Ron Schmidt, technical co-founder of SynOptics/Bay Networks, is new President of Lucent WEST in Silicon Valley. Ron is hiring all top remaining talent away from NORTEL/BAY who were loyal to Ron.
Ron was Senior CTO at Xerox PARC Labs before SynOptics. Ron has been a pioneer in Photonics since 1984 published paper on Optical Switching.
Why is Mr. Schmidt still working? Cuz he is a mad scientist playing in a wonderful sandbox called Bell Labs with all it's resources at his disposal.
Caution to NT, Cisco, Ciena, Juniper, NN, Alcatel, Siemens, NET, Ericsson, NEC, Nokia.
Ron is building a innovation army of dedicated LU West scientists who can think New World and market like SynOptics did; along the way filing barrier patents to cover their rear.
Ron was on board pf directors at VitalSigns (Sequioa Venture) which INS (the famed Cisco integrator) just bought. |
