Event Notices From February 11-13
'Gray Hair' Career Transition Conference Coming To Ann Arbor: Gray Hair Management, with the support of Ann Arbor Spark, will host "Charting Your Course," a career transition conference, Tuesday, Feb. 22, at Spark Central, 330 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. Charting Your Course is perfect for the working professional who is in transition, individual attendees who are looking for a better job or contemplating a career change, and employers looking for seasoned professionals. The event will feature several speakers providing education on topics related to career transitioning such as creating a marketing handbill, interviewing skills and job searching techniques. Speakers will include Robert Pasick, founder of Leaders Connect; Scott Kane, founder of Gray Hair Management; Beverly Chana, president of Professional Career Services; Zeno Wisniewski, senior career counselor at Gray Hair Management; and Kendra Kerr, career transition and business coach. The event will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $25 for GHM members and $30 for non-members with online registration. To register for the event and find out more information please go to http://tinyurl.com/seminarday. Ann Arbor Spark will also host HotShots Melange, an optional job fair following the conference at no cost, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Gray Hair Management's mission is to help career professionals nationwide to obtain jobs through networking, mentoring and a "personal-touch" coaching process. Gray Hair Management has developed relationships with executive recruiters across the country who send dozens of job leads daily to distribute to GHM subscribers. Gray Hair Management e-mails more than 1,500 job leads to a growing 6,900 members each month crossing all disciplines and industries. For more information or to register for job alerts, please visit www.grayhairmanagement.com.
Online Tech Shares Cloud Computing Example at AAVUG: The system administrator of Ann Arbor-based Online Tech Inc., Steve VanTil, will present his experience moving Online Tech's internal IT infrastructure to a private cloud computing platform for the Ann Arbor Virtualization Users Group on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 at 6 p.m. In addition, Online Tech will be giving away two free cloud servers to demonstrate how easy it is to get started with cloud computing. VMware vExpert Rod Mach, principal of HiperLogic, is hosting the event and will present his "Step by Step Guide to Deploying a Private Cloud" at the AAVUG meeting later this month. The event's focus will be to show its members how to install and implement a private cloud at a data center. VanTil, a VMware certified professional and systems architect for Online Tech's private cloud offering, has been with Online Tech since 2009. Also a Microsoft certified Enterprise Admin, Steve is an expert in Linux, VMware, and Microsoft. He will share his vast knowledge of virtualization technology and how Online Tech made the switch from a traditional server infrastructure to the private cloud. As a part of the event, Online Tech will be randomly giving away two free cloud servers to the attendees. For more information about the event and to register, please visit www.aavug.org/events.
