I’ve accepted a new position with our corporate Application Services’ Center of Excellence organization as team lead for the .NET team. In this position I will be responsible for support, projects, deliverables, documenting existing solutions as well as analyzing and designing new solutions. I will help our team meet deadlines successfully while mentoring and helping develop programmers with a focus on corporate policies, industry standards and best practices. The team’s goals involve delivering components and services to be leveraged to create solutions across the enterprise. In other words, we’ll make the corporate tools others use to make the programs their customers need.
Personal, Professional, Technology .NET, C#, Enterprise, Work
It doesn’t take much activity in the realm of Twitter to find that these acronyms (ECM, CMS & WCM see the Glossary at bottom of page) produce some strong opinions at 140 characters per post. There are arguments to exclude programs or include SaaS solutions under the CMS umbrella. There are polemics about some mainstream systems like Sharepoint.
Data Management CMS, Documentum, ECM, EMC, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, Sharepoint, Stellent, WCM
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is heading a new corporation, C.V. Starr & Co, Inc. This is important because Hank is the man who led A.I.G. to the heights of our recent and still impacting recession on the wheels of massive CDO securitization and CDS contracts. If you’ve forgotten, the Bush administration agreed to bail out A.I.G. in September 2008 to the tune of $85 billion which was then re-negotiated by that administration in November to a $40 billion disbursement from the TARP with another $60 line of credit from the Federal Reserve. By March of 2009 the Obama administration had increased the bailout to A.I.G. up to $150 billion and A.I.G. wrote down some $60 billion in a first quarter loss.
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Stubborn Financial Culture – AIG and “Hank” Greenberg
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Editorial A.I.G., credit crisis, Hank Greenberg, Insurance
In a Reuter’s article, a lawyer is quoted as saying,
I don’t understand why it is in the taxpayers’ best interests for us to be punitive in regard to TARP recipients.
Editorial AIG, Bank of America, BofA, CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs
I believe in financial responsibility in several ways, one of which is giving funds to endeavors that benefit others. One area I evaluate my giving as being poorer than I want it to be is international giving. Someone mentioned World Vision as an international agency and, after checking it on Charity Navigator (Philanthropy.com’s article about CN’s evaluation methods), I can understand the concern some folks have about the salary of World Vision’s president. There are valid evaluations and arguments for either viewpoint (he should/should not earn that salary working for a non-profit/NGO) but regardless of those comments I’m still considering whether to utilize that agency as a method to give internationally.
Personal Altruism, Charity, Charity Navigator, Faith, International, Oxfam International, Philanthropy, Values, World Vision
