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Feature Alum: Curtis B. Schacker
1985 B.S.
Managing Partner, Embedded Solutions
Partners, Petaluma, Calif.
"My code is still out there flying around in space!"
Curtis Schacker may have developed flight software for the NASA Hubble Space Telescope as a senior software engineer at Lockheed, but his dream was to start his own software company. After working at Lockheed and helping another software company grow their sales from $4 million to $400 million, Schacker took a giant leap and set out on a new mission. He is now at the helm of his own start-up company, a telecommunications software provider‹and all systems are go.
Schacker says he didn't realize how "incredible" his Wright State education was until he worked side-by-side with colleagues who went to some of the most prominent schools in the nation. "There were striking differences," he says. "Wright State's curriculum was more in-depth."
Favorite WSU Memory: Pulling all-nighters in the computer lab trying to get my operating system running for Real Time Concurrent Programming.
Favorite Quote: "A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances." George Patton
Last Book Read: The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H. W. Brands
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