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Focus: Managing Engineers and Dreaming Big. 

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FEATURED EXECUTIVE - Wayne Rosing

Wayne Rosings' training has been in mathematics, physics and astronomy.  Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems and headed the spin-off First Person. At Sun Labs, his team developed Java. Rosing served as Vice President of Engineering at Google from January 2001 to May 2005. 

He is a computer engineer by vocation, and has been programming, doing computer, electronics and optical design and telescope engineering since high-school.

Most recently, Wayne founded Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCOGT) now located in Goleta, CA.  At LCOGT, he and his staff of engineers and scientists are currently developing scores of 1 & 0.4 meter aperture telescopes to be placed in various locations around the world.  These telescopes will be used  for scientific research as well as be available for educational use by "learners of all ages."

You can check their work out at: http://lcogt.net/

Mr. Rosing currently resides in Santa Barbara, CA.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Mr. Rosing was one of the pioneers in the Silicon Valley from the 1970's to the mid 2000's.  His talents, work, and managing of the brightest minds during the computer revolution have compounded into an ability to be a wealth of knowledge for you and your efforts as a leading entrepreneur in Santa Barbara.  The insights he will share with regards to hiring the right people and how to manage them successfully, the Google way, will sharpen your hiring focus.  Moreover, his passion of astronomy and current pursuits will further empower you to follow your dreams.  He is a humble man with a great excitement for understanding life and creating things never imagined.  Come to leave a better entrepreneur. 

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