Kirkland and loving it.

liz /at/ starwhite /dot/ net

Lynn Wolf 1995 - 97 Northrop Grumman

I am a senior account executive with the commercial-facing group of Northrop Grumman, responsible for American Honda and Toyota accounts, as well as business development.  We provide managed IT infrastructure services as well as a range of related services.  Prior to joining NG in 2002, I sold for Sun Microsystems from 1997-2001.  In my last assignment at SUN I was corporate account manager for Northrop Grumman.

lynn.wolf /at/ ngc /dot/ com

Marcia Aguero

F5 Networks, Inc.

Senior Technical Writer

agueroma /at/ whidbey /dot/ com

Maren Bocinsky

 

Microsoft Corporation

I'm the vendor account manager for the outsource manufacturer of Microsoft's IMD (Consumer) products for North America.

marenb /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Mark Anderson

 

 

The5MnMs /at/ aol /dot/ com

Mark W. Davis Did a little bit of everything.  Now doing nothing!

mwd /at/ netvisage /dot/ net

Masato Maeda

1998 - 00

Hewlett-Packard

At DECwest, I had developed new Alpha platform support software (AlphaBIOS/NT HAL).  Digital was acquired by Compaq and had moved to Industry Standard Server group where I had developed system management software.  Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and still doing development of system management software.

Masato.Maeda /at/ hp /dot/ com

Matt Buchman

Legato Systems, Inc.

 

mbuchman /at/ legato /dot/ com

Matthew LaPine

VERITAS Corp

matt_lapine /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Michael C. Berg

1996 - 99

Cray, Inc.

I moved in early 2004 to Cray from Intel where I was designing JIT Back-Ends and post link optimizers. I'm currently designing/developing retargetable Back-Ends for X1 and Opteron targets. I was the Claxp Lead Compiler engineer working within the GEM Middle-End compiler and within the Microsoft Back-End compiler.

spinnaker22001 /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Michael J. Tardiff 1986 - 92 WhitePages.com, Inc.

I'm senior program manager for our business division, W3 Data.

Any time I'm not doing that, I sail the waters of the Northwest aboard a 25-foot or 38-foot sloop.

mjt /at/ taoproductions /dot/ com
Michael Parker 1988 - 92     marketingeek /at/ pacbell /dot/ net

Miche Baker-Harvey

 

 

 

michebh /at/ yahoo /dot/ com.

Michelle Alexander

 

Microsoft Corporation

 

micale /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Mike Brady 1991 - 03 Cray, Inc.

THEN:  Suffered unto the early years of Windows NT on Alpha.  Graduated to AdvFS testing and later task-sliced many COG activities (managed "rust" for 2+ years - someone please nominate me for the first Nobel SysAdmin prize.)

NOW:  Architecting and developing tests and configuration management processes for upcoming supercomputer operating system.

mbrady /at/ cray /dot/ com

Mike Lempriere

 

Vintners.net and Cisco Systems

Vintners.net is my home website hosting business; Cisco systems is the day gig.

Mike /at/ Vintners /dot/ net

Mike Ritz

 

 

Did What: Director Product Management, Director Business Operations.  Doing What: Seeking a new opportunity in Strategic Alliance Management with a medium to large ISV.

Michael.ritz /at/ att /dot/ net

Mike Thomas

1987 - 97

Pixelworks

After DECwest (where I worked on Mica/Prism, Ozix, ODE, and VC++ for Alpha) I went to Equator for about a year, ConneXt for 3 months (90 days longer than I wanted), Legato for 11 months, then back to Equator for the last 5 years.

I'm still at Equator, but it has been bought by Pixelworks, so we skipped that whole pesky IPO thing.

sar840t2 /at/ Yahoo /dot/ com

Mike Wallulis

 

Vixel Corp.

I am working on management software for Fibre Channel switches and hubs.

mwallulis /at/ vixel /dot/ com

Min-Chih Lu Earl

 

Citrix Systems, Inc.

 

Min-ChihL /at/ citrix /dot/ com

Miriam Amos Nihart 1988 - 94 Philips Medical Systems

Building premier medical ultrasound systems since 1997.

Miriam.Amos.Nihart /at/ philips /dot/ com

Monty Vanderbilt

1995 - 00

Amazon.com

Worked on NuMega's NT kernel debugger for a couple years then joined some of the old gang at Amazon.

mvanderbilt /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Mukund Sankaranarayan

 

Microsoft Corporation

 

mukunds /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Mupopa Tshibuabua

1994 - 99

 

Worked on the CLAXP compiler and implemented the incremental linker for Visual C++ on Alpha. Went back to Microsoft (1999 to 2003) as senior OEM and developer support engineer for Windows XP graphics and printer drivers. Currently taking courses for the Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate and looking for work.

mupopa /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Nigel Haslock

 

Excel Data Corporation

 

fiacha /at/ antir /dot/ com

Niklas Gustafsson

Xylo, Inc.

 

niklasg /at/ xylo /dot/ com

Ning Zhao

 

Credit Swisse Group

I just joined CSFB as Semiconductor Analyst based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. I graduated from Columbia Business School in 1999.

nicholasshao /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Pete Crouch   Digeo, Inc.

I'm the controller at Digeo, hoping to avoid adding to my streak of working for failed startups.

Pete.Crouch /at/ digeo /dot/ com

Pete Stoppani

UIEvolution, Inc.

I’m the Principal Architect for our user interface platform for wireless applications.

pete /at/ uievolution /dot/ com

Phil Cahan Sprint Wireless Data consulting phil /at/ cahan /dot/ us

Phil Hutchinson

1992 - 97

Nintendo Of America

 

I was the technical lead on the CLAXP compiler from '94 to '97, allowing my coworkers to spend time on the Black project.  I then went over to BSquare, where I was a senior engineer and tech lead for the ARM and THUMB compilers.

After leaving BSquare, I took a contract position at Microsoft, giving me a paycheck and getting me out of the house every day.

Now, I'm doing some more ARM/Thumb compiler work - getting paid for things that I know how to do.

phil /at/ cascadehomebuyers /dot/ com

Phuc S. Dinh

Intel Corporation

 

phuc.s.dinh /at/ intel /dot/ com

Pradeep Saxena 1996 - 00

HP

Was Sr. Solution Architect & Project Manager.
Worked as PM, Oracle DBA, NT/UNIX System Admin, Tru'64 Clustering consultant

pradeep.saxena /at/ hp /dot/ com
Ramesh Kannan 1997 - 00 Cisco Systems

At DECwest, I was working on the VC++ tools, mainly porting the VC++ backend of the compiler to Alpha.  Worked on the code gen, instruction scheduling/slotting, trap shadow processing etc.  Also worked on the compiler front end and middle end and VC debugger.  Currently I am in bay area working for Cisco Systems where I manage the SW tools group that design and develop compiler/simulator/assembler/debugger and related tools for a custom designed network processor

shivakannan /at/ yahoo /dot/ com
Rebecca Allen    

The former compiler engineer formerly known as Rebecca Crowley rode a fast arc through Spry and Amazon.com and is assiduously working on her fifth year of being gainfully unemployed.

rla /at/ seanet /dot/ com

Reid Brown

1981 - 98

BioPassword Inc.

At DECwest, Product Manager from 1981 to 1990. SW engineer and manager in Storage from 1990 to 1998.

Since Digital, I've worked for a succession of small companies, mostly startups. My current company, BioPassword, uses your typing pattern/rhythm as a secondary form of user authentication on top of username/password.
reid.brown /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Richard Kaufmann

1991 - 1994 Hewlett-Packard Been doing high performance computing at HP since 1994. Living in San Diego.

rsk /at/ san /dot/ rr /dot/ com

Robin Alexander

 

 

robin /at/ tartanlatte /dot/ com

Robin Dunn 1994 - 98 Unisys, Inc

Left DEC/Compaq to work at Wyle, then on to Dell Computer and now Unisys.  Miss the group, I have five grandchildren.  Please feel free to send me an email to my msn.com account.

rbdunn /at/ msn /dot/ com

Roger K. Mizumori

 

Waterforest Consulting Services

I was the Exchange Product Manager for Alpha.  Currently consulting and exploring opportunities

rogermiz /at/ earthlink /dot/ net

Roger Talkov

AppWorx Corp

Senior Java Developer

rtalkov /at/ appworx /dot/ com

Sameer Dekate

Calient Networks

 

sameer /at/ calient /dot/ net

Sean McGrane

 

Microsoft Corporation

 

smcgrane /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Scott Bingham 1997 - 00 Legato Systems, Inc.

Was: Doing Sustaining Engineering on HALs and AlphaBIOS.

Am: Development Engineering on NetWorker Module for Exchange Server.

sbingham /at/ legato /dot/ com

Scott Lee

 

Legato Systems, Inc.

 

leesc_scl /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Shamaron Austin 1997 - 02 Net Solution People, Inc.

Did testing, network administration, and automation development.

Currently run my own business which targets small to medium sized business networks, where IT Management is needed.  Essentially, I manage all aspects of small to medium sized businesses proving 360 degree hardware, software, and services support.

sham /at/ netsolutionpeople /dot/ com
Shawn Marier   HP (DECwest)

One of the few survivors of the latest round of layoffs.  Still working on AdvFS.

shawn.marier /at/ hp /dot/ com

Shell S. Simpson

Hewlett-Packard

Software Engineer working on NT graphics drivers for the Color LaserJet

shell_simpson /at/ hp /dot/ com

Son VoBa

 

Microsoft Corporation

 

SVoBa /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Steve Cook

 

IBM

I worked at DECwest from 1996-1999 in the NT Clusters group, I developed MIGWIZ.  I work in IBM's Server Group, eServer xSeries, developing 64-bit Windows platform software and 32-bit user applications.  At IBM I get to work with other DECwest alumni Andy Kegel, Brian You, and Valentin Danciu

cooksd /at/ us /dot/ ibm.com

Steve Jenness

1987 - 96

 

 

smjenness /at/ comcast /dot/ net

Steve Wells 1980 - 92 SPMjobs

I was Product Manager for MicroVAX 2000, LA 100/210, PC Multimedia Options, DEC 325 PC Laptop, Menu-11, MicroVax worldBox. Worked for 2 years in Low End System Product Marketing Group in Munich, GY. 

Currently living in Seattle area looking for work here.  I am volunteering for a free SPMjobs web community service. (see URL).  It's an all volunteer organization for product marketing/management professionals seeking employment.

SteveWellsWA /at/ msn /dot/ com

Steven Baker

1987 - 99

Loft Recording & Gothic Records

I worked in a little department called Facilities with some wild cats named Jac, Greg & Mark.  After getting hit in the back of the head with a layoff, I bounced around through a few jobs until some idiot decided to fly some planes into the WTC.  I was then on active duty in the Air Force until 2003.  Which is when I made the move to retire after 22 years.  I then bounced around a bit until I found this little gig as Business manager for Loft Recordings and Gothic Records.  The one down side on that was that I had to move to Orcas island.  That really irked me.  So now I have to live in a little cabin in Deer Harbor right on the water.  ;*)  Good luck to all of you!!! PEACE!!!

steve /at/ loftrecordings /dot/ com

Steven D. Yee

1995 - 98

Network Appliance Inc.

Relocated back to Bellevue from CA.

notanerd /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Susan Gilhang (nee Susan Renee Crowley) 1985 - 94 Endeavor Consulting/The Write Stuff Worked at DEC for close to 10 yrs in HR, 5 yrs at DECwest and then moved to the Sales and Field Office.

Currently working at Endeavor Consulting as the Business Manager for the Write Stuff, a part of Endeavor.
susan /at/ writestuff /dot/ com
Teresa Guel 1997 - 99 Independent Consultant with Creative Memories At DECwest I worked in the Storage Group. Just had third & fourth child, Matthew and Joshua, in June '06. In the business of helping people manage their memories and memorabilia! teresaguel /at/ yahoo /dot/ com

Terry Morris

1985 - 97  

Hangin' out in Kirkland at Brocade with Chris Saether & David Felt.

tgmsea /at/ earthlink /dot/ net

Tom VanBaak

retired from VERITAS

tvb /at/ mail /dot/ com

Trent Rambo

1998 - 99

Hewlett-Packard

trentra /at/ gmail /dot/ com

Wes Ono

1996 - 99

Legato (EMC Software Group)

Worked in the DECwest Storage group from 1996-99.  Went to Legato and was acquired by EMC in October 2003.  Returned to Bellevue in July '05 after a three year detour to Chicago.

w_ono /at/ hotmail /dot/ com

Will Lees

 

Microsoft Corporation

Distributed Systems, Windows NT Development Group

wlees /at/ microsoft /dot/ com

Willie Lewis

Amazon.com

williel /at/ amazon /dot/ com

Wim Colgate

wimcolgate /at/ gmail /dot/ com

 


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