The Akron, Ohio AITP Chapter meets on the last Tuesday of each month. The meetings often begin with a Technical session, and are followed by Dinner, and a Featured Presentation.

AITP Education & Seminar Schedule
Akron Chapter - Region 18
2006 - 1997

November 2006

Interviews and Resumes

Special Panel Discussion

Jim Sommers of Robert Half, Barbara Shaver (retired from Abbott Laboratories) and Al Neifert of CMIS, Inc.

October 2006

Office 2007 Preview

Creating Applications with VBA and MS Office

Robert Logan

Kent State University

September 2006

Electronic Voting or the New Era of Electronic Voting

Jeanette Mullane

Stark County Board of Elections

June 2006

Database Ethics: Ethical Awareness at the Technical Level

Dr. James F. Glasgow

Malone College

May 2006

Project Management

Cheryl Zimmer

Project Leader

Sterling Jewelers

April 2006

How Do They Make CPU’s?

Thomas Gambone

Kent State University

March 2006

Creating CBTs for SOX Training

Brian Zawada

Avalution Consulting

February 2006

HIPAA Information and Security

Greg Campbell

Director, Information Systems Security           

Akron General MedCtr

January 2006

Causes of Fatigue, Pain and Injury in the Workplace

G. Kurt Swanson

Senior Physical Therapist

Outpatient Rehab Department

Akron General Medical Center

November 2005

Mobile Computing

What is it and why do we do it?

Professor Robert Logan

October 2005

Grave Digging by Computer    

Barb Shaver

September 2005

Securing Your Network

 Matt Bianco and Doug Miller

of

Foundry Networks

June 2005

High Performance Networks

 and Business Impact

 Mitchell Marks

 Fidelity Access Networks

May 2005

  Get Ready for Your Next Job Search

Jim Grant

C0-Founder and Co-Leader

 Of the

Chagrin Valley Job Seekers (CVJS)

April 2005

Controlling Software Distribution and Software Piracy Laws

David Chema

National City Bank

March 2005

  IT Job Marketplace

Doug Champoir

Ohio Savings Bank

February 2005

Identity Theft

SACS Consulting and

Investigative Services, Inc.

Akron, Ohio

CEO/President: Timothy A. Dimoff

January 2005

Six Sigma Methodology

Mirifex Systems, Inc.

Strongsville, Ohio

Practice Leader: Thomas C. Presswood

November 2004

Radio Frequency Identification

Steve Beppler, Hoover

October 2004

Voice XML

Ben R. Dabbs III CPA, CITP, CBM

September 2004

Tour of Bridgestone/Firestone Information Services Company

June 2004

Homeland Security

Computer Emergency Response Team / Coordination Center

Overview and Intruder Trends

Chad Dougherty, Vulnerability Handling Team

Please click this link for the Presentation

May 2004

VoIP Technology

Performance Telephone Services, Inc.

Mansfield, Ohio

President: Steven R. Oleen

April 2004

Is your Net-Working for You?

Don Bernard

Founder and Organizer

North Coast Networking

March 2004

Changes in Information Technology at Universities

"Or Why Tuition Is So High"

Grace Bush

February 2004

Website Design and Development

"Web Business Today"

Katie and Mark Bruno

November 2003

Empowering Success for Global Competition

Joseph LaMantia, CFPIM, CIRM, CPA

October 2003

50th Anniversary Celebration

Business/Technology Alignment

Chuck Kern

Bayer Corporation

September 2003

Joint Meeting with Malone and Stark State

Students At Malone College

What is it they haven't told me about IT?

Thomas B. McNamara

President, Symmetry Systems Incorporated

June 2003

Oracle’s Vision and Future of Enterprise IT Architecture

Mark Rebne

Oracle Corporation

May 2003

Network Security

Carl Gonzales

GLOBAL TECHNICAL TRAINING

Ethical Hacking

Counter Measures

April 2003

Computer Crime Investigations

Robert Kern and Mary Trotman

U.S. Department of Justice

March 2003

Internet Security

Peter F. Garvin

Certified Information Systems Security Professional

February 2003

What Every CIO Should Know!

Joseph W, Balnave

The SIBA Group

January 2003

Internet Addiction

William Miller

Summit Psychological Associates

November 2002

Developing A Virus Incident Response Plan

Matt Neely

National City Corporation

October 2002

Data Warehousing

Will Hutchinson, Informatica

September 2002

Akron-AITP Tour of the

Cleveland UPS Distribution Hub

May 2002

"E-Gossip: Defamation and Disparagement on the Internet"

Karen D. Butera, Litigation and Intellectual Practice Groups

April 2002

"Effective Project Management"

George R. Koscho, AITP President-Elect

March 2002

"What is .NET?"

Dan Cicerchi, Bennett Adelson Consulting

February 2002

Join us for a pre-meeting social hour.
Evening Session: "Succeeding With Virtual Teams in a Global Environment"
Speaker: James M. Duffy, Ferro Corporation

January 2002

Technical Session: Past Presidents Reception
Evening Session: "The Benefits of Java, OO and J2EE"
Speaker: Gabriel Torok, preEmptive Solutions

November 2001

Technical Session: "IBM Product Demonstration"
Speaker: IBM
Evening Session: "IBM's e-business Strategy"
Speaker: Emile Gantous, IBM

October 2001

Technical Session: "Getting Your Degree Online"
Speaker: Laurie Zoss, Phoenix Univeristy
Evening Session: "Online Learning"
Speaker: Laurie Zoss, Phoenix Univeristy

September 2001

Technical Session: "Motient Products and Services"
Speaker: Motient Technologies
Evening Session: "Wireless Technology"
Speaker: Motient Technologies

June 2001

Technical Session: "What USPS.COM Has to Offer"
Speaker: U.S. Postal Service
Evening Session: "Future Plans for USPS Technology"
Speaker: U.S. Postal Service

May 2001

Technical Session: "Project Management Certification"
Speaker: Randall Kline, Qualtek Software
Evening Session: "Legal Aspects of the Web"
Speaker: Steve A. Armatas, Buckingham, Doolittle,& Burroughs

April 2001

Technical Session: "Win 2k, the New Certification Process and the Effective Use of the Platform"
Speaker: Ben Long, Consultant
Evening Session: "Windows ME"
Speaker: Sonal Shah, Microsoft Corp.

March 2001

Technical Session: "Project Management Certification"
Speaker: Randall R. Kline, Qualtek Consulting
Evening Session: "Project Management Techniques for Recurring Projects"
Speaker: Thomas A. Ghinder, 4G Consulting

February 2001

Technical Session: "Web Development with Microsoft Visual Interdev"
Speaker: Thomas C. Carr, The Timken Company
Evening Session:"Practical Perspectives on Conducting E-Commerce"
Speaker: Karen D. Butera, Buckingham, Doolittle,& Burroughs

January 2001

Technical Session: "Basics of Digital Broadcasting"
Speaker: Gary Blum & Ray Norris, WVIZ TV
Evening Session: "High Resolution Television Broadcasting"
Speaker: Gary Blum & Ray Norris, WVIZ TV

November 2000

ELECTION NIGHT

Technical Session: "MySAP Demonstration"
Speaker: Janet Gilson, mySAP
Evening Session: "What is an eCommerce (B2B) Marketplace"
Speaker: Janet Gilson, mySAP

October 2000

Evening Session: "EDI to XML: Why Make the Trip?"
Speaker: Anthony Balasko, Modis Solutions

September 2000

PAST PRESIDENTS NIGHT

Technical Session: "Business Intelligence through Data Mining"
Speaker: Sherry Neubert, Dowling Consulting Group
Evening Session: "e-Business at FirstEnergy"
Speaker: David Meszaros, FirstEnergy Corp.

June 2000

MEMBERS' NIGHT

Evening Session: "Email Privacy and Web Page Legal Issues"
Speaker: Michael H. Diamant, Kahn, Kleinman, Yankowitz, & Arson Co. LPA

May 2000

Technical Session: "The IT Consulting Job Market"
Speaker: Derrick L. Richard, Western Reserve Systems
Evening Session: "Virtual Reality"
Speaker: David Bontrager, Stark State College

April 2000

TOUR NIGHT
Location: Airport Computer Tour, Akron-Canton Regional Airport

March 2000

Technical Session: "Review of Security Products for Cable and DSL Connections"
Speaker: James Strong, Price Waterhouse Coopers
Evening Session: "Road Runner for Business"
Speaker: Gary McManis, Time Warner Cable

February 2000

PAST PRESIDENTS NIGHT

Technical Session: "SAP at Ferro: The Infrastructure"
Speaker: Marty Roberts, Ferro Corp.

Evening Session: "SAP at Ferro: Lessons Learned"
Speaker: Ed Wroten, Ferro Corp.

January 2000

Technical Session: "Monitoring Your Web Site Metrics"
Speaker: Dean Thompson, Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP
Evening Session: "The Web Design Business: Dreams and Realities"
Speaker: Matk and Katie Bruno

November 1999

ELECTION NIGHT

Technical Session: "Maintain Paper Documents in an Electronics World"
Speaker:  James Lackey, First Energy Corp.
Evening Session: "Notes: More than Email"
Speaker: Richard Bitzel, First Energy Corp.

October 1999

STUDENTS NIGHT
 

Technical Session: "The Programs at Malone College and Stark State College of Technology"
Speaker: Student Chapter Members
Evening Session: "Trends in Electronic Commerce"
Speaker:Michael Martz, Compuware Corporation

September 1999

SPOUSES' NIGHT

Evening Session: "Wireless Communication Today"
Speaker: Robert Patterson, AT&T Wireless

June 1999

MEMBERS' NIGHT

Technical Session: "IT Employment: The Current Condition"
Speaker: Michael Collins, Management Recruiters
Evening Session: "Professional Certifications Today"
Speaker: Judy Fightmaster, Stark State College

May 1999

Technical Session: "Actuate Software Demonstration"
Speaker: Jeff Ritschel, Actuate Software
Evening Session: "Automated Software Distribution: The FirstEnergy Experience"
Speaker: Todd Bauer, FirstEnergy Corp.

April 1999

TOUR NIGHT

Location: FirstEnergy Corp.'s System Control Center
9681 Silvercreek Rd.
Wadsworth, Ohio 44281

March 1999

Technical Session: "Preparing Professional Presentations"
Speaker: David Palmer, FirstEnergy Corp.
Evening Session: "Data Warehousing:  The Camelot Music Experience"
Speaker: Craig Mullett, Data Warehousing Manager Camelot Music

February 1999

PAST PRESIDENTS NIGHT

Evening Session: "Business Intelligent Solutions"
Speaker: Steve Zagoudis, Thought Leader, Whittman-Hart Inc.

January 1999

Evening Session: "SAP"
Speaker: Jerry Veal, SAP Consulting Manager

November 1998

Evening Session: "CISCO's Contribution to the Internet"
Speaker: David R. Edwards, Strategic Technologies Corp.

October 1998

Evening Session: "Functional Side of Y2K"
Speaker: Richard Caralli, Consolidated Natural Gas

September 1998

Evening Session: "The Tax Payer Relief Act of 1997"
Speaker: Blake N. Rawson, Merrill Lynch

June 1998

TOUR NIGHT

Evening Session: Tour of Akron's Main U.S. Post Office Facility
 

May 1998

Technical Session: "Supporting Remote Access to Your Network"
Speaker: Norman Tannhof, Whittman-Hart, Inc.
Evening Session:
Speaker:

March 1998

Technical Session: "Thin Clients (Network Computing)"
Speaker: Curt Buerling, Sr. Consultant, Whittman-Hart
Evening Session: "Front Page 98"
Speaker: James Campbell, Microsoft Corp.

February 1998

Technical Session: "Image Capture Management and Output"
Speaker: Darryl Rosenberg, Science Imaging Group, Polaroid Corp.
Evening Session: "Ecoscope Application tracking software"
Speaker: Pat Serafino, Sales Representative, Compuware

January 1998

Technical Session: "The Pro's & Con's of Product Certification"
Speaker: Kevin Ortner, Authorized Education Manager, Whittman-Hart
Evening Session: "Novell Product Update & Border Manager"
Speaker: Den Headrick, Account Executive, Novell Corporation

November 1997

Evening Session: "Hiring & Recruiting Trends Approaching the Millennium"
Speaker: Tom Mayer, Source EDP, Source Services Corp

October 1997

Evening Session: "Migration of Production and Plant Floor data to Databases on an Intranet"
Speaker: James McGlone, Software Regional Manager, Rockwell Automation

September 1997

Evening Session: "Corporate Business on the Internet"
Speaker: Randy Blattner, Retail Prod. Project Manager, Key Corp

June 1997

Technical Session: "Hewlett Packard's Printing Strategies"
Speaker: Brian Maciag, Programs Manager - Hewlett Packard
Evening Session: "Novell NetWare 4.11"
Speaker: Dan Rusek, Systems Engineer - Novell Corp.

May 1997

Technical Session: "Disaster Recovery"
Speaker: David Chema
Evening Session: "Hackers and Data Security"
Speaker: Sharon Kiesel, EDS

April 1997

Technical Session: "Windows 95 Utilities"
Speaker: Gerald Schaefer, Systems Operation Solutions
Evening Session: "Microsoft Office 97"
Speaker: Darlene Farnsworth, Channel Partner Manager, Microsoft Corp.

March 1997

STUDENTS' NIGHT

Technical Session: "Akron Chapter Web Site update"
Speaker: Fred Wallace & Paul Jeremiah
Evening Session: "Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)"
Speaker: Adam Goch