In the News at AITP
Press Release 01/19/2010
The Long Island Chapter of the Association of Information Technology
Professionals (AITP) today announced the formation of a new special
interest group (SIG) that focuses on the information technology
interests and needs of the healthcare industry....read
more
Press Release - 11/11/2009
Area Economists Discuss their Forecasts for the Long Island Economy
and the
Information Technology Industry in 2010.
The Long Island Chapter
of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) today
announced the speaker lineup for its Annual Technology Showcase and
Economic Forecast on November 17th....read
more
2009 3rd Quarter Newsletter Released
See some great photos from recent Chapter events including the September
Cyber Security meeting and the Old Westbury Gardens event in August.
“Meet the Membership” profiles our newest Board Member, Rich D’Andrea,
and Bob Barone’s “Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the
Apollo Moon Landing” details the personal memoirs of a young Grumman
Apollo Lunar Module engineer.
Download
the 3rd Quarter Newsletter in PDF format
Barbara Viola Elected AITP Eastern Director
The members of the AITP Long Island Chapter send their
congratulations to Barbara Viola....read
more
New Member Benefits
AITP-LI is partnering with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company to
provide current members with a substantial discount on auto
and homeowner insurance. This discount applies to new and existing
policies with Liberty Mutual. Please see the link below for further
information on how to apply:
http://www.libertymutual.com/lm/gspaitp
Westbury Gardens Pictures - NEW!
Did you attend the AITP Long Island Chapter event for members at Old
Westbury Gardens on August 12, 2009? Member Tony Schmidt has posted a
photo album from the event. Thanks, Tony!
View the pictures on google's picasa.
And watch this web site and your email for more members-only special
event announcements, as they happen.
2nd Quarter 2009 AITP Long Island Chapter Newsletter
See some great photos from our events including the June Boat Trip;
read a profile of member Chris Garner, Channel Account Manager,
Nortel... read about member Joe DiCarlo's appearance on the WLIW Channel
21 program "Going Green: Long Island", and more!
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2nd
Quarter Newsletter in PDF format.
News Release: Feb. 18, 2009
Information Technology Leaders to Discuss Trends and Training at February 24th AITP Meeting...read more
2009 AITP-LI Scholarship Awards Announcement
The Board of the AITP-LI chapter takes pleasure in announcing that, once again this year, it will be awarding scholarships to graduating high school seniors and currently enrolled college students who are active AITP members...read more
The 2008 4th Quarter AITP Newsletter is here!
See some great photos from our Fall events…read a profile of member Jean Gillman, Vice President of Systems and Technology for Broadridge Financial Solutions... get the lowdown on member companies in the news…and more!
Click here to download the newsletter in PDF format.
LI companies struggle to fill high-tech jobs
By Carrie Mason-Draffen
Newsday, July 28, 2008
For at least two years, Barbara Viola, who owns Viotech Solutions, a high-tech staffing and consulting firm in Farmingdale, has found the hunt for qualified applicants difficult.
"It started about two years ago, and it is getting harder every day," she said.
Viola said it took eight months to fill a client's request for a network analyst with supervisory skills and experience in the Linux operating system, a Microsoft competitor. That contrasts with some searches at Viotech that take as little as a day, she said.
Read the full article on Newsday's Website:
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzcov285779862jul28,0,4033185.story
New York area still draws high-tech workers
By Carrie Mason-Draffen
Newsday, June 30, 2008
A lot of people were probably stunned to learn from a new report that the metropolitan area, including Long Island, has the highest number of high-tech industry workers in the country. But the report from the American Electronics Association didn't surprise some local experts who track the tech industry.
"New York City has had a fairly strong recovery in terms of it," said Pearl Kamer, chief economist for the Long Island Association.
As for Long Island, one business owner who has long carried the torch for high technology here, even through the tech bust years of 2000-2002, wasn't surprised.
"Long Island has a very high percentage of tech workers," said Barbara Viola, president of Viotech Solutions, a Farmingdale high-tech staffing company and the head of the Long Island chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals. "It just seems that we haven't had the media attention."
Read the full article on Newsday's Website:
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzinsid305746933jun30,0,1304875.story
Long Island IT experts expand role in slow economy
By Carrie Mason-Draffen
Newsday, May 28, 2008
The current economic slowdown has generated many stories about how companies are coping with higher prices and retrenching consumers.
A tech luncheon at the Milleridge Cottage in Jericho Tuesday afternoon took a different tack. It focused on how chief information officers at major Long Island corporations are weathering the slowdown.
Read the full article on Newsday's
Website
AITP-LI Newsday Business Beat-March 20, 2008
Long Island IT group to hold forum on skills gap
The best way to close a skills gap is to devise a plan that reaches across the great divide. The Long Island chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals hopes to do that by taking its case to school.
The group will sponsor a breakfast forum Tuesday in Jericho at which IT executives will discuss their present and future hiring needs with some university officials. The event starts 8 a.m. in the Milleridge Cottage.
“The Long Island technology brain drain is well documented, but we shouldn’t assume that the battle is lost,” said Barbara Viola, the chapter’s president
View on Newsday
Website here
AITP-LI Newsday Article -February 27, 2008
LI tech panel looks at the office of the future
When you’re in a room filled with information-technology experts and you’re not a techie, it’s easy to think you’ve stumbled into a foreign-language class.
That was the case Tuesday afternoon at the “Convergent Technologies” seminar at the Milleridge Inn in Jericho, where the arcane acronyms were flying: VoIP, SIP, and IVR, to name a few.
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Website here
AITP Long Island Chapter Named “Association Outstanding Chapter”
Robust Educational Programs and Extensive Meeting Schedule Cited
The Long Island Chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) today announced that the national AITP Awards Committee has named AITP....read more.
Technology Showcase a Stunning Success
Our annual Technology Showcase/November meeting was a stunning
success. View the vendor list- click
here.
AITP-LI Newsday Article - November 27 2007
Economists have a tough time these days. They have
to deliver the news no one wants to hear. And Pearl Kamer, the chief
economist for the Long Island Association, was cognizant of that
as she began to address the Long Island chapter of the Association
of Information Technology Professionals Tuesday afternoon....Read
More (pdf)
View on Newday
Website here
AITP-LI Newsday Article - November 29 2007
For many years, Barbara Viola, president of the Long Island chapter
of the
Association of Information Technology Professionals, kept the faith
in tech.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.newsday.com/technology/ny-bzright5480129nov29,0,70137.story
Long Island Chapter Wins Co-Chapter of Year (2006) Award
After 52 years, our Long Island Chapter has finally won AITP national
Association’s Highest Award, the 2006 Association Outstanding
Chapter Award! In addition, we have also won the 2006 Chapter Outstanding
Performance Award, and the 2006 Region 13 Outstanding Chapter of
the Year..... read more
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November 29, 2006
Robert Bagnall, Barbara Viola, Pearl Kamer
Business
Lack of housing, skilled workers hurting Island
BY Carrie Mason-Draffen
Newsday Staff Writer
November 29, 2006
The Long Island economy, though growing, faces enormous challenges
because of the continuing shortage of skilled workers and affordable
housing, economist Pearl Kamer told a high-tech group in Jericho
yesterday.
"Barring any new spike in energy prices, there should be enough
momentum in the economy to avoid another recession," Kamer
told the Island's chapter of the Association of Information Technology
Professionals at the Milleridge Inn in Jericho.
But Kamer, chief economist of the Long Island Association, a business
group, warned, "The absence of affordable housing and the continued
loss of young workers has increased the fragility of the economy."
The group also heard about some of the pitfalls of improperly monitored
outsourcing from a Virginia security expert.
Despite the slowdown in the housing market, prices still shut out
many young people on Long Island, in part because of the lack of
rental units.
Rental units account for just 17 percent of Long Island's housing
stock, far less than the 38 percent in Westchester County; 26 percent
in Rockland County; and 32 percent in Bergen County, N.J., Kamer
said.
Last year, more than half of Long Island's homeowners with mortgages
as well as renters spent at least 30 percent of their income on
housing, an amount meeting the federal government's definition of
unaffordable housing costs.
The worker shortage is already weighing on the economy. In the past
12 months ended in October, the Island created just 3,100 jobs,
partly because companies can't find enough skilled workers.
The worker shortage resounded with Judy Murrah, vice president of
information technology at Holtsville-based Symbol Technologies Inc.
"It's difficult to find technically skilled professionals on
Long Island," Murrah said in an interview.
As a result, salaries for those workers have been increasing, but
she declined to say by how much. She said the company is thinking
long-term and forging alliances with local universities to find
future workers.
Kamer predicted a bright future for high technology on Long Island.
New products will reinvigorate the industry, which is still climbing
back from the bust of 2001. Smaller companies, including some on
Long Island, are producing pioneering software and Web-based services
relatively cheaply, she said.
"The new economics of software production may actually reverse
the outsourcing of computer jobs to low-wage countries abroad,"
Kamer said.
Security expert Robert Bagnall, chairman and chief executive of
Maverick-Security in Chantilly, Va., warned that companies that
outsource computer work are vulnerable because they aren't aware
when the outsourcers themselves outsource U.S. company operations.
It's something "the American company isn't aware of until a
hacking incident," he said.
And Bagnall also stressed that companies often don't assess the
cultural risks when outsourcing abroad. In some countries, hackers,
for example, operate openly.
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the Newsday Article
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