Welcome
to the ACS SA weekly e-newsletter for the week ending Friday 1st August 2008.
- IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 4th August
- Rostrum Club 10 August Meeting - Wednesday 6th August
- Curry SIG - Friday 8th August
- Welcome to our new Professional Partner Program (PPP) Member - A-DB Group
- Chair of Young IT SA secures ambassador role with Sun Microsystems
- Positions Vacant - Skills Assessors
- PCP HOURS - Have you updated yours lately?
- Did you know that the ACS can notify you directly about events that you are
interested in?
- Express Training Connections - Special Discounts for ACS Members
- Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
2008
1. IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 4th August
Speaker: Bob Bradley
Topic: - "What has to be
done - How to prepare an interim schedule" Bob will be presenting a tried and true, practical approach to developing a
scope, work breakdown structure and schedule that can be used for responding to
a tender or creating an internal business case for a project.
Date: Monday 4th August 2008
Time: Drinks and nibbles at 5:15pm for a 5:45pm start
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated. Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10110360708376
2. Rostrum Club 10 August Meeting - Wednesday 6th August
Good communication is highly valued in the workplace and the community.
Unfortunately, time, resources and training are not always available to develop,
hone and practise this valuable skill.
The aims of Rostrum are to:
- communicate effectively within a group,
- build self confidence in public speaking
- Club 10 focuses on Presentations using aids such as Power Point, White
Boards, Flip Charts
- develop these skills in an enjoyable environment,
- learn to chair meetings and build committee skills,
- enjoy each other’s friendship and learn something new.
Date: Wednesday 6th August 2008
Time: 5:45 for a 6:00pm start
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10112433680500
3. Curry SIG - Friday 8th August
Come and see why this is the longest running ACS SA Special Interest Group!?!
The next Curry SIG will be:
Date: Friday 8th August 2008
Time: 12:30pm
Venue: Star of Siam, 67 Gouger St, Adelaide
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10113038373097
or contact Peter Griffith
4. Welcome to our new Professional Partner Program (PPP) Member - A-DB Group
As members
of A-DB Group, AcknowledgeDB and Igatech provide specialist consulting services
as an integral part of our clients’ teams, to ensure database and application
integrity and business continuity.
AcknowledgeDB and
Igatech merged in 2006 to form A-DB Group and AcknowledgeDB celebrated 10 years
of serving businesses throughout Australia in 2007.
A-DB Group’s
solutions and services are suited to any type of enterprise where Oracle or
Microsoft technologies are used to support the business processes. For more information about A_DB Group or to contact them please see: http://www.a-db.com/
If you would like to know more about the PPP please see the ACS website: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=show&conid=ppp or contact Peter Griffith
5. Chair of Young IT SA secures ambassador role with Sun Microsystems
Congratulations
to Tapan
Dave, the Chair of the SA Young IT Committee and a member of the Branch
Executive Committee. He has recently been made the Sun Microsystems
Campus
Ambassador for UniSA. Tapan's interest in Open Source products and
technologies will ensure his success in this prestigious role.
Well done Tapan!
If you would like to know more please see: http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/NewsandEvents/NewsArchive/2008/Article18.htm
or http://onlytapan.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/sun-microsystems-campus-ambassador/
6. Positions Vacant - Skills Assessors
Changes
to ACS membership requirements, especially the Certified Computer
Professional Status (PCP), necessitates the appointment of staff to
undertake the assessment of applicants for CP status and/or skills
assessment for immigration purposes. We are particularly interested in
those who see themselves leading such a team of assessors. The ideal
person is one who has a broad understanding of the profession and
industry in Australia (or a thorough understanding of a particular
segment) as well an understanding of ICT education in Australia,
especially of those institutions preparing students for entry to the
profession.
Key selection criteria are:
- Relevant
tertiary qualifications and experience in an education or skills
assessment capacity (or other human resource selection
processes)
- A keen interest in the development of ICT professionalism, and appropriate and relevant benchmarks and standards
- Well
developed analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills with the
ability to undertake work under broad direction and make sound
decisions about individuals based sometimes on judgment
- The knowledge to know when to seek advice and consult
- A commitment to quality assurance and customer service
- The commercial acumen required to operate within a (not for profit) business unit
- Well developed communication, interpersonal, consultation and interviewing skills
The
team leader will also need to demonstrate leadership skills, an
understanding of business processes across a number of dimensions, with
proven ability to learn and implement new concepts quickly (ensuring
the ability of staff and processes are in place), project and time
management including the ability to establish, monitor and meet
deadlines and targets as well as Commitment to and experience in
continuous improvement of processes. Expressions of Interest and
questions can be directed to the General Manager: Professional
Standards, Accreditation and Certifications (+614 1472 5270) or bob.hart@acs.org.au
7. PCP HOURS - Have you updated yours lately?
To achieve Practicing Computer Professional status (PCP post-nominals) a
member must undertake a minimum of thirty (30) hours structured professional
development in any twelve month period. If
you book for ACS sponsored events such as Branch Forums, EdXN and
Special Interest Groups your PCP hours will be automatically updated.
The number of applicable hours is usually advertised with the event
information.
Non ACS events, such as conferences and other
training may also count towards your PCP hours but you will have to
update your Member record by logging in to 'My ACS' and completing the CP Activity Statement.
The Statement requires details of each activity, including the objectives and
outcomes of each activity, dates and times, location, the provider details (if
any) and the number of hours claimed.
The maximum number of hours that can be claimed for any one activity is
twenty-five (25) hours.
Each activity can be entered as it occurs or all information can be added at
one time. A member's professional development history is kept as an addendum to
the member's record and (in a future release of the web interface) can be
printed by the member as and when required. Following each and every update the
member's PCP status is re-evaluated. Why not check yourmembership record today?
8. Did you know that the ACS can notify you directly about events that you are
interested in?
If you have particular ICT interests such as
SQA or Architecture or Green IT etc just to name a few, then update
your special interests in your member’s only section so we can email you
any special events that pertain to those interests. To find this page simply log
on to the ACS website, then go to “My ACS” at the top right hand side of the
web page, select “My Membership” from the drop down list and select “My Survey
Details” in the left hand column. Then select your particular interests from
each drop down list.
9. Express Training Connections - Special Discounts for ACS Members
Red Hat
Courses – Now in Adelaide!
Special Discounts for ACS Members
Express Training Connections
Pty. Ltd., Level 5, 38 Gawler
Place, Adelaide
5000
Full schedule on web site www.etc-australia.com
Are you an IT
professional looking to gain knowledge in the Linux environment? This is an opportunity to get your Red Hat skills
up and running or consolidate your knowledge.
Book now for two August courses: Week commencing 11th August 2008 RH033 & RH133
Kick
off your Red Hat accreditation with Red Hat Linux Essentials
or Red Hat Linux System Administration and RHCT EXAM
All courses are Red Hat
accredited using qualified Red Hat instructors. This is an opportunity to
increase your Red
Hat skills or consolidate your knowledge and gain industry
certifications as a Red Hat Certified Technician or Red
Hat Certified engineer.
Registration Fees (includes GST): 16%
discount off retail prices is awarded to all ACS Members.
Please book through the email address below to assist with registration details
and to ensure you receive the specific courses’ special promotion gift. sue@etc-australia.com or phone 8232
4502 9.1 Special Invitation to ACS Members - How to Manage Your Enterprise Linux Evoronment efficiently
- How long does it take you to disable Linux and Unix user
accounts across your organisation?
- Would single sign on for services improve your
security?
- Afraid of losing your Unix and Linux servers in a Microsoft
Active Directory forest?
Join us
for a briefing session on Red Hat Linux Automation Strategy. See for yourself
how Open Source can advance your data centre management without the need for
expensive proprietary technology
More information and bookings: http://www.acs.org.au/sa/otherinfo/redhat_invitation.htm
10. Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
2008
ATNAC
2008 - Adelaide
SA - Call
For Papers
If you
have not submitted a paper to ATNAC 2008 yet, you now have another opportunity
to do so.
Over the recent weeks,
there have been many requests to better align the ATNAC 2008
submission deadlines with the demands placed by the academic and
business year timelines. As a result, the paper submission deadline has
been extended to Monday 04 August.
You will
find the Call for Papers and the necessary details at http://www.plevin.com.au/atnac2008/.
ATNAC
conferences have traditionally been the best meeting place for the Australasian
telecommunication networks and applications researchers and practitioners. It is
ATNAC where industry practitioners meet researchers from academia, and where the
latest in the technology and telecommunications business developments across
Australasia and worldwide are discussed.
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