Sara Olewiler has obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute (PMI). The PMP certification is the preeminent professional credential for individuals working in the field of project management. Sara has over 15 years of Information Technology experience, and has most recently been working on the South Carolina Business One-Stop (SCBOS) project. Sara is a Program Manager at TiBA Solutions LLC.
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The Upstate Women In Technology meet for lunch Thursday, October 13, for a presentation by Gwen Corder, IT Manager at Trehel Corporation. Gwen will talk about how Trehel uses wireless technology, devices and remote applications to access data any time, anywhere. RSVP to uwit@gsatc.org or call Jill Rose at 864-675-1592.
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John Warner will be at the Open Book on October 6 to sign copies of his recently self-published book “Swamp Fox Insights.” The book is an idiosyncratic collection of the author’s observations and readings in the world of business. The author presents concepts gleaned from a variety of business thought leaders and then sandwiches them between his opinions on how those ideas might be applied and personal stories of Greenville business people who have influenced him. SwampFox Insights is available at the Open Book on Pleasantburg Drive where John will be signing copies on October 6th from 5 to 7 PM.
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Selling technology requires skills. John McCann has been helping develop those skills in quota exceeding sales reps for over twenty years. The skills John presents are useful whether you are selling products, services, or even ideas to your boss. John is a great communicator and the goal of this session is to deliver a few of John’s “Silver Bullet” communication skills to the group. Please plan to attend. I promise you’ll learn something while you enjoy John’s high energy presentation.
His career began with Johnson Wax in 1979 as a Territory Manager. Three years later, John was promoted to Field Training Manager. In this position he developed motivational and product-training seminars for customers, as well as sales training programs for distributor sales forces.more
Topic: Silver Bullets of Selling Tec
Featured: John McCann
Date: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2005
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Crowne Plaza (Map:
I-385 at Roper Mtn.)
11:30 – 11:55 Registration, Networking, Lunch
11:55 – 12:10 Announcements
12:10 – 12:50 Presentation
12:50 – 1:00 Door Prizes, Adjourn
This meeting features easy access from I-385, plenty of free parking, ample
networking opportunities, a great presentation, and door prizes. Plan to attend.
Lunch is $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Registration is now closed. Please register onsite!
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The Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals Board of Directors (HFTP) has announced the election of Raman (R. P.) Rama, CHA, CHTP, to its International Board of Directors. Rama has been a member of HFTP for 14 years.
R. P. Rama is the VP & Dir. of Technology & Telecommunications at JHM Hotels. He holds a baccalaureate degree in Business and Accounting from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara, India. He also is a Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA) as designated by the American Hotel and Lodging Association and a Certified Hospitality Technology Professional (CHTP) as designated by Hospitality Financial Technology Professionals Association. Rama also serves on the E-Commerce Advisory board for Intercontinental Hotels and Member of the Pro Links Committee at Hospitality Financial Technology Professionals Association (HFTP).
Based in Austin, Texas, The Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals Association serves financial and technology personnel working in hotels, resorts, clubs, casinos, restaurants and other hospitality-related businesses. The association provides continuing education and networking opportunities to more than 4,300 members around the world, and produces the premiere hospitality technology shows HITEC and ONHTEC.
JHM Hotels, Inc., based in Greenville SC, has developed, acquired, owned, and operated hotels throughout the United States and India for more than 30 years. The company owns/operates 31 hotels with nearly 5,000 rooms under various franchise flags such as Hilton, Marriott, and Holiday Inn, and employs over 1,000 associates. Rama has also joined the GSATC’s IT Leadership Council.
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I finished up this week’s column on Google Desktop Search yesterday and still end up with some questions and concerns about the product. (Given the vagaries of publishing schedules the article will not appear in print until real soon now.) I like the ability to search everything on my hard drive. In fact, I am in love with that idea. What I don’t think is so cool is that Google never throws anything away. If I delete a document, Google still has a link to it. What’s going to happen to my hard drive? Will it eventually fill with junk I thought I had thrown away? This reminds me of the story of the file clerk who wanted to empty out some old files and her boss said that she could throw everything away but that she should make a copy first.
Keeping everything is certainly a double edged sword. The other day a co-conspirator in one of my many schemes came up to me and asked if I had read his email. I had absolutely zero recall of the message. I looked through the appropriate folders in Outlook and couldn’t find it. I then asked Google Desktop to find all emails from this correspondent. Sure enough GDS had a record of the email. I had somehow deleted this email without taking the usual precursor steps of opening it, reading it, and ignoring it. Now I could see what he said, not in my Outlook, but by looking at the indexed copy GDS had saved. I had accidentally deleted the email, but that was ok because GDS had made a copy first. Ok, so keeping indexes of things I have deleted is sometimes marginally useful.
What was not apparent to me when I started using Google desktop is that it indexes even SPAM email and then never deletes the record of that email. If I type “Nigeria” into the desktop search box I see that it occurs 227 times on my computer. This strikes me as odd because until one sentence ago, I may have never had any reason to use the word Nigeria in a sentence. In response to my (largely imagined) fame however, I get quite a few emails from various Nigerian diplomats and other assorted officials asking me to assist them in schemes to get money out of their poor country. These requests are numerous and ridiculous. I never have to read them because Outlook is savvy enough to move them to my Junk mail folder without expectation of my further review. GDS, however, knows all, sees all, and indexes all… just in case. Every one of these scam emails gets indexed. It seems that Google’s Desktop Search, like my dear mother, never throws anything away. Don’t believe me? Install GDS, let it run for a week and then search for the word SPAM on your computer. Today, my GDS offers 10781 documents on just my personal drive containing the word SPAM. This blog entry counts as one.
Phil Yanov writes, talks, and wrestles with technology at http://phil.yanov.com
(c)ThinkHammer Communication, used with permsission.
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Ralph Heredia is the director of business development for the Consumer Media Systems business of Aeronix, in Greenville, S.C. He is directly responsible for all aspects of product development, innovation, research, marketing and customer support. Aeronix owns the Zipit product and associated intellectual property.
Heredia has more than 22 years of experience in the consumer electronics, personal computer and multimedia industries. Prior to helping establish the Consumer Media Systems division at Aeronix in 2002, he held management and product development positions with several mid-sized technology companies, including Escient/OpenGlobe and avACTIVE. He was the systems architecture manager for Cirrus Logic. Prior to that, he held several positions, including senior principal analyst for NCR Corporation and Member of Technical Staff at AT&T’s Bell Labs (now part of Lucent Corporation), where he worked for almost 14 years.
He has worked in a management, product development or marketing role on developing the technology used in many of today’s “staple” electronics products, including MP3 players, DVD recorders and players, Internet radio receivers and many more.
Heredia has had an extensive education in all aspects of electronics and computer sciences, has authored an article in an encyclopedia for electrical engineers and has been granted 5 US patents for various inventions related to his field
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Karen Fox has obtained a Project Management Professional certification through the Project Management Institute (PMI). Karen is a Program Manager at TiBA Solutions LLC, and Vice President of Education for the Palmetto Chapter of PMI. Karen has also contributes time to Tri-County Technical College, the InnoVision Technology Awards, and Anderson College.
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