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Association for Women in Computing – Twin Cities  PO Box 131022  Roseville, MN 55113
www.awctc.org
October 2003
MEMBER PROFILE
Featured Member: Beth Fabbrini, President
When and why did you join AWC?
I have been with AWC for about 4 years. I cannot recall the
exact time I started - with this group being so welcoming, I feel
like I've been a member for much longer than I have. As soon
as I reached the point of a new fiscal year, I was persuaded to
be a member of the Board and have been on the Board since with no regrets!
What is your favorite time of year and why?
Fall is my favorite time of year. There is nothing short of
amazing to experience the changing of the leaves and nothing
better than the crisp, cool, clean air.
Please go to Page 2 for the rest of the story!
NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
Member Profile 1
Newsletter Contents 1
Next Meeting 1
Corporate Meeting Sponsor 1
AWC/TC Mission 1
Meeting Details 2
AWC Welcome 2
Monthly Reminders 2
Government Jobs 2
Schedule of Events 2
Member Profile, cont. 2
Mentornet.doc 3
Articles of Interest 4
About the Association for Women In Computing 4
AWC/TC Board Of Directors 5
NEXT MEETING
Topic: The State of Handheld Technology
Abstract:
Brief History of Handheld Technology
Mobility Platforms
Wireless Service
Location Based Services
Directions and Issues
Potential of Mobile Systems
About the Speaker: Teresa Foushee is the Chief Manager at Palmary Systems, LLC, which she founded in May,
2000. Under Teresa's leadership, the company is leading the way in developing handheld computing solutions for
enterprise environments. Teresa Foushee has been honored for her success as an entrepreneur. The Minnesota
Chapter of the National Association of Women business Owners named her a 2003 Woman on the Way.
Before forming Palmary Systems, Teresa Foushee was a senior consultant at Connect/Norstan a nationally focused
information systems consulting firm headquartered in Minnentonka, Minnesota. Teresa Foushee has over 15 years of
information technology experience with companies such as SC Johnson Wax and Carlson Marketing Group. She has
served clients such as 3M, Imation, Cargill, SUPERVALU, and Hennepin County.
Teresa Foushee was born and raised in the Twin Cities. She holds double degrees from North Dakota State
University in Fargo, North Dakota. She holds a bachelor of science in Computer Science from the School of Science
and Math and a bachelor of science in Accounting from the School of Business Administration.
Teresa Foushee is a member of National Association of Women Business Owners, Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, and Association of Computing Machinery.
CORPORATE MEETING SPONSOR
AWC/TC MISSION
Promote AWC/TC by having your company sponsor a meeting!
Contact the Program VPs for further information!
AWC/TC seeks:

To promote communications among women
in the computer industry

To further the professional development and
advancement of women in computing.

To promote the education of women of all
ages in computing.
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MEETING DETAILS
AWC WELCOME
Where: The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
410 Oak Grove Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403
When: Wednesday, October 15, 2003
5:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.
Networking starts at 5:30 pm
Dinner at 6:00
Parking: Free parking in marked adjoining lots
Cost: Early Bird Registration until Friday, October 10, 2003
Early Bird Member
$21
Early Bird Guest
$30
Member
$26
Guest
$35
Students
$15
Speaker Only
$15 (Dinner not included)
The Association for Women in Computing – Twin
Cities Chapter – thanks all members who have
joined for the 2003 – 2004 year. Your attendance
and participation is greatly appreciated. We are
confident you will meet great colleagues and friends
and will build your network with people you aim to
surround yourself with – those striving for and
achieving success.
Share the wealth and bring a friend to the next
meeting!
MONTHLY REMINDERS
LOOKING FOR WORK??? Check out the job
openings posted on our site, under the Members
Only section on www.awctc.org today!
RSVP: Please RSVP via the web only: http://www.awctc.org
by Friday, October 10, 2003.
See the AWC/TC web site for the Cancellation and Inclement
Weather policies.
GOVERNMENT JOBS
As part of its "Working for America" initiative, U.S. federal
government officials of The Office of Personnel Management,
OPM, will travel the country conducting recruitment fairs in a
number of U.S. cities and major metropolitan areas,
connecting participating Federal agencies with high-quality,
diverse candidates "where they live."
This is the schedule of events at a glance.
October 22, 2003 San Antonio, TX
October 23, 2003 Tucson, AZ
November 14, 2003 Denver, CO
November 18, 2003 Las Cruces, NM - El Paso, TX
November 20, 2003 Albuquerque, NM
February 5, 2004 Detroit, MI
February 7, 2004 Miami, FL
March 23, 2004 San Diego, CA
April 20, 2004 New York, NY
For more information see -Federal Government job fairs:
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/rec_fairs.asp
AWC/TC would like to include your ideas for quotes
and articles for upcoming newsletters! Send your
ideas to Katie Bedney at publications@awctc.org by
the 5th of each month.
Don’t miss out on the benefits that an AWC
membership offers – start or renew your
membership today! Need a few good reasons?
Visit www.awc-hq.org/whyjoin.html!
Have you taken enough time for yourself this
month? For many women, the key to making time
for yourself lies in a balance of flexibility and
creativity: the flexibility to know when to give
yourself a break, and the creativity to know how to
keep going. Learning to develop a flexible attitude
toward your many responsibilities can help you
create time for yourself, and encouraging yourself to
use that time creatively will be its own reward. –
www.iVillage.com
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MEETING DATE
November 19, 2003
December 10, 2003
January 21, 2004
February 18, 2004
SPEAKER
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
SPEAKER TOPIC
Luncheon
MEMBER PROFILE, CONT.
Where do you work and what do you do?
I am currently working at Andersen Corporation and am a Business Analyst on the Business Reporting team for
Manufacturing. My team and I work with Business Objects and we also work closely with a sister-team using
Informatica and Data Warehousing solutions. This is the first job in my career where I haven't been consulting and I
am enjoying it.
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What do you like most about your job?
This is a tough question for me to answer because I am torn between solving problems for the Business (watching
them succeed is so satisfying!) and working with the people I do. I enjoy many of the personalities, professionalism
and great attitudes - that makes spending so much of my life at work worth while!
What are your hobbies?
My husband taught me how to make candles, so that is the winter pastime for me. My favorite summer pastime is
working out in my flower gardens. I also love to read.
Where did you go to college and what did you major in?
I went to St. Cloud State University and graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Computer Information Systems. (I
started out with Accounting and found that just wasn't for me.) I hope to continue my education soon with a Masters
degree. I just need to make up my mind and do it.
Well, I couldn't spell his name right - neither could my coworker - so I didn't see the web site for a couple of weeks.
Then, when I spelled his name correctly, his ISP was down. I thought this guy was imagined by my coworker. My
coworker eventually talked me into trying the site again - which worked - and I took a week to decide to email him. I
did and the rest is history! (The coworker was invited to our wedding but could not make it as he had an illness in his
family.)
How did you meet your husband?
OK, here's a long one. (Funny thing - my husband and I went to school at the same time and graduated with the
same degree - I graduated one quarter after him - and we never met!) My husband and I had met through a coworker
of mine. He was working for a consulting company, contracting out at 3M. My coworker was also contracting at 3M.
My coworker showed my husband Intranet pictures of himself and 2 other clowns we worked with as they had come
to the holiday party wearing kilt tuxedos. (They meant to be funny, but actually, they looked great!) As they looked
through the holiday pictures, my husband asked about me. My coworker, being the match-maker he was, was so
excited he asked because I was single and not seeing anyone at the time. My coworker then calls me to tell me the
story and begs me to go to my husband's web site - to check him out. My husband told my coworker to have me look
at the site and decide whether or not I wanted to email him.)
Dogs or cats??
We have 2 cats - Oscar and Felix. (If you think of the Odd Couple, unfortunately, we named our cats opposite they're personalities are so diverse!) We LOVE dogs, but cats seemed so much easier as we both worked far from
home and traveled a lot.
What is your idea of an exciting vacation?
An exciting vacation for me would be to visit Italy and not only the popular places, but also the not-so-visited-butmust-visit places, take a cooking class, go shopping for the ingredients, make the recipes with family/friends and have
a grand old time! Sightseeing would also be a must.
MENTORNET.DOC
E-mentoring opportunity - just 20 minutes per week
The MentorNet One-on-One Mentoring Programs are a chance to make a big difference in the life of someone else, while
spending as little as 20 minutes a week using email.
MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs pair women engineering and science community college, undergraduate
and graduate students and postdocs as proteges with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for oneon-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships.
Our flagship Industry E-Mentoring Program is for proteges interested in working in industry or at a government laboratory
or agency, while our Academic Career E-Mentoring Program (new for 2003) is for graduate students and postdocs
interested in a faculty career.
The program has proven effective by providing "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to networks
that are otherwise often unavailable to women students in the male dominated fields of engineering and science. This
why over 90% of participants would recommend MentorNet's e-mentoring programs to a friend or colleague.
How can you volunteer to be a mentor?
1)
Join the MentorNet Community.
2)
Sign in to the Community and follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs links to create a mentor profile.
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Since 1998, MentorNet has matched nearly 20,000 proteges and mentors with strong results. We hope you will join
them!
For more information, please go to www.MentorNet.net
MentorNet's Sponsors include: 3M Company, AT&T Foundation, Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation, Engineering
Information Foundation, GE Foundation, IBM Corporation, Intel Corporation, Intel Foundation, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Microsoft Corporation, NASA Ames Research Center, National Science Foundation, Naval Research
Laboratory, SAP Labs, Schlumberger, Solectron and Affiliated Partners NSPE and Sigma Xi
Jennifer Dockter, Ph.D.
Director of Programs
MentorNet
c/o College of Engineering
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0080
tel: (408) 924-3319
fax: (408) 924-4069
jdockter@mentornet.net
www.MentorNet.net
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
Looking for a Job?
LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal, news and business information services, always has positions open for computer
professionals. Postings change daily at: http://www.lexisnexis.com/employment/. Most tech jobs require relocation to
Dayton Ohio or Albany New York, although we also have an active home-base employment program. Speak with Susan
Kolze of LexisNexis at the next AWC meeting!
Another Reminder
This is a reminder about the professional networking resource, Networking For Professionals, that is now being offered to
all members in all chapters of the AWC. Lisa Luczek of the AWC has worked with the group to make this offer possible
and some AWC members have already begun to post their profiles at Networking For Professionals. AWC members
will be able to get the most out of this special offer of free membership!
Contact publications@awctc.org for access information!
Note from the Editor
If anyone is interested in writing an article for the newsletter, please contact me! If you can recommend an article or a
writer, also please let me know and I will follow up on the lead. The more information we can share with the
membership, the better!
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN COMPUTING
The Association for Women in Computing was founded in 1978. The Association for Women in Computing is a not-forprofit organization dedicated to promoting the advancement of women in computing profession. Our members are a
diverse group of professionals in careers that touch every aspect of the computer industry. You'll discover camaraderie
with our group that you won't find in other professional organizations.
Be sure to check out our National web site for more information on events around the country! www.awc-hq.org
HISTORY
The Association for Women in Computing was founded on December 5, 1978 and now has local chapters from coast to
coast. The parent organization provides a national network and supportive framework for local chapter activities.
The Twin Cities Chapter of the AWC first met in December, 1979 and became a chartered chapter on May 6, 1981.
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AWC/TC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Beth Fabbrini
president@awctc.org
Program Co-VPs
Laurie Thomas
Joanne Glasspoole
programs@awctc.org
Communications VP
Diane Cone
communications@awctc.org
Steering Committee
steering@awctc.org
Hann-Yu Chang (Chair)
Susan Kolze
June Sirny
Jane Sheedy
Get involved – join the Steering Committee! Contact the
Steering Committee today!
Membership VP
Vicky Anderson
membership@awctc.org
Finance VP
Joanne Carlson
treasurer@awctc.org
Publications VP
Katie Bedney
publications@awctc.org
Officers welcome your thoughts and questions. Feel
free to contact the officers with the provided e-mail
addresses.
Web VP
Ann Jenkins
webteam@awctc.org
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