TechWeek, 27-May-2011

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Business Breakfast: Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Communication & Collaboration Environment
When: Tuesday 31-May-2011 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Making Dollars and Sense of Incentives: Jobs, Myths and Money
When: Wednesday 01-Jun-2011 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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CareerTrack Series: Navigating the 21st Century Workforce & Beyond
When: Wednesday 08-Jun-2011 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Women in Technology & Science Event with Patty Morrison, CIO with Cardinal Health
When: Thursday 09-Jun-2011 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Municipality/Central Ohio Public Partner CIO Leadership Forum
When: Wednesday 15-Jun-2011 8:00 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Dublin International Business Assistance Center - Launch
When: Tuesday 21-Jun-2011 5:30 PM
Where: Dublin Entrepreneurial Center
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TechColumbus Member Mixer
When: Thursday 23-Jun-2011 5:30 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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Business Information Class I - For Startup Entrepreneurs
When: Monday 06-Jun-2011 1:00 PM
Where: Columbus Metropolitan Library
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Ohio Growth Summit 2011 ~ A Two Day Event
When: Tuesday 07-Jun-2011 11:00 AM
Where: Center for Workforce Development
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Business2Business Network Expo 2011
When: Wednesday 08-Jun-2011 11:30 AM
Where: Greater Columbus Convention Center -- Battelle Grand Ballroom
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Get in the Game! Optimize your office with SmartSearch!
When: Thursday 09-Jun-2011 10:30 AM
Where: Huntington Park - Columbus Clippers
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WACC Young Professionals Uptown Shuffle
When: Friday 10-Jun-2011 5:00 PM
Where: Old Bag of Nails Pub
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SQLSaturday in Columbus
When: Saturday 11-Jun-2011 8:00 AM
Where: Goodwill Columbus
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WACC Combined Chambers Business Expo
When: Thursday 16-Jun-2011 4:30 PM
Where: Bridgewater Banquet and Conference Center
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Pillar Technology is proud to sponsor a public offering of: Coaching Agile Teams
When: Monday 20-Jun-2011 9:00 AM
Where: Hilton/Polaris
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Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA) Training (Summer Institute)
When: Friday 24-Jun-2011 9:00 AM
Where: THE OHIO UNION AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
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Join us at TechColumbus for this Webinar: Break Down the Barriers to VC Funding for University Start-ups
When: Tuesday 28-Jun-2011 1:00 PM
Where: TechColumbus Main Conference Room
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UA Chamber of Commerce Presents: Ask the Experts
When: Wednesday 29-Jun-2011 12:00 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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Getting Started with Interns Part 1: CANCELLED
When: Thursday 08-Dec-2011 8:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Getting Started with Interns Part 2: Moving from interest to action
When: Thursday 15-Dec-2011 8:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Spotlight
Central Ohio Boasts Record Number of Nominations and Finalists in the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program

Eleven Central Ohio entrepreneurs have been named as finalists in the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program for the South Central Ohio and Kentucky region.  According to program organizers, this is the strongest showing for Central Ohio with over 50 nominations from the region.  In addition, Central Ohio has the most number of Finalists among the three metros included in the South Central Ohio and Kentucky region which encompasses Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville/Lexington.  [Read More]


Tech News
OSU and EWI Awarded More than $4.6M in Funding from Ohio Third Frontier

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission this week recommended more than $4.6 million in funding for two Central Ohio programs through the Wright Project Program.  [Read More]

Nationwide Children’s Hospital Researchers Receives NIH Grant for Continued Study of Lysosomal Storage Disease MPSIIIB

Investigators at Nationwide Children’s have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help move a therapy for MPS IIIB that has been shown effective in mice toward clinical trials in humans.  Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) IIIB, also known as Sanfilippo Syndrome B, is a lysososmal storage disease caused by deficiency in the essential enzyme NAGLU. Children with MPS IIIB appear normal at birth, but develop severe, progressive developmental delay and neurological disorders by 2 years of age. [Read More]

Results Are In for the OSU Business Builders Club Spring 2011 Idea Pitch

The Business Builders Club (BBC) at Ohio State hosted its third Idea Pitch Competition of the year on Tuesday May 24th. The Idea Pitch Competitions help fund student-run businesses through prize money awarded to the best three business proposals. [Read More]

Venturi Wins Three Awards in German Competition

During the 11th annual Michelin Challenge Bibendum recently held in Berlin the Venturi Volage won three awards including the Design Award, Best Acceleration Prize and the CO2 Emissions Prize.  [Read More]

US Department of Labor Sponsors Summer Jobs Initiative

The US Department of Labor is partnering with business leaders, elected officials and nonprofits to create, publicize and fill 100,000 jobs for low-income young people ages 16-24.  Work experience provides a chance for young people to learn lessons they could never learn inside a classroom.  Summer jobs can introduce young people to career pathways and the skills needed to be successful in the workplace.  It can inspire them to seek higher education and to stay within the region upon completing that education. [Read More]

Member News
Gasser Elected to Battelle’s Board of Directors

Battelle, the world’s leading independent scientific research and technology development organization, today announced the election of an experienced global business executive to its Board of Directors. Effective immediately, Michael Gasser of Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF, GEF.B) joins some of the nation’s foremost business, military and scientific leaders serving on Battelle’s Board. Over the past 17 years, Mr. Gasser has built the Delaware, Ohio-based Greif, Inc. [Read More]

Expo to Create Business Connections to be Held June 8

More than 3,500 business owners and decision makers are expected to come together at the Columbus Chamber’s 2011 Business2Business Network Expo. The Expo will be held Wednesday, June 8 from 11:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. at the Greater Columbus Convention Center Battelle Grand. A collaborative community effort of the Columbus Chamber, the Columbus Dispatch, Experience Columbus, SWACO and TechColumbus, the Expo is one of the largest business tradeshow and networking events in the Columbus Region. [Read More]

Congressman Pat Tiberi Tours GFS Chemicals Inorganic Operations

Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH 12th Congressional District) toured the GFS Chemicals inorganic manufacturing operations to meet with employees and discuss issues facing small businesses and manufacturers in Ohio.   The tour was led by Rob Pierron, Vice President of Inorganic Business and joining him were Luke Crumley, Constituent Representative from Congressman Tiberi’s office and GFS long-time employees Marty Kiser, Controller, Liza Tallon, Director of Marketing, and Scott Castle, Inorganic Business Development Manager.   [Read More]

Member News
JAVA Developer

Anu Resources Unlimited is a professional contract service and permanent placement company specializing in IT/Technical and professional job placements. We have a client that is in need of a JAVA Developer for a 4+ month contract. Required technologies include: Java 1.5. J2EE, Servlets/JSP, EJB, XML and XML schema, Spring, HTML, Websphere 6.1, JBoss 5.0, Tomcat, SQL, MySQL, DB/2, Subversion, SOAP, JDOM, Apache Commons, ant, JavaScript and Eclipse. [Read More]

Software Developer

Anu Resources Unlimited is a professional contract service and placement company specializing in IT, Technical and professional job placements.  A well established company seeks a Developer to join their team on a Full Time basis. This is an entry level position with a well established company in the Columbus, OH area and a great chance to grow your career and become part of something great!  Job Duties for the Software Developer: [Read More]

Entry level .Net Technical Support

Anu Resources Unlimited is a professional contract service and permanent placement company specializing in IT/Technical and professional job placements. The ideal candidate will provide functional and technical support for the ecommerce software and product offeringsEducation and/or Experience: Essential Duties and Responsibilities for the Technical Support Analyst: • Provide client support and technical issue resolution for ecommerce software products via E-Mail, phone and other electronic medium [Read More]

Systems Administrator

Cott Systems, an industry icon and innovator in public records management for over 120 years, is a leader today in technology solutions and services for recording, imaging, and searching land and court records across 19 states.  But, first and foremost, Cott is all about people – people who care about this business and their customer’s success - people ready to help solve issues and implement programs that help their customer’s operations. [Read More]

Sensor Product Design Engineer III

Established in 1968, Lake Shore Cryotronics is an international leader in developing innovative measurement and control solutions.  Products include cryogenic temperature sensors and instrumentation, and magnetic test equipment, as well as metrology systems and probe stations used for characterizing the physical properties of materials.   Lake Shore customers include leading university, government, aerospace and commercial research institutions and are supported by a global network of sales and service offices.   [Read More]

Controller

25 year-old software development growth firm in Central Ohio is looking for an experienced, detailed-oriented accounting professional to assume responsibility for management and production of the company's historical accounting and reporting processes. A successful candidate will bring several years of corporate accounting experience with all accounting processes and a confident supervisory style that encourages accurate and timely staff performance and staff professional growth. [Read More]

Application Developer

Bravo | Brio Restaurant Group, Inc. (BBRG) operates 80 + restaurants nationwide is seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to join our Home Office in Columbus, Ohio.    Responsibilities: ·Gather requirements and analyze current needs ·Design solutions ·Develop and test solutions ·Maintain applications and solutions in production ·Interface with ERP- Lawson for data as well as other data sources ·Develop adhoc queries and stored procedures [Read More]

Quality Assurance Team Lead

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Designs and delivers operable tests to the project for deployment • Responds to all technical inquires related to the test project • Develops and configures the necessary operating environments for web application testing • Trains and mentors team members in the required skills of test development • Participates in developing the strategy and best practices of the organization and promotion them within the team • Monitors the performance and ability to of the team members, especially junior testers • Defines tasks suitable f [Read More]

Quality Assurance Manager

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES • Test Estimation - Coordinates with project management and product teams to provide estimates of testing effort and costs alignment with the level of project details available. Completes resource forecasting and analyzes prior month results on a monthly basis • Requirements - detailed review of business and technical requirements to insure they are clearly defined and testable. • Test Planning - Creation and communication of detailed test schedule and scripts to verify software adherence to requirements. [Read More]

Quality Assurance Analyst

Janova began as Arc Consultants in 2002, as a group of consultants drawn together by common experiences leading and executing significant enterprise-level software implementation projects. We knew that quality practices and tools were the key to every successful implementation. Over time we tried a variety of automated testing platforms to accelerate this process, only to quickly find out that these tools were often too cumbersome and unstable. In order to fill this gap we reinvented Janova in 2010, and advanced to the next generation of automated testing. [Read More]

Java Developer

SoftSyl Technologies is an innovative software technology firm that offers development, design, and implementation of automated voice solutions to call centers.  We are currently looking for a full-time Java Developer to join our team in the Columbus, Ohio metro area to engage in developing advanced, innovative web and telephony software products/services. Potential for long-term growth within the company.  This is a full-time, salaried position with benefits. Key Responsibilities: [Read More]

Java/J2EE Application Developer

-Work with architects and domain-experts, provide technical leadership and software development in support of projects -Help guide design and development activities -Review product deliverables for functional, performance and architectural conformance to best practices -Construct new Java/JEE services, applications and client-side tools, along with development support for existing systems. [Read More]

Customer Care Representative

Westerville based company in search of self-motivated, service-oriented, and professional candidates to fill a customer service position. Responsible for providing outstanding customer service for all existing customers by utilizing in depth knowledge of company products and services.  Handle all aspects of Customer Care and Retention Inbound service calls Outbound retention calls Professional conflict resolution Keep existing customers supplied with up to date products and services [Read More]

TECHie Camp Instructor

Use your technology skills to educate, excite and empower children and make a little cash while doing so!  TECH CORPS is hiring Technology Instructors to lead TECHie Camp summer programs in Ohio, Philadelphia, and Texas. [Read More]

Technology Instructor (6-week Contract)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Camp IT is a collaborative effort between Lead the Way and Tech Corps Ohio. Camp IT is about exploring and understanding the life in the 21.2 century. It will expose campers to the labor market that is consistently in shortage of qualified workers in an economy where jobs are hard to find. The campers will learn how to be more independent, more logical, more strategic and most of all, how to make the best of themselves. [Read More]

Salesforce Administrator

Do you have at least two years of Salesforce experience? We want to talk to you. e-Cycle LLC, a rapidly-growing green company based in Hilliard, Ohio, is seeking an experienced Salesforce administrator to assist its sales and marketing department provide exceptional customer service to thousands of enterprise clients throughout the United States. This is a great opportunity to further develop your skills while working at a progressive company with exceptional benefits and a casual working environment. EXPECTATION FOR ALL ASSOCIATES [Read More]

Sales Representative

Vantage Point Logistics is experiencing big interest in our new freight management program.  We are excited to need the assistance of more sales people, so we are searching for a high-energy person that can think on their feet to fill one of our commission-based sales roles to help build our exciting start-up company. With success, this can become a full-time position.  [Read More]

Account Manager

Primary responsibility is to sell all company products directly and through dealers and distributors that you establish.  Position includes but is not limited to: Sell retail (direct) and wholesale (dealer and/or distributor) the newest technology in alarm systems Act as technical representative to the customer when needed Responsible for locating new opportunities for company by visiting existing and new customers Must be responsive to the customers needs and follow through on all   aspects, both written and verbal. [Read More]

Sorting/Receiving Specialist (Operations Department)

e-Cycle is a full-service wireless recycling and buyback company that purchases, recycles and resells used and new wireless devices. We work with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and every size, from small municipalities to the Fortune Global 500. Organizations and companies who send their corporate cell phones to e-Cycle choose us for our superior data security, asset recovery, and environmentally compliant recycling services. [Read More]

Senior Network Engineer

Summary:  The primary focus for this position will be to be a member of a high functioning network operations team responsible for the infrastructure, security, wide area network and virtualization infrastructure for all Mettler Toledo business units globally with focus on the Americas Time Zone. Key Duties and Responsibilities: EXPERT OR SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE IN [Read More]

Recruiter

Company Description: Northwoods Consulting Partners is dedicated to revolutionizing the delivery of Human Services. Our Compass Software® and business process solutions help agencies operate efficiently and cost effectively by streamlining document creation and management and facilitating the flow of clients through the agency. From its headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, Northwoods serves agencies across the country. Position Description Position Summary: [Read More]

e-Cycle seeks an Executive Assistant in Hilliard Ohio

Rapidly growing green mobile phone buyback, recycling, and data protection company, e-Cycle LLC, is seeking a well-organized executive assistant to support the CEO and VP of Marketing. This is an entry-level position with a great opportunity for advancement. Our current executive assistant is being promoted into an internal marketing role within our company.   EXPECTATION FOR ALL ASSOCIATES [Read More]

Solutions Analyst - MDM

Gather functional and non-functional requirements Ensure functional requirements are detailed enough to complete technical requirements Assist with creating test plans and deployment plans Provide solution delivery services related to an MDM project Please call Cathy Heider at 614-759-3343 or email cheider@unicon-intl.com for details. [Read More]

Web Developer - Java (Scottsdale, AZ)

Provide high quality, cost effective information technology solutions to business partners by creating new or modifying and/or supporting existing software applications Design, code, analyze, configure, unit test, debug, document and maintain applications. Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results [Read More]



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