How it all started
At the end of 1992 I had spent 26 years working for Philips. As a PhD student at Groningen University, being sponsored by Philips (11966-11969),, it was obvious that I should start at the Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NNat.Lab.) of Philips Research (11969-11980).. Very early on I generated two inventions for producing Cesium Iodide input screens for X-ray image intensi-fiers. They allowed for the substantial reduction of the X-ray dosage used when examining patients. This made the company a lot of money. Even if the output value of the rest of my career would have been zero, I would have been a very profitable employee verall. After some ten years,I needed a new challenge,because research had became a bit dull.After short stints at audiotape and glass fiber cable production (which were adventures in themselves)I popped up at the Glass Division (see also Personalities, 13)where I evolved into a successful trouble shooter - I could even get the notorious ‘78 glass’ (see also Personalities,14) under control. My next job was being a business manager of the Optics Business Unit. My first responsibility was to enact a drastic restruc-turing of the business. It was difficult but I managed to get into black figures. Subsequently, the dominating issue was how to deal with the unreliable yet major customer Philips Consumer Electronics. This was a hard fight as well. In the end the result was that through an ‘internal take-oover’ I ended up on their payroll with the assignment to manage the Laser Optics group. It was a disastrous job, at least for me. Pretty soon I was replaced and became Laser Optics technology transfer manager in Asia (CChina, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore). I loved working there and successful; moving to Asia became very likely. My wife Annet and I went looking for housing in Singapore and were considering how to tell the story to our aging parents. Two weeks later it was over; the Consumer Electronics business was in bad shape. Expansion activities in Asia were put on old. as o lose y job and be ushed into n outplacement rogram.
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
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2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）