{"id":1542,"date":"2011-06-15T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/From-Student-to-Synchronous-Advocate\/ba-p\/334715"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:09:29","slug":"from-student-to-synchronous-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/from-student-to-synchronous-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"From Student to Synchronous Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Meet Ben Sampson. (<a title=\"Ben Sampson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BenCAx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@BenCAx<\/A>)<BR \/><BR \/>Ben&nbsp;attended<a title=\"Utah State\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?ComponentTemplate=1481&amp;Component=92970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Utah State University<\/A>, worked at the <a title=\"SDL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?ComponentTemplate=1481&amp;Component=93330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space Dynamic Labs<\/A> (SDL) and is now working out of the Dallas area for our partner <a title=\"Saratech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saratechinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Saratech<\/A>. And he loves synchronous technology. Agraduate of professor <a title=\"John Devitry\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/john-devitry-on-synchronous-technology-at-plm-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">John Devitry&#8217;s<\/A> well known and popular mechanical engineering program, Ben is now showing the power of synchronous to customers. I caught up with him after one of the sessions today.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I2OO2jJUEno\"><\/IFRAME><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Ben Sampson. (@BenCAx)    Ben&nbsp;attended Utah State University, worked at the Space Dynamic Labs (SDL) and is now working out of the Dallas area for our partner Saratech. And he loves synchro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-academic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}