CA User Communities NJ Clarity User Group Meeting1

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CA User Communities NJ Clarity User Group
(Meeting1)
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Agenda

• 900    Breakfast
• 930   Intro and Board Bio
• 1000   Networking/Why you signed up (This will
  help with our Welcome message.)
• 1100   PMI points and credits (Kevin Kuker)
  Quick Website intro and updates (Jason Frame)
• 1120   Ram Seshan WHG Clarity Upgrade from
• 7.5.3 to 12.0
• 1200   Lunch
• 100   Optional Open Discussion (Discuss future
  agenda items, group questions, suggestions and
  optional topics)

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Thank you to CA

• For Breakfast and Lunch
• Providing a location to meet quarterly (4
  meetings per year)
• CA support CA will facilitate requested CA
  speakers from Support, Product Management and
  Services. If presenter is close they may attend
  in person, otherwise the presentations could be
  done via webcast.
• Website from where the User Community board can
• At least 8 companies should be represented
• Membership is open to all employees of a company
  that holds at least
• one license of CA software solution
  represented by the user group
• 2-4 meetings per year
• Minimum 10 participants per meeting

Membership Meeting Guidelines
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Intro User Community and its Benefits

• CA user Communities are two-tired
• Global User Communities - 36 Online Groups and
  13700 Members
• Regional User Communities - 200 groups and 11000
  Members
• NJ Regional User Community - _____________________
  ______? Members
• Location_________________________________________
  _(survey info?)
• Benefits
• 61 of user group members created long lasting
  relationships with fellow members which helped
  them on a regular basis
• 76 of members felt being a member of a user
  group increased optimization of the products they
  use
• 44 of members saved significant amount of work
  time per year based on knowledge learned in
  meetings
• Source Celine Schulz, University of Munich, CA
  User Group Survey (conducted as part of a
  Doctoral Thesis)
• Support
• Support your user group, bring in a member!
• Try to use the forum instead of emailing one
  another, unless you dont want to open up to
  everyone. (HmmYou never knowwe might even
  give a prize for the member with the most kudos
  on the board!)
• Sorry but a warning this is about the
  utilization of the application. No sales
  pressure.
• Meeting minutes Please let me know if you would
  like to assist with the meeting minutes!

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Benefits of Membership

• Peer-to-Peer Networking
• - Mutual support sharing of best practices
  and experience
• Increased Product Knowledge
• Regular webcasts featuring topics of interest to
  the user community
• Ability to influence product direction
• - Prioritize vote on selected product
  enhancement requests
• - Voicing issues, concerns and suggestions
  regarding product direction
• Access to the Global user community website
• - Product Line information, event calendar,
  presentations,
• product roadmaps, etc

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NJ User Group Board Members - President
Picture Location Versions Hrs avail for contact
and to commit OWB/MSP Contact info Emial, IM
Times to be contacted, restrictions? Expertise Pe
rsonal Interests Areas to develop
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NJ User Group Board Members President Maddie
Perez
My responsibilities as your President are to be
the principal executive office of the regional
community and preside at all meetings. Assist
with each of the duties performed and distribute
them as necessary. Im responsible for the vision
and oversight for the User Group. I will usually
be the main person to distribution
communications. Meeting minutes will be done on a
rotation schedule. I currently work at Wyndham
Worldwide located on Sylvan Way in Parsippany. I
have been with Wyndham since 1996 but have been
in the current position since 2007. My experience
is on Niku, 6.0, 7.5.3 utilizing the financial
and project modules. Our projects use OWB only.
My focus is highly functional and I am interested
in expand my technical expertise. I am available
for your Clarity questions from 9-6, M-F. My IM
(MSN) and email is Madalene.perez_at_wyndhamworldwide
.com. For my personal information, I just
bought a fixer upper in Morris Plains. I am
interested in gaming and love to read mystery /
sci-fi / fantasy type books. My favorite hobby is
cooking!
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NJ User Group Board Members VP Ram Seshan
My responsibilities as your Vice President are to
be, in the absence of the president, the
principal executive office of the regional
community and preside at all meetings. Assist
with each of the duties performed and distribute
them as necessary. Assist Jason with maintaining
the user group website. Meeting minutes will be
done on a rotation schedule.

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NJ User Group Board Members Secretary - Jason
Frame
My responsibilities as your Secretary will be to
manage the meeting minutes rotation schedule,
support the president and make sure that all
notices are duly given, custodian of the
community records. I will be the main person to
updated the user website which includes profile
information, welcome message and security
administration. Meeting minutes will be done on a
rotation schedule. I have over eleven years of
technical and project management experience. My
experience includes a broad range of disciplines,
such as system implementation, process design,
operations, network and security management as
well as systems configuration.  I have
participated in and lead multiple projects that
involved many aspects across CA Clarity
including the development of custom
views/reports, implementation of each CA Clarity
module, integration with various third party
systems (i.e. Oracle financials) as well as
configuring MS Project and Open Workbench.  I
have also provided support for various upgrades
and migration of critical data within the CA
Clarity application. I have technical
functional experience across several different
versions of Clarity including 7.x, 8.x, and
12.x. Im available for questions as they arise
and the best way to reach him is email
(jframe_at_deloitte.com) or cell phone
(973.590.6204).  For my personal information, I
live in Northeast Morris county and spend most of
my free time with my two sons, Alex Tyler. 

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NJ User Group Board Members Treasurer - Kevin
Kuker
My responsibilities as your Secretary will be to
will be responsible for all funds the regional
community receive and give receipts for monies
due and payable to the regional community from
any sources whatsoever and deposit all such
monies in the name of the regional community and
perform all duties incident to he office of
treasurer with respect to the regional community.
I will work with the liaison for CA to get
approved funding for each meeting. Will track and
retain the financial receipts and books, will
work with the president regarding meeting dates
and assist with communication. Meeting minutes
will be done on a rotation schedule. I am a PMP,
Six Sigma, and ITIL Foundation Certified Project
Manager with over 15 years of hands on
experience. I have a Masters degree in Business
Administration with a concentration in Financial
Management. As a former Navy Officer my
experience includes operations planning and
management, financial control, human resource
management, recruitment, and training. As a
Senior Project Manager for Technisource
Consulting he is currently assigned at Wyndham
World Wide Hotel IT Group Tech Ops Section. He
manages multiple large/complex projects with a
scope between 1M and 10M in capital work effort
including up to 40 FTEs, external vendors,
contractors, and consultants in a matrix
management environment utilizing Niku/Clarity,
Open Workbench and SharePoint. As the Senior
Project Manager for Edison Schools Inc. he
managed the Project Management Office (PMO) and
Service Desk staff. He designed a Project
Management/Business Analysis group that worked
toward continuous process improvement in helping
Edison become a well-managed organization. He
wrote the Edison Schools Project Management
Handbook designed to provide both PMO Project
Managers, as well as other Edison employees
acting in a project manager capacity, with the
framework used to manage projects. The handbook
provided an overview of the Project Management
Processes and the tools and techniques to
effectively and efficiently manage a project
including templates for the Project Charter,
Scope Document, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS),
Change Request, Project Plan, Communication Plan,
Staffing Plan, Capital and Operating Budgets,
Procurement Plan, Risk Register, Issue Tracking,
Roles and Responsibilities, Quality Management
Plan, Team Norms, Lessons Learned, and Customer
Satisfaction Survey. I am available for
questions and the best way to reach him is email
at kkuker_at_comcast.net or phone at 908-534-9254.

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Role of the Board Officer

• Act as the voice of the group - liaison between
  the members and CA
• Approve requests from other users to join the
  group
• Group meetings
• - Agree on a meeting schedule
• - Prepare meeting agenda in collaboration
  with the technical contact
• including topics of interest to the user
  community and send invitation
• - Submit meeting request to CA from the web
  site
• - After the meeting, provide meeting
  protocols to members and CA contacts
• and forward final member lists to CA
  contacts
• Maintain website content
• - Post meeting schedules and minutes
• - Membership requests should be maintained
  current

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CA User Community - Networking

• Name
• Company
• Clarity Version and Modules Utilizing
• OWB and/or MSP
• Current Initiatives
• Area/years of expertise
• Area you would like to develop
• Reason why you joined the board and the major
  benefit to you?
• (Remember, this will help us with our welcome
  statement!!)

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Kevin Kuker - PMI
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How to Join a CA User Community

• http//causergroups.com

•   1. Visit the website

2. Click Join Today 3. Select the group of
interest 4. Complete the brief online
registration form.
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User Community web site

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WHG Clarity Upgrade Ram Seshan
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Next Steps

• Welcome message who are we?
• Agenda items
• Next meeting date
• Location - Princeton or Central Jersey

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CA User Community Program Contacts

• Email customerprograms_at_ca.com
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• John A. McDermott Sr. Director, CA User
  Community
• Email John.Mcdermott_at_ca.com , Tel
  415-420-0658
• Abdel Laabi EMEA User Group Liaison
• Email Abderrazzak.Laabi_at_ca.com , Tel
  33 1 49 02 54 35
• Lisa Kelly APJ User Group Liasion
• Email Lisa.Kelly_at_ca.com, Tel [phone]
  2000 x82656
• Loveleen Lohia -  CA User Community,
  Infrastructure Management
• Email Loveleen.Lohia_at_ca.com   , Tel
  631-342-2394

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CA User Community Program Contacts (Cont)

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• Christopher Hackett CA User Community ,
  Governance, Risk Compliance (GRC)
• Email Christopher.Hackett_at_ca.com , Tel
  707-665-3023
• Kraig A. Johnson CA User Community , Security,
  Storage Mid-Market
• Email Kraig.Johnson_at_ca.com , Tel
  214-473-1279
• D. Suzette Padgett - CA User Community , Workload
  Automation Service Management
• Email Suzette.Padgett_at_ca.com , Tel 
  904-215-9892
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• Christopher Short CA User Community ,
  Mainframe
• Email Christopher.Short_at_ca.com , Tel
  631-682-8217

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• Thank you for attending..
• Please feel free to stick around for the open
  session.