4/14 Evening Meeting

TLA “Evening” Meeting – Thursday, April 14th 6:30pm – 9:00pm
College of DuPage 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn, IL See directions below
Information on registering please register at: http://www.techleaders.net

AGENDA:
6:30pm – 7:00pm Check-in / Casual networking
7:00pm – 8:00pm Structured Networking – Two Table Rounds
8:00pm – 8:10pm Announcements
8:10pm – 8:55pm Larry Dribin,PhD Pearl Street Group, Inc. &
DePaul University - Is There A Cloud in Your Future?
8:55pm – 9:00pm Adjourn promptly
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DIRECTIONS:
College of DuPage 425 Fawell Blvd. Glen Ellyn IL 60137 (630) 942-2800)
is located approx 1 mile West of the intersection of I-355 and 56 (Butterfield Rd.) in Downers Grove.

MEETING DATES, ROOM LOCATION & DIRECTIONS
New Meeting Dates: 2nd Thursday through June 2011 will be in RM#106

Meetings will be held on west campus in the Open Campus Center (OCC), Room 106
-Park in Lot Fawell E and proceed down the sidewalk and into the breezeway.
-OCC is the building to your left (between buildings K & H) and turn left in the glass breezeway
-Once inside the building, take a right and proceed to the end of the hallway and turn left.
-Walk down to the end of the hall and on the left is room # 106.

Topic Title:
Is There A Cloud in Your Future?

Abstract:
Cloud Computing is exciting and the new “in thing” in the IT community today, but what it is and how will it affect IT Organizations? This talk will provide an overview of what Cloud Computing is. Larry Dribin, our speaker, is currently teaching a Cloud Computing Fundamentals course at DePaul University in Chicago. Larry will discuss what makes Cloud Computing a different paradigm than traditional distributed computing and as a result requires different development, management and support expertise.

He will also discuss the business case for Cloud Computing which can be more complex than the business case for traditional IT investments. As vendors re-label their offerings to incorporate the term “Cloud” in their products and services, he will discuss what these “Cloud-Washed” solutions mean for IT organizations. Larry will also discuss how Cloud computing is empowering business users and enabling them to by-pass their internal IT organizations for major IT solutions. Lastly, Larry will talk about what you can do to learn the new skills that Cloud Computing requires so that you can qualify for the new jobs that Cloud Computing will provide.

Key Topics Covered
• What is Cloud Computing?
• Who are the key vendors?
• What is different about Cloud Computing?
• Why is it important to IT and to business?
• What you can do to enhance your career in the world of Cloud Computing?

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Larry Dribin is President of Pearl Street Group (PSG), a consulting firm that provides software engineering, performance improvement and measurement services to business and IT organizations enabling them to maximize the value of their technology investments.

Larry started as software engineer, developing high availability, real-time process control systems for the utility industry. Since then he has been involved in most aspects of software development in a wide variety of industries. Larry has held numerous IT management and consulting positions at Cap Gemini, Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox, GTE and a number of startups. Before starting PSG, Larry led Cap Gemini’s IT Excellence Practice which assists IT organizations become more effective, efficient and productive. Larry holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from IIT, a MBA from Loyola and a BS in Industrial Engineering from IIT. In addition to his consulting practice, Larry has been an adjunct instructor in Software Engineering at DePaul University for many years where he teaches Cloud Computing and Software Engineering.
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Where: College of DuPage – see directions below
Cost: No charge

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Our Host, College of DuPage for hosting us this month and CoD CIO and TLA member Chuck Currier.
TLA Member & Leader/Facilitator David Krull for organizing the TLA evening events.

For reservations,
(1) Please sign up online on the TLA website (www.techleaders.net) under ‘Events’ – or,
if you don’t have access to the website,
(2) Please reply to Patrick.Moroney@gmail.com with your name and telephone number.

Reservations must be made before Noon on Thursday, April 16th
First 25 reservations accepted. No walk-ins please.
For location information: Contact Jim Anfield at jdanfield@illinoisalumni.org.

Regional, Local and Campus Maps:
http://home.cod.edu/generalInfo/maps/regionalMap.aspx
http://home.cod.edu/generalInfo/maps/LocalMap.aspx
http://home.cod.edu/Media/Website%20Resources/images/generalInfo/maps/full_campusB.gif

Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest speakers in the career management field.

STRUCTURED NETWORKING:
Structured networking is a technique used at most major executive transition groups. It is meant to be a powerful method of generating ideas that might help each of our searches.
During this process, we will quickly brainstorm potential job lead ideas, gain networking contacts at desired companies, and generate advice from the members by sharing our backgrounds as well as our career objectives. It is designed to generate ideas, but given the time constraints, not get into immediate detailed discussions. You should plan on following up with anybody who may have had an interesting idea or a good contact.

Please bring business cards, handbills (career overview) or resumes (plain paper is fine) to pass around if you have them. Figure on about 20 copies of the resumes/handbills and 50 business cards.
We will run our networking, dividing the room into small tables of a maximum of6 people and doing 2 table rotations before our speaker begins.
At each rotation, you will have 90 seconds for your pitch and about 90 seconds for Q&A.

SPEND NO MORE THAN 1/3
-summarizing your past (this is not the time to rehash your resume),
-what you are looking for, and
-what we can do to help (such as target contacts) or ask for advice on an issue.