Speaker: Dr. Scott Wilkinson, Senior Director, Technical Marketing, MRV Communications Americas

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 since 1996. In his role as
Senior Director of Technical Marketing at MRV, he leads a team that operates as a bridge
between the development and sales organizations, helping to evangelize MRV's suite of optical
transport and carrier Ethernet solutions worldwide.

Prior to MRV, Dr. Wilkinson was the Vice President for Product Management and System Engineering for Hitachi’s North American telecommunications division, which developed and deployed a wide  variety of technologies from the home to the network core. Before Hitachi, Dr. Wilkinson was with Parama Networks, a developer of industry-leading System-on-a-Chip solutions for SONET/SDH  networks. He previously worked for Kestrel Solutions, a company developing Frequency Division Multiplexing equipment for low-cost, high speed fiber optics transmission systems. Dr. Wilkinson started his career with Fujitsu Network Communications in product management and planning for their SONET and DWDM products.
 
Dr. Wilkinson earned his Ph.D. 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.