It is not code for a person who doesn't really know how to do anything but thinks he can boss engineers around.
He was previously chief mechanic and then chief engineer of former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team, which won world championships in 1981 and 1983.
And farther down, five full floors be low street level, Mrs. O'Shea's own boss, William S. Darlington, the new chief engineer, who "inherited her" when he took over recently, conceded he would never have hired her.
Others who have departed include chief engineer Bob Mansfield, former retail boss John Browett, general counsel Bruce Sewell, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer and software leader Scott Forstall.
As she spoke, her husband, Edgar, deck boss and engineer on the Northwestern, came up behind her dressed in a tuxedo, and carrying a single red rose.
Three former Xstrata boardroom colleagues – Con Fauconnier, a former mining executive; Peter Hooley, the former finance director of Smith & Nephew; and Ian Strachan, the one-time boss of engineer BTR – were all also voted down.
Or, if most of his career has been spent in an internal or support function, he should work with his boss to engineer a move to a customer-facing position that provides a ringside view of industry dynamics at work.
Or rather because the party bosses who engineer his campaign, and control his every action in the course of it, couldn't find anyone better.
Kent Kresa, the Grumman boss who engineered the merger with Northrop in 1994, and who has led the firm since, saw the trend towards electronic warfare sooner than others in the industry.Through a series of bold acquisitions he has taken the company from a distant fourth among defence contractors to a strong third, with revenues of $13.6 billion last year.
