PacificNWTech About & Contact Us

About the PacificNWTech Career Fair Team

The PacificNWTech Career Fair is organized with the help of volunteers from Professional Resource Consortium Northwest, and the IEEE Oregon and Seattle sections.

Event Director / Co-Founder A mid-career manager 17+ years experience in a number of product management/marketing and business development positions, ranging from small companies, Hideki Electronics & Versalogic, to world-class companies such as: GE Security, Mentor Graphics and Tektronix. He develops strategic and tactical product plans, customer and sales training, programs for OEM relationships. He has provided global marketing solutions to companies like: HP, Intel, IBM, Xerox and other fortune 500 companies. He has successfully directed: Product development, Product launch, and Business development programs with multinational development teams. Company awards with recognition for Marketing Excellence, Sales Training, Customer Satisfaction, and Business best practices. A graduate of University of Portland where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Business and Marketing with engineering credits toward a Bachelor's of Science. Also holds an Associate's degree in Electronic Engineering Technology. Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Business and marketing operations.	Bruce Virell bvirellpdx1@pacificnwtech.org 503 841-2991
Promotional Sales Director Rodger brings 30+ year commercial aviation veteran with proven expertise in operational, sales, marketing and business development to the career fair team. He was employed by Hughes Airwest, Republic Airlines, and Evergreen International Airlines. During his 16 years with Evergreen he provided strategic direction, and operational management in the sales and marketing of ad-hoc charter cargo and passenger flights. He built long-term global business relationships with major airlines, agencies, and brokers. And he recruited, trained, motivated and provided leadership to a team of sales representatives. Today, Rodger's focus is on business development, employer/recruiter sales, and registration for Pacific NW Tech Career Fairs.	Rodger Cook pacificnwtech@verizon.net
Web Developer Peter brings 10 years of development experience to the team. Expertise in project requirements and specifications, technical writing, quality assurance, and project management. In addition to web projects, his experience includes commercial software, enterprise applications, and management of IT systems. A graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a BSCS degree and additional coursework in software engineering topics, Peter is currently working towards CAPM certification.	Peter Hsi
Board of Directors
Website Developer / Co-Founder John is a co-founder and the original developer of this website. He currently works as a Technical Project/Program Manager at a well-known, medical software company in NW Portland.	John Veneruso
IEEE Oregon Section Contact Ed has been pivotal in helping us bring our successful PacificNWtech Tech Fair format to the Portland area, and ensuring sponsorship of the IEEE Oregon Section. His efforts help us to match fellow IEEE members to the jobs requiring the skills they provde.	Ed Perkins e.perkins@ieee.org 503-612-9397
IEEE Seattle Section Contact Paul has been pivotal in helping us bring our successful PortlandTech Fair format to the Seattle area, aiding us in transforming it to PacificNWTech. His efforts help to get his fellow IEEE members the jobs that they desire.	Paul Kostek p.kostek@ieee.org 206-915-6645 (Cell)

	Oregon Health & Science University provides facilities for our Career Fairs and notifies their students and alumni of upcoming PacificNWTech events.
Oregon's Technology Business Incubator	OTBC provides coaching, networking events, entrepreneurship programs, and office space to help tech, biotech, cleantech and opentech start-up ventures succeed. They help us with connections to valued players in the high-technology industry in the Portland Metro Area.
	University of Washington Alumni Association helps us to organize our career fairs at the University of Washington Seattle and notifies its members of upcoming PacificNWTech events.
	The Professional Resource Consortium (PRC Northwest) provides seminars and other assistance to high-tech professionals in the Pacific Northwest.
IEEE Oregon Section IEEE Seattle Section	The IEEE Oregon and Seattle Sections provide helpful industry contacts, direct assistance at our fairs, and notify their membership of upcoming PacificNWTech events.
Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace	SPEEA provides us with information on the high-tech careers in Aerospace and notifies their membership of upcoming PacificNWTech events.
Software Association of Oregon	The SAO provides us with information on the high-tech careers in the Software industry and notifies their membership of upcoming PacificNWTech events.

Alumni Information

Most colleges and universities host special events for their alumni throughout the year. However, they miss the most important opportunity to connect - they do not offer job placement services for alumni! By remembering your alumni, whether they be unemployed, underemployed, or even returning students, they will remember you in return. This is where our outsourced services will polish the Director of Alumni Programs to a shine. We enable you to improve your relationship with the alumni and equally important, foster a stronger community image. For some of our recent career fairs, local media has requested a tour of the college or university and taken photos of the class rooms, labs, and facilities for their articles. ....So be prepared for an interview.

We complement campus career services by conducting your career fair with no direct charge to you. We are compensated by the employers by selling our tables and services. We work with a minimum of support from your staff. You contribute:- the location - 3000 to 5000 feet for targeted events or more for generic career fairs - and assist us with promotional communications to your alumni.

Alumni gain in several ways. They get face-to-face contact with actual hiring managers, paper resume collection on site, distinguished career coach presentations (optional), networking with other industry professionals & gurus, and helpful hints from our Free Job Seeker Resource Guide.

How do does it work? Two months or more before the event, we meet with you to discuss your specific requirements. (every event has its own personality because its yours.) All consultations are Free. You decide whether your event will target graduating students or alumni & professionals. Before the event, we will communicate with the following: Director of Career Services, Director of Alumni Program (for alumni or professional event), Parking and Facilities Directors or representatives. We will provide electronic content for generic Press releases, Email Communications, Reminders, Brochures and other promotional collateral. Your team can customize or craft this collateral to fit your standards We have the ability to add Career Coaches to assist job seekers in their search. We schedule Tables, Banners, Pipe & Drape. We invite your staff to assist, but we are are prepared to conduct the entire event. We are experienced professionals and it shows with testimonials from directors at: OGI, UWB, and UWS.