Puget Sound Chapter
November 2015
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Puget Sound Chapter
November 2015
Email
President
Message
David M. Chapin
FlowWorks, Inc.
jdchapin@frontier.com
206-859-6999
Executive
Vice
President
Peter Turylo
ITT Technical Institute
pturylo@itt-tech.edu
206-244-3300
Secretary /
Treasurer
Pete Schmitt
Schmitt’s World, LLC
petes9@comcast.net
Region
Director
Harry Young
Immediate
Past
President
Chris Glanister
Pilgrim Media Services
Director
Beth Pirrie
Amex/Passport Travel
hey211@comcast.net
chrisg@pilgrimmediasvs.
com
bethaitp@qwest.net
Inside…
Letter from the President
Our Committees
Board Meeting Minutes
Publication and Meeting Dates
Awards and Bragging
Our November Meeting
For your Calendar
How to Find Us
Association, Region, and Student Chapter, and Chapter News
Malcontent
We Do The Numbers
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Alright, this is late.
It should have gone out last Monday, but with the
shift up a week for the November meeting (to avoid
Turkey Day), and the shift up two weeks in December (to avoid that other family-centered holiday), along with Sprint buying the rest of ClearWire and shutting down the digital services…
Well, it is what it is.
So, this Thursday – November 19th – we’ll meet in the usual place for a
presentation about the position of Chief Privacy Officer
And after you attend the Interface 2015 (registration link below) on
December 10th, come over to meet us at Hales Ale in Ballard at 6:30 PM.
[Give us an email a couple of days ahead so we’ll know how many tables
we need to push together.]
Put on your calendar December 10th. We will again be participating in
the Interface 2015. See Page 13 for a link that will take you to complimentary registration.
Dave Chapin
President, Puget Sound Chapter
Region 2 Malcontent
Region 2 Student Chapter Coordinator
jdchapin@frontier.com
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Chapter Committee Chairs and
how to contact them....
Committee
Committee Chair
Email
Message
Auditing
Harry Young
hey211@comcast.net
Awards
Dave Chapin
FlowWorks, Inc.
jdchapin@frontier.com
206-859-6999
Bylaws
Pete Schmitt
Schmitt’s World, LLC
petes9@comcast.net
206-244-3300
Facilities
Peter Turylo
ITT Technical Institute
pturylo@itt-Tech.edu
Nominating
Chris Glanister
Pilgrim Media Services
chrisg@pilgrimmedias
vcs.com
Membership
Retention
Dave Chapin
FlowWorks, Inc.
jdchapin@frontier.com
206-859-6999
Dave Chapin
FlowWorks, Inc.
jdchapin@frontier.com
206-859-6999
Recruiting
Publicity
Programs/
Education/
Arrangements
As an Organization, what are you
going to do with
my information?
What is the CPO?
Join us 11/19 to find out
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The Board of Directors... What they Did...
Minutes
Puget Sound Chapter of AITP
12:00 PM 10/14/2015
Via FreeConferenceCall
Attendees: Pete Schmitt and Dave Chapin
Dave opened the meeting at approximately 12:00 PM.
The meeting was adjourned for lack of a quorum.
Adjourned 12:36 PM.
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November 2015
The Sounder
Publication Dates
Submissions Publish
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Newsletter Meeting
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Want to find out what makes us tick?
Chapter BoD Meetings…
We tried using a conference call for our BoD meetings… It seemed to
work well and for those of us who had been traveling about 70 miles
round trip, it saved a lot of time.
If you’d like to participate in a BoD meeting, contact the Chapter Secretary/Treasurer, Pete Schmitt to be included on the reminder notice and
for connection information.
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Newsletter Awards
Chapter Outstanding
Performance Awards
The Random Access
Evergreen Chapter
(Evergreen Chapter)
1st Place 1982
4th Place 1983
2nd Place 1984
2nd Place 1985
2nd Place 1992
2nd Place 1995
1st Place 1996
1st Place 1997
1st Place 1998
1st Place 2000
In 2008 the Puget Sound Chapter and the
Evergreen Chapters merged, keeping the
name of the Puget Sound Chapter.
The Sounder
(Puget Sound Chapter)
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Edmonds CC Student SCOPA
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Region Outstanding
Performance Awards
Puget Sound Chapter
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2012
2013
2014
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Puget Sound Chapter
Association of
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSIONALS
Individual
Performance Awards
November 2015
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Emerald
Diamond
Double
Diamond
Triple
Diamond
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B.Pirrie
P.Schmitt
P.Turylo
H. Young
R.Boston
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
P.Schmitt
P. Turylo
H.Young
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
P.Schmitt
H. Young
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
P.Schmitt
H. Young
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
P.Schmitt
H.Young
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
D.Chapin
J.Fica
B. Pirrie
Quadruple
Diamond
Lifetime
Lifetime
Gold
Lifetime
Emerald
Lifetime
Diamond
D.Chapin
J. Fica
B. Pirrie
D.Chapin
W.Gates
B.Pirrie
D.Chapin
D.Chapin
* Pending
Membership Anniversary Pins
10-Year
20-Year
30-Year
45-Year
J.Hart
P.Turylo
W.Gates
D.Chapin
J.Cooper
P.Schmitt
B.Pirrie
H.Young
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The Puget Sound Chapter of the Association of Information
Technology Professionals
invites you to join us
Thursday,
November 19, 2015
6:00 PM Program at ITT Seattle,
12720 Gateway Drive S, Tukwila
About 7 PM—No host dinner at
Sunny Teriyaki, 14201 Interurban Ave S., Tukwila
Map thanks to Google Maps
Relatively new to the corporate arena is the
Chief Privacy Officer...
What does a CPO do?
Would you want to be a CPO?
We are pleased to announce that we will again be participating
in the Interface 2015 event December 10th. Here is a link to
complimentary registration.
http://www.interfacetour.com/evites/sea/aitp.htm
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November
11 Our BoD meeting—a wee early!
19 November Chapter Meeting (week early to permit
proper Turkey eating) Details on Page 8
December
2 Our BoD meeting
10 Interface 2015 For complimentary registration:
http://www.interfacetour.com/evites/sea/aitp.htm
We’ve also had an offer of a Chapter Booth, but we
need bodies to staff it… Can you volunteer?
10 December Chapter Social—Hale’s Ale, Ballard 6:30
PM Send us an Email if you are attending so we’ll
know how many tables to shove together.
January
20 Our BoD meeting
28 January Chapter Meeting
February
17 Our BoD meeting
25 February Chapter
Meeting
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Finding Us...
Program: 6 PM—ITT Seattle—12720 Gateway Drive
South, Suite 100, Tukwila
No Host Dinner: About 7 PM — Sunny Teriyaki, 14201
Interurban Ave South, Tukwila
Map thanks to Google Maps
From the North
 Exit I-5 at Interurban Avenue South
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(Exit 156)
Turn right onto Interurban Avenue
Right onto Gateway Drive
Follow Gateway Drive as it curves
North past BECU
ITT is set back off the road about 300
feet
From the South
 Exit I-5 to Highway 599 at Exit 156
 Exit to interurban Avenue
 Turn left onto Interurban Avenue
 Turn right onto Gateway Drive
 Follow Gateway Drive as it curves
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North past BECU
ITT is set back off the road about 300
feet
November 2015
Association News:
Nothing submitted for
publication
AITP Annual Member
Meeting
Student Chapters:
On October 22nd, the Association Nothing submitted for
held it’s Annual Member Meeting. publication
From the Puget Sound Chapter,
Pete Schmitt, Beth Pirrie, and
Dave Chapin were in attendance. Chapter News:
In spite of not being able to pronounce “Puget”, the incoming
Association President — Julian
Wade — announced that we have
been awarded the Region 2 Region Outstanding Chapter Award
for 2014. He also didn’t mention
that this makes four years in a
row!
However, both Puget Sound, and
our own Dave Chapin (when they
announced the Individual Performance Awards which had been
earned in 2014 did better than
many of the other names on the
list.
Region News:
November 2015
Kaypea Ramsdale, our September
speaker, delivered the links she
promised to send for publication,
and she did it in time for our October newsletter, but our editor
had gotten a little (make that a
lot) behind in pulling things out of
the avalanche of email and has
just gotten to them.
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Her linkedin profile is at:
https://www.linkedin.com/
profile/view?
id=AAIAAA6uMfIBOOnC1z60DuC
KjbNmAI6HWuMLI5I&trk=nav_res
ponsive_tab_profile
And the two links mentioned in
her talk are: http://
www.businessinsider.com/ninamufleh-airbnb-resume-2015-4
And http://
www.npr.org/2011/02/08/13347
4431/a-successful-job-searchits-all-about-networking
Kaypea and Melinda Thrasher
(our May speaker) would also be
happy to do a resume class and a
cover letter class and possibly an
in-depth interviewing course. If
there is an interest in this, please
contact any Chapter officer and
we’ll see what we can do to
schedule all or some of these.
On the assumption that when you
aren’t suggesting program topics
and/or speakers, you are happy to
just go along with the whims of
the Program Committee… Our
October meeting discussed the
preparations and process of disappearing off the grid. Those in
attendance learned (or confirmed)
that in the “Information Age,” it is
a little harder than in than buying
a ticket to Rio.
We have three membership anniversaries to celebrate in November....
Please congratulate:
 Mike Meals with Lockheed Martin completing his first year
 Steve Rinehart of Sound Pub-
lishing, Inc. celebrating the second year
 Bill Gates, the Microsoft Corporation with a total of 22 years
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Interface 2015
Malcontent:
We are once again participating
as part of the Interface 2015 tech
show to be held 10 December
2015.
Through AITP we can offer you
complimentary registration…..
Click on this link; http://
www.interfacetour.com/evites/
sea/aitp.htm
We have also been offered a
booth from which we can spread
the AITP word. But if we can’t find Someplace along my journey
some hardy souls to man same,
through like, the Society for Huwe miss this opportunity.
man Resource Management
(SHRM) came to the conclusion
To volunteer, send an email to
that I was an HR-type.
info@psaitp.org. We could use the
help.
Okay, I’ll wait until you stop
laughing [Because most of you
who know me know that I believe
that it is the exception to the rule
when anyone in the HR Department has the slightest clue as to
for what skills and talents they
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should be looking when hiring
for an IT position.]
I get copies of their monthly
magazine at two different addresses and at least a membership application/appeal every
month…
Meanwhile I have trouble not
spitting my coffee across the
desk every time I hear (or read)
an HR moron state that in their
company, it is the personally fit
rather than the acronyms on the
resume that are the important
factor. Note that they say this
just after rejecting someone who
interviewed favorably on the culture/compatibility scale but had
experience in three scripting
languages, but not the one with
the acronym they’d been given.
Not one to whine about a problem without making some attempt at proposing some sort of
solution, I had started a book
describing the successful IT
candidate and extensively addressing the equivalent skills
aspect of our industry… Yes, if
you have actively programmed
in two or more languages, you
know the processes and logic
constructs… Picking up the next
language is just a matter of syntax. It is nothing like the complexity of learning another oral
language. But hey, that HR person doesn’t even know the difference between a compiler and
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an interpreter so why should
they expect someone with seven
years of Java to be able to convert to a C programmer faster
than they can learn where the
assembly point is for the building’s fire evacuation drills?
That naturally leads me to another what I will call a “sin of
HR,” and one especially prevalent in such local employers as
Google, Amazon, and such… You
tell me that the fit of the employee in the corporation is the most
important criteria (Oops, there
goes some more coffee…) but
then you lay off totally successful employees because some
project has completed or there
has been a change in the direction of a corporate effort. Then
you fill the positions in that new
“direction” with new hires off the
street rather than provide the
necessary training for that employee who “fit” into your corporation, or even give them the opportunity to acquire the new
skills at their own expense…
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It is almost common knowledge in
the area that to advance in some of
our major employers, you have to
leave and take a position in another
company and then come back to a
higher position… “Fit” doesn’t appear to be as applicable when you
actually step into their corporate
real-world.
never seen any of these affect the
candidate’s ability to perform.
Yes, I have seen organizations
where management failed to establish the legally required environment that would have provided a
safe environment for such all employees. And as a manager, I have
more than a few times prompted
Years ago, when I first joined the
the HR Department to a) see that
Curricula Advisory Committee for
an offender receive appropriate rethe CIS Department of a local com- fresher training in both the legal
munity college, we were requiring IT requirements and the corporate
students to take two quarters of
“extensions” of making the workaccounting because in the 1970’s, place a safe environment for all
it was necessary for a bit-twiddler employees or b) cut such a repeat
to be able to speak to an account- offender loose.
ant as we were pretty sure that
most of our graduates would find
But… just as I argue that no student
themselves working on accounting should graduate from Middle
-related and customer-related sys- School/Junior High School without
tems. We thought they should not
the ability to type, I think it is high
be totally ignorant of the field in
time that companies actually prowhich their efforts would be apvided or demanded that those in
plied.
the selection of potential employees actually know a little about
But I’ve seen the curricula for HR
what that employee is actually gostudents… and it totally ignores the
ability to assess IT job related skills ing to be doing for their corporation. Duh!
while it drums into the student’s
head that they may not ask directly
or phrase around such questions
as to the applicant’s age, race, gender, pregnancy or disability status.
Comments, suggestions,
whatever…
jdchapin@frontier.com
Now, do not jump to the conclusion
that I have any problem with this
list of no-no’s… In fact, I’d at sexual
identification, and a whole raft of
other criteria not yet protected categories under the law because in
my years in the industry, I have
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Puget Sound Chapter, AITP
Report of the General Account
As of 11/10/2015
Prepared by Pete Schmitt
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Programs...
A list of some of the topics covered at past chapter meetings:
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Shared Project Management Planning
Ten Ways To Make A Website Fail & Twelve Things You Can Do To Make
It Successful
Just When You Thought You Had the Security of Your Network Locked
Down
Practical Infosec Risk Assessment: Information Security Risk Assessment Tactics and Strategies for Enterprises
Recycling Technology
Catching Crooks with Technology
Managed Network Services—Outsourcing
Overcoming Spyware
Building Just the Operating System You Need
What’s Happening In Your Business—Talk To Your Data
Risk Management
The Art of Computer Forensics
How Do You Integrate Technology into the Business Goals
Closing the Gap
Data Recovery Capabilities
Software Testing
Industry Futures Panel Discussion
Voice Activation
Top 10 Things to Avoids in Project Management
Why Commercial E-Business Sites Fail and the Keys to Success
How to Get the Most Out of Your Web Hosting Provider
The Programmer / Writer Position
IT Help Desk Best Practices
Controlling Remote Access
Firewall & Network Security
The Chapter, the Region, and the Association
Voice Over Data Networks
Web Databases
ISO 9000
Security Systems
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