David DeLorme
Position:
Member of Technical Staff
Employer:
Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories
Job description:
I work primarily in software development,
deployment, and field support on telecommunications equipment.
Specifically, I work on "intelligent network" equipment- for services
like 800 calls.
Job satisfaction:
It is interesting and it can be fun. I've
found that I get kinda restless if I stay in development too long, so
I do customer support whenever I can and it's lots of fun. So far,
it's taken me to England several times and to a 6 month assignment in
Rome. It was very stressful debugging problems with highly emotional
Italians, but it was very rewarding. I made lots of friends and
learned to speak Italian.
Employment history:
I've been with this company since I
started with a student internship at an AT&T field office my last year
at UGA and then I continued co-oping after I went to grad school at
Georgia Tech. When I graduated with my master's degree, I transfered
to Bell Labs in Columbus and I've been here every since.
Suggestions for students:
My suggestion to students looking
for jobs is to be active in student activities. When I was
interviewing at AT&T, the interviewer did most of her writing when I
was describing my activities as chapter president of ACM. I am
positive that that made the difference in getting the internship which
has not stopped leading to good things.
Advisor/Student relationship:
Personally, I wouldn't have
changed too much in my education. I think the pure math undergrad
degree prepared me very well for the master's program at Ga Tech.
Sure, I had to take a few prerequisite computer classes, but
conceptually, the pure math coursework was more difficult and more
enjoyable.
Miscellaneous comments:
I'm happy to give your students
whatever advice I can - as long as I'm not legally bound by it. :-)
E-mail David
Date of last update: Jan. 14, 1997
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