Earlier in her career, Ramya worked at a bank where as a product engineer, she was the only woman among 70 employees.
Safely implementing OpenSocial's applications will require teamwork between Google and the sites entering into its new network, says David Glazer, a senior product engineer at Google.
To wit, she is a data driven product engineer.
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Engineers can copy and re-engineer a product in a blink of an eye, but customer trust can give a vendor unmatched staying power.
It takes a certain amount of time for companies to make decisions and re-engineer a product, in this case auto catalysts, and put them into production.
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In July 2012 she left Google where she spent 13 years as an engineer, product manager, designer and executive to become the new president and CEO of Yahoo!
You can be a software engineer, hardware engineer, product manager, visual designer, salesperson, office manager, copywriter, investor, analyst, chef, artist, sysadmin, photographer, lawyer, journalist, PR person, and much more.
Frankly, if you were a smart engineer or a product guy, why would you go work for a company, which is going to be owned by buyout guys who essentially nickel-and-dime your creativity to death?
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Advances in computer know-how -- the ability to "reverse engineer" almost any product -- mean that as soon as a luxury product develops a cachet there will be a band of forgers with the technology and resources to copy it.
Taking an engineer or scientist involved in product design and development is always advantageous.
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Reversing the situation, I doubt the engineer would be comfortable with the product owner tweaking code because they felt like they had a good idea.
Green Throttle Games was co-founded by Charles Huang, co-creator of the legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, and mobile industry veterans Matt Crowley, former Palm and Nokia product lead, and Karl Townsend, lead engineer for the first two generations of the Palm Pilot.
If an engineer says he'll deliver a product in September, Perlmutter may tell him "that's too late, it's impossible, " says Shmuel "Mooly" Eden, general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group.
Of course, some have the background which is a different issue, but even in that case this should be a suggestion from the product owner to make a change, and the engineer can evaluate and remain accountable for their part of the solution.
She joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineer summer intern and later assumed roles in product development and planning.
"When you are the first one to get hold of a new gadget, it's important that people around you already know a little bit about the product and can recognize it, " said Toshiyuki Ueno, an engineer and technology consultant, who got an iPad last month in the U.S. and has a reservation to buy a 3G version in Japan.
"The interest in the product has been phenomenal, " says Mr. Dunne, a civil engineer from the British city of Leeds.
Sanghvi, who will report to Dropbox CEO Houston in her new role, was the first female engineer at Facebook and worked on products including News Feed and led product management for products including Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
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Any engineer on the team will pay a lot of attention to big architecture decisions that affect the product and so should you.
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David "Dadi" Perlmutter, the 53-year-old Israeli engineer who ran the Core team, is now in charge of the sprawling microprocessor giant's product development decisions--that is, figuring out which chips will one day replace the Core.
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