IT Help Wanted: [itroundtable] Minutes for the IT Roundtable Meeting of Tuesday July, 28, 2009 [2 Attachments]

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

[itroundtable] Minutes for the IT Roundtable Meeting of Tuesday July, 28, 2009 [2 Attachments]

[Attachment(s) from John Rechenberg included below]

This message contains the minutes for the IT Roundtable meeting of Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at the first floor Lee Hecht Harrison Atrium Meeting Room in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. Besides the minutes, a listing of all attendees is attached. The information is provided with the assumption that the data provided here is to be maintained with respect and confidentiality. Should any questions arise having to do with the accuracy of the information provided here, please send an e-mail to me, John Rechenberg, at jar1@optonline.net, and I will make any appropriate corrections and apologies as is necessary. I personally would like to thank all attendees for their kind participation, and especially to our hosts, Ed McEneney and John Sampson, for their valuable contributions to the meeting.

IT Roundtable – 20090728

August 25^th, 2009 – Next meeting at 10 to 12. This meeting will be held at:

DeVry University - Paramus Center
35 Plaza
81 East State Route 4
Paramus, NJ 07652

The building is sandwiched in between the Saturn Dealership and Houlihan’s on Route 4 WEST. The East in the address above only means that the building is east of Route 17.

New Attendees

1. Tony Pinghera

2. Glen Lamb

3. Adriana Cordaro

4. Jack McKenzie

5. Karen Leibowitz

6. Robert Laurence

7. Scott Sommer (Returnee)

Bob Kantor – KPMG

IT Exec director, strategy, governance

Target – Quest in Madison

Chubb, Prudential

Help us with – Check out my blog, make comments http://www.kantorconsultinggroup.com

Robert Swanson – Ricoh – Dir of IT, infrastructure

Biotech, Healthcare Industries

Help Us – Linkedin, recruiters, resume reviews, discuss IT

Jack McKenzie – Senior Programmer Retail Area – Met Museum of Art

One man project group –

Mainframe Cobol/SQL/RPG IV

Target – none,

Help With – LinkedIn

Adriana Cordaro – Tech Writer – Wyeth

QA Analyst – Pharmaceutical sales

Interested in Biotech

.Com Tech companies/ Westchester Bergen county

Ron Resnick – IT PM – PMP Certification –

App Dev – Mainframe, COBOL

Backoffice complex

Citigroup, Prudential Financial, Met Life

Six Sigma Certification

Help With – LinkedIn

Bank of NY, Chubb

Scott Sommer – Fourth Time Back – Technician – HP through MS Payforce

Skill – DEC CE, mgr service engineers

Stay in Projects

Help With – Networking, E-mail

Ed Brozek – Tech sales professional – HP

Cisco VAR –

Products, services, and software

Target Industries: Pharmaceuticals, Life Science, Energy

Can work with Resumes

Jei-Min Lee – HP – Tech Alliance – HP/Unix

Financial Services, Sungard, Banking

Project Manager – Engineering projects

Telecommunication

Target Companies – IBM

Oracle, SAP (would need learning)

Help me with – Resume

Jobs in PM or Tech Alliance

Help us with – Contacts, Software Vendor Partners

Bob Roman – IT Project Manager – Digital Asset Management

Project Results –

Targets Donnelley, Pearson

Help with – Social Media, Twitter

Karen Leibowitz – IT Project Manager, CPA, ERP systems

Ernst & Young Peoplesoft, QA Team, End User Validation

Upgrade T&E system

Target KPMG, PWC, Novartis,

Biotech

Help Us with – Ernst & Young

Bradley Browne- Credit Analyst – Standard & Poor’s

Adjunct Professor at DeVry University

Networking Groups

BCNC –

AnnMarie Foran- IT Prof exp in Business Intelligence and Objects

Legg Mason – Citigroup

Enterprise Applications, Business Objects Expert

Resolve reporting Issues

Glen Lamb –

Position - QA Analyst

Former Company- Prudential

Target Companies - Equitable, Met Life, Medco

Automated testing class, Quick Time Professional, Kaizen

Tony Pinghera – EDS- Ops –

Looking for contacts in data center

John Beirne – IT Service Manager – Offshore Dev Team

IT Operations – ITIL 6 Sigma

Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank –

Ass Bus Mgrs, Toastmasters

John Rechenberg – Former Company – Sterling Publishing

Former Position – IT Project Manager

Target Area – Metropolitan New York Area

Target Companies – Publishing, Healthcare, including

Pearson, Scholastic, Cambridge, Donnelley, Bowker, Montefiore

Help Me with – Target Companies

Help Us with – Yahoo Groups, WNO, BCNC, IT Roundtable, PMP Certification

Ed Vogel – IT Problem Solver – Complex Cross Functional Problems with HP

Targets are – Tech Vendors, Cisco, Oracle, Research in Motion, NetApps

Eli Amdur “What’s Wrong with Number 5”

Help With – Looking for smaller companies

Write 5 letters a day to companies

Networking events –

Robert Lawrence – Sony electronics – Shift Supervisor

Mainframe – AS400, SAP, Unix

Targets – None

Industry – Any

Help Me With – Data Centers, Small Data Centers

Help Us With – Linkedin

Joe Neglia Postion – Test Engineer

ITT, Bell Labs

Homeland Security – In charge of Officers

HealthCare – In charge of Plant

Help you with Linkedin, job openings

Help with Green companies, validation

Have C3 Security – Lockheed?

Robert Straub – Software Developer using C++ on Unix/Linux

Former Company: Lehman Brothers, Barclay’s Capital

Target – Nomura

Robert Scatko – Children’s Place – Retail/Log/Distribution

Mainframe Platform

BA, Systems design, WMS, E-Commerce, BackOffice

Major National Retail Chains

Polo, Tiffany, Toys “R” Us

May look at non-apparel with E-Commerce

Dan Wawrzonek – KPMG – Exec Dir apps dev, 50 people applications developer

Target – Thomson-Reuters, IEEE

Help with – KPMG, IT side

UPS – Wife works there

John Sampson – 15^th September – Recruiter Night Out

Corporate Indoor Consulting –

Pompton Lakes – Great site for a meeting

CIT Meeting – Short Hills – Be there 8 am 1^st and 3^rd Saturdays of the month

Breakfast Club – New Brunswick – August 8

What is an acceptable number of interviews?

One a week would be good.

Landings -

Bill Rosen – Outsourcing –

Tim Brandon – Honeywell – CT

Leads –

Scott – Looked at Linkedin, Indeed

Watch out for Resumes

Leave your Resume on the boards

John – “What about cover letters” – Some read, some don’t

Add cover letter to resume on submission

Is Twitter taking over?

Joe Neglia – Had a hit on Dice

AnnMarie – Can recruiters help you if you’ve posted on the boards

Ed Vogel – Make it easy for them to find me

Tracey Greene – 914-235-5901 – Credit Suisse

Tom Vitale Landed at Credit Suisse

Bob Kantor – Consulting Firm – Marlabs – IT Sales Profs

KPMG – Lot of Posted Openings but moving slowly. FYE is September.

ReferenceUSA.Com

CareerSearch, D&B, Hoovers to find Healthcare

BCNC Meeting – August 3, 2009 at Woodcliff Lake Hilton

200 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

For Invitation, send request to jar1@optonline.net

Use of IT Roundtable and Yahoo Group –

Send inquiries to ITRoundtable@yahoogroups.com

Events, VMware,

Toastmasters –

John Beirne – Member in Ridgewood – toastmasters

Meets 1 every 2 weeks, 100 dollars dues

Bradley Browne – joined in

Invitation to IT Roundtable on Yahoogroups. Send request to Ed.mceneney@lhh.com

Request to send out notice alerting users to the meeting the day before –

Karen – Execunet – There are good once a month meetings for 40$

Associate Member

Upcoming Network Events –

Event: CIT

Date: Saturday August 1, 2009

Time: 8:30 am - 11:00 am

Location: Christ Church, Short Hills

Street: 66 Highland Avenue

City/State/Zip: Short Hills, NJ 07078

From the Garden State Parkway

Follow the Garden State Parkway to Exit 142, I-78. Take I-78 West. (Important note for travelers coming from the south on the Garden State Parkway: Exit 142 will put you onto I-78 going east. Take the first exit, turn right at the end of the ramp, cross over the highway, and immediately turn right onto the entrance ramp for I-78 West.) Take I-78 West to Rt. 24 West. Follow Rt. 24 West to Exit 9B, Hobart Ave./ Hobart Gap Rd. Turn right at the stoplight at the top of the exit ramp onto Hobart Gap Road. Go 0.2 miles to the blinking light at the intersection of Hobart Gap Road and Hobart Avenue. At the blinking light, take a right onto Hobart Avenue. Travel 0.7 miles to Forest Drive. Take a left onto Forest Drive and follow for 0.3 miles to Christ Church.

From the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95)

Follow the New Jersey Turnpike to Exit 14, Newark Airport / I-78 West. Take I-78 West to Rt. 24 West. Follow Rt. 24 West to Exit 9B, Hobart Ave./ Hobart Gap Rd. Turn right at the stoplight at top of the exit ramp onto Hobart Gap Road. Go 0.2 miles to the blinking light at the intersection of Hobart Gap Road and Hobart Avenue. At the blinking light, take a right onto Hobart Avenue. Travel 0.7 miles to Forest Drive. Take a left onto Forest Drive and follow for 0.3 miles to Christ Church.

Event: BCNC Meeting –

Date: August 3, 2009, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Location: Woodcliff Lake Hilton

Address: 200 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

For Invitation, send request to jar1@optonline.net

Full Name	Company	Job Title	Home Phone	E-mail
Adriana Cordaro	(Wyeth)	Tech Writer QA Analyst	(201) 522-9555	adriana1adriana@yahoo.com
Anne Marie Foran	(Legg Mason)	Business Intelligence/Objects	(914) 536-8266	amforan@yahoo.com
Bob Kantor	(KPMG, LLP)	Executive Director, IT	(845) 558-6817	bobkantor@hotmail.com
Bob Roman	Random House	Director, Content Management	(201) 891-6799	broman235@qmail.com
Bradley Browne	DeVry Univ./(S&P)	Fixed Income Credit Analyst/Adjunct Prof	(201) 445-1826	bbrowne9@aol.com
Dan Wawrzonek	(KPMG)	Executive Director	(914) 629-0028	dmwawrzonek@aol.com
Edward J. McEneney	Lee Hecht Harrison			ed.mceneney@lhh.com
Edward Vogel	(HP)	Problem Management	(845) 357-5640	evogel@optonline.net
Edwin Brozek	Cisco	Sales	(201) 452-1216	edbrozek@aol.com
Glen Lamb	(Prudential)	QA Analyst	(973) 857-1742	glen.lamb@yahoo.com
Jack McKenzie	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Senior Programmer	(201) 370-9657	jackmck@juno.com
Jei-Min Lee	(HP)	Project Manager	(201) 493-0978	jeimin.lee@gmail.com
Joe Neglia	(ITT)	Test Engineer	(914) 953-5482	neglia22@aol.com
John A. Rechenberg	Sterling Publishing	IT Manager	(201) 387-9063	jar1@optonline.net
John Beirne	Morgan Stanley	IT Service Manager	(201) 251-8446	john.p.beirne@gmail.com
John Sampson	(NEC)	IT SR Mgmt	(973) 248-3251	jcsspike@yahoo.com
Karen Leibowitz	Ernst & Young	IT Project Manager	(201) 245-6659	leib2@optonline.net
Patricia Barry	Lee Hecht Harrison			patricia.barry@lhh.com
Robert Laurence	Sony	Data Center Supervisor	(845) 986-7344	mayrarob@optonline.net
Robert Scatko	(Children's Place)	IT Director	(201) 669-8642	robert.scatko@verizon.net
Robert Straub	Barclay's Capital, Lehman Bros.	Software Engineer	(973) 458-8103	rstraub@acm.org
Robert Swanson	Ricoh Corp	Director, IT	(551) 427-1165	robertfswanson@aim.com
Ron Resnick	Citigroup	PM	(732) 625-2450	rresnick69@optonline.net
Scott Sommer	(HP, Kforce)	Deployment Manager	(914) 263-1227	scott.sommer@ieee.org