After Oracle officially took over Sun Microsystems, Oracle and I went in our separate directions. This happened on Friday January 29th, 2010. The plan was for me to take off until fall 2010. That plan changed two weeks later after having lunch with Doug Woods, the President for the Association of Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Just like Vito Corleone in the movie The Godfather, Doug made me an offer I could not refuse :-) After a week Doug and I agreed that AMT would create The Office of Strategic Innovation where I would be the Director and report directly to him as a consultant. A few weeks after that I started part time consulting for AMT and currently I am full time.
This was an easy decision as the most fun I have had in my career was working on MTConnect with Dr. Dave Patterson of UCB, along with the other UCB professors, Dr. Armando Fox, Will Sobel, Dr. Dave Dornfeld as well as with the CTO and VP of Technology for AMT - Paul Worndorf. Doug Woods was the Chairman of the Board and John Byrd was the President of AMT when these two invested seven figures for the creation of MTConnect. AMT has proven itself as a true thought leader among all associations.
Virtual Photons Electrons, LLC was created with my wife, Julie H. Edstrom as the President and CFO with me as the CEO/CTO. I thought I have worked for her for 26.5+ years of marriage, so I might as well make it official :-)
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