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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (37670)	12/24/1999 8:31:00 PM
From: Mehrdad Arya	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

New Coms Vice President Interesting article in Palm Beach Post. Motorola losing one of its top local execs December 24, 1999 BOYNTON BEACH -- Motorola is losing one of its top two executives at its manufacturing plant in Boynton Beach to networking giant 3Com. Julie Shimer, 47, will become vice president and general manager of 3Com's Residential Connectivity Group in Rolling Hills, Ill., a Chicago suburb. Shimer will oversee 3,000 3Com employees who produce networking products for the home. "What Julie will be responsible for is delivering the digital home," said her new boss, 3Com Senior Vice President Jef Graham. Shimer, who starts her new job in mid-January, couldn't be reached for comment Thursday. She's been with Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola for six years and was a corporate vice president and general manager of Smart and Connected Products in Boynton Beach. She was elected a Motorola corporate officer in 1998, when she was tapped to run the company's North American Paging Subscriber Division, the unit responsible for pagers in the U.S. and Canada. In her new job, Shimer will oversee the 3Com unit that produces routers that direct high-speed data from the Internet to home PCs and other so-called Internet appliances. The routers act as electronic traffic cops for data coming into the home. The unit, which already produces slightly less than 20 percent of 3Com's annual sales, is expected to be a major growth engine for the company as high-speed data transmission becomes more widespread. "What will happen in the future is there will be a variety of Internet appliances that will be connected in the home, and then these will be connected to the Internet by a gateway," 3Com's Graham said. "It's a big business for us, a billion-dollar business," Graham said. "We see Julie as an icon in this business. She's a Ph.D and a 'double E.' There's maybe a handful of women who have that background around the country." Shimer earned a doctorate in electrical engineering (the "double E") from Lehigh University and holds one patent. Her husband, Jary Shimer, also is with Motorola. The Shimers live in Boca Raton, and own and pilot their own plane. At Motorola's Boynton Beach plant -- Palm Beach County's second-largest private employer behind Pratt & Whitney -- Shimer has been sharing management responsibility with Iain Morris, corporate vice president and general manager of the Personal Communication Sector for the Americas. Morris is responsible for the plant, and both he and Shimer manage its 2,000 employees. Shimer oversees the manufacture of wireless electronic mail transmitters known as PageWriters, as well as cellular phones. Morris is in charge of paging operations, said Motorola spokeswoman Jo Posti. 3Com, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is the second-largest maker of hardware that lets computers communicate across networks. Cisco Systems is the leader. 3Com's revenue grew to $5.7 billion during its fiscal 1999, which ended in May. It employs 16,000 people.