• 22Mar

  IT Career Networking Night

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  WICS is holding its Spring 2011 IT Career Networking Event. If you want to meet successful women in the field, if you are planning tofind a job after graduation, if you are looking for internship resources, or if you want to learn how to network, come and join us in IT Career Networking Event.

  Date: Monday, March 28, 2011

  Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm

  Place: TASC1 - 9204E

  IT Career networking night is an informal social gathering for students and professionals who are currently working in the Technology field. This event is open for ALL GENDERS and MAJORS who are interested in IT industry.

  Please RSVP using our websurvey: http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/78807751

  or via our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197694730262618&ref=mf

  Note that we have very limited spots, so please make sure about your availability before RSVP and be one of the first 20 who register to secure your spot.

  You can meet the following technical women among our guests in this event:

  Tracy Huitika is a Business Development Manager at MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates Geospatial Services Inc. (MDA GSI), where she defines, creates, and develops targeted geospatial service offerings for the Aviation market. Prior to her new career in Business Development, Tracy was the Director of Game Development at a local gaming company. She has a solid background in science and technology, and has spent the majority of her career in software engineering and management on projects at MDA such as the Naval Combat Operator Trainer for the Canadian Navy, the US Air Force Global Procedure Designer, and the CP-140 Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Canadian Air Force. Tracy’s educational background includes a Post-Baccalaureate in Computing Science from SFU, studying physics at UBC, and completing a Bachelor of Science in Astronomy and Mathematics from the University of Manitoba.
  Tracy lives in the West End of Vancouver, where she takes full advantage of the seawall and ocean by rollerblading, running, and swimming at the local beaches. She also enjoys fitness training and plays soccer for the Vancouver Vixens Soccer Club.

  Paula Hunter has been working in the high tech industry in the Localization field for over 11 years. Localization is the process of adapting software UI to meet the needs of different markets.  This role has allowed her to touch on many different aspects of software development since they work with so many different teams.  For example, work with the UI team to ensure that software UI design is culturally appropriate; the software development team to ensure that the source code is fully internationalized; the test team to ensure appropriate test case coverage; external translation vendors to deliver UI translations; Product Marketing team to discuss needs and requirements of consumers in the various market regions;  error managers to ensure localization is taken into the process; build and integration team to ensure correct language codes and combinations are used; etc…. Her role has essentially been to coordinate, facilitate, educate and drive improvements across all teams involved in software project.  And so have had the opportunity to develop and mature processes, as well as learn about all the different aspects of software development.

  Paula began working in Localization as a coop student with Seagate Software, and from there was hired full time.  (Seagate Software eventually become Crystal Decisions, and then Business Objects, and now SAP).  She now works for Nokia and have been there for nearly 7 years. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hispanic and Italian Studies from UVic, and a Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Computing Science from SFU (ARC program).

  Winona Wu: Winona was once an active member of Women in Computing Science (WICS@SFU) during her education here at SFU, first as Events Coordinator and then as its President. After graduating her Masters degree in Computing Science from SFU, she started her internship as Software Tester with BI OnDemand team at SAP. She is now pursuing her career as Quality Assurance Analyst at Elastic Path.

  Liyang Zhang is Bachelor of GIS, Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. During her Bachelor degree, she has been involved in Women in Computing Science (WICS@SFU) as Communications Coordinator for two semesters and then as President of the club for two semesters. She is now working in HSBC, Distribution. She is working on planning deployment metrics, project plans, and project timelines. She has previously worked in Ministry of Agriculture on developing Okanagan Water Demand Model project as an Intern.

  
  
• 21Mar

  WICS Meeting Minutes - March 21st , 2011

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  Date: Monday, March 21th, 2011
  Place: TASC1-9204
  Meeting Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  Secretary: Queena Wang
  Attendees:
  1.Elaheh Kamaliha
  2.Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
  3.Queena Wang
  4.Youna Chung

  1.USLC Funding reimbursement
  About:Youna went to the USLC meeting today (March 21) as WICS representative.
  Youna report the following WICS issue during USLC meeting:
  Issue1: WICS is trying to connect people form surrey campus for our events
  Issue2: WICS needs more women power for its event
  Issue3: We need funding for WICS scholarship (If approved by FAS department)
  Feedback for USLC meeting:
  -They suggest us that when we send our package for potential TryCatch sponsor, we should ask for WICS sponsor as well.
  (For example, WICS should have option in the package that the sponsor can choose to donate to TryCatch or WICS, or both TryCatch and WICS.)
  -WICS can create a new position as WICS Sponshorhsip Coordinator to help WICS to find more funding.
  -The Dean said he could help us to find some people who might be interested in sponsoring WICS.

  2.Mentor Lunch
  About: Mentor Lunch participants haven’t send Sara their feedback for the event.
  We will collect all the feedbacks and post them on WICS website.

  3.International Women’s Day
  Feedback from Youna, and Queena:
  Overall, the event was good. 53 people attended the event including 12 male, 37 WICS members and 4 WEG+Engineering Science.
  Most people enjoyed our foods, and games.
  They also found our guest talk, and wics-exec presentations interesting. We specially got very good feedback on exec’s informative 2 minute talks on the CS events for women.
  The event let us make connections with WEG and we had an exec meeting with WEG a week after the event.
  Contents of presentation slides (1/2 of world’s work done by women) have cause talks and sharing ideas among attending people.
  However, not too many people participated in writing about the “100 years, 100 achievements” theme on the poster we prepared.
  The game was also a little bit unorganized.
  We will consider having music in our next year event.

  4. Networking Event
  Date: March 28th, 2011
  Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
  Budget: 100 dollars
  Problem: The Highland Pub is not available on March 28. So we have to change the location to TASC 9204.
  Event preparation:

  (1). We will order veggie platters.
  (2). We will also buy some French Fries from Highland Pub
  (2). The rest of the money will spend on Sandwich and drinks. We could order Sandwich from Nester.
  (3).  It is estimated that around 20 to 25 people will come to the event.
  (4). Queena will book the room from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for the event.

  5.GoSC Workshop
  Sara is not here today. We will ask her to send us the feedback through email.

  6.Other things:
  A. Some WICS executives don’t come to our meeting
  We felt not too many WICS executives are attending the meeting this semester. Only 3 out of 7 WICS executives showed up today. And it is huge problem for us, because we need over 1/2 approvals from WICS executives on WICS budget spending. In other words, we can not decide the budget for event if less than 4 WICS executive show up. We are considering a new rule to make it mandatory for WICS executive to be present in the meeting into our WICS constitution.

  B.CSSS Formal
  Ticket can be purchased in CS common room.

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