Sujit Sinha, 2009 Honoree
- Title
- Senior director, IT strategy and architecture
- Employer
- Motorola Inc.
- Location
- Schaumburg, , Ill.
- First job:
- "My first professional job was at NASA launching space shuttles; so I once was a real rocket scientist. Now if only lines of code would obey Newtonian physics!"
- Favorite vice:
- "As anyone who knows me at all will tell you, my vice is chocolate. My executive assistant rations me one piece of chocolate a day, so I do not become too stressed. It certainly does help."
- What do you love about IT?
- "It sits at the center of the technological convergence, and working at a mobile solutions firm makes it that much more exciting. This is the advantage that a career in IT provides ? a broad view that changes the way things get done."
- Twenty years ago, I was...
- "preparing to launch Shuttle Discovery after spending two and a half years redesigning the solid rocket boosters after the Challenger accident. It was a personally gratifying moment to get the fleet flying again, and one that I hope was reflected in all
- Favorite ice cream flavor:
- "Cookies and cream."
- In high school, I should have been voted "Most Likely to ..."
- "become a nuclear physicist and glow in the dark. Wait -- that is what I was voted."
- Favorite movie:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey