Engineering Leadership SIG

Purpose: Retain and help members evolve beyond strictly technical leadership roles as they grow to be strategic engineering leaders and managers, especially 1st time engineering directors.

Target Audience: Directors and VPs of Engineering, and other engineering leaders, and those who aspire to be at those levels someday.

Mission: Create an active, thriving community of high quality engineering leaders/managers who come together to explore possibilities, learn, grow professionally and support each other. We are building a SIG community consisting of a robust foundation of frequent attendees, and a much larger extended community of occasional participants.  Our participants look forward to EL SIG events, enjoy sharing time with friends, and are only 1 degree of separation from their next jobs in the event of the inevitable job transitions.  These relationships last longer than some of the companies in this Valley!

Vision: We're a vibrant and valuable part of the careers and lives of Bay Area engineering leaders, improving the quality of their performance and enabling them to realize their full career potential. Our areas of focus are:  Leadership, Strategy, Tactical Nuts & Bolts and Career Management.

Description:  The Engineering Leadership SIG (EL SIG) enables engineering leaders to improve their effectiveness by providing a forum for sharing expertise, wisdom and experience in a collaborative and mutually beneficial context.  Our members and participants will achieve a deeper understanding of the product, process and people aspects of engineering leadership and management that are critical to delivering successful business results in our challenging global environment. 

Commitment: Our attendees will overwhelmingly rate us 4.5 or higher(on a scale of 0 - 5) to the Ultimate Question "How likely are ou to recommend our EL SIG to friends or colleagues?"  Our "Net Promoter Score (NPS) [defined as % Promoters - % detractors} will be 80% or higher. 

Sponsor:

The EL SIG is sponsored by:Hewlett-Packard, Agilis Solutions and SAP Labs LLC.

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SIG Chairs:

	Kimberly Wiefling - founder of Wiefling Consulting, LLC, a US-based global consulting enterprise enabling individuals, teams and organizations to achieve results that seem nearly impossible, and the author of "Scrappy Project Management."
	Sam Hahn - VPE at eGain. Past: VPE at Purisma, Sales.com, and DocuMagix (also co-Founder). Ex-Director of Product Management and Engineering at Siebel Systems. Ex-Chair of TWAIN Working Group, Bootstrap Alliance. Member, VPE Community of Practice. Partner at Sand Hill Angels.
	Dr. Tam Nguyen has held senior technical and engineering management positions at IBM Research, ReplayTV, EXP Systems, and LogLogic. His expertise and interests include digital content management and delivery, web application development, and software development tools and processes.

To contact the SIG chairs email them at: ELSIG@sdforum.org

To access the Engineering Leadership Blog visit: The Engineering Leadership Blog

EL SIG Yahoo Job Swap Board: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SDForum_EL_SIG_JobSwap/

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SIG Host Location: SAP Labs LLC