Hi Gear, Lo Intensity

The first section deals with workplace issues and experiences, based on empirical data - actual experiences through the eyes and ears of someone who was really there. The second section deals with personal observations, musings, anecdotes, and life lessons. All are based on the author’s perspective. Technocrat or technopeasant, Luddite or geek - here you can find the author's pensive insights, observations, experiences, musings, and anecdotes of a life working in high tech from Boston to Silicon Valley, from South Florida to Southern California, in Asia and various lands in between.

Jeffrey J. Phillips, PMP(R) has worked at Fortune 50 and start-up companies for 30+ years. Starting his career in the early days of the UNIX operating system at AT&T Bell Labs, he then spent a decade developing innovative personal computers at NEC's PC division. Next he moved to Sony for a few years pioneering and developing their hard disk image process while bringing the first generation of Sony's VAIO 505 laptop to market. After working for four years at Microsoft's MSTV division, he spent the next two decades as a key leader on teams that collaborated on the planning, design, development, launch, manufacture, distribution and support of innovative set-top boxes and gateways while occasionally giving classroom instruction on Project Management as a discipline. Now, in between volunteer work at a non-profit organization and looking for his next full-time job in high tech, he enjoys creative writing, time with his wife and family, exploring spirituality, and living in northern California.