Past Professional Development Events

Date Topic Presenters
Oct. 22, 2008 "Leveraging Data to Maximize Your Business Value" Sierra Systems
Aug. 19, 2008 Unified Communications INX
Jun. 23, 2008 The Adaptive Enterprise: Security in a Changing World Ray Bernard, Ray Bernard Consulting Services, and Tim Winston, Aronson Security Group, Inc
Apr. 22, 2008 Software Development Best Practices: Quality Now! Jeff Levinson,
Northwest Cadence
Mar. 18, 2008 Leadership Strategies for Tackling High Risk Projects Brian Turner,
Point B Solutions Group
Jan. 23, 2008 Learn How to Transform Your Agency into a Highly Productive and Efficient Organization! Ken Miller
Oct. 16, 2007 Records Management The Second Byte of the Enterprise Content Management Elephant CA, Inc.
Aug. 21, 2007 "SDLC in Action using the Microsoft Team Foundation Server" Coraxis Corporation
Jun. 26, 2007 "Neal Whittens No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects" Neal Whitten
Apr. 17, 2007 "Peer Mentoring: A Practical Approach to Knowledge Transfer" Steve Trautman
Mar. 20, 2007 "A Room with a View Personalizing Your Portal with MOSS 2007" Solutions IQ
Jan. 23, 2007 "Email archiving the first byte of the Enterprise Content Management Elephant" Secretary of State
Symantec
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Information Services
Office of Financial Management
Oct. 18, 2006 "Business People are from Jupiter, Techies are from Saturn: Tools to Help Align the Planets" Diane Vasarkovy, Wolf Consulting
Tina Edwards, PMP Associates

 
Aug. 22, 2006 "IT Strategies for Improved Personal Accountability (Communications, Motivation, and Innovation)" Sandra Smith, Aspire Seminars
June 29, 2006 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Semantic Arts, Inc.
 
April 19, 2006
 
"Surprise, You're the Project Manager" Diane Vasarkovy and Panel
March 23, 2006
 
The Role of Use Cases in Delivering Quality Software
 
Solutions IQ
Agency panel
 
Feb. 2, 2006 "Closing the Enterprise and Agency Reporting Gap - Empowering People with Timely Information" 
 
Business Objects
Agency panel
Oct. 19, 2005 Maximizing Your Software Investments Using Dashboards Microsoft, Netdesk and panel
Aug. 23, 2005 No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects Neal Whitten, PMI
June 20, 2005 Enterprise Architecture M. A. Cook
Government participants
Apr. 12, 2005 Security Roadmap - A Technical Roundtable WACIRC
Government IT security analysts
Solution providers
March 23, 2005 Lean Six Sigma Xerox
State Printer
Jan. 19, 2005 Mobile Government FileNet and panel
Oct. 14, 2004 Best Practices in Testing SolutionsIQ
State agency panel
Aug. 12, 2004 Surfing for Managers: How to Lead Your Team and Stay on Board When Change Comes in Waves Molly Gordon, Certified Coach and Trainer
Shaboom, Inc.
June 23, 2004 VoIP "Convergence" - Voice Applications on the Data Network Right! Systems, Inc.
Seitel Leeds & Associates
April 20, 2004 Best Practices in Contracting - "A roadmap for a successful contracting journey no matter what the distance" Kevin Anderson, Deloitte Consulting
State Agency staff panel
March 11, 2004 Best Practices and Experiences in Business Rule Management Corticon
Business Rule Solutions
Jan. 22, 2004 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning - Are You Ready? Ciber, Inc.
Iron Mountain
Oct. 30, 2003 Programming in the .Net Environment Logical
Microsoft
Aug. 14, 2003 Managing Transitions Vicki Legman, Legman Communications
Jun. 25, 2003 Building Successful IT Project Teams - Inside and Out Dye Management Group
Wolf Consulting
Apr. 17, 2003 The Road to Business Intelligence.... From Complex Databases to Clear Decisions.... IBM
State agency panel
Mar. 25, 2003 Wireless Networking ? From? Misconceptions to Reality Cisco Systems
State agencies
Jan. 22, 2003 Software Requirements Development and Outsourcing Management ? An Overview for Managers Wolfgang Strigel and Doug Muir,
Software Productivity Center
Oct. 16, 2002 "Escaping the Legacy Jungle": XML and Web Services in Digital Government Semantic Arts, Inc.
Coraxis Corp.
Netdesk Corp.
DSHS and DIS
Aug. 21, 2002 Enterprise Architecture Gartner Consulting, The Frank Russell Company, and state agency staff
Jun. 19, 2002 Virtual Workplace Right! Systems, Inc.
State Agency Panel
Apr. 17, 2002 Implementing a Project Management Discipline (includes links to seminar materials) Robert Francis Group
State agencies
Mar. 20, 2002 Harvesting the Gold: Strategies for Managing Core System Assets (includes link to slide presentation) Milestone Technology
DIS Digital Government Applications Academy
Feb. 20, 2002 Building a Security Program (includes links to seminar materials) Sierra Systems, Alliance Enterprises, Microsoft,
DIS, OFM and DOH
Jan. 23, 2002 "I Can't See the Forest through the Trees" -- Windows 2000 Multi-Agency Single Forest (includes link to slide presentation) Netdesk
DIS, GA, OFM, DOP
Oct. 25, 2001 Project Management Practices
(presented twice)
Glenn Briskin, Sierra Designs
Joan Waldrop, PMI (morning)
Betty Boushey, PMI (afternoon)
Garin Pangburn, CPTS
Diane Vasarkovy
August 30, 2001 No Browser Required: Rich User Interfaces in a Web World Scott Came and Wayne Allen, Logical
June 28, 2001 Disaster Preparedness DIS, GA, DRS, OFM
Cisco, Qwest
Feb. 24, 2000 e-Government Novell
Dec. 16, 1999 A View of the Future Compaq
Nov. 4, 1999 Voice Over IP and e-Government Products GTE and
Remote Access Solutions
Oct. 7, 1999 Disaster Recovery:
Lessons Learned from Ecology's Fire
Dept. of Ecology
Sept. 2, 1999 Network Security CISCO and
Breakwater Security Systems
July 8, 1999 The Digital Workplace Hewlett Packard
May 6, 1999 Business Intelligence IBM and DSHS
March 4, 1999 Data Access and Analysis Using
Crystal Reports and Seagate Info
BEST Consulting
Seagate, and OFM
Jan. 7, 1999 Data Warehousing Oracle and
State Health Care Authority
Sept. 3, 1998 Electronic Commerce Microsoft,
Department of Revenue,
State Patrol, and
Office of Financial Management
May 7, 1998 NT Clustering Microsoft and
Compaq
March 5, 1998 Java Development Sun Microsystems and
Sybase
Jan. 8, 1998 Data Warehousing and the Internet   Oracle and
Digital Equipment Corp.
Nov. 6, 1997 NT Strategies IBM and
Microsoft
Dec. 9-10, 1996 Project Management
2-day seminar
Center for Project Management
Oct. 28-29, 1996 Project Estimating
2-day seminar
Center for Project Management

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