The cloud’s technology needs massive intelligent data centers and my client – a globally recognized infrastructure OEM – is fully integrating its products into solutions for these centers.

• Do you have a deep understanding of the physical infrastructure of electronic communications requirements within a data center environment and the technical skills to determine which interconnect products should be utilized to provide customers the architect for fully integrated solutions?

With experience in data centers and telecommunications infrastructure your engineering career can take a leap forward with this global leader of total product solutions to those companies building the cloud.

• Within my global client’s R&D group we are looking for a special engineering talent who has experience in physical architecture solutions and designing and choosing data center infrastructure products.

In this position you will work within my client’s R&D engineering team and directly with global customers such as Cisco, EMC, VMWare, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, QLogic, VCE to create the finest data center technology solutions available.

You will have strategic responsibility with resource recommendations and cross functional within the corporation’s sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing teams. You will also have tactical responsibility and use your talents to design infrastructure solutions and provide evaluations within the corporate engineering group and at customers’ locations.

• If you are looking for excitement in your engineering career and want to leverage your infrastructure product knowledge to help create the most efficient, innovative and intelligent data centers, we need to talk now.

Contact me directly and provide me an updated resume so that when we talk I can be more directed as we together explore this career option. 

Jack Bourque

President

                860-738-5035 ex: 23

www.WirelessCareers.com

LinkedIn profile

My client is embedding top application engineers into the engineering centers of its key customers who are building technology for the cloud’s data centers.

• Would you like to work inside EMC or Cisco or IBM or Rockwell Automation    representing my global client’s products and solutions with physical infrastructure architecture solutions?

In this responsibility you will interact with a specific key customer strategically providing unique recommendations and tactically by introducing products leading to the development of efficient, intelligent, scalable and innovative design centers.

• If you have experience in application engineering especially with physical infrastructure products and solutions and have the personality to be a valued partner within one of the company’s key accounts, then this career opportunity is just what you have been waiting for.

Use your understanding of the IT infrastructure environment for telecommunications and data centers and advance to this collaborative technical and products management resource responsibility.

Want to hear more?

Send along your updated resume, a private contact number and best time to reach you. 

• When we talk I can be more directed on locations and specific of why thisUSAbased OEM is considered one of the world’s leading providers of physical infrastructure for electronic communications within data centers and the cloud.

Jack Bourque

President

                860-738-5035 ex: 23

www.WirelessCareers.com

LinkedIn profile

A highly talented and well respected RF antenna engineering team needs a mature manager who can help the team concentrate on its designs and provide new market insight to antenna requirements.

This opportunity will best attract an experienced antenna engineering manager who sees this as a career closing responsibility or an upwardly challenged engineer manager who wants to be the leader of a globally recognized design team.

While managing the design and testing team of 7 engineers, this hands on antenna engineering manager will not only keep operations running efficiently, but though interfacing with marketing and manufacturing and participation in vendor selection will provide expanded wireless industry knowledge and potential go-forward opportunities to the design team.

Preference is for design experience both in theory and principles with base station antenna, but experience with other antenna in the 30 to 6000 MHz range including those used in RFID and IBS/DAS systems is desirable. Experience with modeling software such as NEC and HFSS is required. The company’s antennas are used in a variety of applications of broadcast, radio, cellular and personal communications systems.

Management experience should include budget forecasting, standards for quality and procedures, project feasibility methods, competitive analysis and customer interface.

The company is prepared to offer an above industry average compensation and a comprehensive relocation to attract an industry leader.

Jack Bourque
President
860-738-5035 ex: 23
www.WirelessCareers.com

LinkedIn profile

Global corporations are examining their carbon footprint and developing leadership programs in sustainable management.

A Bloomberg Businessweek article noted: “In a world beset by economic woes as well as environmental problems– from the scarcity of natural resources to climate change–sustainability represents one of the few potential bright spots.”

If your company is seeking a forward looking and innovative senior level director who will lead your company’s sustainability across a global footprint, I’d like you to meet a special person who might just be the right choice for you.

Although he comes from a background in telecomm/wireless technology his leadership in sustainable management can be applied to any manufacturing corporation.  He’s been employed by his current company for 11 years and for the past 2.5 years has led this multi-billion corporation’s global efforts in carbon measurement and reduction programs throughout its more than 700 sites.  His efforts have reduced the company’s total carbon footprint by more than 250 million metric tons in two years and resulted in savings of more than $25 million in energy and shipping costs.

From his director-level position his leadership has provided workshops and training programs at site levels and brought about better than 20% decrease in the corporation’s travel cost and nearly 50% increase in its video conferencing.

He is a leading industry spokesman in carbon reduction projects and sustainability programs and has brought to his corporation increased revenue, reduced waste, and promoted broader social and environmental awareness.

With an MBA and an advanced education in sustainable management from an executive program of one of the country’s leading business universities, he is a realistic leader who can guide your company in sustainability with methods for revenue increases and waste reduction that shareholders are requiring.

If you have a significant and real opportunity and want to advance your company’s leadership in its sustainability management programs, let’s talk about whether this candidate can be attracted to your corporation.

Call Jack  860-738-5035 ext: 23

My friend, Vijay, to whom I sent my written experience of sky diving, said the experience I shared with him created such a visual effect for him that he wrote the following poem.

High Act

You have been high

Way way up

Flying like the winged Pegasus

Out in the open azure sky

For your first air dive

Sniffing the dizzying heavens

Squinting at the stars afar

In your (O my God!) free fall

Overcoming the scary of high winds

In your speedy descent like a meteor 

-Exhilarating

And then sliding into smooth gliding

Scanning the calm and serene picturesque horizon

Gracefully hovering over familiar landmarks

Experiencing ecstasy of the setting sun

From perched above

Peaceful cottony cumulous clouds

-Tranquil

Finally swaying like a winged creatures

Gently easing into landing

Elegantly entering its abode

-Beautiful

You may have left the heights behind you

But understandably

The high will live on

-Congratulations!!

About a week after our sky dive, my wife and I were sitting on our deck watching the autumn leaves fall.  And she was moved to write the following:

Drop Zone

Gliding, twisting,

Graceful, quiet.

Open canopies

Approach the ground.

Adventurous descent.

Satisfying completion.

Sky-diving autumn leaves

Color the field.

Walt expertly (he told me that he had made thousands of jumps) guides the chute and reminds me of the instructions he gave me about putting my legs out in front of me (like in an “L” shape) so that when we land we can slide along the ground on our bottoms before the chute comes to rest. 

And then it is over.  We are on the ground, softly, and the chute falls to our left.  We are probably 15 feet from the target circle in the center of the landing field.

The camera woman, who I last held hands with at 10,000 feet, is right in front of me taking videos and asking “So how was it.”  I probably said something uncreative, although the 20 minute experience I just had — from the airplane take off to the landing — was everything that I could have imagined it would be.  I was thinking I really should have prepared something bright and witty to say.  But I didn’t, so I said whatever came into my thoughts at that moment.   

My daughters, unharnessed from their chute nearby in the field, come over to me and then my wife who was just off of the landing field.

We unite in a family hug, smiles on each of our faces.  My first skydive is over in its action but not in its effect. 

Back at the office and equipment area, I climb out of the harness and peel out of the blue jump suit.  And we gather and share our experiences.  Walt hands me a tandem jump certificate for 14,000 feet.  It is now posted in my office so whoever comes in can see it. 

Most people I know have never done this; most of them all wish that they had.

The experience will long continue in thoughts, in videos, in pictures, and clearly will be relived in my mind whenever anyone says “skydiving.”

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a shared experience - Jack & family, safely landed.

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(Continued in Sky Diving – installment 7)

Down we float, the farmers’ fields that surround the Ellington Airport coming more into view, and now the backyards and the homes in the nearby village. Over there I can see what appears to be a swimming pool closed for the winter and in another backyard what appears to be a swing set. If there are any people moving in these yards I can’t tell.  Is that because I can’t see them from this height or is it because it is a brisk 60 degrees on a late Sunday afternoon and they are firmly on the ground and, unlike me, safe in their homes.

I wonder if they watch the sky and see us parachuting down and have unfulfilled wishes about skydiving as I once did.  I know I will never have that feeling again.

While on the ground before our take off, Walt had told me how we would be connected in the jump and that the chute actually would be latched to my harness and he would be latched between it and me.  In the airplane a minute or so before we were about to jump, he connected us together by having me sit on his lap as he tighten each strap – I think there were four at least. These were the straps that held Walt and I as we floated and came closer to the ground.

Now we were over the airport and the manifest office of Connecticut Parachutists, Inc.  I can see my wife standing near the landing zone waving.  I wave back and yell something – probably just a “hi.” Maybe I should have said “I love you” because we still hadn’t landed and from what I had read while parachuting might be the first great thrill, landing is the second.

Jack coming in for the landing...

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(Continued in Sky Diving – installment 6)

As we float downward, Walt points out the skyline of Springfield about 25 miles to the North; we make out the skyline of Hartford about as far away to the South but partially obscured in an overcast. Between the two cities I can make out the dual traffic lanes of I-91 and the Connecticut River paralleling the interstate.

To the West the sun is setting – it is nearly 5 pm on a mid-October day, and the sky is brilliant red. There are only a few clouds. I try looking as far West as possible to see if I can make out any of the familiar western Connecticut hills where we live.  I see the formations but can’t distinguish one area from another.

Maybe if we had more time.  But there is no way we can stay aloft for long, Walt says, even though I ask him to keep us up as long as he can.  Parachutes eventually have to come down, he says.  If we can catch an unusual thermal uplift can we stay up a little longer and that only happens rarely, he says.

Walt asks if I want to hold the cords that direct the canopy and I decline.  I am content just to feel the directional changes he makes – though afterwards I am disappointed with myself that I didn’t take control.  Next time, and there will be a next time, I will take the controls when offered.

I catch a glimpse of a large lake to the East and wonder where it is and think that maybe I’ll come back to the area and look around at this beautiful eastern part of Connecticut where I have spent very little time exploring.

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~ free floating ~

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(Continued in Sky Diving – installment 5)

Jack's tandem dive - free falling

Then, poof, the canopy opens above us – there is no sudden jerk, it is all very smooth — and Walt says assuringly, “We have a full canopy.” And we begin our float under this rectangular shaped parachute at about 6,000 feet.  We had just dropped 8,000 feet in less than a minute (Walt says it was about 58 seconds).  And now there is silence.

I apologize to Walt for delaying our jump and not moving both feet at the same time in the plane and he tells me that we couldn’t have waited any longer because one of my daughters who was behind us and the last to leave the plane with her tandem instructor was getting further away from the drop zone. (I really didn’t need to hear that just then — that one of my four daughters who was helping me check off this item on my bucket list might have been in danger.) But now the two daughters who were able to make this jump and I are all floating under our parachutes heading down. I can’t see them but Walt says everything is good.

No longer is there the rush of wind.  It is quiet. Peaceful. Beautiful. Fulfilling.

As I am hanging in front of Walt, he points out the airport below, and adjusts one of the harness straps on my right leg to make it more comfortable.

And we float.

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(Continued in Sky Diving – installment 4)

Head back, feet curled, is the banana form you and your sky diving tandem instructor will take as you exit into the sky.  Can you do that, you are asked on the ground during the pre-flight instructions.  “Oh, yeah I can do that” is easy to say while on the ground during the instructions.

But now at 14,000 feet with nothing in front of me, it is quite different.  My right foot easily releases from the plane and curls under his legs, but not my left.  Something about facing the drop of 14,000 feet and not having anything to stand on. I want to yell something about some glue that is holding my foot to the floor. And then I think: that’s a stupid thing to say.

Two, maybe three times, Walt, my tandem instructor, yells “get your feet under me and off the floor.” Stuck there in a semi-freeze he shakes me and then as soon as the toes of my left foot rise above the floor out we go and into the sky.

The rush of wind in my ears is deafening.  Without the goggles provided for my eyes the view would have been obscure, but the earth below is green and filled with autumn colors and we fall face forward.  From that height everything below is flat.  There are no hills or valleys.  And I am thinking; “I am really doing this.” I catch my breath and we continue to fall face down and spin.

- ready to dive

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(Continued in Sky Diving – installment 3)