Mike Bohannon spokesperson

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Rick Roesler
Physics in the Business World

• Mike Bohannon- spokesperson
• Jackson Cruit- spokesperson
• Steph Keenan- research
• Alicia Kukoda- presentation
• Suraya Singh- presentation

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Ricks Personal Life

• Grew up in St. Louis
• Moved to Dallas at 13
• His father was a salesman and his mother was a
  homemaker
• Moved to San Diego with his wife last year

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Education

• Very good at science math throughout school
• Decided to be a physicist at 16
• Graduated with a Masters Degree in Physics from
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Rice University in Houston

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Hobbies

• Likes to
• Watch sports
• Play pool, tennis, ping pong, bowling
• Enjoys reading physics books doing physics
  problems in his free time

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Previous Jobs

• Oil business
• Nuclear physics
• Neutron scattering to find oil
• Distinguished from water composites
• Then went on to marketing

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Previous Jobs (contd)

• PC business
• 16 year veteran of Hewlett Packard Compaq
• Marketing division
• Used physics while at HP and Compaq
• Felt like HP was like a cousin to QUALCOMM

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Previous Jobs (contd)

• Led teams that developed 1st 4 processor server,
  1st rack-mounted server, 1st sub-500 consumer
  desktop PC, 1st stand-alone photo printer
• Vice-president general manager of iPAQ handheld
  division of HP
• Responsible for products, supply chain,
  operations, engineering, marketing

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Current Job

• QUALCOMM Enterprise Services
• Has worked their for 1 ½ years
• Vice President of marketing management
  production
• Responsible for the development implementation
  of product service strategy
• He spends time on tactical execution, product
  strategy, and organizational development

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• QUALity COMMunications
• Founders are
• Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen,
  Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and
  Harvey White
• Now has more than 7,200 United States patents for
  wireless technologies
• 1st started out to provide contract research and
  development services

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QUALCOMM (contd)

• Products
• 1st commercial product was OmniTRACS
• Uses 2 way satellite link to locate trucks
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• converts analog info(speech) into digital info
  which is then transmitted as a radio signal over
  a wireless network
• Basis for 3G technology
• Now focuses on 3G network

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Ricks Division

• QUALCOMM Enterprise Services
• Works with various industries
• For-hire transportation, logistics, construction,
  manufacturing, and healthcare

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Ricks Division (contd)

• Provides comprehensive wireless solutions
  services
• 2-way data communications systems,
  productivity-enhancing applications, global
  mobile data management, enterprise-level
  consulting, and managed network services

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related
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Understanding physics gives you great
flexibility in career choices, because all
interesting positions have one thing in common --
the ability to solve difficult problems.
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Marketing Experience

• Used Physics formulas to create models which
  simulated products
• Also used problem solving strategies he learned
  while studying physics to increase the consumer
  appeal of products