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Vince,
I will take care of the few typos, capitalizations, etc., but I wanted to get this to you asap. He has a fine sense of humor! Sam ---------------------- Forwarded by William Smith/Corp/Enron on 08/28/2000 12:12 PM --------------------------- From: Giuseppe Paleologo@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS on 08/28/2000 12:11 PM To: William Smith/Corp/Enron@ENRON cc: Subject: Re: Hello! I landed in the research group as a summer associate at the end of June, straight from sunny Palo Alto, where I am pursuing a PhD in Management Science and Engineering. Since my area of research is the performance evaluation and economic analysis of communication networks, Enron is "the" place to be: Enron Broadband Services has the first mover's advantage in this field, and nearly every decision requires an understanding of both data networks and financial mathematics. Enron has most of the needed skills to succeed, and the right attitude. After two months here, I am more convinced than ever that the best is still to come. I am from Rome, Italy, where I have spent most of my life (my pre-columbian period, properly speaking). Italy is the nation known among Americans for having invented the pasta alfredo and for having elected a porn star as a member of parliament. The former allegation is indeed false: pasta alfredo is quintessential american. About the latter, one of my dubious achievement is to have interviewed the aforementioned member of parliament about her political agenda, receiving predictably fuzzy answers. As many members of the research groups, my background is in Physics. I fell in love with Operation Research and Management Science while working for a large IT consulting firm in Italy, and wanted to learn more. I have been a student at Stanford University since then. Studying there has been a very enjoyable experience, and I am sorry I will have to leave it sometime soon. Management Science is not the only hobby in my life. I am an avid motorcyclist, and am a lifelong student of argentine tango. I also like reading (a skill I learned in 1st grade and has never failed me), in particular 20th century english, italian and french poetry. William Smith@ENRON 08/11/00 02:10 PM To: Giuseppe Paleologo/Enron Communications@Enron Communications cc: Subject: Hello! Giuseppe, I'm Sam Smith and among other things I'm the department newsletter editor. Are you going to be leaving after today or will you be around next week? If you'll be around, I'd love for you to write a short bio piece for the newsletter. Have a look at some recent issues for examples. If you'll be here Monday morning, I can get a quick photo. If not, then I'm sorry I missed you! Sam
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