Asians Coming Together

ACT members and friends enjoyed a fun and challenging day at the Portland Rock Gym in NE Portland on Saturday, April 26th.

The event was a great start to a fun summer season. Attendees included:

 

Xerox: Gautam Dhar, Grace Doan & Hai, Leonard Guan, Sara Haislip, Sandy Hsieh, Deepthi Sid, Andrew & his family

Intel: Anna Li, Fan Li, Bin Lin

 

Please stay tuned for our next event possibly in June - White Water Rafting

 

There has been a buzz in the ACT chapters.

Members wanted to learn how to manage their careers and maximize their potential. They wanted to work with someone who would understand their concerns within the company. There has been a need for mentorship program for ACT members.

ACT announces a partnership with TWA (The Women’s Alliance) Mentoring Program. This program will become available to ACT members starting January 2008. By leveraging TWA’s existing program, we are able to access over 50 existing mentors and utilize their infrastructure with minimal cost and delay.

To participate in the TWA mentorship program as a Mentee, a $36 annual fee will be required. For female ACT members, this fee includes membership and benefits as TWA members. This fee is required as it pays for the cost of the web-based service used to match Mentors with Mentees. Neither ACT nor TWA retain any portion of the fee, all of it goes toward the service. ACT and TWA are actually helping to subsidize the cost of licenses for Mentors and any unused licenses.

If ACT members would like to join the program as a Mentor, please contact Ashok Gupta.

The ACT Board wishes to thank Pinyo Bhulipongsanon for his tireless efforts and personal initiative.

More information about the Mentoring Program can be found on the TWA site and ACT presentation.

From Deepthi Sid

Hi ACT friends,

ACT Wilsonville is organizing a series of seminars titled “Planning for a Successful Career” throughout this year. We are pleased to announce the first seminar in this series – “Using Xerox tools for planning your career”. This will be an interactive session with ideas and examples. We encourage you to attend this seminar and all the other seminars in this series.

“Using Xerox tools for planning your career”

An interactive seminar with examples on using PDP, Success Factors, Learning@Xerox.

presented by

Jonathan Hill, HR, Xerox Corporation

Wednesday, April 11th, 12–1pm

Building 60, Onyx room

Please see the attached flyer for additional details.

A meeting notice will be sent out soon as a reminder.

Deepthi Sid

Xerox Corporation

503.685.2315 / 8*875.2315

From Pratima Rao

Dear ACT Members & Friends,

The Wilsonville ACT Board invites you to attend its monthly planning meetings. These are the same monthly meetings as held in the past and are primarily used for interested individuals to network as well as for Board members to plan and organize events. Please bring your lunch and great ideas.

Meeting information for professional development and community outreach events will be sent separately as and when they are planned.

You will be receiving two meetings notices as we alternate between Bldg. 60 & 63. This meeting notice is for the Bldg. 63 meetings. The full schedule is as follows:

2/12 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
3/12 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
4/9 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
5/14 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
6/11 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
7/9 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
8/13 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
9/10 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
10/8 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.
11/12 Bldg. 63, M6, Room S3
12/10 Bldg. 60, Magenta Rm.

Thank you,
Pratima
President
Wilsonville ACT

From Andrew Yeh:

Dear ACT members and friends:

I’m pleased to announce a new, very strong, slate of officers for the Wilsonville Chapter of ACT. Their one year terms commence January 2007. Please join me in congratulating our new officers and wishing them success in their new roles:

Pratima Rao assumes the role of Wilsonville chapter President. She is responsible for the chapter PEP; budgetary proposals; and information sharing with members, other ACT chapters, local caucus groups, our executive advisors, and human resources.

Ngoc-Diep Nguyen and Deepthi Sid will jointly assume the role of VP of Professional Development. In this role, they will organize leadership development events, communication development events, and management roundtables.

Chelsea Nguyen will assume the role of VP of Membership and Communication. She will be responsible for communicating local and national information, and maintaining the email membership lists.

Leonard Guan and Ashutosh Sanzgiri will jointly assume the role of VP of Community Activities. They will coordinate community outreach activities and collaborate with groups outside of Xerox.

In addition, a big “THANK YOU!” to Susan Winata and Andrey Kim, who after many years of contributions are stepping back from their officer roles.

And personally, it’s been a real pleasure working with so many great people during my two and a half year tenure as the president of the Wilsonville chapter of ACT. It wouldn’t have been a success without you!

We look forward to your continued support and involvement.

Sincerely,

Andrew Yeh

President, Wilsonville Chapter ACT