BEYA-WOC HALL OF FAME BEYA-WOC STEM


Hall of Fame 2014 Inductees


new crop of Black Engineer of the Year Award (BEYA) winners and Women of Color (WOC) sci- ence, technology engineering and math (STEM) honorees will be inducted into the Career Commu- nications Group, Inc. STEM Hall of Fame. There’s much diversity in the career paths of the 2014 hall of famers but they share a common thread: full engagement in passing on knowledge, social capital and the professional development support of people in STEM.


A executive officer. During his tenure as CEO, Mr. O’Neal


led Delphi through a historic reorganization that transformed the company into an entity with fewer, but more competitive and profitable product lines, as well as more diversified markets, customers and geographic footprint. Today, Delphi has over $16 billion in revenue and is considered a technological leader. Mr. O’Neal serves on the board of directors for Delphi and the honorary board of directors for Real Life 101, a scholarship and mentoring program for at-risk African American males.


Rodney O’Neal Chief Executive Officer and President Delphi Automotive LLP 2002 Black Engineer of the Year


Rodney O’Neal is chief executive officer and president of Delphi Automotive PLC, a premier global automotive supplier, with manufacturing sites and technical centers in 32 countries. A veteran of the automotive industry,


Mr. O’Neal began his career with General Motors while attending college at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University). After graduation, he held a number of engineering, production and manufacturing supervisory positions with the company in locations throughout the United States, Portugal and Canada. Mr. O’Neal became president of


Delphi’s Interior Systems Division in 1997 and later held executive level roles in several Delphi divisions and sectors before becoming the company’s president and chief operating officer in 2005. Two years later, he was named the chief


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his aptitude for math and science could lead to an engineering career. Before then, he had never seen Black engineers. Arnold went to earn a degree in physics from Morehouse College and a second bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. He also earned an M.B.A. from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business and a master’s in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.


Prior to joining EMC, he spent 20


years at Lucent Technologies/AT&T. At Lucent, he worked in multiple business areas, including wireless infrastructure, voice switching and data networking. He started his tenure at EMC leading infrastructure software program management. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for strategic investigations in the Chief Technology Office and for driving the Chief Development Officer’s operation. Arnold is now driving and managing


Glenn Arnold Director of Programs Management Infrastructure Management Group EMC


2009 Special Recognition Honoree


When Glenn Arnold was an Atlanta high school sophomore, he listened to engineering students from the Georgia Institute of Technology talk about how


staff operations and strategic initiatives reporting directly to the President of GPO. His responsibilities include the following initiatives: prioritize and program manage cross-GPO initiatives, lead strategic product and process investigations, and story boarding major GPO activities and work streams. Prior to this position, Glenn served as Director of ASD Program management where he facilitated the Product Line leadership Team for Smarts as well as the Smarts Suite engineering team. He is the co-founder of the EMC Black Employee Affinity Group.


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