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Resources: Archives — Past meetings · 2002Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Job Forum and Resume CritiqueThe Northern California Chapter of the Product Development & Management Association (www.norcalpdma.org) is sponsoring a panel discussion on Product Development Employment Trends in the current economy. A diverse panel of experts will provide unique insights into ways you can make this challenging time work for you. Panel Topics:
Following the panel presentation, Mehrdad Moaveni, Managing Partner of Capstone Search Partners, will lead the audience in a critique of their own resumes pointing out the pitfalls, identifying ideal formats and guiding the evaluation process once you get a response from your resume. If you're interested in answers to any of the above panel topics then you should attend this event. Then, take the opportunity to apply what you learned from the panel in this hands-on session. In conjunction with this event, the NorCal PDMA will be launching the job posting section of our web site. So, please add "jobs@norcalpdma.org" to your list of e-mail addresses when posting open positions for product development, management or marketing. When: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 Panel Members: Moderator: He was the youngest talent scout in the history of the NBA, serving as Chief Scout for the Phoenix Suns. Shapiro owned and operated a company that produced sports camps for children and baseball and basketball fantasy camps for adults. Partnering with some of the greatest names in sports to direct his camps- Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Pat Riley, Magic Johnson, John Wooden and Billy Casper, just to name a few. Shapiro brings a great deal of success in identifying talent, be it on a baseball field, basketball court on the corporate environment. Panelists Neil Sims
Optimum Executive Search Neil Sims is one of the founding partners of Optimum. Neil has spent his entire career as an independent business person focused on the service industry. It is Neil's belief that staffing must always be considered a very interpersonal responsibility, and that the trust a client places in a search professional has significant impact on the success of a development venture. Conversely, Neil believes that it is critical for Optimum to represent only the best opportunities in software since decisions to make career moves have pivotal impact on the lives of candidates and their families. Optimum's history has been in building organizations delivering enterprise software products, graphics and multimedia authoring tools and web-based solutions. Clients have been chosen for their unique opportunity to deliver highly successful products to a global marketplace. Over the years, Optimum has contributed to the success of market-leading companies like Oracle, Macromedia, Ariba Technology, Informatica and many others. Today's clients are destined to become the industry leaders of tomorrow. Neil received his training with a large staffing firm in the Bay area and recognized the opportunity represented by bringing a higher level of commitment to the individual to the staffing industry. Neil co-founded Optimum in 1992. H. Martín de'Campo H. Martin de’Campo has over 19 years of international HR, recruitment and development experience in both Asia and Latin America. He has held senior posts with firms such as KPMG Global as Director of Strategic HR Consulting; Echlin International; the State Bar of California; Volkswagen of America; Rentokil PLC-UK; and has personally architected and led the human capital growth of over 30 dot.com technology start-ups nationwide. Today, Martin is the Founder & Chief Human Capital Architect for Humanatek, Inc. He has successfully led Humanatek Inc's growing list of consulting relationships by effectively developing Humanateks wide spectrum of novel services such as training, consulting, executive search, onsite staffing solutions, contractor services, etc. clients. Humanatek serves clients nationwide from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies that are seeking to streamline their human capital systems and increase their investment returns from their people. Martin’s breadth of consultative industry experience includes strategic roles at many high technology dot.coms, telecoms, biotechnology & pharma firms, consumer products & retail, automotive, banking & financial services, law firms, manufacturing, consulting firms, etc. Marty Cagan During the course of the past 20 years, Marty has served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, America Online, and eBay. Marty began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories conducting research on software technology, and then moved into the product side of HP, as the first member of HP’s Software Engineering Systems Division, specializing in products for software developers. After HP, Marty joined a then very young Netscape Communications Corporation, where he had the opportunity to participate in the birth of the Internet industry. Marty worked directly for co-founder Marc Andreessen, where he was vice-president for Netscape’s platform and tools, and later e-commerce applications, and worked to help Internet start-ups understand and utilize the newly emerging technology. Netscape provided the opportunity to define and build products for both enterprises and consumers. When America Online acquired Netscape, Marty ran a division responsible for leveraging the product technology developed at Netscape across the many AOL and later Time Warner internet properties. As vice-president of AOL Products, Marty was able to learn first-hand about the requirements which come from very large scale, mass-market consumer services. From AOL, Marty joined eBay as vice-president of product management and design, responsible for defining products and services for their global e-commerce trading site. eBay provided the opportunity to learn about the requirements that come from very large, active communities transacting online via the world’s largest e-commerce site. During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including software development, product management, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, product marketing, engineering management, and general management. Marty is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz with B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Applied Economics (1981), and of the Stanford University Executive Institute (1994). Andy Cohen Andy Cohen is Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing for Instill, a (profitable!) enterprise spend management ASP. Andy is responsible for sales, marketing, product management and business development. Andy has 12 years of experience in all aspects of product management. He began his career as a brand manager at S.C. Johnson & Son, managing the development of consumer products. He then made a switch to technology, managing the development and launch of the country's first online grocery shopping service at Peapod. After Peapod, Andy joined Intuit where he lead the business and product effort behind the launch of Quicken.com, which at its peak was the top personal finance site on the web. At Instill, Andy has gained experience in enterprise application product management, leading the development and launch of a complete suite of supply chain applications that are being used by Coca-Cola, Subway, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell. Andy has a unique perspective of managing product development for both consumers and enterprises, and brings a packaged goods market research perspective to the product development process. Andy has hired and developed dozens of product managers and product marketers and currently leads a team of ten professionals at Instill. Andy has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Herb Deitz Herb Deitz and Associates has an extensive background in recruiting at all levels of high technology organizations. We are known for our ability to source, interview, select, and sell candidates who can have a substantial positive impact on the company. Herb Deitz and Associates has extensive experience in the recruitment of senior technical, marketing, sales, and other high caliber professionals in both management and individual contributor roles. Herb Deitz and Associates has over 10+ years playing major roles in the successful staffing of such well-known firms such as Inktomi, Pure Software(Rational), Internet Travel Network, Pointcast, Oblix, Resonate, Informatica, Netcom, VM ware, Web Methods, and Digital Fountain and large firms such as Oracle, Sun, Informix, Trimble Navigation, 3 Com and Sony. He also spent 10+ years in Human Resources as a corporate director and manager of staffing and recruitment for companies that include: Software Publishing Corporation, Interactive Systems (Kodak Company), Allied Bendix Corporation, Micom Systems, and A.M. Jacquard Systems. Mehrdad Moaveni Mehrdad is the Managing Partner of Capstone SearchPartners San Francisco office and specializes in recruiting executives into a broad base of emerging technology companies. Mehrdad’s international and domestic search experience encompasses the full range of disciplines; from executive management to sales, marketing, operations, engineering and finance. Mehrdad’s sample of public and private clients include: Altera, Amdocs, Brio Technology, Business Objects, Certicom, ClickNet, Fujitsu, Interval Research, ICG, Intuit, LockStar, netCustomer, Pilot Network Services, QUIQ., Scient and TimesTen Performance Software. Prior to launching his search career, Mehrdad was the Founder and President of New Century Health Care, a firm specializing in clinical and technical systems integration and consulting services. Before joining New Century Health Care, Mehrdad held positions with several emerging technology organizations. |
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