Jeff
The quote in the field of dreams references the state which Jeff is from.
What is Iowa?
The year Milwaukee Tool was founded.
What is 1924?
The largest music festival in the world.
What is Summerfest?
This code is delivered by platform team to interface with MCUs.
What is the BSP?
A magical helper that visits families, reporting children's behavior to Santa, returning each morning to a new hiding spot with creative antics.
What is the elf on the shelf?
The college where the first electronic digital computer was invented and where Jeff received his undergraduate degree.
What is Iowa State University?
The first tool Milwaukee was known for.
What is the Hole-Shooter, a one-handed electric drill.
Three historic founding breweries in Milwaukee.
What are Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, Gettelman and Blatz
This team asks FW to rush releases, create solutions that may not be used, and generally thinks all issues are FW bugs.
What is NPD?
This happens every time a bell rings as mentioned in It's a Wonderful Life.
What is An angel gets its wings?
A global tractor company where Jeff used to work.
What is John Deere?
The Sr VP of Cordless Systems & Technology, who is the manager of Ryan Jipp, who manages Toby Lichtensteiger, who manages Jim Moran.
Who is Brandon Verbrugge.
Invented in Milwaukee, first use of QWERTY keyboard.
What is the typewriter?
To management, this process means fast delivery of software.
What is Agile?
The president that made Christmas a federal holiday in 1870.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The light version of this cola invented in 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton, is Jeff's favorite caffeinated drink.
What is Diet Coke?
Four of the eight culture themes at Milwaukee Tool.
What is ... User Focused, Solution-Driven, Candid, Extreme Ownership, Disruptive Mindset, Relentless Improvement, Speed, Agility, and Urgency, and One Team.
What are Laverne and Shirley and Happy Days?
Asked to estimate when the FW solution will be done, usually without given these.
What are requirements?
Christmas Island is located in this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The year the Unix time Epoch began and Jeff was born.
What is 1970.
The nickname of the Milwaukee Tool building in downtown Milwaukee.
What is the Red Beacon?
The Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum (1994–2001) was this architect's first building in the United States, and his first museum.
Who is Santiago Calatrava Valls?
Three challenges specific to Firmware and Embedded Software engineering.
What are: resource constraints, real time performance, hw integration, low level debugging, porting app FW to multiple MCUs, power consumption
A small, thin, or just plain undesirable Christmas tree is named after one of Charles Schulz's cartoon characters.
Who is Charlie Brown?