I started playing with radios in high school, building plate modulated vacuum tube transmitters that I tuned by the brightness of a lightbulb. That led to BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
I started as a test engineer on the Space Shuttle working for Bendix Corporation. I joined a startup in the mid-70s making word processing machines, but the introduction of the IBM PC and word processing software put an end to that. I spent the next 20 years at Bell Labs as a chip designer, supervisor, and department head. I also spent a few years in manufacturing process research and attended Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.
When Lucent spun out its enterprise business (Avaya), I joined that business and until retirement in 2013, I had various roles as VP of product management, business unit general manager, VP of quality assurance and customer advocacy…etc. After “retirement”, I have done stints as president of a startup, executive chairman of a different startup, and a whole bunch of private equity business consulting.
But now, I have a much simpler life. I am a father of three adults, widower, runner, retired engineer, tinkerer, a member of Delaware Valley Radio Association (W2ZQ) and CW Operators Club and a fan of the NY Giants, Yankees, and the Grateful Dead, and I like it. I still write code and build circuits for my radio station. If interested, check them out at: Saied74 (Saied Seghatoleslami) · GitHub and https://ad2cc.blogspot.com/
And most importantly, I would like to thank all who have helped me get here: Glen Johnstone, NK1N, who suggested I enroll in the CW Academy and was one of my sponsors, Joe Spencer, KK5NA my intermediate CW Academy advisor who introduced me to the idea of sending everything that I can to hone my CW skills, Buzz Tarlow, AC6AC, my advanced CW Academy advisor and his challenging, motivating and empowering style that paved my way into the CW Operators Club and the Advanced class co-advisors Shirley Park, M0WXG and Rich Giardin, N4DPM, who made the advanced class fun and enjoyable and all three for nominating and sponsoring me into the CW Operators Club…and of course all my classmates in the intermediate and advanced class.
This biography is what appeared in Solid Copy when the member joined CWops.