Wayne Rosing has been involved as a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation

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 and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer

Apple Computer

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 in the early 1980s. There he led the Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa

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 project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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 and headed the spin-off First Person.