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Letter From the President

2010 Spring Membership Promotion for Students  – January 15 through March 15
In leading up to the AITP 15th Annual National Collegiate Conference, we are proud to announce the “Your Gateway to an IT Future” Student Membership Promotion.  Any student may join AITP, or an existing student member may renew, at the reduced rate of $25 from January 15 through March 15, 2010.  We hope this promotion will help your student chapter in its recruitment efforts to grow membership. We highly encourage you and your chapter to take advantage of this nearly 30% savings on the regular dues rate. Promotional materials are available on the AITP Promotion page. Start building your chapter membership, and remember to encourage those new members as well as your current members to attend the 2010 AITP 15th Annual National Collegiate Conference in St. Louis!

2010 Robert Half Technology/AITP Scholarship Applications NOW being Accepted!
Robert Half Technology and the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) will award two $2,500 scholarships to two outstanding AITP Student Members pursuing studies in Information Technology. Each scholarship will be awarded based on demonstrated academic achievement, leadership activities, community service and future career interests. The winners will be recognized at the 15th Annual AITP National Collegiate Conference in St. Louis during the Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, March 27, 2010. Applications should be emailed to rhtscholarship@aitp.org and please include “RHT Scholarship” in the subject line. Submission deadline: February 25, 2010. Click here for full details, FAQs and the application form . An official academic transcript is required and must be received by March 1, 2010.

We’ve got a real exciting meeting tomorrow with HealthMEDX in Glass 342 at 6:30 PM. Be sure to make it out, we’re going to have several members of the professional chapter in attendance as well as a photographer for the new COBA brochure.

Also, we have a few things I meant to send out last week about the NCC and forgot about:

• I want to personally encourage all members to consider participating in the AITP National Collegiate Conference March 25-28. If you don’t know what that is, you can visit http://www.aitp.org/ncc to find out more.
• If you are interested in attending we also want to encourage you to consider participating in one of the competitions being offered. You can check out http://www.aitpncc-contests.org/ for more information.
• If you have a contact in a local business that you think might be interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor, please talk to them to see if they would be interested in supporting / meeting the top IT students from all over the country. If you find someone who’s interested, let us know and we’ll handle the rest.
• We also want to know if you’ve been participating in any service activities that we can mention when applying for SOFAC funding to help pay for the trip. Let us know what you’ve been up to and we’ll even feature you on the website.

On a final note, the position of treasurer is open, so please attend tomorrow’s meeting if you are interested in filling that position. We look forward to seeing you there!

Disaster Recovery

Association of IT Professionals (AITP)
Southwest Missouri

Presented by:

• Jeff Coiner
  City of Springfield
• Ryan Nicholls
  Greene County Emergency Mgmt Office

When:

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Where:

Cooper Tennis Complex
2331 E Pythian St
Springfield, MO 65802

This is not your typical “Disaster Recovery” Presentation!

The meeting is intended to provide suggestions and ideas for improving the IT disaster preparedness and business continuity plan of any organization. The structure of the meeting will begin with a short presentation which will lead into an interactive discussion of a disaster scenario. The participants will be asked to consider the scenario in regards to their business and team up around the table to provide answers to questions to help frame the recovery process. The intent will be to provide actionable items that the participant can take back and apply to their own DR plans.

01/21/2010 6:30 PM

Meeting called by: David Nichols

Type of meeting: Regular Meeting

Note taker: Derek Cooper

Attendees: 20+

Total Chapter Members: 22

Non-Members Attended: 17

Officers: David  Nichols (President), Adam Crown (Vice-President) Derek Cooper (Secretary), Kyle Kupper (Web Master/Public Relations) Michelle Hulett (Sponsoring Faculty)

Topics

Membership Details!

Renew your membership! Replenish your Mind!
Student Membership dues are $25 National Chapter and $10 Local Chapter

Main Topic:

• Guest Speaker: Shirley Cron (Director, Application Development) and Neil Anderson (Manager, Application Development) of ANPAC (American National Property and Casualty product)
• ANPAC Mission Statement: Their sole mission is to provide objective, insightful risk analysis and evaluation.
• Company Facts
  • Ticker: ANAT
  • Stock Price: 108.85 (As of January, 27, 2010)
  • CEO: Robert L. Moody
  • Full Time Employees: 3,160
  • Dividend: 3.08 (2.80%)
  • 5 million policy holders
• Presentation Topic: Green IT (Information Technology)
  • Green is not easy, it takes more than just best practices but also sound operating principles
  • ANPAC Green Initiatives:
    • Data Center Consolidation
      • Decrease carbon footprint
      • Paper reports to electronic
      • Virtualized servers
      • SharePoint collaboration
    • Reduce printing loads results in:
      • cost savings on stamps, paper, and less errors when interacting with customers
    • Reduced power usage ideas:
      • turn off computers and servers when not in use, results in less power consumption
      • find techniques that require less energy than online storage solutions

President: David Nichols: Relevant Topics about Association

• NCC is March 25-28, 2009
  • Competitions Include:
    • Business Intelligence
    • MS Office Solutions
    • PC Troubleshooting Qualifying Round
    • Systems Analysis and Design
    • Database Design
    • Network Design
    • Visual Studio Application Developer
    • Graphics Communications
    • PC Troubleshooting Finals!
    • Student Paper Presentations
    • Java
    • Student Web Project Presentations
    • AITP Student Chapter Banner Contest

• Fund-Raising
  • NCC Fund Raising

Next Meeting: February 4, 2010 in Glass 342

Company/Business: Health MEDX.

Room: Glass 102

Time: 6:30 PM

Speaker: ANPAC

11/05/2009 6:30 PM

Meeting called by: David Nichols

Type of meeting: Regular Meeting

Note taker: Derek Cooper

Attendees

Officers: David  Nichols (President), Adam Crown (Vice-President) Derek Cooper (Secretary), Kyle Kupper (Web Master/Public Relations) Michelle Hulett (Sponsoring Faculty)

Topics

Membership Details!

Renew your membership! Replenish your Mind!
Student Membership dues are $35 National Chapter and $10 Local Chapter

Professional Member Promotion: $25 discount on the annual rate to new members through November 30th.

Main Topic:

• Guest Speaker: John Dougherty of Integrity Home-Care
• Mission Statement: Our mission is to cultivate a Christian-based environment in which we can identify and meet the home care needs of our clients and the career needs of our employees with unmatched skill, compassion and integrity.
  • Assisting 4000+  people with In-Home Care
  • Integrity was named “Top Innovator” with the Springfield Business Journal
  • Career Tips:
    • Get your degree
    • Be well rounded
    • People with good technical skills are a dime-a-dozen
    • You need good “tech” skills and good “soft” skills too
    • IT and Healthcare
      • Incorporate your IT into HealthCare
      • HIPAA (HealthCare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
        • Laptops with patient info must be Encrypted
        • E-mail outside of company firewall is not encrypted by exchange server
• EMR (Emergency Medical Records)

David Nichols: Relevant Topics

• NCC is March 25-28, 2009
  • Competitions Include:
    • Business Intelligence
    • MS Office Solutions
    • PC Troubleshooting Qualifying Round
    • Systems Analysis and Design
    • Database Design
    • Network Design
    • Visual Studio Application Developer
    • Graphics Communications
    • PC Troubleshooting Finals!
    • Student Paper Presentations
    • Java
    • Student Web Project Presentations
    • AITP Student Chapter Banner Contest

• Fund-Raising
  • NCC Fund Raising
  • Future Meetings
    • Nov 30 – Monday – Spring Net Tour

On Monday, November 30 the AITP members are invited to tour Springfield Underground (Springnet).  This is a great opportunity to see a state-of-the-art technology center, and a utility that is vital to many Springfield businesses.  If you would like to attend, you are welcome to join us.  The tour starts at 4:00pm.

Due the intense security at this facility, we have some restrictions to follow.  First, we are not allowed to bring more than 10 cars into the facility parking lot.  So we will be carpooling from MSU and/or a business near the entrance.  We’ll send out more information about that closer to the date of the tour.

We must submit a list of guest names to the Springnet manager 24 hours prior to our visit.  Since this is the Monday after Thanksgiving, I’ll submit names on the Tuesday before (since we are out Wed-Fri).  There is a sign-up sheet for those who want to attend in the CIS office. **PLEASE SIGN UP IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND**. It is on the credenza beside the door to faculty offices.  Only the names on this list that we send in will be admitted into the facility. We’ll contact the names on the list by e-mail with carpool information.

We have to show a government issued photo ID when we get to the facility.

Michelle Hulett, Faculty Advisor

ANPAC is looking for an intern for the Help Desk area. They are looking for someone who is in their sophomore year so that they would be with the company for at least 2 years. If you are interested in the position please contact Anita King, Anita.King@anpac.com.

10/21/2009 6:30 PM

Meeting called by: David Nichols

Type of meeting: Regular Meeting

Note taker: Derek Cooper

Attendees

Officers: David  Nichols (President), Adam Crown (Vice-President) Derek Cooper (Secretary), Kyle Kupper (Web Master/Public Relations) Michelle Hulett (Sponsoring Faculty) Total Participants: 7

Previous or New Members: Michael McGrath

Topics

Membership Dues!

Renew your membership! Replenish your Mind!
Membership dues are $35 National Chapter and $10 Local Chapter

Main Topic:

• Cisco Training Available in India!
  • 1 month of training
  • Cheaper
  • Bank Account at Commerce Bank

David Nichols: Relevant Topics

• NCC is March 25-28, 2009
  • Competitions Include:
    • Business Intelligence
    • MS Office Solutions
    • PC Troubleshooting Qualifying Round
    • Systems Analysis and Design
    • Database Design
    • Network Design
    • Visual Studio Application Developer
    • Graphics Communications
    • PC Troubleshooting Finals!
    • Student Paper Presentations
    • Java
    • Student Web Project Presentations
    • AITP Student Chapter Banner Contest

• Fund-Raising
  • Rent-a-Tech
  • Programming Competition
  • Gaming Contest (Halo-LAN Tournament) at Plasters Student Union

• Future Meetings
  • Nov 14 – Final Project Study Hall
    • Possibly 4-6 PM(Computer Lab)
• Nov 20 – Monday – Spring Net Tour

10/01/2009 6:30 PM

Meeting called by: David Nichols

Type of meeting: Regular Meeting

Note taker: Derek Cooper

Attendees

Officers: David  Nichols (President), Adam Crown (Vice-President) Derek Cooper (Secretary), Kyle Kupper (Web Master/Public Relations) Michelle Hulett (Sponsoring Faculty) Total Participants: 7

Previous or New Members: Larry Hicks, Lance Peppers, Chad Walton, Cassandra Artmen,  Michael Gulledge, Mark Holzem, Joshua Kampschmidt, and Jacob Nickel

Topics

Membership Dues!

Renew your membership! Replenish your Mind!
Membership dues are $35 National Chapter and $10 Local Chapter

Main Topic: Guest Speaker from SRC (Springfield Remanufacturing Corp)

• What is a business?
  • Employees who share common goals
  • Grow and invest in the company
  • Profits or responsibilities to shareholders
  • How can businesses processes be improved?
    • Itemized inventory
    • Reduce non-value-added input
    • Create enough lead time (longest amount of time needed to get a job done)
    • Technology is not out of date until it won’t get the job done
    • How Not To Get Promoted!
      • Doing the same thing you always do, without any changes
      • Get your foot in the door, and wearing the same shoes each time
      • Not create a vision for yourself
      • Be aware of the your environment
        • Where you want to go
        • Know your limit
        • Positive Outcomes

David Nichols: Upcoming Meeting Topics

• Possible Upcoming Meetings or Visits
  • Tour of Spring-Net, MSU Computer Services, or Paperwise
  • Cabling workshop for computers
  • Linux workshop
  • VMware workshop
  • Computer building

• Commerce Bank October 15, 2009