Computer Science and Systems Analysis
2008 Alumni Conference Presentations
Conference Program:
Key Note Speaker
- David Haddad – “Sharing Your Miami Education”
Career Development:
- Consulting Panel (Deloitte Consulting) – "The Life of a Consultant"
- “Interested in Business School?”
- Jon Puz (Harvard Business School) and Disha Patel (Amgen Inc)
- Panel Discussion (Progressive Insurance) – “IT Careers within the Insurance Industry”
- Deron Sohngen - IT Group Manager, Brad Mold - IT Manager, Eric Montgomery - IT Apps Programmer Senior, Emily Midgley - IT Systems Analyst Senior
- Panel Discussion – "Career Path Case Studies: Journeys Through The Real World"
- Ted Friedman (Vice President, Gartner Inc), Steve Brockman (Vital Concepts Associates), Tye Monnin (Delivery Manager, Fifth and Third Bank), Joe Hopkins (Eli Lilly and Co), and Robin Smith (Independent Consultant and formerly with P&G)
Real World Case Studies:
- “Doing Business in Developing Countries – Two Steps Forward. One Step Back”
- Steve Brockman (Vital Concepts Associates)
- "Six Sigma for Improving IT Processes"
- Bryce Williams (Eli Lilly and Company)
Emerging Technologies:
- "Reshaping the IT Landscape"
- John Crouse (ACS State and Local Solutions)
- “Geographic Information Systems: Map Making in the 21st Century”
- Ed Wasser (Qbase, Inc)
- “Web 2.What? - Is Social Software Changing How We Do Business?”
- Andrea Waugh-Metzger and John Fornaro (IBM)
- ”Virtualizing Your Data Center”
- Steven Peter (Hewlett-Packard)
Lab Sessions
- “Cloud Computing Trends & Futures”
- Dwight Merriman (10gen)
- “Business Process Management (BPM)”
- Larry English and Darren Rehrer (Centric Consulting)
- “Groovy”
- Josh Brown (Sogeti USA)
- "Usability Lab: Software Engineering Using RATionale (SEURAT)"
- Dr. Janet Burge
Entrepreneruship
- “The Redhawk Hatcher: Growing Entrepreneurship at Miami”
- Brian McMillan, Scott Miller
- “Breaking Into Consulting ... As a Student”
- Kevin Fessenden
