Asheville Brewing Company – 77 Coxe Avenue, Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 6:00 PM

This is a social meeting to get to know each other to find out who else is out there that shares your interests. We like to have a good time while we’re at it, so we are having this at a breweryonce again!!! If you don’t drink craft beers, they have sodas also. We’ll order up some of that good Asheville Brewing Companypizza for those with some hunger on ‘em (LCN’s treat!) and they have a pretty complete sandwich menu too if your not that much into pizza. We wouldn’t want anybody to starve. This is NOT just for the LCN, just sponsored by them. All IEEE members are invited!

Thursday, April 4th
ABI Innovation Hub @ 844 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03101

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Networking
6:30pm: Presentation
8:00pm: Optional Dinner @ Portland Pizza

You do not need to belong to IEEE to attend this event, however we welcome your consideration of IEEE membership as a career enhancing technical affiliation.

This event is free. Registration requested.

Contracting: What's it all about
Is the perfect job is alluding you, in between consulting jigs, want to try something new? There are lots of reasons to learn about how to get temporary contract assignments.

Rey Padua of Oxford Global Resources
Rey Padua of Oxford Global Recruiting will discuss the mechanics and advantages and disadvantages of contracting.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Meeting Agenda
6:15pm Meeting and Networking
7:00pm - Program begins
Email meeting contact... maura@Bestatselling.com

Hirable for Life (Hirableforlife.com)

Speaker:Chuck Sobey
Program: At the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, on September 28, 2012, Chuck presented a half-day class based on Hirable for Life™.

In good economic times and bad, new graduates from the top engineering and science universities remain very hirable. Maintaining this competitive advantage throughout your career in engineering or science is difficult, but it is possible!

ChannelScience’s Chuck Sobey was invited to layout the steps for achieving this goal in his keynote address to Carnegie Mellon University’s 2010 graduating class of Electrical and Computer Engineering students.

Experienced technologists, as well as new engineering and science grads, will find this topic helpful in remaining Hirable for Life™!

Bio: Chuck Sobey is a technology evaluation expert, specializing in data storage, sensors, and emerging technologies. Large companies, start-ups, high-net-worth individuals, universities, national laboratories, and government agencies depend on his expertise to evaluate, plan, and execute their utilization of the latest developments from the world’s R&D labs.

Technology philanthropists, venture capitalists, Fortune 500 companies, and legal teams rely on his technology assessments for acquisitions, mergers, new business ventures, product development, design reviews, applied research, and intellectual property issues.

Mr. Sobey is Chief Scientist and founder of ChannelScience, a business and technology consulting firm, waveform analysis lab, and software (MATLAB® and C) development house for PRMLpro™, an advanced signal detection suite. He is the author of a widely cited publication in the secretive world of data recovery, Recovering Unrecoverable Data.

Chuck is an engaging and enthusiastic presenter who rapidly delivers information and insight, while creating a comfortable, interactive learning environment in the classroom. He has taught literally thousands of data storage professionals and was honored to present the keynote speech at Diskcon’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the hard disk drive. This imaginative talk speculates on the techniques “digital archeologists” of the future might use to unlock the secrets of our civilization that will lie hidden in billions of discarded hard disk drive “artifacts.”

He developed the Hirable for Life(TM) seminar series to help experienced engineers and scientists increase their global competitiveness at a time when the world especially needs their technical contributions.

The Miami Valley Consultants Network meets regularly at the Engineers Club of Dayton on the 2nd Friday (April 12) of each month, at 11:30 AM. Attendees should make reservations at 937-228-2148.

Participation is open to all full or part-time consultants.

For more info contact: Joe Martino, Chairman j.p.martino@ieee.org

When & Where:

Date: April 24, 2013
Time: 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: Olin College, The Auditorium at Milas Hall, 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA

Panel Discussion - Everything you wanted to know about consulting but were afraid to ask.

Panel members to be announced

PLEASE NOTE: The meeting is open to the public. No charge for Consultants Network members. There is a $5 entrance fee for non-members. Casual dress.

The Consultants Network meeting starts at 6:30 PM. The meeting location is at Olin College, 1000 Olin Way, Needham, MA, in Academic Center 113.

From Consultant to Consultant - Developing Your Personable Professional Brand

Abstract: In an age of social media, all of us are easily distracted and seem to have to juggle not only our offline lives but also craft a memorable online life. Do you know your personal brand? You already have one ... it's already there. The best personal brands-like any good brand-are clear, unique, compelling and consistent. Join Austin's Marketing Gunslinger as she shares her tips and tricks on enhancing yours. Elizabeth will share how she transitioned from being an Aerospace Engineer into a full-time Marketing Consultant and will share her tips on creating your own career outside the cubicle.

Speaker: Elizabeth Quintanilla, Marketing Gunslinger

Speaker's Bio: Elizabeth is a positive, people-oriented, performance-driven Marketing Gunslinger, consultant, and speaker who focuses on understanding the customer perspective. She consults on: market research, messaging, channel strategies, understanding the impact of emerging business trends, web technologies and strategies, social and product marketing. Elizabeth actively serves as a Vice-Chair on the Austin Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission.

Cost: $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost.

From January through October, Orcnet meets on the fourth Thursday (April 26, 2013) of each month. The no-host dinner usually starts at 6:00 PM, with business or presentation starting at 7:00 PM.

We usually have a combined November/December meeting on the FIRST Thursday in December, to avoid the holidays. We sometimes skip the August meeting during vacation time; check the presentation page for more information.

We meet at the Beaverton International House of Pancakes (IHOP) at 15935 SW Regatta Lane, Beaverton, OR , near the intersection of 158th and Walker, southwest corner next to McDonalds, across the street from Fred Meyer, restaurant phone 503-614-8485.

We regularly meet on the last Monday (April 29) of odd numbered months from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at DornerWorks, Ltd. at 3445 Lake Eastbrook Blvd. We also usually meet for dinner before the meeting at 6:00pm at Seoul Garden, a nearby restaurant (3321 28th St SE, in front of Woodland Mall). No reservations are necessary for either dinner or the meeting. Just show up!

Meetings - General Information
The Consultants Network meets monthly. Except when meeting jointly with other groups, the Consultants Network meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month. Meetings usually begin with informal networking from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m., followed by presentations from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. by experts in technology, marketing, sales, advertising, financial or legal needs of small businesses and special needs of consultants.

Successful Consulting Engagements with StartupsStartups often need a consultant's expertise, but their limited resources can make for riskier and more complex fee arrangements as compared with larger companies. A panel of three consultants - two of whom are also serial entrepreneurs who have founded technology startups - will offer their perspective on the practical realities of working for startups.

This program will cover the following important topics to consider if you are considering working as a consultant for a startup:

• Tips for engaging with startups
• Tips for getting paid
• Rules of thumb about taking equity
• Managing IP issues
• Lesson learned by the panel members

The panel members will share their rules-of-thumb and stories from the trenches. Consultants and technology entrepreneurs are invited to take part in a candid discussion.

About the Speaker
All four participants in this panel discussion are CNSV members.

Panel moderator Sean Murphy founded SKMurphy, Inc., in 2003 to focus on the marketing and sales challenges that technology firms face in successfully introducing new products. He has helped hundreds of technology entrepreneurs in a direct consulting capacity, through hands-on workshops, or by moderating more than 250 Silicon Valley Bootstrapper Breakfasts since 2006.

Chris Apple founded Apple Enterprises in 1981, where he specializes in embedded firmware, control software and application software. He develops the embedded product, the PC control application, the manufacturing and calibration application and even the installer by taking a concept and making it a product.

Clyde "Kip" M. Brown, PE, is a Professional Engineer with IC design experience in analog and mixed signal. His consulting includes work as an expert witness, and he is a CNSV At-Large Director. Kip has founded three startups, and he will provide insights from both sides of the table on the topic of startups hiring consultants.

Dr. Arthur M. Keller is Managing Partner of Minerva Consulting. He serves as an expert witness on patent infringement cases, and as an advisor to startups. Arthur has served on the board of several startups, including Persistence Software, where he was Chief Technical Advisor prior to its IPO. He has also co-founded several startups, including Mergent Systems, which was acquired by Commerce One.