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摘要

Charlie Elliott never got his engineering degree. He fell in love, he says, got married, and needed to get a job. The one he got was building electric harnesses for a company that made coin-change slot machines. It turned out Elliott's boss' husband worked for a cable TV company, and his boss recommended him for a job. Elliott joined Ottawa Cablevision in 1972. He ended up working for four cable companies without ever changing jobs. Cablevision was purchased by Selkirk, which was purchased in 1988 by McLean Hunter, which was purchased in 1994 by Rogers Communications, and that's how Elliott ended up at Rogers. The Polaris Award recognizes engineering managers, and Elliott has a disposition for it - he enjoys finding solutions to problems that go beyond just the equations.