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Unbound Miami – Nov 1-2

Unbound Miami – Nov 1-2

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A celebration of innovation

This November 1&2, unbound will bring its globally established platform to Miami, gathering 100+ future-focussed speakers, immersive brand experiences, pitch sessions and startup battles. Chaired by Yossi Vardi and co-hosted by Mana Wynwood, it will showcase the best grassroots technology and reflect the incredible opportunity for South Florida as an innovation hub for the entire LatAm region.

Join the finest minds in fintech, adtech, AI, healthtech, eCommerce, robotics and more to make invaluable connections, discover inspirational insight and emerging technologies that will shape the future of your career and your business.

Annual Job Survey!

Annual Job Survey!

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Yes, it’s that time of year folks! The Annual ITPalooza Job Survey is in full swing. In appreciation for your participation, you’ll be automatically entered to win an All Day Pass for ITPalooza 2017.

The survey will close on November 30, 2017 to give our team of statisticians the time to compile the data. The results are highly anticipated and are usually available in our local technology publications.

Register for ITPalooza

If you have any questions about the Annual Job Survey, please contact me, Alex@SherlockTalent.com

Below you’ll find links to each of the surveys. We ask you to take a minute and complete the survey that best describes your role.

IT Professionals (Job Seekers)
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eep86pf9j8kg5ztd/start

Employers and Hiring Managers
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eepcpjvqj8lotjbs/start

Note: Your response, as well as the survey results are completely anonymous.

Top Job Pick: Vice President of Information Technology – Palm Beach County, Florida

Top Job Pick: Vice President of Information Technology – Palm Beach County, Florida

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Purpose:  

Our client in Palm Beach is seeking a Vice President of Information Technology who will be responsible for leading their information technology organization. Responsibilities include managing a team of full-time employees and contractors focused on implementing new technology systems, improving existing systems and maintaining current systems. The VP will ensure maximum availability of our client’s computer systems and networks. The successful candidate will work effectively with other members of the management team to make the overall team run efficiently.

Responsibilities:  

  • Collaborate with the Chief Information Officer to develop an information technology strategic and tactical plans that meets requirements and allows for synergy across business lines.
  • Oversee delivery of custom software. This includes site and lease management software, related software modules (e.g., competitive market analysis), SharePoint-based workflows and myriad reports, models and dashboards.
  • Provide leadership to information technology personnel, both full time employees, contractors and consultants. Develop job requirements and bonus goals. Evaluate employees annually and recommend merit increases and bonus payments.  Interview, hire, retain and terminate employees, as required.
  • Work with internal stakeholders to develop or enhance business processes. Develop software requirements to automate business processes and make them more efficient. Analyze whether software should be developed in-house or if 3rd party vendor software should be used based on total cost of ownership, return on investment and the degree of proprietary information.
  • Prepare the information technology budget.  Monitor actuals against budget.  Work to control information technology related costs.  Recommend cost reduction initiatives.
  • Simultaneously manage multiple projects.  This includes projects using internal resources and external resources.  Effectively communicate project status to stakeholders.
  • Manage vendors, consultants and contractors.  This includes, but is not limited to, the management of outsourced IT operational support, help desk and back office functions such as network and system administration.
  • Ensure all systems (infrastructure and software) are highly available.  Work with vendors to implement highly available systems.  Develop and test a disaster recovery plan.  Manage information technology related crises if they occur.
  • Lead a team of full time employees and contractors.
  • Position will work directly from the corporate office and will have minimal travel.

Qualifications:

  • Four-year degree (BA or BS), preferably in an Information Technology field, is required
  • Master’s degree in business or information technology, is desired
  • Minimum 5-years of Information Technology leadership experience is required
  • Minimum 5-7 years’ experience in a Microsoft environment, including, but not limited to, SQL Server and SharePoint is required
  • Knowledge of the telecom industry or the real estate industry is a plus
  • Must possess project management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Must have demonstrated ability to work with vendors and consultants
  • Must have demonstrated knowledge of agile software development techniques
  • Must have ability to follow established company protocol and communication guidelines and work well within a team-oriented environment as well as being able to work independently
  • Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with internal and external clients

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Exclusive SFTA Seminar: Navigating Enterprise Cloud and SaaS Deal Negotiations with Mark Grossman and Stewart Byrne

Exclusive SFTA Seminar: Navigating Enterprise Cloud and SaaS Deal Negotiations with Mark Grossman and Stewart Byrne

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Please Note: New Date – Friday October 20, 2017 – All other details are unchanged.

You are invited to join this Exclusive SFTA Seminar featuring leading tech lawyer Mark Grossman and Stewart Byrne, Vice President and Regional General Counsel for the Americas at Citrix Systems

Whether you buy or sell cloud and SaaS solutions, Mark and Stewart will lead you through proven techniques to negotiate the best Cloud and SaaS deals for your company.

“Enterprises of all sizes are now comfortable with SaaS and cloud solutions. However, SaaS and cloud deals raise many complex legal issues that need to be thoroughly negotiated and documented in agreements. In this seminar, Mark & Stewart will give you the benefit of what they have learned in their careers as negotiators. You will learn about the unique customs, usages, and norms of SaaS and cloud deals and the particular provisions that are critical to agreements in this area. The discussion will include issues common to SaaS agreements including intellectual property, service level agreements, credits for missing SLAs, warranties, and limitations of liability.

Schedule

  • 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Check-in and Complimentary Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Seminar and discussion

Points to be covered include the following:

  • Key provisions that should be included in every cloud and SaaS contract
  • How limitation of liability clauses can emasculate cloud and SaaS agreements
  • How do protect your data in the cloud
  • How intellectual property provisions in SaaS agreements can be a trap for the unwary
  • Strategies to keep SaaS agreements out of court
  • Negotiating cloud and SaaS agreements that communicate the deal in clear, simple and unambiguous terms, reducing risk to the enterprise”

Who Should Attend:

  • Consultants involved with software, IT or outsourcing
  • CIOs, CTOs
  • Software and IT entrepreneurs
  • High and mid-level software, IT or outsourcing executives
  • Procurement professionals in the software, IT or outsourcing space
  • Contracting professionals in the software, IT or outsourcing space
  • In-house software, IT or outsourcing lawyers
  • Law firm software, IT or outsourcing lawyers

mark-grossmanMark Grossman – Mark is a technology lawyer, negotiator, and professional speaker. His practice focuses on the negotiation of enterprise IT deals of every kind and advising on numerous other technology related legal issues. His clients have ranged from Fortune 100 companies to middle market companies in many diverse industries including car rental, oil and gas, automobile distribution and import, recording label, banks, music distribution, supermarkets, medical billing, insurance, hospitals, technology and digital media. He is also an author and frequent keynote speaker on technology, outsourcing, and the art of deal negotiation.

The Best Lawyers in America (www.bestlawyers.com) named Mark “Lawyer of the Year” for Technology Law in New York City for 2016. Each year, Best Lawyers names a single lawyer in each specialty in each community as a “Lawyer of the Year.” Those honored have received particularly outstanding ratings in the surveys by their peers by earning a high level of respect for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Further, his peers also selected him to be on the 2015 and 2016 New York Super Lawyers list. Super Lawyers are those who were in the top 5% of the vote in a state.

He has appeared on “The Best Lawyers in America” list since 2003. Since Best Lawyers bases its choices on a confidential peer-review survey in which over 25,000 leading attorneys cast about two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not allowed to pay a listing fee, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Mark authored two editions of the book Technology Law – What Every Business (and Business-Minded Person) Needs to Know. He has written hundreds of columns for PC World Magazine, South Florida’s “Daily Business Review, and the Miami Herald and also co-authored a chapter called “Web Development Agreements” in the American Bar Association’s book titled Internet Law for the Business Lawyer.

He is a member of the National Speakers Association, a collective of speaking professionals that includes experts in a variety of industries and disciplines. He has also been a guest on many television and radio shows including CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Bloomberg TV’s “Bloomberg West,” and ABC’s “Nightline.” Since the mid-1990’s, he has spoken to hundreds of groups domestically and internationally including multiple appearances at Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced Computer Law Institute and seminars offered by the Association for Corporate Counsel and the Practicing Law Institute.

Mark is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Information Management (www.simnet.org/) and the South Florida Technology Alliance (www.southfloridatech.org/).

Mark a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the New York and Florida Bars.
Stewart Byrne – Stewart is a talented and energetic executive with over 25 years of in-house corporate legal experience across the legal departments of Citrix Systems, Compaq/HP, and IBM. Stewart demonstrates strong business acumen, insightful questioning ability, comfort with real time decision making, and consummate professionalism. Practice areas include sales, antitrust, procurement, risk management, real estate, corporate compliance, manufacturing, product management, intellectual property (IP) licensing, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), litigation, environmental controls, and trade operations.

Stewart is experienced with SaaS, software, hardware, semiconductors and manufacturing services offerings, as well as related consulting and technical support. He has particular strengths in go-to-market (GTM) strategies for both products and services, including online sales, channel sales, direct sales, and government sales (including state, local and US federal). Stewart focuses on interpersonal and leadership skills across all areas of his practice. He loves to facilitate the success of others by teaching empathy and humility. He is an advocate and mentor of FIRST Robotics’ FRC Program for high school students in his local community.

Stewart is currently Vice President and Regional General Counsel for the Americas at Citrix Systems. He has been a part of Citrix for over 15 years. During that time, Citrix has increased its revenue from $200M to over $3B annually and evolved from selling only shrink-wrap software to its current lines of enterprise software, hardware, SaaS, and services. Stewart has been a part of numerous Citrix management teams developing the strategies, programs, and processes which have helped Citrix achieve its growth.

Prior to Citrix, Stewart held multiple counsel positions at Compaq/HP and IBM, including field sales counsel, division counsel, manufacturing site counsel, and senior licensing counsel for patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

Joint CIO – South Florida SIM Event – Oct 18

Joint CIO – South Florida SIM Event – Oct 18

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You are invited to join the CIO Council and the South Florida SIM for a joint event.

If you are the CIO or senior most IT Professional at your company and you would like an invitation, please send email.

Guest Speaker 7:00 PM-7:30 PM

  • Anthony Puca, Microsoft
    • Topic: Trends in Cloud Security, Hyper Datacenters & Cloud Regulations

Agenda:

  • 5:30 to 6:00 Check-in
  • 6:00 to 7:00 Networking and Light Dinner
  • 7:00 to 7:30 Guest Speaker – Anthony Puca, Microsoft
  • 7:30 to 8:30 Panel Discussion, Q&A

CIO Panel 7:30 PM-8:30 PM

  • Johann Vaz, CIO BioTest Pharmaceuticals
  • Martin Ingram, CIO Arise
  • John Bruno, CIO Broward County

 

CIO Council / SIM Joint Event