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References section and Citations needed Mediathink 17:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Padmasree Warrior is executive vice president and chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 and was appointed its CTO in 2003. Warrior is responsible for the Motorola’s $4.0 billion research and development investment and the efforts of 25,000 engineers. She is an external director on the Board of Corning Corporation (NYSE:GLW).

Contents 1 Career 2 Education 3 Recognition 4 Industry & Community Leadership 4.1 Proposing the above. Please comment 5 Biography assessment rating comment 6 Image Changed 7 This article is utterly unprofessional and is befitting of a supermarket gossip rag.

[edit] Career

When named CTO in January 2003, she become Motorola’s first woman executive vice president. Padmasree joined Motorola in 1984, as one of a few women in its Arizona facility. Before becoming CTO, Warrior held a variety of positions including corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola’s energy systems group, where she was responsible for profit and loss, sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing.

Before her current position, she was general manager of Thoughtbeam, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, which was chartered to commercialize GaAs on silicon technology that was developed in the semiconductor sector of Motorola. This position was short-lived, however, because the Thoughtbeam technology was found to be based on erroneous measurements^[1]. Her promotion to CTO after this failed venture has been called a "Dilbert moment" by some in the industry^[2].

Warrior also served as corporate vice president and chief technology officer for Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) which is now Freescale.

[edit] Education

Raised near Chennai in Southern India, Warrior received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from India Institute of Technology, New Delhi, from which she was recently recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award. She holds masters in chemical engineering from Cornell University and serves as an advisory board member at both schools.

[edit] Recognition

On behalf of Motorola, Warrior accepted the 2004 National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States.

Fortune Magazine called her one of four rising stars on it Most Powerful Women list[1] and the Economic Times recently ranked Padmasree as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian[ttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1073963.cmshttp:/economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1073963.cms]. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman Magazine[2] and her achievements were further recognized by American Immigration Law Foundation in 2003[3].

[edit] Industry & Community Leadership

Padmasree serves on the boards of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Chicago Mayor’s Technology Council, Cornell University Engineering Council and advisory council of Indian Institute of Technology. She previously served on the Texas Governor's Council for Digital Economy, the Technology Advisory Council for the FCC and on the Advisory Committee for the Computing and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is also serving as a mentor in the State Department’s International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership.

Mediathink 13:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposing the above. Please comment

Mediathink 13:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Migrated the proposed entry to article section. Citation needed for "erroneous measurements" leading to short life. Mediathink 01:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Hornandsoccer^Talk 02:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image Changed

Image changed to more accurately reflect subject's appearance Mediathink 16:28, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Previous image was removed by someone else because of copyright ambiguity. Uploaded my own photo so there was one. -- Joi 09:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article is utterly unprofessional and is befitting of a supermarket gossip rag.

While I understand that Warrior was not well liked, this kind of potentially libelous information does not belong in an Encyclopedia. Further, edits cleaning up nasty comments have been reverted, e.g.:

1. (cur) (last) 03:52, 6 December 2007 207.10.229.192 (Talk) (6,048 bytes) (Undid revision 176081398 by Pwarrior (talk) Bringing back the referenced information.) (undo)
2. (cur) (last) 03:36, 6 December 2007 Pwarrior (Talk | contribs) (5,583 bytes) (→Career - Be nice, please.) (undo)

Including Bearded Women as a category is not only an embarrassment to the writers; it destroys any shred of credibility this entry may have.

69.209.229.28 (talk) 21:27, 9 December 2007 (UTC)SpickyBecky