Title: Full Steam Ahead: Engineering Your Future
Speaker: Keefe Bohannan, Keysight Technologies Senior Director of Global Software Solutions
Date: Monday, February 24, 2025
Time: 12:30 p.m.-1:20 p.m.

Abstract: This brief seminar will quickly guide the audience through one man's journey from student loans to a technical management position in one of the world's premier electrical and computer engineering companies.  Stops along the way will include a celebration of failures, thoughts about career trade-off decisions, what companies value in an engineer as an employee, the importance of relationships, and an overview of the role of Applications Engineers in the world of high-tech companies.

Bio: Keefe is the Keysight Sr. Director for a global team of Customer Success Managers, Applications Engineers, and Services Engineers who enable success with Keysight Software Solutions.  He has worked for Keysight Technologies for almost 25 years, has worked in the RF/microwave community for almost 30 years, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Keefe resides in the suburbs of Atlanta with his wife and three children, is proud of his continued engagements and partnerships with Georgia Tech, and is a former Chair of our ECE Advisory Board.