While a computer science student at the University of Louisville, he was the first engineer at Netzee, a payments company, that went public and was later acquired by Fidelity.
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Yahoo researcher Bradley Horowitz first heard of Flickr from a Yahoo engineer in Bangalore, then urged his bosses to buy it.
When we met him as a First Mover Fellow, he already had a successful track record as a process and project engineer and an assistant branding manager for Vaseline products.
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At a Stockholm hospital in 1958, a 43-year-old engineer became the first person to receive an implanted pacemaker.
Rolls was also a trained engineer who was a promising pilot, the first to complete a double crossing of the English Channel.
During the Skoll Forum, I will have the pleasure of introducing three of these First Mover Fellows: a financial expert, an engineer and a corporate strategist.
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Domscheit-Berg, a former network engineer for information technology giant EDS and a sometimes member of Berlin's Chaos Computer Club, first discovered WikiLeaks in 2007 via another document repository site called Cryptome.
His grandfather Auguste, also an engineer, was the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere.
The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
For early employees with equity stakes in the company like Owen Byrne, the site's first lead engineer, the failure to sell the company was a huge disappointment.
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William Rankine, a Scottish engineer and one of the fathers of thermodynamics, was the first to explain how these repeated stress reversals could cause cracks to propagate.
But I would rather fly in an airplane with wings designed by one competent aeronautical engineer than one with wings designed by a committee of the first 20, 000 names of non-engineers in the Boston phonebook.
The minister, a German-trained aerospace engineer, stuck with the program, for the first five minutes.
Mr Jordan, who began his career as a nuclear engineer, had no intention of dismantling the industrial company when he first arrived.
Chief engineer Chris Dyer said first and third on the grid was a "fantastic result" for the two drivers and for Ferrari's chances of winning the constructors' title.
On his hippy quest in the mid 1970s, Jobs backpacked around India with a college friend -- and, later, the first Apple employee -- engineer Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment.
Albert is a development mechanical engineer working on what his company hopes will be Croatia's first electric car.
All this meant two things were inevitable: that it would be a long while before my first kiss, and that I would one day become an engineer.
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Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, is the first engineer to head the institution.
At the age of 15, his father lost his job as a shipyard engineer, and so he was forced to leave school and find part-time work first as a labourer and then painting film posters.
Mine engineer Renee Aguilar, another of the rescue coordinators, said the first 10 members of a 16-strong extraction team arrived at the San Jose mine Tuesday.
Frank Cantwell, a 64-year-old operating engineer at the construction site there, said there were only a few people present when the news first broke.
The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife.
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