Attend by webinar or in-person
6 Professional Development Hours are Available!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT)
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (MDT)
11:00 AM to 7:00 PM (CDT)
12:00 N to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Register NOW!
https://www.acteva.com/go/asmescvsSponsorship provided by the ASME Old Guard
A Great Opportunity to...
* Get expert advice on the path from engineer to leader
* Learn how the experts anticipate career inflections
* Realize the role of social networking tools in your career
* Discover the secrets of working successfully across boundaries
* Understand structured innovation in a global context and much more...
As the workplace becomes globally and virtually distributed, engineers at all stages of their career are encountering new cultures, environments, and challenges while navigating long-distance collaborations; online networking; and cross-boundary relationship-building. This workshop is focused on helping engineers learn the skills required to succeed in this changing paradigm.
Building on a successful Early Career Forum in 2009, this event will be held in an innovative interactive format that blends prepared lectures and open-ended interviews, providing participants with the opportunity to collectively learn from industry leaders and trend-setters. Invited guests include technical leaders from Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs,
executive coaches, and early career engineers. Example topics of discussion will include perspectives on the journey from engineer to manager to leader; anticipating technology inflections and timing your career moves accordingly; utilizing online tools for networking; working effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries; and strategies for innovation in globally distributed teams.
Attend In-Person
1) at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA;
2) at University of Texas, Austin, TX
3) at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
or Attend Online Globally via Webinar
Who Should Attend:
Early Career Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Technical Supervisors, Faculty, Engineering Students, and Engineering Managers.
While targeted at early career engineers, this event is appropriate for professionals at all stages of their career.
Join In-Person or by Webinar
Register online at:
https://www.acteva.com/go/asmescvsASME Members: $26
Students, Sponsors and Unemployed: $12
General Registration: $59
For more information and sponsorship opportunities, contact
Registrar: Andrew Lau-Seim (
asme.scvs@gmail.com, Ph: +1 510 205 8915)
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Event Program
"From Engineers to Leaders" Steven Cerri, Founder, ST Cerri International
"Timing is Everything: Moving Yourself in a Fast-Paced Marketplace", Dr. Belgacem Haba, CTO, Advance Packaging & Interconnect, Tessera Technologies
"Perspectives from a 40-Year Career: Stories of Success, Failure, and Having Fun", Tom Christian, Principal Scientist, Hewlett Packard Company
"The Art of Networking in a Web 2.0 World: Effectively Using LinkedIn and Twitter", Jenny Kahn PHR
"Thriving Beyond Boundaries: Driving Success with Cross-Functional and Multinational Teams", Linda Popky, President, L2M Associates
"Innovating and Collaborating in Distributed Environments", Scott Burr, Principal Innovation Consultant and Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Hubenthal Burr Associates
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Speaker Background
Scott Burr (Co-founder and Principal Innovation Consultant, Hubenthal Burr Associates)
Scott is a thought-leader for the emerging field of Structured Innovation and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Prior to HBA, Scott worked at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a leading full-service satellite manufacturer. During his twenty three years of experience, Scott has held
key positions in various industries such as Quality Manager at Rain Bird Consumer Products, Manager of Manufacturing at US Computer Systems, and Mechanical Engineer in the machine tool industry, including stints in entrepreneurial start-ups and university laboratories. Mr. Burr is the Professional Development Chair for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for Silicon Valley and for the Pacific Northwest Distict. He facilitates and arranges professional development and leadership courses for hundreds of professional engineer attendees. Scott received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and later earned his certification as a Six Sigma Black Belt from the Juran Institute and his Master Black Belt from Breakthrough Management Group, leading quality organizations.
Steven Cerri (Founder, ST Cerri International)
Steven Cerri is a top trainer, facilitator, and coach who has helped thousands of engineers enhance their communication and management skills and make the transition from engineer to leader. A sought after speaker, he offers keynotes, workshops, training and consulting to corporations, associations, and individuals. His clients include Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, University of California, Solutions-II Inc., Maersk Logistics, ViewSonic Corp., GeoGraphix Inc., as well as executives, and entrepreneurs. Steven began his career as an aeronautical engineer employed at Rockwell International Corporation. He then acquired an M.S. in geophysics and worked as a programmer and researcher for the United States Geological Survey before returning to the flight performance group of Rockwell International. This time at Rockwell, Steven met four engineers and together they started a software development and systems engineering company focused on Department of Defense programs. Steven received an MBA and progressed from program manager to director, to vice president of engineering, chief operations officer and general manager. He then left to join a printer start-up as product manager and director of corporate training, helping the company grow from half a million to over a quarter of a billion dollars in six years. He since founded ST Cerri International, where he provides training in interpersonal people skills to help great engineers become great managers and even greater leaders.
Tom Christian (Principal Research Scientist, HP Labs, Hewlett Packard
Company)
As part of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab at HP Labs, Tom is a key contributor to HP's research around supply-side management for sustainable data centers. Previously, he was the technical lead for the HP Labs virtualization team focused on creation of secure, self-managed virtual servers able to monitor and control delivered quality of service. Tom joined Hewlett-Packard in 1978, bringing ten years of experience in real-time computing from Ball Aerospace and the University of Colorado at Boulder. At Ball Aerospace, he was a member of the team that developed the Orbiting Solar Observatory satellite and later worked on the UV Spectrometer for Skylab. At the University of Colorado, Tom developed hardware and software to enable precision measurement and data recording for experiments in perception, memory and learning for the Department of Psychology. While at HP, Tom has contributed to the development of
networking, language, operating system, artificial intelligence and software engineering products for the HP-250, HP-9845, and HP-9000 series computers. He was the R&D Manager for Software Engineering Systems Division, HP's first software division, and led development of an HP Laboratories prototype software development environment into the successful SoftBench family of products.
Belgacem Haba (Fellow and CTO, Advanced Packaging & Interconnect, Tessera Technologies)
Dr. Belgacem Haba joined Tessera in 1996 and is now a Tessera Fellow and its Chief Technology Officer of Interconnects, Components and Materials. He is responsible for overseeing next-generation research and development activities for Tessera, Inc. Dr. Haba is also a founder of SiliconPipe Inc., a high-speed interconnect start-up Company based in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he managed the advanced packaging research and development division at Rambus. From 1991 to 1996, he managed advanced research and development projects at the NEC Central Research Laboratories in Japan and, before that, worked for IBM at its T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. During his tenure at NEC and IBM, Dr. Haba's activities included the
applications of lasers in the field of microelectronics. Dr. Haba received his bachelor's degree in solid state physics from the University of Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria in 1980. He holds two master's degrees in applied physics, materials science and engineering from Stanford University,
California, where he also earned a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 1988 in the field of thin film solar cells. Dr. Haba holds 110 U.S. patents, and over 180 worldwide patents.
Linda Popky (President, L2M Associates)
Linda Popky is the president of strategic marketing company L2M Associates, a Redwood City-based strategic marketing company that helps organizations improve the effectiveness of their marketing programs, processes, and people. Her clients range from small businesses and
consultants to mid-sized companies and large Fortune 500 enterprises. In 2009, Linda was named one of the top women of influence in Silicon Valley and inducted into the Million Dollar Consultant (r) Hall of Fame. She is the first marketing consultant worldwide certified to offer the Private RosterTM Mentoring Program for consultants and entrepreneurs. Linda is the past president of Women in Consulting (WIC) and the Vice President of Marketing for the Northern California chapter of the Business Marketing Association (BMA), as well as a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC), the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), and the Forum for Women Executives and Entrepreneurs. She is a coach and mentor for Clean Tech Open and the Astia women's business accelerator. Linda holds advisory positions and teaches marketing courses at San Francisco State University's College of Extended Learning, and the University of California Santa Cruz Extension in Silicon Valley, and she is an adjunct instructor in West Virginia University's online Master's in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program. She's the author of workbooks on Marketing Your Career and Promoting Your Non-Profit, the host of the Marketing Thought Leadership podcast series, and the host of the Norcal BMA's Marketing Strategy Roundtables.
Jenny Kahn, PHR (Career Consultant / Sr. Technical Recruiter)
Jenny Kahn, PHR has been a Recruiter over two decades as well as a Career Consultant helping people with their career transitions. She has worked in the fields of Aerospace, Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Commercial Real Estate among others. Jenny earned her Professional in Human Resource (PHR) certification in 2000 and is a committee member of
C-Six, Silicon Valley Women in HR, and Phase2careers. She is a featured Recruiter in Marcia Stein's book "Recruiters on Recruiting".
L to R: Michael Moore, Shane McGolderick, Annmarie Connor, Jenn Dandrea-Spadafora, Hieu Nguyen, Garrett Herning
Cathedral (or Dom, as the locals call it) in Koln
Eduardo, Jen, and some of our new friends 
Proof that Tom hit the dance floor
A dinner for SDOB Participants 
