Webcast:
Learn how Sun Microsystems is leveraging technology in their on-boarding process to aid enculturation and assimilation of new and prospective employees using a video game. Find out how this highly collaborative game engages and informs candidates and new hires about corporate culture, organizational structure and workflow to accelerate the timeline and effectiveness of the on-boarding process. In this webcast you will also learn how the game reflects, supplements and fits into a perpetual framework that delivers what an employee needs to know at that specific point they need to know it.
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Presenters
One of the software industry's most accomplished and innovative designers of scalable, secure, and reliable systems for the Internet, Charles Beckham has more than twenty years experience delivering mission-critical networked systems. He served as Chief Architect of Sun's Developers Tools and recently took on the challenge of managing the Sun Learning Services worldwide technology architecture and infrastructure as CTO of Sun Learning Services. Beckham was chief architect at NetDynamics until its 1998 acquisition by Sun Microsystems, and subsequently served as engineering manager in the Sun/Netscape Alliance infrastructure and applications divisions.
George Selix is the Senior Director for Partner and Employee Learning at Sun Microsystems, with responsibility for training 33,000 employees and over 80,000 partners.Selix joined corporate America after a 21 year career in the United States Air Force, where he flew special operations and combat rescue helicopters. In between operational assignments, he had tours as an operational test pilot, weapons school instructor, and as the deputy director of the most advanced flight training and simulation facility in the Department of Defense.After leaving the Air Force in 2000, Selix became the Chief Learning Officer for the Century 21 Real Estate Corporation. Over the next five years, the innovative learning programs developed at Century 21 won numerous industry awards including the Information Week Innovators Award, four Training Magazine Top 100 awards, and the Pioneer Award from the Masie Center. Selix's work at Century 21 and Cendant, it's parent company, culminated with an intellectual property patent for the Century 21 Learning System.In 2005, Selix joined Bank of America as the Learning and Leadership Development Executive supporting Consumer Real Estate. In that role, he was responsible for the initial integration of the MBNA and BAC Card learning teams as well as for supporting 12,000 CRE associates. He subsequently moved to the CIO staff as a Service Delivery Executive supporting the end-to-end technology delivery of Corporate Staff services, supporting over 200,000 associates and over 55 million customers globally.Selix joined Sun in 2008 as Senior Director for Partner and Employee Learning. His responsibilities include new hire on-boarding, compliance training, leadership development, skills acquisition, and professional development.Selix has a bachelor's degree in business from Norwich University, Vt, a Masters of Science in Industrial Management from Clarkson College, and a PhD in Organizational Learning from the University of New Mexico. He and his wife Robin have two children, Zachary, 17, and Katherine, 13. He is an almost competitive triathlete, an avid reader, and a pretty good musician.