A good run at RIM indeed.  Over the 6.5 years I was there, we launched
more than 50 products.  I worked with Bev and a group of amazing hard
working chaps.  Be able to work on those latest equipment is a treat of
itself.  Work for a director that fully understand the tech issue with
business savvy is hard to find.  I got notice one and half year early...
It is a small field,  we may cross our career path again some point..Keep
in touch and Best of luck.
Best wishes.
                 joyce
> TechNetters,
>
> Well, at about two months shy of fifteen years, I have received my layoff
> notice from RIM -> Blackberry for the 27th of November.  What a ride!  I
> got
> to work for a company that changed the world. They let me go to IPC APEX
> the
> week BEFORE I joined the company (and paid for it), build a group of 50 of
> the greatest people and buy new, state-of-the art equipment so we had a
> lab
> comparable to the other two best electronics manufacturing industry labs
> in
> Canada. I joined when we were selling a little pager sized e-mail device
> that ran on an AA battery. It was so tough you could literally throw it at
> a
> wall, pop the battery back in and it kept on ticking.  The ride up was
> fantastic and the ride down has been as fast, although not nearly as much
> fun.  Over the last four years I picked people and I walked them out the
> door.  For sure the worst moments of my life in any job.  For a number of
> reasons the company lost its leading edge advantage  and is now just a
> shell
> of its former self.  I wish my remaining  compatriots there all the best,
> as
> it morphs into. ??.
>
>
>
> Anybody have a need for a slightly used chemist/lab administrator?  I am
> not
> ready to hang up my spurs yet.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bev Christian
>
>
>
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