Emanuel Brady Jr., 2009 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president of IT, CIO, Space and Airborne Systems
- Employer
- Raytheon Co.
- Location
- El Segundo, , Calif.
- First job:
- "Courtesy clerk in a supermarket. There, I learned the basics of customer service. Those lessons have been reflected in every job that I have had since then."
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Having a good idea is not enough. You have to be able to sell it and be prepared to make it happen if it is accepted."
- What do you love about IT?
- "I love positively impacting the way business gets done, knowing the work we do is reflected in the quality of worklife, the end product and, increasingly, enabling work/life balance."
- Passion outside of work:
- "Spending quality time with my family."
- Twenty years ago, I was ...
- "A systems programmer supporting large mainframe data centers for a large aerospace company."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "Genius exists in everyone and can be tapped given capable, inspired leadership, resources and opportunity. Courage, hard work and discipline trumps everything else!"
- Best new project:
- "The Raytheon Podcast Network team developed an automated, Web-based system that allows employees to create and distribute original audio content. The tool facilitates nationwide communication of Raytheon's technologies, diversity topics, leadership mess
- "Aha" leadership moment:
- "The careful use of ?as-is' information can be used to drive the right behavior when done properly. The old adage that the data must be clean before you use it is not always true."