TechWeek, 20-Nov-2009

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LinkedIn Training for Beginners
When: Monday 23-Nov-2009 12:00 AM
Where: TechColumbus/Platform Lab
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LinkedIn Training for Advanced
When: Monday 23-Nov-2009 1:00 PM
Where: TechColumbus/Platform Lab
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Ohio Web Leaders Breakfast - Strategic Focus for Social Media in Non-Traditional Businesses
When: Tuesday 24-Nov-2009 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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LinkedIn For Beginners
When: Tuesday 24-Nov-2009 9:00 AM
Where: TechColumbus/Platform Lab
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LinkedIn for Advanced
When: Tuesday 24-Nov-2009 1:00 PM
Where: TechColumbus/Platform Lab
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Women's Entrepreneur Event: How Intellectual Property Laws Affect Your Business
When: Tuesday 01-Dec-2009 5:30 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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TechColumbus New Member Mixer
When: Wednesday 02-Dec-2009 5:30 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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IT Martini Hour 8: Ghost of Projects Past - $1000 Giveaway to Top DEMO Company
When: Wednesday 02-Dec-2009 5:30 PM
Where: Bar of Modern Art
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Transforming the Landscape of Business in America: A Minority Business Early-Stage Capital Summit
When: Thursday 03-Dec-2009 8:00 AM
Where: Bank of America Conference Center, Intercontinental Hotel at Cleveland Clinic
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Central Ohio VMWare Users Group meeting
When: Tuesday 08-Dec-2009 9:00 AM
Where: Platform Lab
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Grow Your Business in the City of Gahanna
When: Tuesday 08-Dec-2009 5:30 PM
Where: Creekside Conference & Event Center
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Columbus IBA Members Meeting-Customer Service
When: Wednesday 09-Dec-2009 7:00 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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Dublin IBA Members Meeting-Customer Service
When: Thursday 10-Dec-2009 7:00 AM
Where: The Dublin Entrepreneurial Center (DEC)
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Leaders Luncheon with Nancy Flynn: E-Policy - How to Communicate Online Without Getting Sued, Fired, or Publicly Humiliated
When: Friday 11-Dec-2009 11:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Understanding Business Investment Opportunities-CPE credits for CPAs
When: Friday 11-Dec-2009 2:30 PM
Where: TechColumbus
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SCID Workshop
When: Monday 14-Dec-2009 8:00 AM
Where: CETE/OSU
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Business Breakfast: Don’t Just Count Your Beans – Grow Them!
When: Friday 18-Dec-2009 7:30 AM
Where: TechColumbus
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Fidelity Voice and Data Lunch and Learn
When: Thursday 14-Jan-2010 11:00 AM
Where: The Conference Center at NorthPoint
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2009 TechColumbus Innovation Awards
When: Thursday 04-Feb-2010 5:30 PM
Where: Greater Columbus Convention Center
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Spotlight
Central Ohio Explores Ways to Capitalize on its “Talent Dividend”

CEOs for Cities is meeting with officials in 30 major cities, including Columbus, to help officials explore how they can increase their share of adults 25 and older with four-year degrees.  In what it refers to as the “talent dividend” calculation, Cities for CEOs says that a 1percentage point gain in the college graduation rate equates to a $763 per-capita income increase (based on 2006 federal data).  That would mean that by boosting Columbus’ four-year degreed residents from 32.5 percent to 33.5 percent could mean an additional $1.3 billion in income for the c [Read More]


Tech News
Genetic Testing Law Goes Into Effect – Paves the Way for Advancements in Personalized Medicine

A law passed by Congress last year that prohibits health insurers and employers from discriminating against a person based on the results of genetic testing or family history will go a long way in advancing the field of personalized medicine.  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) will go into effect November 21 for all employers with 15 employees or more (the law took effect for individual health insurance plans last May).  [Read More]

Science 2.0 Impacting Outcomes of Clinical Care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Nationwide Children’s Hospital is one participant in a global bulletin board that takes advantage of online tools to advance the care and clinical outcomes of children with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.  ImproveCareNow.org is an easy and low-cost system of sharing treatment information through an online information network that allows caregivers to systematically collect and share data about the latest treatment methods and their effectiveness.  Preliminary data shows that under the program, the percentage of patients in remission from Crohn’s disease a [Read More]

Reuters Names OSU Medical Center a Top Hospital for Heart Care

The OSU Medical Center has been named one of the top U.S. hospitals for inpatient cardiovascular care by Thomson Reuters.  The center is among 30 recipients nationwide in the category of Teaching Hospitals with Cardiovascular Residency Programs.  Reuters analyzed outcomes from 971 hospitals for patients with heart failure and heart attacks and for those who received percutaneous cardiovascular interventions such as angioplasties.  [Read More]

At Toobla, Intuition Drives Design But Experience Drives Business Strategy

Comparing his company to “an iTunes for Web content,” Toobla CEO Brian Link says there are a lot of competitors that do portions of what the company’s social bookmarking site does, but there’s not another one that does it all like Toobla.  “Digg and other bookmarking Web sites are not visual, nor do they let a user build intuitive collections of content that they can share with their friends,” says Link.  “We are striving to create a bookmarking service that’s beautiful and fun to browse.”  [Read More]

OSU Joins with Other Universities and Congress to Launch “ScienceWorksForUS” Initiative

As a way of recognizing how federal stimulus monies have been invested in the nation’s academic laboratories, Congress, along with representatives of the nation’s leading public and private research universities, announced the launch of ScienceWorksForUS.com, an initiative to highlight Recovery Act-sponsored research in all 50 states and profiling the researchers who are contributing to America’s recovery.  [Read More]

Member News
Fidelity Voice and Data Announces Small Business Grant Competition Winners

Cleveland, Ohio (November 17, 2009) – Two Local Companies Win Colocation Service to Support their Growing Businesses.Fidelity Voice and Data, a high-quality business class voice and data service company, announced today that it has awarded two small business grants to help foster growing technology ventures. [Read More]

Member News
Senior Business Analyst

TechColumbus is seeking a full-time business analyst.  The position will focus on funding-related functions currently performed by the VP of Venture Development, the Senior Director of Funds Management, and the Ohio TechAngels (OTA) Director, resulting in enhanced venture development work, higher value assistance to portfolio companies, and a more streamlined, efficient funds management process. [Read More]

Account Manager

Seeking an experienced account manager specializing in business-to-business strategic communications to implement integrated campaigns for multiple clients. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, passionate and relationship-oriented. Prior experience should include media relations, strong copywriting capabilities, marketing communications, and management of client relationships. Experience with new media and technology industry a plus. To Apply: Please e-mail a resume and cover letter to info@marketing-works.net [Read More]

Developer/Programmer Analyst

We are currently seeking candidates for the position of Developer/Programmer Analyst. This position focuses on maintaining, enhancing, and growing our production applications to meet business needs. Core responsibilities will include [Read More]

Vice President, Information Services

This role will provide leadership and management of the information services team and function while serving as a business liaison to other functional areas of the company. Key accountabilities include: [Read More]

Network Administrator

We are currently seeking candidates for the position of Network Administrator. Responsibilities include: [Read More]

Senior Network Engineer at eSolutech in Columbus, Ohio needed ASAP. Please apply at eSolutech.com or http://is.gd/4VT6E

For a 5000+ node network with state of the art technologies in the WAN, LAN, DMZ, and Backbone areas. Position is full time (40 hours per week) with the network design and support team within the IT Department. Successful candidate should have excellent communication and team work attitude, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical design and implementation. A total minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with current Cisco devices in the market is required. Mandatory Skills Requirements: [Read More]

Software Sales & Marketing

Our client is an aspiring software development company located in Columbus, Ohio. They are a spinoff of another business and are looking to build their own sales/marketing team for their product.  Multiple sales and marketing positions at various skill levels are available. [Read More]

Help Desk Level II

Our long-time Columbus client has an immediate opening for a Level II Help Desk professional. In this role, you will provide functional support for various business applications. Assist users in the more unique application incidents in business applications such as SAP and Lotus Notes 7. Interface with the user community to discuss and support detailed functionality of a system. In addition to a competitive hourly rate, we offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance benefits as well as PTO and holiday pay. [Read More]

Office administrator -Sensible Medical Innovations

Sensible Medical Innovations, an Israeli medical device start-up company, is looking to hire an office administrator beginning as of January, 2010 in Columbus. The position is for full time employment with flexible hours, partly performed from the office and partly performed from home.   Education in the field of biology or experience as a clinical research associate would have an advantage in getting the job. Candidates with previous experience working with startup companies would be preferred. [Read More]

Quality Assurance Tester

 Northwoods Consulting Partners is a nationally recognized Solutions provider for the Health and Human Services industry. Northwoods is based in Dublin, Ohio with customers from coast to coast. The team at Northwoods is offered many ongoing training opportunities and upward movement within our organization. Due to the uniqueness of our product we have designed our career paths to encourage internal promotions and advancements. [Read More]

Integration Architect, App Design & Dev

Primary contact for Integration Service Center customers on engagements Responsible for designing Integration Architecture for various enterprise application integration initiatives to enable the client’s business objectives. Responsible for coordinating implementation teams within and outside the Center to implement designed architecture in line with Enterprise guidelines Requires experience with multiple development methodologies. Translates and interprets functional requirements documentation for small to medium pro [Read More]

Applications Designer

Provide leadership for user experience design and development of web and digital services for Columbus Metropolitan Library. This role creates connections between customer inputs, library business leads, digital experience analysis, and web code development. Works to integrate functions of library tools/applications into highly-useable, digital interfaces. Apply online at www.columbuslibrary.org ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: [Read More]

Experienced Software Developers

There is no doubt that jobs are hard to find in our current economy but you don't have to settle. Northwoods appreciates its team members and invests in each of us with ongoing education, certifications and opportunities to excel.  Northwoods offers generous paid benefits packages to all full time employees.  If you want to work hard, make a difference, and be rewarded for success, Northwoods is the place for you!  [Read More]

Sales Director- Cott Systems

Excellent leader and motivator of people Currently succesful in a (technology) sales management role A road warrior. 50% travel overnight.  Hands-on coach with sales staff and with customers A planner, strategist and analytical person.  Someone who values effective sales process and tools Someone whose personality and style fit into our special family culture at Cott Systems Base pay $90k with total compensation of $130k at 100% of plan; in addition upside opportunity if exceeding plan (with no cap) [Read More]

Licensing Associate

The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital has experienced a tremendous amount of growth in its research activities over the past several years. This has created an opportunity for a Licensing Associate position in the Office of Technology Commercialization. The person in this position will have the opportunity to help shape and grow the commercialization activities at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital. [Read More]

Cisco Network Manager

Manages professional employees and/or supervisors; may manage business support, technicial or production staff. Has accountability for managing financial resources. Provides technical guidance to employees Develops processes and procedures to implement functional strategies. Recognizes development needs and capability gaps in own area and arranges specific projects/assignments to address needs. [Read More]

Programmer Analyst

Administer and troubleshoot Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Review, approve and participate in the developement of functional ETL requirements. Design and implement objects, indexes, partitions, materialized views, mappings and process flows using Oracle Warehouse Builder. Collaborate on Data Model designs Works directly and independently with Quality Assurance Team, Database Administrators, Source System Developers and Unix Administrators as needed. [Read More]

Oracle DBA

Experience supporting various Oracle databases versions 10GR2 and higher. In depth knowledge with Oracle Database Administration Practical experience in monitoring and tuning proprietary databases, understanding RAID/SAN storage concepts. Experience writing custom stored procedures, working with bulk processing concepts, and some UNIX shell scripting. Practical experience with RMAN backup, local and remote recovery. Datawarehouse exposure a plus. Succinct verbal and written communication skills with various pro [Read More]



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