Vinay Rao will speak to you on 7/29/10. This will be our 3rd session in the series. In the 2nd session, Leonard Guan gave us lot of ideas and answered many questions from the audience. The good thing about this middle manager series is that you can frankly ask any question and receive the right advice.

Bring your colleagues to benefit from this session. These sessions are open to all. One does not have to be ACT member to attend these sessions.

• Title:  A peak into Xerox Marketing
• Tuesday, July 29, 2010 12:00 PM-1:00 PM.
• Location: 7063 N6 Room S3

Agenda:

• Provide a peak into marketing world in Xerox (since most of ACT members/participants appear to be from engineering teams)
• What works and what doesn’t work in Xerox (Wilsonville) for career development
• Your personal experience and motivation for career advancement
• Management track vs. Technical track

Vinay’s Brief Bio:

Vinay has been with Xerox for 15 years in management field. Having lived in both Rochester and Wilsonville locations, he has experienced differences in working cultures of two sites, developed a broad view of Xerox. Vinay has held positions in Business operations, Strategic planning and Marketing organizations. He is currently in Worldwide Channel marketing role. He has an Engineering degree and an MBA.

Please come in large numbers and brings your best XEROX friends and colleagues. Feel free to bring lunch.

 To find out more, please contact Jai Jain at 8*875-4469 or +1 503 685 4469 or Jai.Jain@xerox.com.

We are bringing you Leonard Guan on 7/20/10 after very successful 1st session on 7/14/10 by Srini Desiikan. Here are the details of the 2nd session. Bring your colleagues to benefit from the next session. These sessions are open to all. One does not have to be ACT member to attend these sessions.

Title: Career Development Phases

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:00 PM-1:00 PM.

Location: 7063 N6 Room S3

Agenda:

• What works and what doesn’t work in Xerox (Wilsonville) for career development
• Your personal experience and motivation for career advancement.
• Management track vs. Technical track.

Brief Bio of Leonard:

Leonard obtained his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington and started his career with Tektronix back in 1995 as a Mechanical Design Engineer.

He had held a variety of engineering positions (Design, Technical Lead) at Xerox before venturing into Program Management for the A4 Color Desktop Group at XOG in 2003. Within 6 years, Leonard has lead teams to launch 3 challenging products (the latest being WC 6400, aka Nottingham). So far, the programs he had managed is estimated to bring in approximately $750M in revenue for Xerox.

With the recent creation of A4 Partnered Platform Development Group within, Leonard has accepted the role of Development Support Manager.

We are starting the ACT Wilsonville Career Mentoring Talk series to bring the perspective of middle managers to ACT members and ACT Interest group

The first in the series addressing us is Srini Deshiikan, Manager, Ink Manufacturing Technology and Strategy. His topic is “GUIDING YOURSELF AT XEROX”. Srini’s bio is attached.  

Srini may show a short video and will begin his talk at 12:10 PM. At 12:40 PM he plans to take questions from the audience.  Broad topics Srini will cover include:

• What works and what doesn’t work in Xerox for career development.
• Personal experience and motivation for career advancement.
• Management track vs. Technical track.
• Advice to ACT members.
• Other themes the speaker wants to enlighten us on.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 from 12PM-1PM.

Please come in large numbers and brings your best XEROX friends and colleagues. Feel free to bring lunch.

 To find out more, please contact Jai Jain at 8*875-4469 or +1 503 685 4469 or Jai.Jain@xerox.com.

ACT’s Rochester Chapter will be participating in APAA’s 6^th Annual Asian American Night at Frontier Field on August 6^th 2010 at 6:00pm. Come watch the Rochester Red Wings versus Syracuse Chiefs and enjoy Asian food, cultural performances, fireworks!

To find out more, please contact Sid Inamdar at 585-265-5697 or Sid.Inamdar@xerox.com

What: Organizational Fair

When: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 5 PM to 7 PM

Where: Xerox Webster Bldg 335 Cafeteria

Who: Xerox Caucus Group Members & Interns

Why: “to introduce Caucus Group Members & Interns to the various organizations within Xerox. It’s easy to come to work everyday, but never go to another building or meet a new face or learn how Xerox works outside of your own group. This event permits an opportunity for our targeted audience to network with business managers and employees in various organizations in one place at one time.” (from “Preparing for the RBEA Organizational Fair”)

Preparation tips: http://www.rbea.info/index.php?pr=Org_Fair_Prepp

A Xerox badge will be necessary to enter the event

To find out more, please contact Thomas Vinu at 585-4220-9115 Tomas.Vinu@xerox.com or Sid Inamdar at 585-265-5697 Sid.Inamdar@xerox.com.

End of submission date is July 16, 2010. The photos must belong to you (either taken by you or showing your involvement in Asian-Pacific Culture) and the top 3 winners will be determined by the ACT board. The judging criteria will be based on the best representation of Asian Culture.

First place winner will be awarded a $50 gift card to Amazon.com. Second and third place winners will also receive a prize.

Below are all the pictures currently entered by our fellow ACT members:

Breaking the Asian Women Stereotype
…with Shelen Atanacio, an actress, playwright, single-mom and best-selling author of the book ”Acting From the Inside Out”

Date and Time:
June 10, 2010 12:00 pm, Central Daylight Time (Chicago, GMT-05:00)

Space is limited so register now!

1. Go to https://emeetings.webex.com/emeetings/onstage/g.php?d=828388998&t=a&EA=rail.webinar%40ge.com&ET=e039d9e32704d151984c7388a28fcfa7&ETR=85639c2444355054592de5e8c73c94d6&RT=MiM3&p
2. Click “Register”
3. On the registration form, enter your information and then click “Submit”

Once your registration is processed, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the event.

If you have any questions, please contact parita_patel@naapchicago.org

The result? 43 fine recipes from ACT members all over the world!

We are delighted to share this with you all and hope you enjoy as much as we have.

The ACT 2010 Cookbook has been uploaded to our website. Since it’s such a large file, it had to be broken down into sections. To view, please click below.

• ACT 2010 Cookbook – Part 1 of 5
• ACT 2010 Cookbook – Part 2 of 5
• ACT 2010 Cookbook – Part 3 of 5
• ACT 2010 Cookbook – Part 4 of 5
• ACT 2010 Cookbook – Part 5 of 5

Yonn Rasmussen

ACT National President

May 2010

ACT’s Rochester Chapter will be hosting their Annual Asian Network’s Summer Picnic on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Location is below.

• Old Meadow Shelter
• Ellison Park
• 10:00 AM (expected arrival)
• REGISTRATION:
  • Deadline to pre-register: Monday, July 26th
  • People who pre-register will receive a confirmation by July 27.

There’s a map at http://www.monroecounty.gov/p/Ellison%20Park%20Map.pdf and there’s more information about the park at http://www.monroecounty.gov/parks-ellison.php.

RAN Summer Picnic events include cultural events, food, music, games and many more!

• People who pre-register → under 5: free; 5-10 yr olds: $3; everyone else: $5
• Walk-ins → under 5: free; 5-10 yr olds: $5; everyone else: $10

To find out more, please contact Vinu Thomas at 8*702-9115 or 585-422-9115 or Vinu.Thomas@xerox.com.