 Fred Melkey
GRE Program Manager
Intel Corporation
Folsom, CA
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 B.S. -
Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
MBA - University
of New Mexico at Albuquerque |
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Corporate College
Recruiting Technical Program Manager, managing graduate rotation
program for first year engineers. |
 
"Well, the Intel culture -- the thing I like about it is it's very open
and it's very direct. We have 6 different values that we try to live by.
The first is we're very results oriented so we try and get results. It's
what you accomplish. It's not so much what you try to do or those types of
things. We also have a culture, value around risk taking where we want to
take intelligent risks because that's the only way you can advance
technology is to get out on the leading edge and take some chances. We
also have a value rounded great place to work. I think a lot of people
here will say they have fun at work. It's a very energizing place to work.
We have values around quality and customer service. We also have a value
around discipline which I think if I could reword that value, it would be
more about personal responsibility. It's a value around when you make
commitments, you keep them. When you see a problem, you fix it."
Fred Melkey recruits engineers for Intel Corporation. He also manages the
graduate rotation program in Folsom, California. Through this program,
first year engineers spend four months at each of three different
assignments, thereby getting a variety of experiences and making contacts
that help them in later years. And at Intel experienced engineers continue
to work in interdisciplinary teams and have the opportunity to make
frequent changes.
Melkey himself has held eight different positions. "My very first job was
to do some of the design of the factory where we were going to make this
new leading-edge chip, the 386. As you probably know, we haven't made that
chip for a number of years." Melkey's career path has called for
versatility and flexibility. I've had a variety of different jobs as an
individual contributor and direct manager and project manager and program
manager." Melkey describes his current position as one in which he has "a
matrix supervisor responsibility." He explains, "Although the engineers in
a program report to me from a program management standpoint, day in and
day out they're working for their technical supervisors in their
rotations."
Melkey values the openness and directness of Intel. It takes "intelligent
risks," allowing engineers to pursue results. Engineers take personal
responsibility for the work and pride themselves on its quality and their
customer service. Melkey finds that he is rewarded by his day to day work.
He says, "I think a lot of people here will say they have fun. . . .It's a
very energizing place to work."
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