LEWIS W. "LEW" COUNTS

I just learned of Lew's passing and I want to offer my condolences to his family. I met Lew when I began working at Analog Devices in 1984. Lew made a big impression on me as being both brilliant and a gentle person. I was his finance guy. He was always rational and never offensive. They don't make engineers like him anymore. Jim Buran

Unfortunately I just heard about the passing of Lew. He was one of my key mentors at Analog Devices when I joined the company in April 1991 at age 29. Barrie Gilbert was my other mentor. These two gentlemen had a huge influence on me. At one time I wanted to move back to my native Germany and the company wanted to let me go. Lew and Barrie pulled out all stops to keep me. RIP, Lew!

In 2017 Lew made a special trip from Boston to Greensboro to attend Roy Gosser's retirement dinner. It was a nice surprise for Roy and the rest of us.

During the 1990s and into the 2000s Lew often contributed to the Analog Devices technical seminar program as an author, reviewer and presenter. I was fortunate to know Lew both as a colleague and a traveling companion on several seminar tours. Regardless of bad weather, flight delays, late nights, and early morning start times, Lew took things in stride and was always helpful and enthusiastic.

He was a great conversationalist, knowledgeable about so many issues, and was excellent...

As noted in the obituary, Lew was an active photographer. Among his notable pictures were ones that he took at the many ADI seminars. The attached photo was taken at the Norwood MA seminar in 2002, with many ADI notables present. That was a memorable event, just before I retired from ADI. As can be seen, Lew was beaming, and justifiably so. He was one of the driving forces behind this and many other of these seminars.

I will always remember Lew as not just a key technical leader...

I was on holiday in the US in 1982 and had met a headhunter at a party who was looking for an Applications Manager for Analog in Europe. He suggested that I visit Wilmington while I was in Boston, and Lew was one of the first people to interview me. I remember very clearly that he was far less concerned about what I did not know than about ensuring that I did know how to make informed guesstimates which could then be verified.

We were colleagues for over a quarter of a century and...