PacITPros Los Angeles meeting

One of my professional goals for 2011 was to find or establish a strong user group. Through this group, I hope to network with other IT professionals and increase my knowledge. I also hope to facilitate more women and students becoming IT pros and invite them to meetings.

I am fortunate to have become good acquaintances with the folks in San Francisco including Ed Horley, Jennelle Crothers and Doug Spindler who run a very strong and successful user group – Pacific IT Professionals. I am excited to announce that my colleague Joy Beland of LA-IT Girl and I have begun the Los Angeles chapter of PacITPros and our first meeting is Tuesday, January 25th! If you’d like to attend, please RSVP!  We are excited to welcome Lee Bender from StorageCraft and hear about their products. Additionally, we’ll welcome Chris Henley from Microsoft to talk about Exchange 2010 and Sharepoint Foundation 2010 technologies.

This group is an independent non-profit professional association for IT Directors, IT Systems Managers, Server Administrators, Network Administrators, and other IT Professionals. Membership in Pacific IT Professionals is at just over 6,000 and support 8 million desktops.  (As confirmed by an Independent audit conducted by Microsoft.)

The professional association meets monthly to share experiences, troubleshooting techniques, problems with products, security concerns, and to learn about the latest technologies.  The group was founded in 1985 and meets monthly.

All IT Professionals are welcome to attend; there are no dues, meeting or membership fees and pizza is served at every meeting!  To become a member, just fill out our on-line registration form and get involved by attending meetings.  We are also on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook