Who is Ed Rasala from The Soul of a New Machine and what is their importance?

Rasala was a Data General employee who was involved with the Eagle project. He was born in Brooklyn of Polish immigrant parents. He earned his engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then went to work at Raytheon. After several years, he went to work at Data General and was assigned to the first Eclipse project. He could make the ideas of others work. Rasala's dream was to open a grocery store in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.