The CIS Society @ Georgia State University
cordially invites you to attend our
speaker series event
July 30, 2008
Ms. Deslie Quinby, VP Weather.com
Graduate of
the MIT
Sloan School of Management.
You don't want to miss this event since Deslie has vast
experience and a great insight into the converging world
of business and IT (read as your success.)
Event Details:
Topic: Career
Possibilities and
Opportunities with IT
Background
Leveraging Skills for Career Growth
Location:
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
Date/Time:
Wednesday,
July 30, 2008 @ 07:00PM
** Free
CIS Society giveaway T-Shirts **
About
Deslie:
Deslie Quinby, VP of Weather.com and Marketing for The weather
channel is accountable for
weather.com
and ensuring its continued leadership position. She is
responsibilities for business partnerships, strategy, next
generation initiatives, and new product development
focusing on customer experience. Key areas of strategic
growth that Deslie is responsible for include, but are not
limited to interactive mapping, community and video
efforts. Interactive properties include
weather.com,
mobile, desktop and newly emerging broadband and travel
businesses.
Deslie comes to The Weather Channel from Choicepoint (CPS) where
she was Vice President of their Consumer Initiatives and
responsible for ChoiceTrust.com. Products included
physician reports, background screening on home help,
access to personal employment information, insurance
information and vital records. Prior to ChoicePoint,
Deslie was Founder and CEO of eGulliver travel start-up
that matched consumers with travel specialists so that if
someone wanted to travel to Brazil, they were working with
a specialist that had been to Brazil. Deslie got her
passion for travel industry while she was CIO of Carlson
Leisure Group in Minn, MN. There she was integral in
launch of Carlson internet and intranets for leisure group
and for franchised travel agencies. She initiated a CRM
project to allow for direct marketing efforts and call
center systems that were based on computer telephony
rather than standard telephony switching. Deslie also
managed GDS relationships and migrated the majority of
Carlson agencies to a single GDS partner. Prior to
Carlson Leisure, Deslie was at Gemini Consultant, where
she was a senior level management consultant addressing
various business issues depending on client need. Deslie
started her career as an electrical engineer at
Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, MD
Deslie graduated from MIT Sloan School of management with an MBA.
She was honored at Graduation by receiving the Henri Ford
II scholarship. She graduated from GWU with her MSEE.
Undergraduate she attended University of Florida and
graduated with a BSEE. Deslie and her husband reside in
ATL and have 2 sons.
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The CIS Society needs
your help:
If you are in a position to
extend volunteer help in organizing this event, we would
very much appreciate your help. Please feel free to email
me at
puneetkb@gmail.com
or John Hupp at
jhupp@cis.gsu.edu and
we will get back to you with the details.
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In the interim,
please feel free to email me (puneetkb@gmail.com)
or John (jhupp@cis.gsu.edu)
if you have any questions about the CIS Society or this
event and we will be more than happy to try and answer it
for you.
Wishing you all
the best,
Warm regards,
--
Puneet K.
Bhargava
John Hupp
President - The CIS
Society Student
Advisor - The CIS Society
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The CIS Society @ Georgia State University
cordially invites you to attend our
speaker series event
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Speaker: Mr. Aj Noel
Sales Director, Application Renewal
Accenture, LLP
Topic:
Business Development in IT
The art extends beyond sales!!
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Location:
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 @ 07:00PM
"Free refreshments & door prizes"
For directions: Commerce Club
For more info. on Accenture, LLP: Accenture |
Profile of: Aj Noel
AJ Noel joined Accenture Technology Services as an Infrastructure Consulting Sales Director where he sold into Grow America Accounts and foundational accounts.. Noel later took on a role as a CHT & AT&T Sales Director. As of November 2007, he has been asked to help grow Accenture’s Application (AR) Renewal practice cross OU with a focus on generating growth within AR’s Re-platforming offering. Prior to joining Accenture, Noel was instrumental in launching IBM’s click as you pay initiative while pursing his studies full time in college. Noel started his first job at IBM Global Services as a Distribution and Public ITS Sales Specialist and then was promoted to a Public Sector Client Executive.
Noel graduated from Georgia State University with a BA in Computer Information Systems and resides in Alpharetta, GA. |
About Accenture, LLP
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. At Accenture you can join ranks with approximately 175,000 professionals in 49 countries and work with clients in nearly every major industry worldwide, including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world.
Accenture people are some of the most creative, forward-thinking people in the business world. They come from a wide range of cultural, educational and geographic backgrounds and are able to work in a dynamic and professional environment that values each person’s perspective. The different points of view they bring lead to superior business solutions for Accenture and our clients. We proactively capitalize on business and technology opportunities that enable higher levels of performance.
Accenture is a company with multiple workforces. Each workforce contributes to our business in a different but complementary way. Accenture’s business strategy depends on these different workforces blending together as an integrated whole, to help us and our clients achieve higher levels of performance. Find out more about the nature of each workforce, the kind of work you could do, the roles and responsibilities, what training you can expect and how your career might develop. |
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Congratulations
to Kenneth Hughey who won the Zune!
And our thanks
to Larry Clark who gave great insights into potential future
plans of our attendees!
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The CIS Society @Georgia State University
cordially invites you to attend our
speaker series event
Speaker:
Mr. Larry Clark
Managing Director & Chief Information Officer
Randstad USA
Topic:
What do businesses want?
Effective Skills for a successful IT Career
:MEGA DOOR PRIZE FOR STUDENT ATTENDEES:
30GB Zune Player
– One lucky winner will be selected through a draw,
so make sure you register your presence at the door.
Location:
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
Date/Time:
Thursday, February 21, 2008 @ 07:30PM
** Refreshments will be available **
For directions:
Commerce
Club
For more info. on Randstad USA:
Randstad
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The CIS Society @
Georgia State University is commencing this semester with a very
exciting discussion topic... one that has touched our lives
in some form or another - within the IS industry or otherwise -
"Outsourcing
and Offshoring".
Ms. Jennifer Smith,
Director of the Global Resource Office, TRX Inc., has honored us
by accepting to speak at our forum. Details of the speaker event
appear later in this email. Please reply to this email if you
have questions regarding this event or if you would be
interested in participating actively at The CIS Society... the
opportunities are limited only by your imagination... let's do
I.T.
Speaker:
Ms. Jennifer Smith, Director of the
Global Resource Office, TRX Inc.
Topic:
Outsourcing and Offshoring
Location:
The Commerce Club, 34 Broad Street NW,
Atlanta, GA 30303
Date/Time/Location:
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 07:30PM
Complementary
refreshments will be served
For directions:
Commerce Club
For more info. on TRX Inc.:
TRX Inc
About Ms.
Jennifer Smith:
Jennifer Smith is Director of the Global Resource
Office for TRX, a global technology company that develops
hosted applications to process complex data records and
automate manual processes, enabling companies to optimize
performance and control costs.
Jennifer
joined TRX in January 2002 as Manager of Financial Reporting,
leading the implementation of a financial reporting system.
She then moved to the Office of the COO as Director, Global
Operations, where she supported a variety of strategic
projects from brokering potential acquisitions to driving the
growth of TRX's offshore operations.
In her
current role as Director of the Global Resource Office,
Jennifer is the liaison between onshore and offshore
operations, coordinating development projects and managing the
relationships with all offshore vendors. Most recently, her
team completed two major milestones: leading the migration
for the TRX delivery center located in Bangalore from a
partner to a TRX-owned entity and facility; and completing the
development of a new product offering for TRX, the first
performed entirely offshore.
Prior to
TRX, Jennifer worked as Operations Manager at iXL where she
was focused on clients in the Travel & Transportation industry
vertical. She started her career in public accounting as an
auditor with Arthur Andersen. Her clients included those in
the non-profit, healthcare, and technology sectors.
Jennifer
holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Auburn
University. She is a Certified Public Accountant on Inactive
status.
--
Puneet K. Bhargava
President - The CIS Society
About The CIS Society:
The CIS Society is an open forum aimed to bring like minded
professionals together and discuss business and technical
challenges facing todays organizations. The society provides an
informal open platform for students, academicians and businesses
to share thought leadership and help make a difference.
For more details on The CIS Society please visit our website:
http://www2.cis.gsu.edu/cis/TheCISSociety/index.html
For details on courses and programs offered by The CIS
Department, please visit:
http://www2.cis.gsu.edu/cis/program/index.asp
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Health Informatics Kick-off at Robinson!
A comprehensive Health Informatics initiative was launched
summer 2007 at J Mack Robinson College of Business. In terms of
education, the initiative includes Bachelor, Masters, and MBA
offerings. In terms of research, the initiative involves faculty
across Health Administration and Computer Information Systems.
To kick-off this initiative, we invite students, alumni, and
faculty to an exciting evening with the following program:
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The Health Informatics Initiative at RCB
Professor Lars Mathiassen, RCB
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The Need for Health Informatics professionals
Donald George, CEO, PRIS Communication Systems,
Inc and Chair of the Health Information and IT Committee of the
American Public Health Association
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Emerging Technologies in Health
Professor Upkar Varshney, RCB
The kick-off is free and will take place
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Wednesday January 16th 7:30-9:15PM in the
Brown Room 18th floor at the Commerce Club, Broad
Street, Atlanta.
Light refreshments will be served and there will be good
opportunities to meet other people interested in Health
Informatics.
Cheers!
Lars Mathiassen,
chair of the Health Informatics Initiative at RCB.
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Lars Mathiassen
GRA Eminent Scholar
Professor, Computer Information Systems
Center for Process Innovation
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
PO Box 4015
35 Broad Street, NW
Atlanta GA 30302-4015
e-mail:
mailto:lmathiassen@gsu.edu
phone: +1-404-413-7855
fax: +1-404-463-9292
Homepage:http://www.mathiassen.eci.gsu.edu/
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And, you may find out more about Health Informatics at
http://www2.cis.gsu.edu/cis/HealthInfo/index.asp . We have
some great new
CIS courses and program tracks (ok, I have a bias….
J)
including
Computer Forensics,
IT Project Management, and
Defining and Innovating Business Processes available this
spring (along with
other CIS courses). These are wonderful individual courses
or they could be part of a
Certificate in Information Systems (or a
major in CIS)! I’m happy to answer any questions you may
have about CIS courses, programs, or careers.
Cheers!
Carl….
J
Carl Stucke, Ph.D.
Associate Chair, Computer Information Systems
Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
cstucke@gsu.edu
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~cstucke/
Join The CIS Society on LInkedin:
The CIS Society
September 27, 2007
Meeting Minutes
Compiled by Chris Hickman
7:30 pm:
Networking session (pizza & soft drinks served)
8:05 pm:
Meeting started by Chris Hickman
Topics include:
Officer opportunities
GBA Volunteer Opportunity
(email sent to CIS Society members)
Upcoming Meetings (October
30, 2007, November 28, 2007) - details to come
8:20 pm:
John Hupp, Director of Student
Programs at GSU
Career Center "What's the goal?"
"When the sun comes up, you'd
better be running" Ellen Hancock, Senior VP at IBM
Don't leave money on the table.
How much are you leaving?
All career services are there
for you at no cost.
"Who's on your team?" We have
resources available to you.
Don't try to go it alone. Set
yourself apart and achieve your goals by building your team.
Indicators of Success: good
grades, piece of paper (degree), connections
Robinson Career Center - Contact
John Hupp or Cynetta Freeman for information
Career Center has a great
booklet for A - Z career planning. Printed copies available in
RCB or the Career Center. Downloadable copy is here:
http://robinson.gsu.edu/resources/files/career_management/Student%20Career%20Guide%202007-2008.pdf
Internships are available - Can
give up to 3 hours of academic credit. See John!
70% of Internships turn into
a job offer
8:50 pm:
John wraps up, final comments,
Q&A
Question: What are internship
time requirements?
Comment: Please give us
comments on the CIS WebCT (uLearn) portal.
Comment: We should have
meetings on area company sites
Comment: Contact Chris Hickman
on Linked In (chris@chrishickman.net)
John's suggesting reading:
"Supercapitalism" by Robert
Reich
"7 Habits of Highly
Successful People" by Stephen Covey
"The Age of Turbulence:
Adventures in a New World" by Alan Greenspan
9:05 pm: Meeting adjourned |
