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Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
all below are true except for K...which is a trick question. It was milano italy where they had trouble with couriers...who wore high cost and fashionable shoes around town...fedex uniforms and shoes were beneath them.....
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
Some more info for you that are history buffs
a-FedEx once owned a Rocket company that launced satellites, in order to bid on future Space Shuttle launches(the space shuttle fleet was originally designed to launch one shuttle per week. (FedEx Spacetran)
b-FedEx once had 200 Flight Stewardess's(inherited from Flying Tigers which chartered 747's for transporting Military personnel around the world)
c-FedEx flies military missions (Thru the civilian aircraft fleet; they don't fly missions but do fly cargo to dangerous places...they have many volunteers to fly these missions)
d-FedEx once bought it's own company that built Vans( they build Z-Vans)
e-FedEx once owned a share in a ocean ship that laid fiber optics in the Pacific
(had part ownership thru FITC which resold telecom products and circuits to companies like COSTCO and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines)
f-FedEx looked at a multi distribution broadband wireless system. They were going to dispatch and link FedEx systems during the day, and transmit free movies at night (One of the many Multi Distribution wireless systems that Jim Moore looked at)
g-FedEx once pondered a door to door delivery of people. A FedEx bus would pick you up and deliver you to local airports where FedEx jets would fly you to destinations on red eye flights(FedEx bought five 737's to start this service, but it took one year to get one license to land at Midway airport in Chicago, that plus some oil embargos cancelled the project )
h-FedEx almost invested in a $B fleet of Ocean going dirigibles.. (Tom Bullion led the project)
i-FedEx looked at building the largest seaplane for ocean transport
j-FedEx looked at building the fast ship possible for ocean transport
both i,j were some of the many possible options researched for ocean going traffic
k-FedEx had difficulty in getting couriers in Great Britain to dress in courier uniform
(this one is false, kind of, It is true but happened in Italy where it was fashionable for couriers to wear fashionable & pretty shoes...not plain black ones...)
Carl Wayne Hardeman8/30/2013
Another one: Fred owned many of our planes at one time and leased them to FedEx.
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
I heard that FWS and a group of execs formed a company to buy and lease some of the jets back to FedEx since it has been the strategy to not own most assets. At one time, some of the leases were actually owned by Disney, thru which we sponsored Space Mountain for several years.
Subject: FedEx Trivia
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
FedEx TriviaIn the mid 80's Ron Ponder was instructed to consolidate the telecom & IT for International under his domain. International groups, trying to turn a profit and build the business had invested minimally in infrastructure. FedEx's approach was to buy small companies and convert them to FedEx standards.Ron Ponder went on a tour of the countries.In one country he was especially startled. There was one AS400 computer in a basement, one programmer and something on top of the AS400 that shouldn't be there.In which country, and what did he find on top of the AS400??
Connie Morgan8/29/2013
Brussels Belgium?
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
not Brussels.
John Wilkinson8/29/2013
I think I remember that it was a coffee machine, but can't remember the country.
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
not a coffee machine, although I have no doubt that a coffee machine was probably on a computer server somewhere
Dan Elliot8/29/2013
If it was a vending machine in Europe. It was a beer machine!
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
or cigarette machine...
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/29/2013
The correct answer,
from Winn Stephenson
Milano, Italy - a pigeon. No AC so they left the window open to help cool the computer??
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and there was also a birds nest on top of the computer....
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
FedEx Trivia QuizWhen I worked in LineHaul, I was surprised to find that 580 of the Corporation's 1140 applications were in Linehaul(Air, Hub,Trucking apps). Some of these were small compared to COSMOS etc but were critical components in daily operations.This is a simplified view of a file/table which verifies which products can go to which stations.What is this downloadable table/file called?
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It begins with Operations Research, who for each month gives a file with one day of operations for that month. Every product type that flows to every zip code. It also takes into account historical data, how many weekends in the month, holidays and where the end of the month falls to generate the next months table.From there over 20 applications operate on that data, which expands to an operations volume and sort plan for every day of the month, for every sort location for several months.This data generates sort tables, Powerpad, PowerPickup, Automation and any other sortation device to generate labels or to sort packages.This data generates the number & schedule of aircraft, on which lanes and types of aircraft for every flight for the month.Also these applications feed into app that generates routes for the Pilot bid system to bid and schedule flights for all pilots each month.And dozens of over systems not seen are affected from this Table.
Carl Wayne Hardeman8/30/2013
Fwiw there were far more programs and files and lines of code in payroll/personnel system than in cosmos, but you could argue about complexity.
Jill Bradbury Greer8/30/2013
URSA?
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
URSA it is!!!
Deby Abbott Jolley8/30/2013
And what does URSA stand for?
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
My memory fades,,,but I think it is Universal Routing & Sorting Aid
Deby Abbott Jolley8/30/2013
The UR and S are correct. I can't remember exactly what the A stood for - but Aid sounds right! Your memory is not so bad, Jimmy!!
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
from the fedex shipmanager site: Universal Routing and Sort Aid (URSA) routing table
Carl Wayne Hardeman8/30/2013
anyone remember the acronym TLA
Johnnie Edwards10/8/2013
Talk, Listen, and Act.........came from UPS.........served us well in the Mem Hub.......
Carl Wayne Hardeman10/8/2013
TLA Three Letter Acronym too
Subject: Fast Ship: from Winn Stephenson As a side note, I was at a lunch mtg with FWS and the fast ship guru ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
Fast Ship: from Winn Stephenson
As a side note, I was at a lunch mtg with FWS and the fast ship guru. The hull design was the main driver of a fast ship. The Atlantic and Pacific have different wave cycles with one being about 6 feet different that the other. So a fast ship for the Pacific would not be as fast in the Atlantic and vice versa. It was a very interesting conversation and I re-discovered that there are great amounts of detail about things you would never think of by personal you have never heard about. I was humbled.
FWS clearly was in the mind to do this, but backed off for some reason unknown to me.
Jimmy Glenn Burk8/30/2013
from FedEx Legends Site(Ops REsearch page) & Tom Bullion: Aircraft Carrier Freighter: Another design was a fast ocean going large freighter called Fastship. This ocean going freighter would be 1000 feet long. Mr. Smith hired a naval architect named Reuven Leopold and Tom was assigned to be his FedEx rep. They actually had a 40 foot model of the ship designed for testing. To test the design and obtain a hull classification for insurance purposes, they shipped the model to Das Veritas, Norway. It passed all of the sea keeping tests but one, breaking into two pieces when a humongous quartering wave hit it.
Tom looked at extremely fast submarines, sea planes, wing-in-ground effect aircraft and many other concepts that FedEx could consider for new businesses.
Subject: FedEx Trivia In the mid 90's, Harry Dalton's group strategy was to provide couriers with an ASTRA pr ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/2/2013
FedEx Trivia
In the mid 90's, Harry Dalton's group strategy was to provide couriers with an ASTRA printer & get URSA barcode labels on all FedEx packages. Around 40% of the package volume were shipped with just airbills, and they didn't have a bar code for automatic sorting. Automation and EDI(Powership+) customers provided shipping labels. With barcode and URSA the error rates would go down.Finance was presenting pushback to financing these courier printers and he couldn't get the project approved. Finance wasn't happy with the maintenance costs of the printers and scenarios to fix.In a meeting, Harry quickly made a major strategic decision, in which finance had to approve his project so he could move forward. What did Harry say?
Dan Elliot9/2/2013
it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission!
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/2/2013
....if you knew Harry....he didn't ask for forgiveness...
Dan Elliot9/2/2013
Yes, I knew Harry well...
Subject: Harry said something like this to Finance:
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/2/2013
Harry said something like this to Finance:‘Well if you are having trouble with the Maintenance costs…I’ll make it simple for you…Whenever any ASTRA printer fails…I’m just going to throw it away and buy another one…that way you don’t have to worry about maintenance costs… and I’ll replace them each year.’This dropped the ROI(return on investment) slightly but was still too good a return, so Finance approved the project.Of course the blunt way Harry had in proclaiming this to finance was fun to watch.The printer actually lasted longer than planned. Instead of couriers wearing the printers, most just left them at their van, and printed the labels when they brought the packages from the customer.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/6/2013
Harry Dalton video interviews: http://www.fedexlegends.info/allvideos.html#dalton
Subject: A wiki type video on FedEx; it is audio only.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/8/2013
A wiki type video on FedEx; it is audio only.
Subject: Happy Birthday to Bruce Lindow and congratulations on reaching 72; enjoy your retirement, you have e ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/8/2013
Happy Birthday to Bruce Lindow and congratulations on reaching 72; enjoy your retirement, you have earned it.
Subject: From Marie McVay: Casey Carter, worked in IT, passed away unexpectedly Friday. I don't think arrange ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/8/2013
From Marie McVay: Casey Carter, worked in IT, passed away unexpectedly Friday. I don't think arrangements have been made yet....I thought you might want to know....She leaves behind 2 young daughters and her husband
Kathy Guererri Heatherly9/9/2013
So sad worked with Casey on a few projects many years ago Thought and prayers go out to her family.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/9/2013
From Kandi Tippitt: How sad please let me know if you hear of any arrangements
Deby Abbott Jolley9/9/2013
The Memorial Service for Casey Carter will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11th, at Brantley-Phillips Funeral Home in Hernando, MS. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Husband, Kevin has requested that memorial contributions be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The funeral home address and driving directions are listed below. Please continue to keep Casey’s family in your thoughts and prayers.
Brantley-Phillips Funeral Home
2470 Hwy 51 South,
Hernando, MS 38632
Directions
From I-55 – Travel I-55 to Exit 280, Commerce Street/Holly Springs Street. Exit west onto Holly Springs Street and proceed to U.S. Highway 51. Turn right (north) onto Highway 51 and proceed to the funeral home, located on the right (east) side of the street.
Linda Cook Thorn9/9/2013
This news is heartbreaking I pray her friends and family have the support and love they need and deserve during these difficult times.
Casey has been a friend for many years. So sorry!
Subject: from winn stephenson: To add to Doyle's illustrious career, he was the voice of God in the Bellevue ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/9/2013
from winn stephenson:
To add to Doyle's illustrious career, he was the voice of God in the Bellevue Baptist church various productions, including the Christmas play. His deep voice was perfect for this role as he would boom out some appropriate message from God.We are boyhood friends going back to high school. My school was one of the first to have running water and electricity.So, whenever I had lunch with Doyle, I would always say I was eating with God today.Winn
Subject: Where in the World is Jim & Linda Brigance?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/9/2013
Where in the World is Jim & Linda Brigance?At Whole Foods today, ran into Jim Brigance. Jim is retired and was a VP of Kinkos and later VP of FedEx Intl. Linda will retire in May. Jim said they have relocated back to Memphis and just finished a new house downtown on the River close to Tennessee Street.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/9/2013
Jim Brigance: http://www.mbaaa.ust.hk/HKUST_enews/2007/Nov/Bio_%20Jim%20Brigance_2007_Feb.htm
Carl Wayne Hardeman9/10/2013
Trivia question: What was Linda's maiden name?
Patricia Ross9/10/2013
Scammatchia..... however, may not be spelled correctly!!
Carl Wayne Hardeman9/10/2013
Scatamacchia or that's close.
Deby Abbott Jolley9/10/2013
Maybe without the 'h', Carl?
Buddy Johnson9/10/2013
Linda Scat, for short. I trained her when she was hired at FedEx in early 80's.
Subject: Some early SuperTracker prototype concepts.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/10/2013
Some early SuperTracker prototype concepts.
Chris Apalodimas9/12/2013
What, no wand scanners
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz? When Federal Express purchased Caliber Systems, that corporation included about 4 ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/11/2013
FedEx Trivia Quiz?
When Federal Express purchased Caliber Systems, that corporation included about 4 entities.FDX was formed as the Corporate entity over all the companies and colors were assigned to logos for each company.The FedEx color scheme remained the same Purple plus Orange.FedEx Ground chose Purple & Green.Why did Ground choose green?...and why did FedEx Services Not get a real color?
Deby Abbott Jolley9/11/2013
Just guessing - but was the green for prosperity - the color of money?
And Services was designed to service all of the op-cos, so it shouldn't have a color, but be "color-less" - as in, the absence/presence of all colors. (another guess)
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/11/2013
answer to services is correct
Deby Abbott Jolley9/11/2013
Can I have a second guess? Green for growth??
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/11/2013
The President of Caliber Systems who became the President of FedEx Ground was Dan O'Sullivan who was of Irish extraction....thus Irish Green.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/16/2013
spelling correction: Dan Sullivan
Subject: FedEx Trivia Question When FedEx Services was formed Marketing, Sales & almost all of the IT groups ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/11/2013
FedEx Trivia Question
When FedEx Services was formed Marketing, Sales & almost all of the IT groups were moved.
Which two IT groups were slated to stay with FedEx Express and which vice-presidents?Eventually one of the groups moved to Services & years later the second group moved plus all of Customer Service.
Jill Bradbury Greer9/11/2013
Tech Services, Netter is one ?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/11/2013
Tech Services is one! Larry Netter wasn't the VP then.
Jim Gonka9/11/2013
Jim Colson
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
Not Jim,it was he who was between Jim & Larry
Larry Sparks9/12/2013
Harry Dalton.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
Harry Dalton & Tech Services is correct for one of the groups.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
The other group was LHSD(LineHaulSystemsDevelopment) and VP was Jimmy Burk
Gary Phillips9/12/2013
Who?
Subject: Zapmail Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
Zapmail Trivia QuizZapmail I was customer calls FedEX> courier dispatched to pick up document>document scanned at FedEx station>printed at destination station> delivered by courier -in less than 2 hoursThe transmission of the document was thru 16 X.25 Packet Switches that connected to all the zapmail machines.What was the other technology that FedEx researched to transmit these documents?
Charles Morgan9/12/2013
Switch 56K?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
switch 56 not really available in 1983
Charles Morgan9/12/2013
oops, sorry, I didn't join until 1985!
Deby Abbott Jolley9/12/2013
Was it by satellite? - and btw, there's still a Zapmail machine at the FedEx Training Center in Collierville. It has a little plaque with some information about Zapmail.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
Not satellie, although Satellites were used for circuits between some of the packet switch nodes.
Gary Phillips9/12/2013
Started using switched 56 for backup in the call centers around '85.
Gary Phillips9/12/2013
Voice switching was considered but our voice switches (ACDs) couldn't handle 56k.
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/12/2013
Gary is correct!
Subject: Off to the Gulf Coast for the week!
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/15/2013
Off to the Gulf Coast for the week!
Carla Slattery Moore9/15/2013
Have a wonderful time!
Subject: Sandy Butler Stone was added to FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club by Bob Higgins.
Bob Higgins9/16/2013
Subject: FedEx Trivia Question: What is the system called that takes feeds of scans from all the FedEx compan ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/17/2013
FedEx Trivia Question: What is the system called that takes feeds of scans from all the FedEx companies and puts stores in one database to provide a common view of package/freight shipments to customers?
Larry Tieman9/17/2013
Shipment FUSION
Gary Phillips9/17/2013
Insight?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/17/2013
Larry be correcto. Insight does consolidate scans for individual shippers that sign up for that service.
Carl Wayne Hardeman9/17/2013
the Gordian knot?
Subject: Fedex Trivia Quiz: who was the first Vp of Operations over the Superhub?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
Fedex Trivia Quiz: who was the first Vp of Operations over the Superhub?
David Warren9/18/2013
Ed White?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
not ed. ed was vp of computer operations after kramer was fired in that group.
David Warren9/18/2013
Birkholz?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
correct!
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
Karl Birkholz who is the president of the FedEx Retiree Club
Subject: FedEx Trivia quiz: in 1995 Fedex did something that was called "the first practical application on t ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
FedEx Trivia quiz: in 1995 Fedex did something that was called "the first practical application on the Internet". this was done by Dale Browning & Miley Ainsworths groups under jimmy burk & winn stephenson. what was this application?
Angela Maynard9/18/2013
tracking
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
Angie is correct! before this app Internet applications all just displayed information or were a hodge podge of usenet user groups. Steve Benton was the programmer on the project.
Marie McVay9/18/2013
Tracking
Gary Phillips9/18/2013
Twerking?
Subject: soes jim tollefson live in aurora where the flooding is?
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/18/2013
soes jim tollefson live in aurora where the flooding is?
John Toscano9/18/2013
I believe Jim lives in Louisville closer to Boulder where the floods are at there worst. Aurora was spared for the most part. I don't think that Jim was in any danger, however.
Dan Elliot9/19/2013
Yes, he lives in Louisville...
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/19/2013
Thanks
David Warren9/21/2013
Better known as JET........
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/21/2013
email from Jim Tollefson to Winn Stephenson: Winn, we are in good shape. There are no water sources near our place. Thanks for asking.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz(Networks)
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/23/2013
FedEx Trivia Quiz(Networks)In the late 1980's FedEx had established Network Operations Centers around the World.
Canada & South America operations were handled by the Memphis Computer Ops group.What cities were Network & Telecom groups established for the folowing:1. Great Britain
2. Europe
3. Asia South Pacific
Dan Elliot9/23/2013
Hursley, Brussels, narita??
Jimmy Glenn Burk9/23/2013
Brussels is correct for Europe.
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