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Engineering Mentoring: SEED
Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development
SEED is Sun Engineering's world wide employee mentoring program.
SEED program participants are expected to rise to the top of Sun Engineering's
individual contributor or management ranks.
Greg Papadopoulos (Chief
Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and
Development) is SEED's executive sponsor.
In more than 20 terms, there have been over 600 SEED participants and
over 300 mentors World-wide. About 75% of SEED mentors are Vice
Presidents, Fellows, Distinguished Engineers, or Directors. Since 2001,
the SEED program has a proven track record of strong diversity, very
high satisfaction, high regard by management, and high retention. SEED
participants as a group earn more promotions and higher performance
ratings than Sun overall.
SEED Program Priorities are:
- Increase the value, satisfaction, and retention of program
participants and their mentors.
- Build Sun's Engineering community by making and
strengthening connections between its members and with the
rest of Sun.
- Work to balance the diversity of participants in terms of
demographics, professional area, and geographic location.
External candidates will apply for a Sun job in research, design,
development engineering, or a related discipline. Once candidates have a
Sun job offer, they can apply for the SEED program or work with their
Sun recruiter to make the application. The acceptance decisions on the
Sun job and SEED participation will be made by different groups; however,
all SEED participants must work at Sun.
SEED runs six terms in an average year. The Recent Hire term runs
September to September (with applications in June), other terms run for
six months. The SEED participant reports to their home organization while
participating in the program; it is not a rotation program.
Want to know more about SEED?
Read Katysblog at:
http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog
Want to know more about SEED participants, mentors, managers,
and program staff?
Read their blogs at:
http://research.sun.com/SEED/seed.blogs.html
List of Publications About SEED:
Overview
2007
2006
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"Success Metrics from Mentoring by the Numbers"
Silicon Valley Chapter - Project Management Institute,
description of talk by Katy Dickinson, December 14, 2006
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"Mentoring for Employee Development"
National Center for Women & Information Technology
(NCWIT)
Social Scientists picked SEED among Promising Practices
as the Case Study in this report, 2006 (2 pages, PDF format)
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"Mentors can help women shatter glass ceiling - Senior colleagues can toot
your horn, bringing you money and power"
by Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC contributor, Nov 19, 2006
(mentoring quote on the 2nd page)
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"20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry - If you agree that there's no such thing as an IT project, you may already be on your way up the ladder"
by Dan Tynan, October 16, 2006, InfoWorld
(SEED is part of "10. Find Your Yoda")
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"5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers"
4-7 October 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and
Computing, San Diego
Program Schedule for GHC Session 1 - Thursday, October 5, 2006
"5 Years of Executive Mentoring" TechLeaders - Building and
Sustaining Change in Technology Cultures: Showcasing What Works
(October 4, 2006, San Diego, CA)
- Information Week in Israel, 28 Feb 2006 (in Hebrew,
with a photo)
2005
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"Outsourcing is essential for survival of companies" (SEED is
mentioned), interview with Crawford W Beveridge, Executive
Vice President (People & Places) and Chief Human Resource Officer interview,
Deccan Herald > Economy & Business > Detailed Story,
April 11, 2005
2004 and earlier
- "Bit by
Bit: Mentoring & Practical Approaches to Advancing Women in High Tech"
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
("GHC 2004") Moderator: Katy Dickinson, 7 October 2004
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Rhonda Holt (VP of Grid Engineering Program Office) interview,
DiversitySearch - Up Close & Virtual Interviews,
2004 (mentions SEED)
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"SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development"
Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication
in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic
Publication Date : 17 May 2004
(5 pages, PDF format)
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"Nurturing a Culture of Innovation" Express Computer
May 2004 article on SEED program and participants in India
Engineering Center (IEC) in Bangalore
- "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters
Growth New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior
Staff Mentors" Paragon Pinnacles > Volume 73 > Issue 3 > Sun Features >
(March 15, 2004, Article #12480, Volume 73, Issue 3)
- "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters
Growth - New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior Staff
Mentors" Sun System News, March 15, 2004, Article #12480,
Volume 73, Issue 3
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"Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article on
SEED, 18 Feb 2004 [was featured on both the www.sun.com and
research.sun.com home pages]
- "Sun (SEED) program pairs college recruits with senior
engineering mentors, 23 Feb 2004 link to
"Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article
from LSTN
(Learning & Teaching Support Network for Engineering section on
"UK & World Media News"- now
called The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre)
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"Mentoring and Being Mentored on the Technology Track"
by Carla King, published on "developers.sun.com -
The Source for Developers", 2003 [Now called Sun Developer Network or SDN]
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Bit by Bit: Catalyst's Guide to Advancing Women in High
Tech Companies, SEED is the featured case study in
the "Use Mentoring and Networks to Win" section (page 106), book
published by Catalyst
(Catalyst document #16146), 2003, ISBN 0-89584-243-2
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