Just in case no one noticed, John McEleney joined CADForum today! ><
We are glad to have you, John! We already have an Onshape area. Please make Mr. McEleney feel at home.
Thanks for joining, John McEleney !
Welcome on the forums, sir!
Welcome John McEleney
Matt,
Thank you for taking the lead to start CADForum! Users sharing and helping each other is an incredibly important part of ensuring that our industry realizes it’s full potential to improve how products are designed and manufactured.
John
John was the first SW CEO I had the pleasure to meet. It was one of the events organized by Javelin Technologies for their customers. I had just won the second place in the Cool Design Contest.
Alin & McEleney 2005.Jun.07.jpg
2005.Jun.07
I remember from John’s speech the importance to partner with one of the Top Two vendors in the industry. Any industry.
The first time I met John McEleney was at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo. The home of Buffalo chicken wings. John was sales exec for SW corp, and I was an Application Engineer for a local reseller. 1998? I think?
Lookin’ good Alin!
How can you tell… Aaaaa… the name tags… 
Now you got me wondering cause I zoomed in on your tag lol
Olympic tool? What’s that about
Olympic Tool and Die was the company I was working for before joining Javelin Technologies. 2002-2009.
One of my most memorable meetings with John McEleney was at SolidWorks World 2007(?) in New Orleans. While I don’t recall the exact conversation (I may have been a bit inebriated - it was the last year they had hard alcohol at the Tuesday night event), I do know that my usual brutal honest rose up and I spoke my mind, telling John that something about SW sucked. I’d been a part of the “Blog Squad” for a short time then, and my blog was hosted by SolidWorks, so when I couldn’t get onto the site to write a new post, I figured my mouth had ended my time as a blogger. Turned out to just be a coincidence, but something that I still remember.
John was at our very first User Group meeting when I started SwugOne 15 years ago.
When I get home, I’ll share our picture with him from SWW06.
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