Spotting the gap in provision, technical engineer Nik Fox, began examining potential locations for transmitters.

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Despite its unique size and location, the tunnel is "not of massive engineering significance", according to geo-technical engineer Prof David Richards from the University of Southampton.

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Rocky Rosas, technical marketing engineer at D-Link, said he has fully tested Network Magic for D-Link routers, and found it to be easily integrated with the PC software that comes with D-Link's hardware.

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An engineer and technical genius named Frank Crowe was in charge.

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The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks.

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The software engineer served as the technical chair of California's Internet Voting Task Force, and while he sees great potential for online voting, he says that computers are far too vulnerable to attack to allow voters to cast their ballots from their home or office PCs.

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Finally, the construction is directly carried out by a family member aided by local labor and there is one technical assistant (typically an architect or a civil engineer) per each 10 family group.

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Steven joined Microsoft in 1989 as a software development engineer and has contributed to the company in many ways from his work as a technical advisor to Bill Gates, to leading the evolution of theMicrosoft Office business, to his direction and successful leadership of Windows and Windows Live as well as Surface.

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