[IEEE-JHC] Tuesday: Wake Tech: Building and Maintain a Successful Consulting Practice

Harold Meder hwmeder at alumni.unc.edu
Sun Oct 16 20:34:36 EDT 2005 

   Triangle Area Career Development Newsletter
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          NETWORKING/TRAINING EVENTS
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 * CED Biotech Forum
www.cednc.org/cgi-bin/irCom.pl?999/1/db/351/0/0/28/0/0/0/2335
Topic: What's New with SBIR Funding?
 > Monday, October 17, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: NC Biotechnology Center ($20)

	
 * PMI Information Systems LIG
http://www.ncpmi.org/lig-isCalendar.php
Topic: Project Management of IT projects using Global Resources
 > Monday, October 17, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Matrix Resources

	
 * Triangle Java User Group (triJUG)
http://www.trijug.org/
Topic: Motricity's Fuel platform
 > Monday, October 17, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Nortel ($5)

	
 * Women in Technology International (WITI)
http://www.witi.com/rtp/meeting.php?id=1909
Topic:  Revitalization of RTP WITI Network
 > Monday, October 17, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location:  Golden Corral, Hwy 55, Durham

	
 * Bio NC Life Science Career Fair
presented by BioSpace HireHealth
 > Tuesday, October 18, 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Sheraton Imperial Hotel

	
 * American Society for Quality (ASQ)
http://www.rtpnet.org/asq/Meetings/Meeting%20Program.htm
Topic: ISO 9000 and Sarbanes Oxley Comparison
 > Tuesday, October 18, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: North Raleigh Hilton ($18)

	
 * Wake Tech
Contact: Ken, 363-3360
Topic: Building and Maintain a Successful Consulting Practice
 > Tuesday, October 18, 6:45 PM - 8:45 PM
Location: BIC, Cary

	
 * IBM Life Sciences Executive Seminar
http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/healthcare/doc/content/event/leaf/1370469105.html
Topic: Developing a strategy for using new technology in clinical development
 > Wednesday, October 19, 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Marriott Research Triangle Park

	
 * Triangle .Net Users Group (TriNUG)
http://www.trinug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=220
Topic: SQL SIG
 > Wednesday, October 19, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: DataDirect

	
 * Rational Users Group (RUG)
http://www.rtprug.org/
Topic: Advanced Use Cases
 > Wednesday, October 19, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Tivoli Building 500 Cafeteria 

	
 * Triangle .Net Users Group (TriNUG)
http://www.trinug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=212
Topic: ADO.NET SIG
 > Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: DataDirect

	
 * Wake Tech
Register: kldillo at waketech.edu or 363-3360
Topic: Is Your Elevator Speech Killing your Business?
 > Thursday, October 20, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Rm 103, BIC, Cary

	
 * BPD Seminar
http://tinyurl.com/d2jgc
Topic: Applying USP in a Biotech/ Biomanufacturing Environment
 > Thursday, October 20, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: North Carolina Biotechnology Center

	
 * Triangle .NET User Group (TriNUG)
http://www.trinug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=226#Oct20
Topic: .NET Rocks! VS 2005 Road Trip!
 > Thursday, October 20, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Credit Susse First Boston

	
 * TechJournal DeckParty
www.deckparty.org
 > Thursday, October 20, 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: NCSU's Centennial Campus

	
 * IEEE / Engineering Management
https://www.ieeecommunities.org/encs
Topic: How do we keep our University Engineering quality and competitive?
 > Thursday, October 20, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: MCNC (3021 Cornwallis Rd)

	
 * What's the Big Idea?  Materials of the Future
www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/pdep/bigidea/index.htm
Topic: Nanotechnology: Manipulating Viruses, Molecules, and Other Objects
 > Thursday, October 20, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: UNC's Friday Center

	
 * Marpet Life/Career Services
Contact: 870-4000
Topic: Making Yourself Promotable in a Tough Economy
 > Thursday, October 20, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: North Regional Wake County Public Library

	
 * Raleigh PERL Mongers
http://raleigh.pm.org
Topic: RPM2
 > Thursday, October 20, 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Location: Tekelec

	
 * Visualization Friday Forum
http://vis.duke.edu/FridayForum/05Fall.html
Topic: TBD
 > Friday, October 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Duke University: D106 LSRC

	
 * The Gathering
http://businessleader.com/thegathering.html
 > Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Creative Visions Inc

	
 * WebSphere User Group (RTPWUG)
www.rtpwug.org/meetings.html
Topic: TBA
 > Tuesday, October 25, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: IBM Building #500 Cafeteria

	
 * TriXML
www.trixml.org/nextmeeting.shtml
Topic: TBA
 > Tuesday, October 25, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Bright Path

	
 * Job Fair @ Redhat
www.redhat.com/about/careers/
 > Wednesday, October 26, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Red Hat Corporate Office, NCSU Centennial Campus

	
 * Triangle .Net Users Group (TriNUG)
http://www.trinug.org/Default.aspx?tabid=201
Topic: Test Driven Development SIG
 > Wednesday, October 26, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Rudinos in the Park

	
 * PMI Program Management Office LIG
http://www.ncpmi.org/lig-pmoCalendar.php
Topic: Culture: The Heart of a Project Management Office
 > Wednesday, October 26, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: Matrix Resources

	
 * 2005 TISQA Software Testing Conference
http://conference.tisqa.org
Topic: Creating Agility and Effectiveness in Software Testing
 > Thursday, October 27, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Friday Center ($175)

	
 * Part Eleven & Electronic Records Stakeholders (PEERS)
http://peers.onsphere.com/
Topic: Rebecca Kush, Head of CDISC
 > Thursday, October 27, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Quintiles Riverbirch Building 

	
 * RTP Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)/PMI
http://www.rtpspin.org/index.html
Topic: Refactoring Your Wetware
 > Thursday, October 27, 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Location: EMC

	
 * NC Society of Quality Assurance (NCCSQA)
http://www.nccsqa.org/events.htm
Topic: Risk Assessment and the FDA
 > Thursday, October 27, 12:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: GlaxoSmithKline Elion-Hitchings Building, Main Auditorium ($70)

	
 * RTP CDISC Users Network
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rtp_cdisc/
Topic: CDISC: Current Landscape and Initiatives for the Future
 > Thursday, October 27, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:  SAS Campus - Building F

	
 * Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rtp_cdisc
Topic: SDTM/ADaM Implementation talk
 > Thursday, October 27, 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: GSK Sanders Building
	
	
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 *  American Society for Quality
http://www.rtpnet.org/asq/Education/Education.htm
Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) Exam Preparation Course
 > Wednesday, October 19 - Thursday, November 3
Location: Saia-Burgess in Cary
deadline for signing up for CQA exam is Oct. 21.
deadline for signing up for this prep class is Oct. 17


 * N&O, Fall Careers tabloid
To be published, Sunday, October 16


 * Make Your Resume Talk
Wake Tech Community College
www.waketech.edu/conted/schedules/hrd.html
 > MWTh, 1-5 p.m.			10/24-10/27
 > MWTh, 1-5 p.m.			11/7-11/10
 > TThF, 1-5 p.m.			11/29-12/2
 > MWTh, 1-5 p.m.			12/12-12/15
Location: Business and Industry Center (BIC)
          Millpond Village
          3434 Kildaire Farm Rd. 


 * Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA)
http://www.hbanet.org/national/calendar.asp?year=05&month=10&id=0.1029&map=1
Topic: Leveraging Your Strengths for Career Development and World Class Performance
 > Tuesday, October 18, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Hilton - RTP


 * Triangle Information System Quality Association (TISQA)
www.tisqa.org
Topic: Creating Agility and Effectiveness in Software Testing
 > Thursday, October 27, 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: Friday Center  ($175)


 * The 31st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 
www.adac.ncsu.edu/IECON05/index.html
- Computer and control systems
- Power electronics
- Motors and drives
- Sensors and actuators
- Industrial informatics
- Mechatronics and robotics
 > Sunday - Thursday, November 6-10
Location: Sheraton Capital Center ($650)


 *  Foundation for the Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) 
www.biotrac.com 
 Location: FAES at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD 
 - TRAC 18: Stem Cells: Principles and Methods 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac18.html
   Monday, October 17 - October 21, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   35 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $850 Lecture & Lab 
 - TRAC 30: Small Interfering RNA (siRNA) & Functional Genomics 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac30.html
   Monday, October 24 - October 28, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   35 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $850 Lecture & Lab 
 - Trac 23 Flow Cytometry: Principles and Methods 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac23.html
   Tuesday, November 8 - November 11, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   28 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $795
 - Trac 10 Protein-DNA Interactions: Gene Specific and Epigenetic 
   Regulation of Expression of the Mammalian Genome 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac10.html
   Monday, November 14 - November 18, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   35 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $850 *Lecture & Lab* 
 - TRAC 20: Immunocytochemistry 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac20.html
   Mondays, November 14, 21, 28, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   21 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $750
 - Trac 15: Two Hybrid Selection: Identification and Characterization 
   of Protein-Protein Interaction 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac15.html
   Monday, December 5 - December 7, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   21 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $750 *Lecture & Lab*
 - Trac 16: Expression, Detection & Purification of Recombinant Proteins 
   in Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac16.html
   Monday, December 12 - December 14, 2005 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   21 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $750 *Lecture & Lab*
 - Trac 12:Transgenic Technology: Methods and Application 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac12.html
   Monday, January 9 - Thursday, January 12, 2006 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
   28 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $795
 - Trac 2 Recombinant DNA Methodology I 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac2.html
   Monday, January 16 - January 20, 2006 . 
   Lecture: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Monday - Thursday; 9:00 - 4:00 p.m. Friday . 
   Laboratory: 12:30 - 5:30 p.m. Monday - Thursday 
   35 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $850 *Lecture & Lab*, $500 *Lecture Only
 - TRAC 24: Principles and Applications of DNA Microarrays 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/Tracs/Trac24.html
   Monday, January 23 - January 27, 2006 . 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
   35 hours of lecture and "hands-on" lab training
   Fee: $850 Lecture & Lab **(Class limit of 28 participants
 - Biotechnology Workshop Series 
   http://www.biotrac.com/pages/ontheroad.html
   - siRNA and miRNAs: Modulating Gene Expression
   - Clinical Proteomics and Biomarker Discovery
   Nov 2 - 4, 2005, North Shore, Lake Tahoe, NV


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             General Interest


 * U.S. Networks sold, may gain Triangle jobs
U.S. Networks has been bought by a Connecticut company that plans to keep the Triangle office and add jobs in the area.    
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/technology/story/2812590p-9258153c.html


 * CEO predicts more RTP jobs
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/2817610p-9264579c.html


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