Thursday November 13, 2008
from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Networking
Dinner
Presentation of Business Plan and call for new Leaders
Election of Officers
Keynote
Speaker John Eckenrode (President of CPSI)
Topic: Maryland Computer Services Tax: How it happened, how it was repealed, and
how we can keep it from happening again.
Location:
Crowne Plaza Hotel Baltimore North-Hunt Valley
2004 Greenspring Drive
Timonium, MD 21093
Print the meeting flyer
Members
$25.00
to help advertise our event!
Non-Members $35.00
Students
$20.00
Topic: Maryland Computer Services Tax: How it happened, how it was repealed, and
how we can keep it from happening again.
John Eckenrode was born and raised in 1953 in
Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from high school in 1970
and went to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He came to
Baltimore in 1975 to work for Bethlehem Steel.
Mr. Eckenrode holds both a BS and MS in
Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University and a Masters
in Business from the Johns Hopkins University. He has been
CDP (Certified Data Processor) and CSP (Certified Systems
Professional) certified by ICCP (Institute for Certification
of Computing Professionals). Mr. Eckenrode has 15 years of
information technology experience and 19 years of experience
in executive, marketing and recruiting roles with CPSI.
President and founder of CPSI, John Eckenrode
has vast experience as an employee and contractor, having
progressed through the ranks from programmer to project
manager. Mr. Eckenrode started CPSI’s parent company,
Innovative Data Processing, Inc., in 1985. In 1990 Mr.
Eckenrode changed roles from professional consultant to full
time executive, marketing and recruiting roles for the
firm.
Mr.
Eckenrode is the NACCB DC Chapter President. NACCB is the
National Association of Computer Consulting Businesses. Mr.
Eckenrode in addition was very active with the recent
lobbying efforts to support the repeal of the Maryland State
computer services sales tax. He co-founded MCSA, the
Maryland Computer Services Association, and is co-chair of
the NACCB Maryland Tax Coalition.
October 2008
Oktoberfest!
proceeds
benefit Scholarship Fund
Friday October 3, 2008 from12 noon to dusk
Location:
Patapsco State Park
Hollofield Area, Site #300
Route 40 West (Baltimore National Pike)
(approximately 1.5 miles west of Beltway Exit 15)
Members
$20.00 each
Non-Members $30.00 each 5 or more Non-Members $27.00 each
September 2008 "Melting Pot" Networking
Session
Wednesday September 17, 2008 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Join
us for our BIGGEST meeting of the year!!!! Our Annual CIO Forum where you
will meet the CIOs from three Maryland companies telling you how
IT is handled within their organization. This
is a great networking opportunity. We will
also be giving out our annual Scholarship Awards to
deserving students.
$25.00 - Members $50.00 - Non-Members $25.00 - Students (with ID)
Guest CIO Speakers:
Josh Lippy, CIO, America's Remote Help Desk
Dr. Peter Murray, VP & CIO, University of Maryland Baltimore
Marita Ventura, ,
BillMeLater
The Virtual Support Center: Quality of life =
Quality Support
Josh
Lippy is the co-founder of America's Remote Help
Desk (ARHD) and has been the CTO for seven years.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Josh worked for
Acosta, a food broker, designing, building,
implementing and managing a LAN network and creating
WAN environments with other offices throughout the
country and later performed network implementation
and consulting services for an outsource solutions
provider. Today, Josh functions as the CTO of ARHD.
He designs and utilizes the proven technology to
match the specific business needs of ARHD's clients.
He specializes in all facets of network security,
which includes firewalls and network protection
relating to the Internet. Josh designs large scale
multi-platform email environments with a specialized
focus in Microsoft Exchange. Additionally, he has
customized a cutting edge service delivery platform
that defines the Help Desk process and procedures
for a complete Help Desk solution. He has built over
70 network systems and continues to combine his
business knowledge with technical expertise
Dr.
Peter J. Murray is the Vice President and Chief
Information Officer for the University of Maryland
Baltimore. Dr. Murray began his tenure at UMB on
January 14, 2002. He oversees the Center for
Information Technology Services (CITS). CITS is the
central information technology organization for the
University which develops and maintains
mission-critical enterprise systems and
technologies, e.g., human resources, payroll,
finance, student, e-mail, research, teaching and
learning, network infrastructure, web,
telecommunications, etc. Dr. Murray is also
responsible for overseeing and coordinating
campus-wide information technology, including
policies, committees, and the overall strategy for
the University. Network World Magazine
published an article in January 2006 about Dr.
Murray and his accomplishments at UMB. The article
explains his efforts and goals on how he created
a collaborative IT culture within the campus.
Marita Ventura
Vice President, Head of the Program Management Office
BillMeLater
Marita is an executive leader with over 25 years
experience in leading technology organizations. As
the Head of the Program Management Office, Marita’s
office is the central point for planning,
coordinating, and controlling the manyfacets of the organization’s technology
initiatives.
From 2001 though 2007, Marita was the Company’s
Chief Technology Officer. Marita is credited with
successfully building and scaling the Bill Me Later
technology infrastructure and software. Under her
leadership she led the hard-core engineering efforts
of Bill Me Later’s push-button simplicity,
lightening-fast transaction processing, and 99.99%
availability.
Marita's prior positions include: Vice President and
Senior Technology Officer at First USA/Bank One's
Chevy Chase Credit Card Division; Vice President of
Strategic Systems Development at Citibank; and
Principal Management Consultant at StarSoft, Inc.
Throughout her tenure she has successfully managed
numerous large-scale payment and credit card systems
development projects, Internet implementations, and
IT strategy projects.
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VISTA Adoption Event
Thursday
May 15, 2008 from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm at
Crowne
Plaza Baltimore
(used to be Holiday Inn Timonium)
Come learn why you want to
adopt Vista into your office.
Join us for our next Melting
Pot Networking Event!
Meet friends, new friends, talk
about IT.
Enjoy appetizers, some pizza and drink (cash
bar).
NOTE:
Registration is required (walk-ins will be charged
additional fee).
With Pre-Registration:
Members are admitted
for FREE (If you are a new member, please
bring your email confirmation with you). Non-Members will be
charged a fee of $10.00
Walk-ins - Registration
rec'd after 5:00
pm Wed, April 9, 2008:
Members pay at the
door - $5.00
Non-Members pay at the door - $15.00
When paying at the
door, cash or check only please.
A portion
of the proceeds will go towards our annual Scholarship Fund.
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THIS EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY:
Wednesday February 20, 2008 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Join us for our next Melting
Pot Networking Event! Meet friends, new friends, talk
about IT. Enjoy appetizers, some pizza and drink (cash
bar).
Members are admitted
for FREE! (If you are a new member, please
bring your email confirmation with you).
Non-Members were
charged a nominal fee of $5.00
(a portion
toward our yearly scholarship award). Payments not accepted
online.
Location: Sandler Training
Training Center The Meadows, 16 Green Meadow Drive, Suite G103,
Timonium, MD 21093
Directions: I-83 North, Exit 16 A Right onto Timonium Road Left onto York Road 1/3 mile, look for the Baltimore County Savings
Bank, past the Old Ames Shopping Center Once you see
the bank Right onto Green Meadow Drive 1 block down, left into office building--it's
chocolate colored and says, "Long & Foster" Basement/ground floor, immediately off the elevator
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THIS EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY: Certified CIO
"Melting Pot" Networking
Session
Wednesday January 16, 2008 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Many guests joined us for our Melting
Pot Networking Event! Met friends, new friends, talked
about IT. Enjoyed appetizers, some pizza and drink (cash
bar).
Members were admitted
for FREE!
Non-Members were
charged a nominal fee of $5.00
(a portion
toward our yearly scholarship award). Payments not accepted online.
Cash or check only please.
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THIS EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY: America's Remote Help Desk www.arhd.com
"Melting Pot" Networking Session
Wednesday November 14, 2007 from 5:30 PM to
7:30 PM
Location:The Playbook
Sports Bar
6700 German Hill Road
Baltimore, MD 21222 www.playbookbaltimore.com
Join us for our
next "Melting Pot" Networking Event! Meet
friends, new peers, talk about IT. Enjoy appetizers, some
food and drink (cash bar).
Members and non-members are admitted for FREE thanks
to the sponsor.
This event will be shared
with another organization the Sponsor is associated with so
bring PLENTY of business cards!
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THIS EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY
The George McDowell Team will donate 10% of their commission
to the AITP Scholarship Fund through 2007. Tell George you
found him through AITP when you phone (410) 218-3612 or use
the Web site above.
Oktoberfest!
to benefit Scholarship Fund
/ Annual Business Meeting
October 5, 2007 from12 noon to dusk (Annual Business Meeting starts at 2 pm)
Location:
Patapsco State Park
Hollofield Area, Site #300
Route 40 West (Baltimore National Pike)
(approximately 1.5 miles west of Beltway Exit 15)
Join us for our "Melting Pot" Networking Event! Meet
friends, new peers, talk about IT. Enjoy appetizers, some
pizza and drink (cash bar).
Members are admitted for FREE! (If you are a new member
within the last 30 days, please bring your email
confirmation with you).
Non-Members will be charged a nominal fee of $5.00 (a
portion will be donated to our Scholarship Fund).
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THIS EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY
The George McDowell Team - Coldwell Banker
www.georgecmcdowell.com
The George McDowell Team will donate 10% of their commission
to the AITP Scholarship Fund through 2007. Tell George you
found him through AITP when you phone (410) 218-3612 or use
the Web site above.
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June
2007
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 07
Networking and Education Session
June
20, 2007 POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 07
5:30 to 6:30 Networking
6:30 to 7:30 Education Session "Trigger Words that
cause IT companies to Lose the Sale"
Cost: Member $5, Non-Members $10 (Pizza and
soft drinks included)
(portion
of proceeds will be donated to our
scholarship fund)
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 07
Topic: Ever got a maybe? Gave a great
presentation, only to get a hesitation? Do you know
why?
Learn the Trigger Words that Cause you to Lose the
Sale.
Presentedby Margie Anne Bonnett, VP, Sandler Training
Institute www.closingsales.com
Location:
Sandler Training
Training Center
The Meadows, 16 Green Meadow Drive, Suite G103,
Timonium, MD 21093
Directions:
I-83 North, Exit 16 A
Right onto Timonium Road
Left onto York Road
1/3 mile, look for the Baltimore County Savings
Bank, past the Old Ames Shopping Center Once you see
the bank Right onto Green Meadow Drive
1 block down, left into office building--it's
chocolate colored and says, "Long & Foster"
Basement/ground floor, immediately off the elevator
Our Annual CIO Forum where you met the CIOs from three Maryland companies telling you how
IT is handled within their organization.
Cost:
Members - $30 Students - $30 Non-Members - $40
(Cash Bar)
Reservations Required:
After registering, you could pre-pay via PayPal using
a major credit card or bring a payment. After
Tuesday May 15, all registrations were considered
walk-in registrations and an additional $7.00 was added to cost.
ţ
Sponsorship Opportunities for the event! Platinum
Sponsorship: included 3 dinner tickets
reserving seats at the CIOs tables, double-sized
table-top display, listed as a CIO Forum Sponsor in emails and on our
website and special thanks during the program.
Gold Sponsorship: included 2 dinner tickets
(general seating) and single-sized table-top
display.
The following are numbered by order of
commitment to speak to us ONLY.
Please enjoy the bio of each of our featured
speakers!
Topic: The Opportunities and Challenges of an
Internet Technology Company in Baltimore
As chief
information officer for Advertising.com, Tom leads
the company’s technology team and is responsible for
maintaining, developing and operating the company’s
award-winning information systems.
Prior
to joining Advertising.com, Tom served as chief
information officer for the Baltimore County
Government where he was responsible for the County’s
150-person technology department. During his career,
Tom has taught systems development process and
information technology and business strategy at
Towson University’s graduate applied information
technology program.
Tom
holds a BA in economics from Loyola College and an
MBA from the University of Baltimore.
Topic: What CIOs Should Know about Network
Analysis
Terry
Slattery has been a successful technology innovator
in networking during the past 25 years. He is the
CTO and founder of Netcordia, and invented its
primary product, NetMRI, a network analysis
appliance. NetMRI uses automated expert rules to
assist with easily and quickly identifying issues
and exceptions to recommended best practices for
computer networks.
Terry
formerly founded Chesapeake Computer Consultants,
one of Cisco's premier training partners and trained
over 35,000 network engineers as it grew to become
an Inc 500 company. At Chesapeake, Terry
co-invented the vLab system of hands-on training
over the Internet and led the team that developed
the current Cisco IOS command line interface.
He
co-authored the successful McGraw-Hill text
"Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks". Terry is
the second CCIE (#1026), and is a sought after
industry speaker and advisor.
Topic: Where in the World is My Electronic
Medical Record?
Tressa
Springmann was promoted from the position of Chief
Information Officer, which she has held since 2004,
to Vice President and Chief Information Officer in
2006. She previously served as Director of Software
Applications with the organization’s Management
Information Systems department since December 1999.
Ms.
Springmann has nearly two decades of experience in
information systems across the healthcare industry,
and previously served in positions with Integrated
Health Services, Georgetown University Medical
Center and Dimensions Health Systems, among other
organizations.
At GBMC,
Ms. Springmann’s responsibilities have included
facilitating implementation of the MEDITECH project;
operational and fiscal oversight of the software
development department supporting all hospital and
faculty practice computer systems; and managing an
annual software budget of in excess of one million
dollars.
A
resident of Glenwood (Howard County), Md., Ms.
Springmann has been a key participant in the
development of GBMC’s Strategic Information
Technology Plan and the implementation of numerous
system upgrades and installs. She participated in
and/or supervised the selection and implementation
of more than 10 new information systems for GBMC and
negotiated several application software and service
contracts.
Ms.
Springmann is an active member of the St. Louis
School and Parish Community in Clarksville,
Maryland. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology
from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she was a
four-year Dean’s List student, and a master’s degree
in administration science with a concentration in
information technology from The Johns Hopkins
University. Ms. Springmann also is a Certified
Professional in Healthcare Information and
Management Systems (CPHIMS).
We want to thank our PLATINUM SPONSORS of the CIO
Forum 2007
CPSI - IT Consulting and Services Company
See how the Leading Baltimore-Washington area
IT Consulting and Services Company
CAN HELP YOU
The Microsoft Corporation is proud to support the
Baltimore Chapter
of AITP in the presentation of their CIO Forum May
17, 2007.
We feel the AITP organization is an important
nonprofit group in the
IT Community. Through its community programs,
Microsoft is giving
back to the diverse communities in which we work,
live, and do
business. The main components of our outreach
program serve these
communities through supporting higher education,
youth programs, and
nonprofit groups that focus on technology.
April 2007
"Melting Pot" Networking
Session
April 18, 2007 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
at
Bertucci's Columbia
(9081 Snowden River Parkway, Columbia, MD 21044,
410-312-4800)
Join us for our second
Melting Pot Networking Event! Meet friends, new
friends, talk about IT. Enjoy appetizers, some pizza
and drink (cash bar).
Members are admitted
for FREE! (If you are a new member, please
bring your email confirmation with you).
Non-Members will be
charged a nominal fee of $5.00 (portions will be donated to
our scholarship fund). Payments not accepted online.
Cash or check only please.
Join us for our Annual Business
Meeting & Scholarship Awards Dinner at the
Timonium Holiday Inn.
The 2007 Board of Directors will be voted
in as well as awarding several students a Scholarship to
help them further their education.
There will be NO
Technical Session. Networking will begin at 6 PM. Bring
plenty of business cards!
Our dinner speaker will be Thomas Kirby from Fluke
Networks talking about Network Management Technology.
If your enterprise has mission-critical
applications running across the network, monitoring and
managing performance issues from individual points of view
is extremely limiting. In this approach, different
groups would be responsible for different areas of the
enterprise and the network — the service provider would own
the local loop and port, the network group would only manage
CPE and usage, and the application group would oversee the
applications and servers. Even with these limitations, most
enterprises use that exact structure.
Network application integrity improves the efficiency,
security and troubleshooting at the intersection of
application and network resources. Common sense dictates the
value of network application integrity. However, most
enterprises are not close to understanding the detailed
intricacies of the relationship between individual
applications and the infrastructure. Taking into account a
dramatic increase in remote users and the increasing rollout
of Web-enabled applications, such as customer related
management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
systems, the pressure on the network — and network managers
in particular — has grown. Layering on the continuing
technological evolution of the network — from frame relay to
MPLS and Ethernet — increases responsibilities for the
network manager.
Bio for Thomas Kirby
Thomas Kirby was recently appointed the Federal Sales
Manager for Fluke Networks. Building on the rich history of
Fluke (in handheld testing devices) and the recent
acquisition of Visual Networks, Fluke Networks is the first
management platform to offer layer 1 through layer 7
monitoring and management. Currently, Thomas manages
carrier/integrator relationships, and manages opportunities
with these vendors and the Federal Government.
Additionally, Thomas has had several jobs managing
relationships (IBM, Motorola, Nextel) for large carriers.
Most recently he managed the relationship between Verizon
and the District of Columbia. Where he managed and
implemented over $20,000,000 in cabling and wiring upgrades.
November 2, 2006
(Thursday)
Board of Directors Meeting -- Everyone is welcome to attend
In this after
dinner talk, we consider ways to use career paths to attract and
retain highly skilled technical staff. Maury Weinstein,
president of System Source, will share his experience with
technical staff management and development. He will discuss:
- Top 5 reasons
people stay at job
- Designing IT
career paths
- Training
ladder to reach next level
Maury
recognized early the value of skilled staff and their need to
constantly grow. He is co-owner of System Source, a leading
provider of information technology solutions and services for
mid-market and enterprise organizations in the region. The company
has a staff of 130 employees – more than half are systems
engineers and IT professionals. A business focus for System Source
includes increasing performance levels of staff through education,
quality management and high standards during the hiring process.
Maury last spoke at AITP in 2002. He enjoys lively discussion and
welcomes your questions.
Speaker Biography:
Maury Weinstein, president and co-owner of System Source
Maury Weinstein
earned his BSEE from University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of
Engineering in 1980. He has also studied economics and
entrepreneurial management at the Wharton School and received
graduate electrical engineering course work at Stanford
University. He worked with Advanced Micro Devices in Silicon
Valley where he assisted in bringing new chip designs into
production and increasing the yields of chips in production.
After moving to
Baltimore in 1981, Maury opened ComputerLand of Baltimore, now
known as System Source. In 1996, System Source acquired Planet
Communications, a very early Internet company, and has expanded
and grown its web development, design, hosting and Internet
connection services. In 2003, the company purchased Connected
Resources and its subsidiaries. Then in April 2004, System Source
acquired competitor Ociter Enterprises.
System Source
is the largest locally owned commercial PC computer integrator in
the Baltimore region, specializing in wide-area network and
Internet consulting, design and implementation; sale and rental of
computer systems; service and support; technical and applications
training; and building high-tech audio visual meeting rooms. The
company’s 130 employees serve clients from its headquarters
located in Hunt Valley, MD; it also has a training center in
Columbia, MD.
Maury is a
member of the Business Advisory Board of the Merrick School at the
University of Baltimore, a member of the Loyola Information
Systems Advisory Board and a member of a bench marking
organization called the 20/20 Group. Maury lives in Baltimore
County with his wife and two children.
September
21, 2006 (Thursday)
NO Technical Learning Session
September 7, 2006
(Thursday)
Board of Directors Meeting -- Everyone is welcome to attend
October 16, 2006
(Monday)
October 6, 2006
(Friday)
