Mentoring: Your Career's Competitive Advantage
19 February 2009

Looking for a boost in your career? Find yourself a mentor — or let one find you. In today’s competitive career world, you need to have a trusted source of guidance, advice, coaching, and feedback. You need someone who has a genuine interest in you and your career. That’s a mentor.

This program will address:

• What is a mentor and how to find one (or more)
• What to look for in a mentor
• How to build the most productive relationship with your mentor
• Pitfalls to avoid in working with your mentor
  Becoming a mentor yourself
• Benefits to the mentor and mentee

You will learn from experienced mentors as they discuss mentoring from both the perspective of the mentor and the mentee.

Presenters

Ralph Fallin brings more than 34 years of diverse technical and management experience at the Naval surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren where he provided leadership for large complex weapon system and related initiatives. For five years, he served as the program manager for a major effort in support of a missile system for the United Kingdom and he has twenty-five years experience as a line manger where he prepared large organizations for change and new responsibilities. This work included the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile Program, Space and Surface Systems, and special Naval and Joint Service Programs. His major responsibilities involved research and development of systems and capabilities, test and evaluation of software and system concepts, advancement of technology, management of resources, and extensive interfaces with customers, sponsors, contractors, and other government agencies.

Currently he specializes in working with scientists, engineers, technical specialists, and support personnel to help them become more successful in their jobs. He accomplishes this through personal coaching and mentoring, facilitating workshops, and providing general management consultation to organizations

Mauro Togneri brings experience In the Industrial Instrumentation and control industries where he has worked as an engineer, independent consultant, owner, Manager, Vice President, President, and outside Director. In these roles, he designed products and systems, founded and managed the growth of entrepreneurial technology based companies with operations in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Currently Mauro is a management consultant after retiring in December 2003 as Vice president and Group Manager, responsible for a group of technology companies with sales of over $40 million and operations in U.S., Germany and Japan. He holds more than a dozen patents.

With IEEE-USA, he works with the Intellectual Property Committee, Innovation Institute, and Career Activities and is co-founder and co-chair of Entrepreneurial Activities Committee.

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