Past Meetings

Building Relationships to Support Your Personal and Career Growth

Foresight in the Time of Simplicity, Complexity and Chaos

From Employee to Entrepreneur

Introducing the TriTrack

Consultant Workshop

The IEEE Central Texas Consultant's Network and IEEE Technology Management Council Austin chapter are excited to announce a workshop titled "How to Become a Successful Consultant".

The target audience is NOT JUST Engineers or Engineering Managers! Any consultant--established or new--who wants to be more successful and to network with other consultants will benefit. Individuals considering joining the consulting field will also benefit greatly from this workshop.

Freescale Semiconductor, 7700 W. Parmer, Austin TX, Building A, Main Auditorium; map (PDF).

The cost of this workshop with advance registration is only $20 for current and future IEEE members and $25 for others; $35 at the door.

Tommy Chiodo has been a career counselor/consultant for 13 years and prior to that spent 13 years in sales in the high-tech industry. The combination of those two careers has provided him with a unique perspective on the most difficult sell of all: the selling of one's self. Tommy's area of specialty as a career counselor is the art of networking where he takes a psychological approach to marketing one's self through the development of personal and professional networks that is effective for both job seekers and consultants.

Bob Davis is principal of simple.sales.strategy based in Austin, Texas. Davis specializes in helping small businesses structure and create a simple and sustainable plan for action to increase revenue and margin. In his practice he brings 27 years of sales experience, executive sales management and street proven strategies that drive results. Davis has guided sales teams with a simple measurable process that creates sustainable results, supporting them with creation of letters, scripts, emails, accountability and practical strategies to move prospects to customers, existing accounts to growth and marginal accounts to improved profitability. Prior to launching his consulting practice, Bob has held VP, National VP positions for Consolidated Graphics, Cenveo and successful independent manufacturing firms.

Pat E. Goodwin, CPC has over 20 years experience as a manager/leader, trainer, facilitator and consultant.  Her company, Pat Goodwin Associates (< http://Associates.com >) specializes in coaching individuals as they explore career options, identifying ideal work preferences and preparing for next steps. She has solid expertise in writing resumes, coaching clients when "Preparing for the Interview", and networking in the community. She has facilitated many, many workshops on the various topics related tocareer transition. Pat has a BA in Management from Concordia University in Austin, Texas and is a Certified Personnel Consultant. Most recently, Pat served as the Managing Consultant for Drake Beam & Morin's Austin office.  She is the former owner of Austin Career Consultants, Inc and former partner of Career Consultants Temporaries. She has been active in the business community for a number of years having served on various boards.

Darrel A. Raynor, PMP, MBA is a senior technology executive, consultant, and turnaround specialist with over twenty years leadership experience streamlining operations,systems, people, and projects. He increases margin and profit, anddecreases organization friction internally and externally withcustomers, vendors, and partners. His positions include Managing Director of Data Analysis & Results, Inc. (< http://www.DataAnalysis.com >), Interim COO / CIO / VP Operations, Director of Project Management Program at St. Edward's University Professional Education Center, Founder of Austin PMO Roundtable (with the ATC), and Director of The HeliOS Project (< http://www.heliosinitiative.org >).

Leslie Martinich, Principal Consultant at Competitive Focus, provides education and consulting services in engineering leadership, engineering ethics and innovation management. With more than 25 years of experience as a software professional, she has led teams at IBM, Compaq, Novell, Vignette and several startup companies.  She serves asthe lead faculty member at the Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

Carol Sheehan has over two decades of experience in software development and managementand is currently a Principal Consultant for Borland Software. After spending the first half of her career writing code and managing weapons systems and linear accelerator software, she moved into the consulting world to help customers take a value-focused and pragmatic approach to improving how they manage and develop software. She has experience in applying many industry standard models and standards but advocates forbusiness value and common sense to be the key improvement drivers. Customers she has advised include a range of large government, telecommunication, financial, and automotive corporations all the way to small product development shops. While her expertise covers the full lifecycle spectrum from requirements to test/release management, she is most passionate about the areas of organizational change management and portfolio, program and project management and has a special interest in building and managing PMOs.

Managing Stress in a Down Economy

Is Real Estate a Good Investment for Engineers?

Green Living, Green Building and Green Collar Jobs

Susan Meredith is the author of Beyond Light Bulbs: Lighting the Way to Smarter Energy Management, a complete and comprehensive framework in layman's terms while giving concrete examples of how you can contribute and benefit.  Susan is also founder of HumanExcel, a corporate educational firm based in Austin, Texas . As an engineer and MBA graduate with expertise in business process improvement, Susan helps organizations improve efficiencies, reduce wastes, and save energy. She has taught and mentored over 600 Process Improvement projects, including those with measurable impacts exceeding $1Million.

While at IBM, Susan received a Management Excellence Award and a key Technical Award. Through it all, Susan observed and explored how the laws of nature, such as stress, momentum and dynamics apply to everyday business and human relationships. Susan brings her research on human energy to the task of improving organizational and global energy.

For more information see http://www.beyondlightbulbs.com

Anti-counterfeiting technologies

Jay Fraser is a technology entrepreneur with strategic planning, new business development, marketing and technology transfer and commercialization background. He is President of Tracer Detection Technology Corp., a company involved in document security, brand protection, and separately, covert tracking technologies. It is completing commercialization of its anti-counterfeit solution, and is continuing its work with the Department of Defense to enhance its chemical track, trace and locate system.

In 2008, he presented a paper on his company's anti-counterfeit solution at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security and was the keynote speaker at the Fall 2008 meeting of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) on the subject of Technology Transfer - Lessons Learned from a Small Business Perspective.

He holds an MBA from Adelphi University and a BA from New York University.

Jay also writes articles on US Domestic Security, policy implications and technologies used in the War on Terror at ThreatsWatch.org, the public web site of the Center for Threats Awareness.

Engineering Overview of Intellectual Property

Data Backup: Easier and Cheaper than You Think

BIG Broadband & Gigabit to the Home

Roundtable Discussion

Disaster Relief: Plan Before It Happens

Beyond the PC – 30:30 Vision(s) of Computing

Personal Futuring

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Mobile Computing

Tomorrow's Email Systems – A Crystal Ball

High Performance Low Power Cacheless Computer System with Deterministic Power Management

Thermal Storage versus Energy Costs

How to Avoid Semiconductor Failure

Future Air Traffic Management Operations and Equipment

Principles of SW Redundancy and Its Challenges

New Technologies, New Ventures

Small Business Counseling (SCORE) & Internet Marketing