Welcome to the Portland Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM)

Don't forget to look at our new News section, which gives additional SIM information.

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Connecting Security to the Business

Join us May 8th, 2013 at 6pm to hear why it is essential for technology leaders to connect the actions of information security groups to business problems and results. This presentation will address how to make investments in security that the business will support, and how to articulate the value of your efforts. In addition, you will learn how to incorporate risk in your organization's security strategy and develop meaningful security metrics.

Dwayne Melancon, CISA Click here to download a copy of the presentation

CTO Tripwire

Dwayne is Tripwire's Chief Technology Officer, where he owns a critical role in creating and realizing the company's global strategy. He brings over 25 years of security software experience, and is responsible for leading the company's long term product strategy to meet the evolving data security needs of global enterprises. He is certified on both IT management and audit processes, holding both ITIL and CISA certifications, and is a frequent speaker at national and regional industry events.

Board Election

Thanks to our outgoing Board members for their service and dedication to SIM PDX! Please extend your appreciation to Sam Manafi, Terri King, Todd Williams, and Dan Carroll. A special thanks goes out to Lance Harris for his years of service to SIM.

Congratulations to your 2013-4 Board:

President - John Pierce

President-elect - David Kaplin

Academic Director - Pradeep Kumar

Events Director - Lisa Harper

Membership Director - Mark Wehrmeister

Marketing Director - Dana Jiacoletti

Programs Director - Marc Hallquist

Secretary - Bud Borja

Treasurer - Bill Malone

Assistant Treasurer - Wilfred Wu

Regional Leadership Forum

Learn more about RLF

SIM's Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) is an intensive, ten-month leadership development program focused on creating authentic leaders. Since 1992 over 3500 graduates and more than 300 sponsors have found RLF the key to developing leadership effectiveness.

We are now actively recruiting for the class of 2013. We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird pricing, which ends Nov. 30, 2012.

Watch the following 3-minute YouTube RLF video and you will hear, RLF is a life changing experience!

Your facilitator team is Bob Rouse and Ed Trainor, giving you a strong combination of practitioner and academic with tons of leadership experience.

To give you greater insight into RLF, we are hosting a Virtual Taste of RLF :

For more information contact:
sbrilling@frontier.com
425-891-7875

Current plans have the 2013 dates/locations as follows:

Schedule:

March 12-13, 2013, Seattle
April 23-24, 2013, Portland
June 11-12, 2013, Seattle
July 23-24, 2013, Portland
September 3-4, 2013, Seattle
October 15-16, 2013, Portland

RLF Fees

Who	Before Dec.1, 2012	After Nov.30, 2012
SIM Member	$7,750	$8,250
Non-SIM Member	$8,350	$8,850

All prices include admission to SIMposium 2013 in Boston.

An additional $995 value.

Hear why Brian Irvine, Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Unitus Community Credit Union, values RLF

We Asked for Your Support . . . And You Responded!

In partnership with the Business Education Compact, 63 SIM-PDX representatives teamed with our scholarship recipients and other students from OSU, OIT, UofP, and WSU-Vancouver to present information about IT careers to 2,744 middle and high school students in 82 classes. Many thanks to our volunteers and, in particular, to Pradeep Kumar for championing this worthwhile program on behalf of the Chapter.

Your 2013-2014 Board Members

President: John Pierce

President Elect: David Kaplin

Secretary: Bud Borja

Treasurer: Bill Malone

Assistant Treasurer: Wilfred Wu

Education Director: Pradeep Kumar

Events Director: Lisa Harper

Marketing Director: Dana Jiacoletti

Membership Director: Mark Wehrmeister

Program Director: Marc Hallquist