{"id":8240,"date":"2015-07-06T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2015-07-06T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T23:30:22","slug":"a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Digilent President Steve Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8257\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600-600x107.png\" alt=\"Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600-225x40.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I hope everyone is having a great summer and finding a little extra time to do those things that you&#8217;ve been hoping to get to all year. Here at Digilent, the office changes character as we welcome a large crew of marketing and engineering interns. The energy and enthusiasm that they bring is infectious and helps keep us focused on our educational mission. The slower summer months between semesters are also a great time for us to work on big projects needed for keeping up with the company&#8217;s growth. Many of these projects are not very visible to our customers, such as our recent migration to a new manufacturing resource planning (MRP) platform that is used to help manage our growing product line and inventory. One of our most exciting projects will soon be very visible to everyone &#8212; a complete website overhaul. The new Digilent website is being built on a state-of-the-art eCommerce platform that will be cleaner and more modern looking, easier to navigate, and allow you to create and manage your own account profile, including order status and history. We plan to have the new website up in time for fall semester, but until then, please enjoy all the new products, educational content, and project resources that our intern-boosted teams are putting together this summer!<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Steve Johnson<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-8240 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='8240' data-nonce='712f7a0d3d' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-8240 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-8240 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='8240' data-nonce='712f7a0d3d' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-8240 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-8240 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A summer message from our president, Steve Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Message from Digilent President Steve Johnson - Digilent Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Message from Digilent President Steve Johnson - Digilent Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A summer message from our president, Steve Johnson.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Digilent Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-07-07T03:00:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"107\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amber Mear\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amber Mear\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amber Mear\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c33500b30135cd0853e452b0ccfa2bcb\"},\"headline\":\"A Message from Digilent President Steve Johnson\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-07-07T03:00:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":231,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/a-message-from-digilent-president-steve-johnson\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/digilent.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/07\\\/Digilent-Logo2015-color_on_white-600.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Messages From Digilent Inc. 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