Moderator: Michael Carter, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader
Date: 2/18/09 Wed
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Google Campus
Address: Bodega Bay Room, 1950 Charleston Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043

Food & Drink: Sponsored by Google

Joint Meeting with Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader

Registration:http://matrixajax.eventbrite.com

6:00pm - 7:00pm - Social Hour
7:00pm - 7:15pm - Announcements and Google Recruiter
7:15pm - 8:30pm - Panel
8:30pm - 8:45pm - Q&A

State of Job Market and Best / Worst Strategies (10 min)

Tom Zhang, Google Senior Recruiter

Tom Zhang, Google Senior Recruiter
Tom (Qi) Zhang has been with Google Staffing since Jan. 2006. As the G-Talent evangelist, Tom has been doing sourcing/recruiting to meet Google's staffing needs. Before joining Google, he taught at Computer Science Department at San Jose State University. Tom received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, China.

Dylan Schiemann, Co-creator of Dojo Toolkit, CEO at SitePen, Co-Founder at Comet Daily
As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard web development technologies. He has helped develop web apps for companies including Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks, and Vizional Technologies. Dylan earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.

Adam Moore is a career engineer who joined Yahoo in 2005 to help create the YUI Library. Adam authored many of YUI's core components, including its support for events, custom events, language abstractions, drag and drop, dependency management, script loading, tree and slider interactions, and more. Currently Adam is one of the core engineers helping to create YUI3, the next generation of the library.

Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate at Google, GWT contributor, Author of gwt-dnd, gwt-log and gwt-voices
Fred Sauer is a Developer Advocate at Google where most of his time is devoted to Google-Web-Toolkit and Google App Engine. He is the author of various GWT related open source projects including gwt-dnd (providing in browser Drag and Drop capabilities), gwt-log (an advanced logging framework) and gwt-voices (for cross browser sound support). Fred has dedicated much of his career to Java related development, with an increasing focus on Web 2.0 technologies. As a consultant he has worked on a wide variety of projects in North America, Asia and Europe, primarily in the financial and billing industry.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-dnd/
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-log/
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-voices/