IT Roundtable – 20090728
August 25th, 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
KM
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
Linkedin
John Sampson – 15th September – Recruiter Night Out
Corporate Indoor Consulting –
Pompton Lakes – Great site for a meeting
CIT Meeting – Short Hills – Be there 8 am 1st and 3rd 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 I78 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