{"id":149,"date":"2013-11-22T20:44:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:39:47","slug":"university-of-waterloo-engineering-team-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/university-of-waterloo-engineering-team-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Waterloo Engineering Team Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I attended the University of Waterloo Engineering Awards dinner, and was awarded (along with my colleagues Tony Jedlovsky and Steve Brenneman) the Team Alumni Achievement Award. <\/p>\n

It is a real honor to be the recipient of this award, and the three of us are humbled that they would choose us. The ride has certainly been interesting \u2013 from starting our own business together as Jedor in 1998, being acquired by Sonic Foundry in 2000, and then later by Sony in 2003. <\/p>\n

We could have never imagined in 1998 that one day we\u2019d be part of the Sony family. Sony has provided us the opportunity and resources to grow our office in Waterloo, and we are extremely grateful for the support from all of our colleagues at Sony that could make this happen.<\/p>\n

And although the award was presented to us, the success of our office has always been due to the amazing people we have found to work with us. Many come from the University of Waterloo as co-op students or recent graduates, and we can definitely attribute our awesome work environment to our employees. <\/p>\n

Without Sony, the University of Waterloo, and our colleagues who now work at the Waterloo office, we definitely wouldn\u2019t be where we are today. Many thanks to you all!<\/p>\n

See the official news release from UW here:
\nhttp:\/\/www.uwaterloo.ca\/engineering\/news\/engineering-awards-dinner-celebrates-students-staff-faculty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I attended the University of Waterloo Engineering Awards dinner, and was awarded (along with my colleagues Tony Jedlovsky and Steve Brenneman) the Team Alumni Achievement Award. It is a real honor to be the recipient of this award, and the three of us are humbled that they would choose us. The ride has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jXdF-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52,"url":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/sony-waterloo-office-in-the-record-newspaper-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":0},"title":"Sony’s Waterloo office featured in The Record newspaper today","author":"Brian","date":"January 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"www.therecord.com\/news\/business\/article\/476481--sony-s-waterloo-office-is-small-but-innovative Check it out!","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":157,"url":"https:\/\/www.brianorr.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/talking-to-future-entrepreneurs\/","url_meta":{"origin":149,"position":1},"title":"Talking To Future Entrepreneurs","author":"Brian","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On July 16, 2014, I was the invited speaker for the BET 300 course (Foundations of Venture Creation) at the University of Waterloo. 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