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To: jacques.girard@oni.com;
(if you know of a better contact, let me know) Cc: Montrealjobs@oni.com;
Dear Mr. Girard,
It was with great pleasure that I heard of the recent announcement from ONI, about opening a R&D facility in the Montreal area. After a few discussions and e-mails with some colleagues, I have toyed with the idea of putting together a proposal for you which, I was hoping, could help ONI gather a large chunk of experience all at once while measurably reducing the risks associated with quick staffing. Today, I can confidently say that I've accomplished my mission, here's why.
I was recently employed with Nortel Networks, St-Laurent. As you know, Nortel went through difficult times recently and was forced to reduce, among others, its engineering force in Montreal. The process by which this reduction took place was in all aspects very circumstantial: if you happened to be in an affected department, no matter what your experience or credentials were, you were kindly offered a compensation package. As a result, several _very_ talented people were made available at once, a rare opportunity for competitive entrepreneurs to benefit from Nortel's top talent.
Of course, talented people usually have no problems finding themselves new positions elsewhere in the industry, and indeed some have. Others took time for themselves and their family and postponed their job search until the fall. Among the latter group, I took the liberty of assembling a virtual team of eleven outstanding optical engineers of various backgrounds but with obvious common characteristics: technical excellence, passion for their work, creative thinking and superior customer orientation. The members of this team can also offer a great variety of particular skills depending on the career orientation they had chosen within Nortel; you will find in this team people who have excelled in field work, network planning, people and project management etc. In other words, this is a winning team of highly skilled optical engineers who understand the industry issues and know their way through the maze.
And this is my proposal to you, for ONI's benefit. As a group, we know each other; we've efficiently and professionally worked together in the past and complement each other very nicely. I sincerely think that a team of this nature could be of great help to a company such as yours, and you have my word that its members would live up to that expectation. Already, Cisco and IBM have shown strong interest in this proposal. We would however favour ONI before these two for obvious reasons.
I'm hoping I caught your interest. If you'd like to discuss the matter further, I can be joined at any time at the coordinates below. I'd be happy to share with you my views on team efforts and give you more details on the subject.
Kindly,
Burt Crepeault [retour] |