Engineering is the way to bring jobs back to America

We are facing an ongoing threat to America's global economic leadership and increasing the number of engineers in our workforce is one powerful way we can change our destiny as a country.In Silicon Valley we have one engineering job open for every two engineers that are employed - this means it is hard to find enough qualified workers and so companies move jobs offshore to India and China where they graduate many more engineers than we do. Today we simply do not have enough people trained in the "STEM" areas [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:03:08-08:00October 25, 2011|Career Advice|2 Comments

Impressed by Senator Gillibrand this morning

I'm usually a cynic when it comes to politicians. Self serving, too slick for my taste, partisan and generally not trustworthy. The only exceptions I have met personally and really liked were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.But this morning I met another one - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.Breakfast at the DLA Piper offices in East Palo Alto. 95 people - mostly lawyers - a sea of grey and navy (clothes that is, although there was plenty of grey hair too).After the usual gracious introductions the Senator spoke about the issues she [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:10:54-08:00January 19, 2011|My Personal Journey|0 Comments
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