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Pkg count 1st day |
Memories |
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Bill Bahr/256 |
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Recruiting |
Gene Anderson |
0 |
I was employee 256 and spent the vast majority of 1973 on the road, interviewing / recruiting staff (city managers, sales people, drivers, etc.) in places like Rochester, Newark, St. Louis, LA, etc. |
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Jim Barksdale |
1979-1991 |
VP of IT
SVP & CIO of IT
COO of FedEx |
Fred Smith |
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His quotations, honesty, focus, and charisma |
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Bob Baxter
EMPNO 6842 |
8-15-77 |
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Frank Smith,
Interviewed by Ron Ponder |
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Pkg count 22,000/nite |
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Jim Bentley |
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Radio/DADS |
Jim Moore |
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Jim was the original programmer for DADS in the Radio Mobile group. He was instrumental in achieving the mass rollout of over 384 systems. Later he is a technical guru in Linehaul systems supporting the hub & metroplex wireless and mobile needs |
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Laura Beard |
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Roy Beard |
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Roy Beard was Mgr of Engineering which implemented a T-1 Multiplexing network. He later was MD of Engineering and a VP of APAC. His last position at FedEx was VP of Computer Operations. |
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Phil Bockhold |
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Wireless Systems Development |
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Phil was Manager of DADS development for both Domestic and International systems. |
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Brett Bonner |
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Brett was an engineering guru for hub, scanning, vision and other systems at FedEx. He & his team designed and implemented sortation, mass scanning and many other innovative products. |
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Tom Bullion
Empno: 920
Working for
FWS
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1973-2004
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Training, Billing,
COS, Int’l.,
Int’l. Customs, Zapmail,
ULD, FedEx Aeronautics,
Operations Research,
Data Com |
Mike Fitzgerald |
500 |
Low Pay, few benefits.
FWS, Vince Fagan, Pete Wilmot , Mike Staunton & Jim Barksdale……. Those were the true builders |
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Jimmy Burk
14709 |
1980-2006 |
Data Engineering |
Ancel Hankins |
<100,000 |
You got a day off on your birthday,
Every quarter you got day off, if batch reports ran on time,FedEx gave a gift when a child was born |
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James(Jim) Patrick Colson Sr.
Empno 4828 |
1976- July 5, 1997 |
Air Mx & Tech Services |
Hired as an aircraft mechanic |
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Jim worked in Aircraft Mx as a manager before being promoted to MD of Tech Services to build a new Tech Services organization to support Zapmail. When Zapmail ended, his organization was re-charted to support all of FedEx's IT technical needs: DADS, Radios, Customer Automation, Station equipment etc. He was promoted to VP of Tech Services. |
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Terry Cox |
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Terry was one of the first hires that Ancel Hankins made in building FedEx's Data Network Engineering Group. He worked in Satellite Systems and Telecommunications as Chief Engineer. |
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Harry Dalton |
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Harry Dalton is known primarily as rolling out the Cosmos IIa system (scanning in hubs & stations) and leading all efforts in Cosmos IIB, the supertracker programs. He was the first VP of Strategic Integrated Systems, was Vice President, Operations Planning and Engineering in Hong Kong, and retired the VP of Technical Services. |
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David Dietzel |
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David was part of the design team for COSMOS IIB and instrumental in the rollout of the system worldwide. |
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Richard Dunn |
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Richard was the original team with Jim Moore who designed and expanded FedEx's Radio networks and fine tuned the systems as they went thru several evolutions. |
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