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Title: 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