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April 16, 2008

Northeastern Wisconsin Chapter Meeting

Event Location: Holiday Inn Select - Appleton; more information available at http://www.hiappleton.com.

Event Details: Education programs 4:15pm, Social Hour 5:30, Dinner 6:00, Business Meeting 6:45, After-dinner Speaker 7:15

**Review the meeting sessions, then CLICK the link at the bottom of the page to Register!** 

• Management:

               "Applying Six Sigma In The IT World"

The Speaker will be Lee Binz from Fox Valley Technical College Lee has been with FVTC for 10 years and is currently an Instructor at the Quality Academy group within the college.

Six Sigma at many organizations simply means a measure of quality that strives for near perfection. Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects (driving towards six standard deviations between the mean and the nearest specification limit) in any process -- from manufacturing to transactional and from product to service.

• Application Development:

                "Power = i + p / The New Power Equation"

Are you planning to upgrade your i Series or p Series?  Or maybe you're just reviewing your options?  Then this is a must attend session for you!  A NEW Chapter member will share what they have learned about IBM's recent April announcement of the Power System, as well as other product info presented earlier in 2008.

This session will cover information about the following:

The New Power Equation - run your iSeries, pSeries, Linux and Unix applications in a single, energy efficient and easy-to-deploy platform.  If using a blade server you can include your window servers from the same handware.

What's coming in V6R1 - New SAN adapter, disk clustering, Restructure of Rational Development Tools, IBM Systems Director Navigator, High Availability, DB2 Web Query, Integrated Web Server, 64-bit Java and more.

Maggie Beard, AITP member/Chapter Board member has spent the last nine years working at UnitedHealth Care (formerly American Medical Security).  She has been playing in the Administrator role with primary emphasis on iSeries (AS400), but also has experiences with AIX, Sun, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers.

• Infrastructure:

"Are you ready for Windows 2008"

This presentation, "Are you ready for Windows 2008" introduces the audience to the value of Windows Server 2008, will provide an overview of the feature/functionality of this latest Microsoft Windows Server operating system release and how customers can prepare their IT environments for Windows Server 2008. Content will include a review of the entire O/S with its major feature upgrades (web, virtualization, & security), tips for customers interested in upgrading to / deploying new copies of Windows Server 2008, including a short demo of the product itself including the new Hyper-V hypervisor virtualization technology. A quick review of how best to license the various versions of Windows Server 2008 will also be provided. A short Q&A session will be available during the event, and the speaker will provide additional demonstrations/Q&A time after the formal event too.  

 Keith Powell is a Server Solution Specialist with Microsoft Corporation in the downtown Chicago office devoting his time helping customers understand the latest Microsoft server solutions, with a specific focus on the financial services, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare industries. He has 20+ years of technology industry experience and has authoring numerous books on many of the Microsoft server and operating system products. His educational background includes multiple undergraduate and advanced degrees including an MBA in Finance; he has been certified in Microsoft and other products; is a presently a Project Management Professional (PMP), and has begun work on his next book. Keith, his wife, and their 4-year old twins spend much of their free time inline skating and biking along the lake front of Chicago.

• After Dinner:

"The Success Triangle"

 

"The Success Triangle" will be "Fun, Fast-moving and with Free stuff!"

 

Michael S. Pierron is Founder of Dream BIG!
Speaker - Author - Trainer - DAD and life-coach

 

Mike's Famous Failures!

Didn't walk until 16 months old.

Fat kid.

Four years of speech class (R's and S's were a problem).

Two years of special (read: slow) reading class.

Afraid of getting hit by the ball in baseball (since I was six and got

beaned!).

Didn't ride a two-wheeler until he was seven.

Lost an estimated 150 games in basketball, baseball and football since sixth grade.

Fouled Tim Fredman at the "buzzer" at Hartland Arrowhead in 1980 causing

his team to lose by a point once Tim made two free throws with "no time"

left.

Failed in a baseball tryout with the K.C. Royals.

Cut TWICE in college trying to make the U.W.-Whitewater baseball team.

Failed TWICE in business, once in 1988 and once in 1998. The second time

we lost our house and had to live in a duplex for eight months.

ELIMINATED from his regional sales manager job on November 13, 2001.

Finished "dead last" in every natural bodybuilding show he has ever

entered: 1989 North American Classic, (7th 0f 7), 1993 Prarieland

Classic (6th of 6), and the 1998 Mr. Wisconsin Masters (2nd of 2).

 

Not bad for a guy from "small-town Saukville" who has:

 

Flown on the Concorde at twice-the-speed of sound.

Visited 16 countries (including Australia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,

Prague, St. Thomas, St. Martin, Aruba, Hawaii (7 times) Acapulco,

Cancun, Puerto Vallarta).

Has been on thirteen cruises.

Was recently featured on Channel 12 at noon (WISN in Milwaukee)

promoting his first book...Fit Happens at any age.

Seems like failure has agreed with him.