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Flordia Chapter Board Meeting, February 2012 - Nina Grantchharova gave an excellent presentation about Enterprise Architecture Patterns with details and examples in front of a large audience. Nina answered many questions and gave a complete overview of the most important design patterns. In the second part of the meeting, the officers and board of director's members were introduced and the advantages of Iasa membership as well as oppurtunities and ways to get invovled in the Iasa South East Florida Chapter was presented. The new board elections also took place with Rainer Habermann and Dave Noderer re-elected for Chapter President and Vice President, Giles Marino for Treasuer, and Ray Almonte for Secretary. Congratulations!

The topic for our February chapter meeting was Legal Issues in IT. Ms. Kennedy, Intellectual Property Attorney with an active litigation, trademark and copyright practice, presented: How Google, Wal-Mart & Apple Make their Millions – The Secret Ingredient: Intellectual Property

This topic initiated great interest and the meeting room at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale filled up to the last seat. Most Architects, Engineers, and MBA’s are not aware about Intellectual Property, Basic Patent, Trademark, or legal issues related to the web. After clarifying the basic definitions, Ms. Kennedy explained in detail how intellectual property issues could make or break a company.

Members had the opportunity at the end of the presentation to ask questions, discuss legal problems, and several members shared their experiences related to Intellectual Property and other IT related issues. If you want to protect your ideas and intellectual property, you have to be aware of the implications and need to take the right steps in order to protect them.

All Chapter Members agreed that it was an outstanding and lively presentation. Ms. Kennedy presented high quality content and made participants aware of legal IT issues. In the name of all chapter members, thank you to Ms. Kennedy for taking the time for this amazing presentation.

Rainer Habermann
President IASA South East Florida Chapter

Leadership

	Rainer Habermann (President) Rainer Habermann is a seasoned IT Executive and Enterprise Architect. He has international Business experience (US and European Markets), PMI, IT Strategies. Rainer currently holds the Chief Information Officer position at Global Response.
	Dave Noderer (VP) Microsoft .net software developer and MVP. Activist in the .net developer community, founder of FlaDotNet.com, early board member for INETA and helped build the community worldwide. Locally run/oversee a number of user groups and the South Florida Code camp. Also active with other local organizations having held board postions with Deerfield Beach Kiwanis, Historical society, Relay For Life and the Chamber.
	Ray Almonte (Treasurer) PMP. Application developer with goals of producing software of increasing value & utility, while maintaining adherence to governmental & industry standards. Experience in GIS, Emergency Management, Construction & Engineering related Software development.
	Giles Marino (Secretary) Giles Marino is Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Certified Professional and an IFC Certified IT Architect with 20 years’ experience developing enterprise and commercial business applications. He earned his computer science degree abroad and completed his professional internship in 1992 at Control Data Systems, a worldwide leader in manufacturing scientific computer systems. Currently Giles works in the role of Solutions Architect for Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI), a global IT services firm based out of Allentown PA. Giles is Secretary on the Board of Directors for the South Florida Chapter of IASA and also owns and operates his own consulting services company, Core Technology Group (www.coretg.com) which is primarily focused on Microsoft development platforms and technologies.