IT Help Wanted: [itroundtable] Minutes for IT Roundtable Meeting of Tuesday, August 25, 2009 [3 Attachments]

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

[itroundtable] Minutes for IT Roundtable Meeting of Tuesday, August 25, 2009 [3 Attachments]

[Attachment(s) from John Rechenberg included below]

This message contains the minutes for the IT Roundtable meeting of Tuesday, August 25, 2009. For the first time ever, the meeting was held on the 2^nd floor of DeVry University in Paramus, NJ. The following minutes are provided with the understanding that all the personal information divulged here is to be treated with respect and confidentiality. Should there be any questions arising as to the accuracy of the following information, 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 Professor Bradley Browne of DeVry University, who kept the meeting moving along, encouraged full participation, and provided water, coffee and Munchkins. Once you got the bone and gristle out of your teeth, those Munchkins were great!

For all new members, please remember to e-mail Ed McEneney at ed.mceneney@lhh.com and request you wish to join the IT Roundtable Yahoo group. If you have not been able to join by this Friday evening, please let me know at the address above.

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IT Roundtable – 20090825

This is the first time IT Roundtable has met at DeVry University.

August 25^th, 2009 – Meeting ran from 10 to 12.

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.

One landing announced, UBS.

New Attendees

1. Yulan Li

2. John Brown

3. Paul Sicardo

4. Dan Harrison

5. Ron Polansky

6. Hogan Lam

7. Dan Louie

8. Sharad Patel

9. George Stathakis

We had 21 attendees with one person asking to be added in afterwards.

Introductions:

Brad Browne – Credit Analyst – S&P

Adjunct Professor at DeVry University

Financial Fed Reserve Board, FDIC, SEC,

Help You – Financial Services Expert, DeVry University

Help Me - Target Companies

Paul Sicardo – Project Leader Technologist

Implement Solutions, Data Centers, Power & Energy

Help You – Linked in

Target Companies – Tech Companies – DuPont, J&J, Becton D IBM

BioTech – Circuit Level

Dan Harrison – Citibank, Financial Services

Data Management

Capacity Planning, Statistician

MS, BONY, KPMG, Bayer

Help You - PSG Dover- Volunteering

Ron Polansky – Dir Bus Systems Sony –

Application systems Delivery

Target Companies – IBM, Compucom, BD

Help Me - How to stay current technically

Raju Patel – UBS - Dir App Manager

Dev Mgmt Team, PM

Target Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase

Financial companies in general

Help you – UBS, Contacts

Help Me – Leads on Contract Positions

Dan Louie – Senior Developer – AXA Financial

Target – Financial or Pharmaceuticals –

Novartis, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Alliance Bernstein, Oracle, IBM

Help you – AXA Leads

John Beirne – Bus Proc Imp Manager – Morgan Stanley

Targets – Open

Fed Grant for Financial Industries 12,500 emergency grant Retraining Program

Hogan Lam – IT Dir for Language Testing Int.

Ajilon staffing – IT Director

Networking –

Target – Gov – MTA, Nuclear Power Authority

Help You – Linkedin

Harry Landerer – IT Professional Specializing in Program PM Management

Skill – Deliver App development solutions

Proprietary systems across many architectures

Recently delivery in SAS using salesforce.com and cloud computing

Targeting – Medco / Thomson Financial , AXA

Cognizant for offshore development.

Has LLC – Looking for contract work

Help you – Linkedin, companies, multiple resources

PMP certification

Help me – Contacts, networking contacts, possibilities in other companies

Robert Scatko – IT Director at Children’s Place

Managing a development group delivering order fulfillment,

warehouse distribution, logistics

Skills, BA, PM, Software Integration

Targets – Retailers, major apparel – Urban Brands, Dress Barn,

Permanent or Consulting

Dan Wawrzonek – KPMG – Exec Director in IT

Customer software development, risk management, Partner financial systems

Target Companies – Financial, non profit

Deloitte, Thomson, non-profits, UBS (layoffs)

Arvin Levine – HP Presales Solutions Architect

Financial firms – NYC – Technical/Business Solutions

Presales for high tech – companies selling into financials

Help you – job boards, support groups

Sharad Patel –

Former Company – Fico, Minneapolis, MN (Credit Scoring, Mortgages)

Former Position – Database/System Administrator

Skills - Oracle, Oracle 10g RAC, DB2, Informix and Netezza.

- Coding techniques using PL/SQL, Shell, and c.

- Proven ability to install and patch software of all types including RDBMS software, operating systems, and third party software.

- Experienced in utilizing TOAD, TKPROF and RMAN. Working experience with EMC technologies like BCV for backups and database duplication.

Target – company with database before

Help you - my experiences, stay current

Yulan Li - Prudential Financial – QA

SQL – Testing, Financial apps

Skills testing, test plans, upgrading, SDLC, Java Programming, sql

Target Companies – Financial

Help you – Prudential, DBA advice

Ed Brozek – Tech Sales Professional – HP, IBM Cisco, HP Vars

Sales & Technology

Target – Energy or Medical – Samsung, Sony, Covanta, Comedica, Stryker

Help you- know tech people – HP and IBM

Networking –

Jack McKenzie – Met Museum of Art - Cobol Mainframe – Met Museum of Art shops

Cobol CICS JCL, took SQL at DeVry –

Takes ideas and concept to production

Interested in Consulting

Robert Straub – Software Dev at Lehman Bros and other firms

10 years comm. Software at IBM

C++ on Unix and Linux

Target – Citigroup, MS

Looking at smaller companies

George Stathakis –

Former Company – Quest Diagnostics

Former Position – Senior Applications Development Manager, PM

Skills - ProIV, Satellite Forms, iAnywhere (OneBridge & Afaria)

- Oracle, SQL, Visual Basic, CONNX

- OS’s - VMS, UNIX, Windows, Thoroughbred

- Developed Hand Held Applications in field

Target Companies – Clinical labs, Logistics companies

– track vehicles in the field

Help you – networking

John B. Brown –

Former Company – Merrill Lynch

Former Position – Vice President

Skills – Managed Business groups

- Provided service deliveries

- SLA

- Ran business continuity and web hosting / data highway

Target Area – Westchester, Met NY

Target Companies - Legal, hospitals , non-profit, IT Mgr

- Ex medical record conversion, alternative energy – NY Power Auth

- UBS, Chase, Morgan Stanley

First IT Roundtable

Help you – Savis, Citigroup

- External data or disaster recovery space

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

One attendee could not make the 10 a.m. start but wished to be added to the list

Robin Wilczewski – Mars – SAP

Data and Interfaces for go-live

Merck, Husband at IBM

Business engineering and streamlining

Data mgmt modeling, bus rules,

Worked at Cendant

PM work, Managed budget

Novartis BD Medco Bayer

Stay in Parsippany 30 miles

Discussions:

Ed McEneney - A call to all members to post IT Job Positions on the Yahoo IT Roundtable. Possibly add in Webinars or upcoming Vendor Training meetings, either on the calendar or by message post. Possibly add in a Linkedin Discussion group.

Reminder to use www.landingexpert.com, Alex Freund’s website, to find out networking groups in the NY Metropolitan Area. Click on the “Networking” tab.

John Beirne – Financial companies – talk to John about Federal grant monies of 12,500.

New York State but has NJ as well

Dislocated due to mass layoffs, after 6/1/2008. Dept of labor.

PMP training.

Brad Browne – Independent consulting work – shuffled between NY and NJ.

Dan W – UBS is outsourcing to IBM global services in India.

Arvin Levine – Beginning to avoid recruiters, Kforce

Ron – Staying current – Conferences, seminars, vendors

John B. – Join Professional Associations, provide networking opps

We will attempt to add Webcast schedules to the IT Roundtable

Ed B- Bernardo’s List, John Sampson announces events

AAIM meetings at the Hilton in Iselin

Use Webinars and YouTube for training updates.

Harry Landerer – What % of IT persons get their job through networking?

Ed will look into statistics, if any

Wall Street Journal – A service for Wall Street People – Job Board

www.linkup.com – Similar to Indeed, but aggregates from companies

LHH is an outplacement firm, not a search firm. Hiring managers may go through the LHH database.

Toastmasters.org – Brad Browne used to help rehearse for teaching. Dues are 75-80 dollars. Meet in Ridgewood, St. Thomas Aquinas.

Upcoming Meetings:

Event: IT Roundtable, DeVry University

Date: September 29, 2009 at 10 a.m.

Event: BCNC Meeting

Date: September 14, 2009, 5 to 8 pm, at Woodcliff Lake Hilton

This will be informal networking with over 80 people attending.

200 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Happy Hour from 5 to 7

For Invitation, send request to jar1@optonline.net

Please be sure to register on Eventbrite.com.

Event: WNO (Westchester Networking Organization)

Date: September 21, 2009 6 to 8:45 pm at the Croton-on-Hudson Free Library

Location: Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-On-Hudson 10520

To Join: To receive an invitation as well as to be added to the distribution list, send a brief note to WNO1635@gmail.com. You will receive an invitation to the next meeting which must be immediately replied to upon receipt. The next meeting will be restricted to 60 people, so please act quickly.

This is a one hour open networking event followed by formal meeting and then more open networking. All are welcome to join the WNO's Yahoo! Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Westchester_Networking_Organization/

for messages, polls, files and event reminders. Furthermore, attendees to at least one meeting will be invited to join the WNO's LinkedIn group.

Event: CIT

Date: Saturday September 15, 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.

Full Name	Company	Job Title	Home Phone	E-mail
Arvin Levine	HP/Compaq	Pre-Sales Architect	(201) 862-1141	arvinlevine@gmail.com
Bradley Browne	DeVry Univ./(S&P)	Fixed Income Credit Analyst/Adjunct Prof	(201) 445-1826	bbrowne9@aol.com
Dan Harrison	(Citigroup)	Data Management	(973) 853-2460	d.harrison454@hotmail.com
Dan Louie	(AXA Financial)	Senior Developer	(646) 239-6930	dlouie@hotmail.com
Dan Wawrzonek	(KPMG)	Executive Director	(914) 629-0028	dmwawrzonek@aol.com
Edward McEneney	Lee Hecht Harrison			ed.mceneney@lhh.com
Edwin Brozek	Cisco	Sales	(201) 452-1216	edbrozek@aol.com
George Stathakis	(Quest Diagnostics)	Senior App Dev Mgr	(201) 262-7723	gstat@optimum.net
Harry Landerer	(Adecco)	Project Manager	(201) 951-7794	hlanderer@hotmail.com
Hogan Lam	(Language Testing)	Director, IT	(201) 951-6977	hogan_lam@yahoo.com
Jack McKenzie	Metropolitan Museum of Art	Senior Programmer	(201) 370-9657	jackmck@juno.com
John Rechenberg	Sterling Publishing	IT Manager	(201) 387-9063	jar1@optonline.net
John Brown	(Merrill Lynch)	Vice President	(914) 271-8434	jbbrown633@optonline.net
John Beirne	Morgan Stanley	IT Service Manager	(201) 251-8446	john.p.beirne@gmail.com
Patricia Barry	Lee Hecht Harrison			patricia.barry@lhh.com
Paul Sicardo		Project Leader/Technologist	(973) 831-0532	p.sicardo@ieee.org
Raju Patel	(UBS)	IT Manager	(201) 385-1193	raju_patel_2000@yahoo.com
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
Robin Wilczewski	(Mars)	Sr. Manager SAP Projects	(973) 316-6831	robin_wilczewski@yahoo.com
Ron Polansky	(Sony)	Director, Business Systems	(201) 819-1411	ronpolansky@optonline.net
Sharad Patel	(FICO)	Database/System Administrator	(732) 645-1716	shapra08@gmail.com
YuLan Li	(Prudential)	QA	(732) 939-4093	liyu20@yahoo.com