The fourth-ranked player in the world is an IBM software product manager in Minnesota with an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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"Sony's (PlayStation) will come to the top, " said James Reed, international product manager at software developer Jaleco.

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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.

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"Sharing the workload across client and server offers automotive manufacturers and end-users the best of both worlds, " said Andy Gryc, automotive product marketing manager, QNX Software Systems.

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Intel also provides a product called Intel Data Center Manager (DCM) which allows software solution providers to manage power and thermals for large groups of servers.

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An engineering program manager, whose job it is to pull together the various hardware and software engineers who contribute to a product, will typically bring the latest beta version back to Cupertino for senior executives to see and then get right back on a plane for China to repeat the process.

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