Artifact Details

Date

2015-11-30

Dennis, Eric, videographer

Fairbairn, Doug, interviewer

Kapoor, Uday, interviewer

Shoemaker, John, interviewee

Computer History Museum

Mountain View, CA

24 p.

Format

PDF

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Description

In this oral history, John Shoemaker describes his stellar 20-year career at Xerox, followed by 13 years at Sun Microsystems, where he served in a variety of senior corporate management positions. He was the youngest Corporate VP in Xerox history and used his significant management experience to help lead Sun through many important business transitions, growing Sun from a relatively small workstation focused company to a major supplier of servers to the Internet and corporate world. He made significant contributions to internal organization development, business strategy, and product quality.

Since leaving Sun in 2002, he has taken a variety of Board positions, including SonicWall, Altera, and Extreme Networks, in addition to non-profit Boards such as the El Camino Hospital Foundation, the Philanthropy Council, Indiana University, and others.

Category

Transcription

Subject

semiconductor history; SPARC; UltraSPARC; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; SDS; Java; McNealy, Scott; Zander, Ed; Bartz, Carol; Xerox

Collection Title

CHM oral history collection

Credit

Gift of Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X7689.2016

Related Records

102738026

Shoemaker, John oral history