Vallerie Parrish-Porter George D. Peterson, Charles E. Phillips, Jr. Robert L. Shepard, Ph.D. John Brooks Slaughter,
CIO, Sr. Vice President Ph.D., P.E President Executive Director Ph.D., P.E.
Embarq Corporation Executive Director Oracle Corporation Science and Engineering President and CEO
ABET, Inc. Alliance, Inc. (SEA) NACME
“They have one of the most efficient from Stanford and a Ph.D. in electrical Linux performance in the “Open Source”
agencies in terms of doing really good engineering from Rice University, joined community.
research,” the congresswoman said. “The IBM Corporation two decades ago, and
NSF has conducted most of the education was a part of the team that prototyped Johnson has 17 patents or patents pend-
research needed in terms of finding ways the Scalable Parallel Processor (SP2), the ing, and in 2002 was elected to the IBM
to improve achievement levels in science base machine for the “Deep Blue” chess Academy of Technology, the first black
and math among minority children. That championship machine. Among her skills woman to be so honored.
is where the future is. was the ability to develop software simula-
tors of computer architectures, permitting Marcia Page
“We have been working hard to close the intensive evaluation and critiquing of President and CEO
achievement gap in math and science prospective designs. Foundation for Community Empowerment
between white children and minority Marcia Page joined the Foundation for
children. But we have a ways to go.” Johnson, an expert in UNIX and its Community Empowerment in Febru-
variants, also became a leader in the ary, 2005, as a loaned executive from
Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D. Java revolution, leading a technical team Texas Instruments. She stayed, and as
Senior Technical Staff Member, examining how well Java servers worked FCE’s President and CEO – a post she
Chief Technology Officer, Global Small and with legacy systems on IBM server plat- assumed in September 2006 – Page is
Medium Business forms. In 2000, she became manager of responsible for the Foundation’s strategic
IBM Corporation the WebSphere Database Development direction and the alignment of its core
Dr. Sandra K. Johnson is a pioneer electri- Department, leading the development initiatives: community building, institu-
cal engineer whose biggest successes occur and delivery of WebSphere integration tional and systemic change, and research.
out of the sight of the general public, but features into the DB2 database system, Before stepping into the CEO role, she
rapidly change the way the general public and VisualAge for Java, helping IBM spearheaded the highly successful Dallas
does business. That is because her biggest drive its “seamless computing” initiative Achieves school reform pilot project on
innovations have profoundly changed the in the business-systems market. 26 Dallas Independent School District
way computers work, especially the large campuses in South and West Dallas.
systems that are at the heart of networks In 2003, Johnson moved over to Linux, as
changing the way the U.S. and the world IBM Linux Technology Center perform- Page joined Texas Instruments in 1995
communicate, make and record financial ance architect. There, she worked with as director of business excellence in the
transactions, and conduct activities from IBM server brands and middleware teams Semiconductor Group. Since then she has
the mundane to the major-league. to address common Linux performance served as director of worldwide customer
issues, help resolve them in hardware support, manager and then vice presi-
Johnson, a summa cum laude graduate design, work with the Linux distribution dent for worldwide eMarketing, and vice
of Southern University, with a M.Sc. partner liaisons, and advocate for quality
Chuck Smith William D. Smith, P.E. Paula Sneed Lauren C. States Nancy Stewart
President and CEO President, Executive VP VP SWG Senior VP & CTO
AT&T West Parsons Brinckerhoff Kraft Foods, Inc. Technical Sales Enablement Wal-Mart Inc.
Quade & Douglas, Inc. IBM
Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.
http:www.blackengineer.com
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