THURSDAY 9/9
- Attended the ISACA N TX meeting at CityPlace. 3 CPEs.
- Received word from Virginia that she never submitted my resume for the IT Governance and Compliance position with Brinks.
- Received email from Gabriela Phillips with the name of a recruiter at PFSWeb.
- Received email from Pranjal that she had not yet heard anything from Pepsi.
- Had phone interview with LaShawn Sykes at Aegon.
- Sent thank-you note to LaShawn Sykes with Aegon for her time in the phone interview.
FRIDAY 9/10
- Arranged for Face-to-face interview with Aegon for Tuesday 9/14.
- Received email from Michael Goldberg at Freeman regarding IT Compliance Lead position. Made arrangements to talk on Monday 9/13.
- Received call from Susan Andrews, recruiter with Jefferson Wells. Set up a phone interview for Tuesday at 4:00 PM.
- Sent emails to Michael Goldberg at Freeman, arranging to speak on Monday 9/13 about their IT Compliance Lead position.
- Attended North Dallas Career Focus Group.
MONDAY 9/13
- Received email from Eric Neef about Movie Tavern's IT Manager position.
- Spoke to Michael Goldberg at Freeman about their IT Compliance Lead position.
- Sent email to Michael Goldberg about Infrastructure Director and Application Development Manager positions.
TUESDAY 9/14
- Completed online job application at Aegon in advance of face-to-face interview.
- Received email from Susan Andrews asking to postpone interview until Wednesday at 4:00 PM.
- Exchanged emails with Doug Fay about Movie Tavern's IT Manager position. He doesn't know any of the people who started it, but he will keep his eyes open.
- Determined that the IT Governance and Compliance manager position with Brinks is off the market. It's no longer listed on their website.
- Sent email to Julie Cornelius with PFSWeb about their IT Senior Account Manager position.
- Sent email to Heather Malek about her contacts at Brinks.
WEDNESDAY 9/15
- Exchanged several emails with Charlie about IT Project Manager and IT Risk Manager position.
- Received email from Chad Larsen about Verizon consulting position with Capital One. No update yet.
- Received email from Julie Cornelius with PFSWeb about IT Senior Account Manager position. She asked what my expected salary level was. I replied my last job was at $90K, and I'd prefer to not drop too much below that.
- Received email from Charlie about AHMSI positions. He clued me in to the buzz words they're looking for right now.
- Updated resumes and forwarded to Charlie.
- Received call from Jean at Aegon about their position. Scheduled interview with manager's manager (Tim Sheehan) for tomorrow at 1:00 PM.
- Left voicemail and sent email requestiong status with Chelie Morton regarding Senior IT Audit position with GT.
- Left voicemail and sent email requesting status with Michael Goldberg regarding IT Compliance Lead position with Freeman.
- Left voicemail with Julie Cornelius with PFSWeb about the status of their IT Senior Account Manager position.
- Spoke to Prunjal about RPG Programmer Analyst position with PepsiCo. She said this position has been put on hold, but she does work with them on other openings.
- TO DO: Check Pepsi website for other openings.
- Sent email to Garry Gay to apply for IT Director position with Movie Tavern.
- TO DO: Follow up with call to Garry Gay at Movie Tavern (214) 751-8277.
- Sent email to Curt Hicks regarding connecting with Imdaad Moosajee with Rent-A-Center, and also asked to connect with Curt on LinkedIn.
- Sent Linkedin message to Patrick Vo about Security Architect position with Dean Foods.
- Registered my profile on Dean Foods' website, and set up an agent about IT jobs in Dallas.
- Arranged for phone interview with LaShawn at Aegon for 3:30 PM tomorrow afternoon (Thursday).
- Got email from Lance about Fishnet opening. He suggested I apply on line while he's trying to determine who I need to speak to internally.
- Applied for Security Consultant - Compliance position with Fishnet Security on line.
- Requested status from Irene on opportunities with Bell and Movie Tavern.
- Requested status from Virginia on Manager of IT Governance and Compliance position.
- Requested status from Chelie with Grant Thornton on IT Audit position with GT.
- Requested status from Eric Neef about his connections with Freeman.
- Requested status from Gabriela Philips with PFSWeb about IT Senior Account Manager position.
- Requested status from Pranjal about RPG Programmer Position with Pepsi.
- Requested status from Barry Stephenson with CA about their presales position.
- Requested status from Cheryl Stasiak with SolidState about Senior Audit & COmpliance Consultant position.
- Requested status from Chris Tryon about IT Audit position.
- Requested status from David Moody with Trustwave about their Information Security Consultant position.
- Requested a connection to Jerry Huang with The Apparel Group to determine the status of their IT Manager search.
- Requested a connection to Jim Wahl with Rent-A-Center to discuss their search for a Development Security Manager.
- Applied to three positions with Freeman, on line.
- TO DO: Call Freeman recruiter Michelle Wood.
- Received email from Eric Neef about IT Compliance Lead position with Freeman. He has not yet heard back from his contact there. I forwarded my resume and a cover letter to Eric.
- Left second voicemail message with Jean Cummings at Aegon about IT Security Engineer position.
- Sent follow-up email to Heather Malek about IT Manager position with The Apparel Group. She has not yet heard back from them.
- Applied for "Development Security Manager" and "Senior IT Auditor" positions with Rent-A-Center.
- Requested that I get connected on LinkedIn with Becky Crawford with RAC HR through Alan Bogard.
- Sent email to Angel Jones at Aegon about IT Security Engineer position. I requested she sends me Jean Cummings' email address.
- Sent email to Jean Cummings at Aegon about IT Security Engineer position.
- Received call from Jean Cummings at Aegon. She's going to forward my information to LaShann (?) who's the hiring manager, and they will be in touch to set up a phone interview. She said I should expect to hear from them this afternoon.
- Sent email to Irene Ozturk about Director of IT position with Movie Tavern. On Linkedin she's connected to Scott Nixon, who's current title is Director of IT there.
- Received notification from Alan Bogard that he forwarded my connection request to Becky Crawford with RAC.
- Joined PCI DFW user group.
- Applied to Application Project Manager position with Hilton (on line).
- Traded voicemail messages with Jean at Aegon. Tentatively agreed on having a phone interview tomorrow afternoon, around 2:00 - 2:30 PM.
- Spoke to Chad Larsen about a Compliance/Audit Engineer position with Verizon / Capital One. He's going to submit my resume, and was expecting to set up an interview for next week when the hiring manager returns from vacation.
- Sent email to Amanda Jauch about Compliance Manager position with Enova Financial. She replied that the position is in Chicago.
- Sent follow-up email to Charlie Sawyer about Technical Project Manager position with AHMSI. He hasn't found anything out yet. They're looking for a VP of App Dev at this time.
- Received email from Chelie Marton at Grant Thornton. Apparantly Jeff Resta is no longer with the company. I sent her my resume and a description of the Senior IT Audit position I was talking to Jeff about.
- Sent email to Eric Neef about IT Compliance Lead position with Freeman. He has several contacts in that company.
- Updated resume on Monster and CareerBuilder.
- Left voicemail message with Jean Cummings at Aegon about IT Security Engineer position.
- Sent email to Gabriela Philips with PFSWeb about "IT Senior Account Manager - Europe Liaison" position.
- Spoke to Pranjal about Pepsico position. I told her I would do the contract for $40 per hour.
- Sent email to Barry Stephenson at CA about my presales experiences at JBA.
- Spoke to Chad at Lucas Group. They have no immediate openings they're working on, but he will keep me in mind if things come up going forward.
- Received call from Jean Reynolds (972 422 3222) at Aegon about IT Security Engineer positon. They're willing to pay $76K. They're located in Plano, and offer 15 days PTO the first full calendar year of employment.
- TO DO: Call Jean back to let her know if I'm interested in this.
- Sent email to Barry Stephenson at CA to let him know about Cinemark's status in a variety of technical areas.
- Sent follow-up email to Jeff Resta about IT Audit Sr. position with Grant Thornton.
- Sent follow-up email to Lance Clark about Compliance Security Consultant position with Fishnet.
- Spoke to Irene about Compliance positions with Bell in Hurst. They submitted my resume on Tuesday, and have not heard back from them.
- Tried to reach Eric Gentry about positions with Rent-A-Center.
- Sent follow-up email to Eric Gentry about Rent-A-Center.
- Spoke to Heather Malek about IT Manager position with The Apparel Group. She's going to check to see whether she's heard back from them or not.
- Received email from Eric Gentry about Rent-A-Center. He's going to follow up with his contact, and get back to me by noon tomorrow.
- Received email from Gabriela Philips about PFSWeb position. She's going to find out who I need to talk to about it.
- Spoke to Barry Stephenson at CA about presales position.
- TO DO: I will send him my resume and discuss my presales work with JBA.
- Got a call from Pranjal about RPG Consultant position with Pepsi. They want to negotiate my rate, and want it to be $40. I requested they meet me halfway at $45.
- Received email from Bob Kimbrell about the highest rated companies to work for in the Dallas area.
- TO DO: Send Bob an email about the companies I'm targeting.
- Received email from Brian Serra about Accuvant positions. He said I may be a good fit for a couple of different positions with Accuvant. He's forwarding my resume to their HR department.
- Received voicemail message from Chris Tryon. The client he's working with is overwhelmed with other prospects at this time, but the position is still open.
- Collected message from Chad with Lucas group about future IT opportunities.
- TO DO; Call Chad back to discuss my resume and job search in general.
