Here's a video where Ruzicka makes sure that no one knows what a
platform is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdZrcduNso
--J.B.
tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
>
>
> I received this info from an ex Avid employee who said I was free to
> post it:
> "Product development is in complete disarray. Louis pounds his fist on
> the table demanding the teams migrate to a platform strategy no one
> wants. Gahagan nodded and went along, balancing real product
> development with modest platform efforts. When he'd had enough of
> Louis, he left. Louis put a "yes man" in that role. Dana Ruzicka has
> no idea what a platform is, but he's. The quintessential ball washer.
> The sum total of his leadership skills is standing somberly in front
> of he team and telling us it's go time. I overlapped with Dana for 9
> years. His nickname was "the cockroach" when we felt sorry for him,
> but it became "the sewer rat" to more closely match his personality.
> Every time there was a RIF his name was on the list, but somehow
> survived. The next day when the lights came on - there he was, like
> some indestructible virus. Anyway, in those 9 years he never once
> hired someone who was not an Avid retread. He only hires people he's
> previously been able to appear smarter than. It's not easy, but
> retreads like Alan Hoff who is in his fourth or fifth term of duty
> with Avid are not the team you need to assemble. Avid's not going to
> make it through the year in its current form. Cerberus will take over
> control by November. Louis is gone before the summer is out."
>
Posted by: john beck <jb30343@windstream.net>
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