Mickie Phipps

Mickie Phipps worked for IBM for nearly six years in various management and leadership positions from 1999 through 2004. She spent two of those years as a second-line manager and project manager in the Sony/Toshiba/IBM Design Center, responsible for both the PowerPC core and the 240 people who designed it for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. She held ultimate responsibility for an on-schedule delivery of a functioning design to the manufacturing team. Prior to her position with IBM, Ms. Phipps served as the Deputy Director of Engineering at Eaton Corporation, a company that develops large semiconductor manufacturing equipment. She spent twenty years with the United States Air Force, first as an active duty officer and then later as a civil servant and as a Reservist. Most of her service centered on research and development of future generation airborne weapons. Ms. Phipps, now a retired USAF Reservist, resides in Kingsland, Texas, with her husband Jerry. She owns and operates an online bookstore and is pursuing a long-overdue career in writing. She holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and a M.S. degree in management from Troy State University of Troy, Alabama.