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 2004-05: Tradition of Professionalism
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Updated: 22-Mar-2005 10:54 PM                                                                 Send corrections & comments to MnIPS Webmaster

Regular Meeting Schedule:
Third Tuesday, Sept-Nov, Jan-May

Regular Meeting Place:
Holiday Inn – Bloomington
35W at 94th (map, website)
Phone (612) 884-8211

Current Events
2004-2005 Past Events
2003-2004 Past Events
2002-2003 Past Events
2001-2002 Past Events
2000-2001 Past Events
Past Dinner MeetingSummary
Past Networking Summary
Past Special Events Summary
Past Events for 2004-2005
Event Subject Speaker

Jul 20

Networking for IT Professionals

Barbara T. Adams,
Right Management Consultants
Aug 19 Networking for IT Professionals "Marketing Your Services When You Are Over 40" Pat O'Donnell
Sept 21 Networking for IT Professionals
"Reenergize yourself and your networking skills"		 Joe Perzel, eNRGI
Dinner Meeting:  "Sleepless in Rochester: Combating Economic Espionage"
Follow-up: Pictures from Meeting		 Frank Krahn
   Mayo Clinic Rochester

Oct 19

Networking for IT Professionals: "Trends in IT at West"
Follow-up: Presentation Handout

Mark Dembouski, IT Staffing Specialist from West, a Thompson company
Dinner Meeting: "Ensuring Election Integrity in Minnesota (or How to Not be another "Florida")"
Follow-up: Presentation Images Pictures from Meeting		 Ady Wickstrom
   League of Women Voters
Nov 16 Networking for IT Professionals  
Dinner Meeting: "Wake Up and Smell the Audit"  Deb Doffing
Mar 16 Networking for IT Professionals  
Dinner Meeting: "Security Identity Management" John Fraser, 
 cofounder & Sr. VP of Strategy at VisionShare Inc.
 

July 20, 2004 - Networking 


"Networking for IT Professionals"

Joint Meeting with the Networking Group of 
the Project Management Institute (PMI-MN)

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS) and the Minnesota Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI-MN), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation by Barbara T. Adams, Right Management Consultants

    Barbara is a Human Resource Development (HRD) professional with over 20 years of combined experience in training and development, organizational development (OD), and career development. Her primary focus is coaching individuals through career transition both individually and as a facilitator.

    Barbara has also combined her professional experience with her volunteer work in the cooperative world within the natural–food industry where she held an executive position on the Board of Directors for four years. Barbara has been a Lifestyle Education Coach working with individuals dealing with chronic illnesses or degenerative diseases and coaching them through a holistic lifestyle. Currently, Barbara has been on public television as an on-air host interviewing a variety of authors in the ecumenical world of religion and nutrition.

  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or or Greg Brown (gbbrown219atyahoo.com).  For questions contact Greg Brown or Joe Perzel (jperzelatenrgi.com).

Cost: No cost for the networking seminar.  Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

Mnips BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.
 

August 19, 2004 - Networking Session

"Networking for IT Professionals"

Joint Meeting with the Networking Group of 
the Project Management Institute (PMI-MN)

(Note unusual day, time, and place.)

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI-MN) and the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation:  Marketing Your Services When You Are Over 40, by Pat O'Donnell 

    How to sell your value to an employer whether you are job hunting or presently employed. This is the second of two joint networking sessions sponsored by PMI-MN Career Networking Group and MnIPS.

    Pat O'Donnell is a veteran with nine years in the career counseling and recruiting industries. As a recruiter, she specializes in placing and coaching project managers, business analysts, writers, computer and other professionals. Pat has an extensive selection of job search strategies. A frequent presenter at professional associations and universities, she speaks on job search strategies, selling your assets to employers and changing career direction.

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  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel.  For questions contact  Joe Perzel (networking@mnips.org).

Cost:  No cost for the networking seminar.  Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

Mnips BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.
 

September 21, 2004 - Pre-Dinner Session

September 21 Networking Meeting Follow-up

Handout from Presentation

"Networking for IT Professionals"

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation: "Reenergize yourself and your networking skills" by Joe Perzel

  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel at networking@mnips.org.  For questions contact Joe Perzel.

Cost: No cost for the networking seminar.  Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

MnIPS BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.
 

September 21, 2004 - Dinner Meeting

September 21 Dinner Meeting Follow-up

Pictures from Meeting

"Sleepless in Rochester: Combating Economic Espionage"
Original Annoucement

This presentation will examine an actual economic espionage incident involving the theft of research data from Mayo Clinic Rochester. Frank Krahn will highlight who, what, when, where and how the incident was resolved plus demonstrate the need for corporate and law enforcement cooperation in the successful resolution of the incident.

Frank Krahn, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Krahn.jpg (6725 bytes) Frank Krahn has 26 years of experience in physical and information security with the Mayo Foundation/Clinic. He holds numerous certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Computer Crime Investigator (Advanced Level), and Certified Computer Forensic Technician (Advanced Level). He is a member of the High Tech Criminal Investigators Association and the High Tech Crime Network. He has served on the editorial review board for the Journal of Computer Crime Investigations and Forensics and has taught classes for or consulted with various law enforcement agencies including the MN State Patrol, the MN Crime Prevention Annual Meeting,and local law enforcement.

See sidebar for event details.
 

October 19, 2004 - Pre-Dinner Session

October 19 Networking Follow-up

Presentation Handout

"Networking for IT Professionals"
Original Annoucement

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation: Mark Dembouski, IT Staffing Specialist from West, a Thompson company, will be speaking on "Trends in IT at West".

  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel at networking@mnips.org.  For questions contact Joe Perzel.

Cost: No cost for the networking seminar.  Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

MnIPS BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.

 

October 19, 2004 - Dinner Meeting


October 19 Dinner Meeting Follow-up

Presentation Images       Pictures from Meeting

Ensuring Election Integrity in Minnesota
(or How to Not be another "Florida")
Original Annoucement

The debacle of the 2000 presidential election brought passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 to improve election administration and set minimum standards. Every part of the voting process is affected, from poll worker training to voting machines and voter registration. Ady Wickstrom will discuss the technology changes required by the law and related challenges in implementing it. Direct Recording Electronic machines that manage both voting and tabulation have been a controversial part of this technology revolution. Ady will talk about some of the issues they raise. For example: should a verifiable paper trail be required?

Ady Wickstrom, League of Women Voters

Ady Wickstrom

 Ady Wickstrom has served as League of Women Voters webmaster since 1997, first as a volunteer, then as a League employee since January 2004. Prior to this position, she had 15 years experience as a Systems Programmer at Deluxe Corporation and 4 years at Fair Isaac as a Senior Programmer Analyst. Ady has given presentations on electronic voting and HAVA to a variety of groups. Ady has been a councilmember of Shoreview City Council since 1997

League of Women Voters is a non-partisan political organization which builds citizen participation in the democratic process and engages communities in promoting positive solutions to public policy issues through education and advocacy.

See sidebar for event details.

Place:
Doubletree Park Place Hotel
Xenia exit of I394 (map, website)
Phone (952) 542-8600 

Time:
4:00 PM Pre-Dinner Session
5:30 PM Social Hour
6:00 PM PMI Dinner Meeting
  (attend at member rates)

For Reservations:
see PMI website

November 16, 2004 - Pre-Dinner Session

"Networking for IT Professionals"

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation

  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel at networking@mnips.org.  For questions contact Joe Perzel.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

MnIPS BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.
 

November 16, 2004 -  Dinner Meeting

November 16 Dinner Meeting Follow-up

Wake Up and Smell the Audit!
Original Annoucement

You've heard of Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, right?  Do you think you're exempt from, or not affected by, these regulations because your company is not in healthcare, banking or a public company?  Think again.

Deb Doffing will discuss these regulations, their overriding principles and how they could affect you personally regardless of your title and company. She will also explain what these laws have meant to the Information Technology industry plus the coming wave of best practice that is being expected in the wake of these regulations. 

Deb Doffing

Deb Doffing

Deb Doffing has over 30 years experience in IT working in manufacturing, financial, and health-related industries. She got her feet wet working on mainframes, then moved into project management and the open systems arena creating helpdesks, testing new technology, moving companies and now security. She says it's been a fun ride.

She is a board member of the local Infragard chapter which is a security group managed by the FBI and also a member of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association).
 

March 15, 2004 - Pre-Dinner Session


"Networking for IT Professionals"

Already restructured, downsized, right-sized IT Professionals, as well as those concerned about their future, can learn how to improve their networking skills by attending the Networking for IT Professionals seminar. Hosted by the Minnesota Information Professional Society (MnIPS), this event will showcase IT staffing professionals and networking experts that will share their tips and techniques to find a job or stay current with events and technology

Agenda:

  • Individual Introductions

  • Presentation

  • Lead Exchange and Individual Networking

Contacts: Reservations preferred but not required. For reservations contact reservations@mnips.org or Joe Perzel at networking@mnips.org.  For questions contact Joe Perzel.

Cost: No cost for the networking seminar.  Members and non-members welcome.

If you've ever lost your job, you know about the stress that comes with it. This meeting is intended to ease some of that stress during this transition while helping people make valuable career contacts.

Mnips BuildANetwork Yahoo Group.  To keep networking alive between meetings, MnIPS has recently created a free Yahoo group.   Click here for a description and instructions on how to join.
 

March 15, 2005 - Dinner Meeting

March 15 Dinner Meeting Follow-up

 "Security Identity Management"
Original Annoucement

In this talk, John Fraser will cover emerging technologies vying to become the federated identity standard.  From Passport, to Liberty to SAML to EAP, John will discuss these emerging efforts and business drivers. John will highlight Vision-Share's current and future plans for utilizing these
identity management technologies for in some key projects with state and federal governments on lab reporting, bioterrorism reporting and Medicare access. Finally, he'll speak on his predictions 5 and 10 years out on industry adoption and the pitfalls possible in the journey.

 John Fraser, cofounder & Sr. VP of Strategy at VisionShare Inc.

John Fraser is the cofounder and Sr. Vice President of Strategy at VisionShare Inc, a company founded in 2000 and dedicated to providing leading-edge information security, consulting and solution services.  John is a nationally recognized expert on health care communications and
information security, PKI, and the Internet whose expertise includes security infrastructures, project management and community development.  John has led major initiatives that include:

  • designing the next generation healthcare networking services as a
    member of the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure Initiative
    (NHII).
  • developing and managing MedNet while at the MN Health Data Institute.
    Since then VisionShare
  • developed "Secure Exchange Software" to allow using the Internet for any
    type of privacy-protected data ex-changes.
  • helping develop the rule to im-plement the MN Electronic Authorization
    Act and led multiple related HIPAA efforts.
  • providing technical coordination for a 5-state HealthKey Program
    consortium that developed new security structures using PKI, etc. for the
    healthcare industry (www.healthkey.org).
Prior to VisionShare, Inc., John has worked at the MN Health Data Institute MHDI), MN Dept. of Health, Control Data Corporation and Honeywell.