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Intel ex-pat cruises to success
WHAT DO YOU DO when you're a Director of Marketing at Intel and feel the need to do something a little new? If you're Steve Levich, you build a cruise company - yes, the type with ships - and win a bunch of awards.
We can't help but wonder what transferable skills the cut-throat world of semiconductor dealing brings to the cruise ship business. Based out of Portland, Oregon, Levich's new company is called, imaginatively, Cruise Holidays of Portland.
CHOP, as the company has henceforth been dubbed, won awards at the Cruise Holidays Annual Convention, and is now starting to crow about it.
Steve says that "Creating a vacation experience like no other is an enjoyable experience and a definite lifestyle change from my days with Intel." No kidding - traveling for pleasure is a rather different experience from the coach-class monotony imposed on Chipzilla's frequent flying staff.
We wish all Intel staff the best of luck in their future endeavours. ยต
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Do Intel managers fly coach? Very interesting to hear, and hard to believe...
"We can't help but wonder what transferable skills the cut-throat world of semiconductor dealing brings to the cruise ship business." - well, from the INQ's perspective you may prefer to see Chipzilla as big and ugly, but the internal workings of the company really are about process and efficiency. Of course, this does not always work out if you are dealing with a behemoth this size (and of course, projects do go wrong anyway).
But hey - if an employee does decide to learn from all the internal training about business excellence, effective meetings, managing at Intel and so forth, they definitely can take away a good base for any business activity.

And yes, the "economy class only" travel policy at Intel really sucks. BTW - heard the other day that Cisco has a guideline that allows staff over 185cm to travel business on flights over 4hrs. Can you confirm?
It isn't really a cruise line, as much as it is a cruise trip broker. They are more like a travel agent.
He isn't an ex-patriot (someone who no longer loves his country), he is an expatriate (someone living outside his native country).

So the abbreviation should be expat., not ex-pat
Thanks for the well wishes. Just so you know, marketing does transfer from the "Chip Industry" to other indistries like cruise travel. Cruises are products too. We are not just "Travel Agents", we organize groups specificly for group cruises with meetings onboard and escort them. Lot's of work and fun too!!

Beats the heck out of tracking the features of the next version of a chip from a cubical in Hillsboro.

Steve