Intel Labs Success Depends on Failing Fast

The research that has made our modern high-tech world possible is strewn with forgotten inspirations and inventions that bombed. At Intel Labs, the inevitable flops are a vital part of a research process that uses failing fast, early and often as a means to drive innovation.

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Gunter ‘95: A Rising Star at Intel By Tom Edrington

The journey from the small Florida town of Haines City to the high-tech halls of the Intel Corporation outside Portland, OR, has been a story of perseverance,supportive mentors, and success at the highest levels for computer engineering

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Intel’s giving gets to root of the STEM

Intel Corp. is Oregon’s largest private employer, and the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip-maker has repeatedly succeeded in getting those employees to give back to the community. This marks the fourth straight year the company topped The List’s biggest givers among large companies.

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Honoring Her Mother’s Vision

Lakecia Gunter noticed how the magazines and books were piling up in her mother’s house. Her mother, a diabetic, had recently lost vision in one of her eyes.

Lakecia turned to her company’s technology for help. She reached for the Intel Reader, which allowed her mother to see the writing on the page “and feel like a whole person” again.

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Ignite: The Art of Embracing our Inner Beauty

From Ashes to Beauty — From Holding On to Letting Go!

What if you learned how to let go of what holds you back from making God your #1 priority? What do you need to release to walk in the fullness of God’s blessings––His Power, His Peace, His Unspeakable Joy and His Purpose for your life? Lakecia’s testimony and teaching will challenge you to experience the Power of Release, of letting go of that one thing that could keep God from having full access to the highway of your heart, a release that could change your life forever.
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Lakecia Gunter, `95, Leads Team that Won Intel’s Top Software Award

Lakecia Gunter, Computer Engineering `95, is a validation manager at Intel. Gunter and her team recently won an Intel Software Quality Award for their work on the Cafe tool, a tool that helps to identify bugs in CPU’s and enables Intel to deliver the highest quality processors across multiple market segments.

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Women of color do great work in engineering

At Intel Corp (Santa Clara, CA), validation engineering manager Lakecia Gunter oversees a team of engineers responsible for development, delivery and support of Intel’s primary random instruction test (RIT) tool used to validate the company’s IA32-based microprocessor products.

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STEM Conference Winner

Lakecia Gunter, Validation Manager in the Platform Validation Engineering (PVE) group in Oregon, was honored for her outstanding contributions to technology at the Women of Color (WOC) Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Conference

STEM Conference Winner

Lakecia won not just one, but two, prestigious awards: Educational Leadership and Technology Rising Star. The conference is focused on the development of women in STEM career fields and ensures that the superior achievements and increasingly important roles they play in developing and delivering technology that America depends on is visible to all conference participants. WOC’s Technology Rising Star Award recognizes a young woman who helps shape technology of the future. The Educational Leadership award cites women who work to promote minority educational advancement in science and engineering on three levels, K-12, college, and at the corporate level.

Women of Color Award Winners 2010

Lakecia Gunter manages a team of software developers and engineers responsible for the development, delivery, and support of Intel’s primary random instruction test tool (RIT). RIT is used to validate and ensure the overall quality of all microprocessor products produced by the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker.

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Urban Summit 2013

This year’s event will have speakers ranging from technical, marketing and legislative backgrounds. The day will conclude with a noon panel on “Business Innovation and Intuition.” The speakers will present in a Ted talk format and share through informative storytelling. The all female line-up includes Aimee Fahey, Della Rae, Veronika Noize, Monique Hayward and Cathey Armillas. After the presentations, event goers will engage in a lively panel discussion with local experts. The notable panel consists of Cheryl Myers from the Governor’s Office of Economic & Business Equity, Patrick Lamb of Patrick Lamb Productions, Lakecia Gunter of Intel, Greg Wolley, the City of Portland’s Small Business Marketing Manager and Laura Stepp of Puppet Labs Transformation Project. After the main activities of the day, UEN members will be given further networking opportunities to during the Start-Up Oregon Launch.

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Haines City Grad Honored for Hard Work and Service

When engineer Lakecia Gunter was a teenager growing up in Haines City, she learned life lessons that put her on the path to success while working at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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