Primary Job Title Director Project Management Primary Organization 
Zebra Technologies
Location Sunnyvale, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Dave Robson, Chief Cooperation Officer, manages relationships with customers and strategic partners. He was previously the Chief of Staff at Willow Garage, where he supported the CEO in all aspects of running a 50-60 person leading edge robotics research and development company.
He began his career at Xerox PARC in the Learning Research Group,
where he contributed to several Smalltalk systems: Smalltalk-74 (the first Smalltalk in which classes were represented as first class objects), Smalltalk-76, Smalltalk-78, and Smalltalk-80. He coauthored, with Adele Goldberg, the first book on Smalltalk, "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation".
He later became a research manager at PARC, Quality Officer for Xerox Research and Technology, and Vice President of Human Resources for the Xerox Innovation Group.
