Meetings

Get on the Stick


A Road Warrior's Guide
to replacing your laptop with a USB memory stick

John Chapman

Tuesday June 23rd 2009 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

This session will offer tool suggestions, structure, and specific tips for traveling with a USB Portable application environment instead of a Windows laptop.

Bio

John Chapman was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and has lived in various large cities across the US before moving to Chicago in 1970.

John has been a computing professional since 1967, a specialist in large IBM mainframes since 1971 and a specialist in distributed enterprise computing since 1988. He has held management positions in capacity planning, software support, application development, client support, strategic planning, and architecture, as well as technical positions in application development, telecommunications, and systems programming.

From 1973 until the merger with BP in 1999, John worked in the Information Services Department of Amoco Corporation here in Chicago. John's group, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy, managed the process by which computing standards and IT strategies were set at Amoco. The group also provided evaluation services and information delivery on emerging methods and technologies to IT professionals and business managers across the company's worldwide operations.

Getting to the meeting

The next General meeting of UniForum Chicago will be:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in south Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the North-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway (I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, (Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

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