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Dan McCreary's Mentors

We are all reflections of people that influence us. Here are some of the people that have had the deepest influence on my career and my worldviews.

  • Bruce Thomas - Physics Professor at Carleton College. Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences, Emeritus
  • Bernd Hofflinger - 3D CMOS Stacked Cells - my work on stacked-gate CMOS cells helped me land a job at Bell Labs
  • Brian Kerninghan where he mentored me in the customization of awk for cell layout
  • Howard Moscovitz
  • Steve Jobs - I worked with Steve when we were both at NeXT Computer.
  • Arun Batchu - Arun and I have worked together since 2006. His views on Systems Thinking and Complex Adaptive Systems have had deep influence on my world views.
  • Bill Estrem
  • Kurt Cagle - Kurt introduced me to eXist-db and document stores.
  • John Santelli - I worked for John for almost 9 years at Optum. John was the executive sponsor of my Healthcare Knowledge Graph project.