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~sRochester ACM: Professional Certification, 11/12/92
November Meeting
Thursday, November 12, 1992
Creme de la Creme, 295 Alexander Street

CERTIFICATION AND YOU
Jan B. Wilson, CDP

Jan has been an active member of the Institute for Certification of Computer
Professionals for over 5 years. She will present an overview of the
Institute, the examinations it offers, the certification designations
professionals can earn, and the history bringing us to where we are today.

Jan will explain the structure of the ICCP examinations and the examinations'
life cycle.  Included in the presentation is a discussion of some of the
issues relating to the definition of a profession and professionalism as well
as the requirements of the ICCP for maintaining a professional certification
designation.

What does certification mean, especially when contrasted to licensing?  Along
the way, Jan will tell you what certification means to her and what it may
mean to you.  And together, we can speculate on the future.

Jan Wilson has been actively involved with certification of computer
professionals for over a decade, starting with the 1981 formation of a joint
committee for certification representing the Syracuse area chapters of the
computing societies ACM, ASM and DPMA.

Jan has worked on the international level with ICCP, the organization which
offers the CDP, CCP and CSP professional designations. Jan served on the CDP
Council from 1987 to 1989, when she became one of ACM's two representatives
to the ICCP Board of Directors.

Jan is currently the Manager of Systems Programming for the IBM VM system in
the Client Services Department of Computing Services at Syracuse University. 
In the past she also has had responsibility for VMS, Unix, and MVS systems,
was an applications programmer for the University's library system, and even
worked as an applications programmer in the insurance industry before moving
to Syracuse.

Jan held her first ACM Chapter office in the 1970s, was elected to the
Chapters Committee in 1980, directed the Chapter Leadership Workshop Program
from 83 through 85, served two terms as Chapters Board Chairman from 85 to
89, was the Chapters Liaison to the SIG Board from 89 to 91, and has just
been re-elected to the ACM Council for a second four-year term as Member-at-
Large.

Schedule:      5:30 p.m. Social Hour
               6:30 p.m. Dinner
               7:30 p.m. Speaker

Dinner Choices:
               Santa Fe Chicken: $13.00
               Vegetable Lasagna: $12.00
               Tenderloin Tip Salad: $12.50

               Dinners include salad, beverage, gratuity, and Creme de la
               Creme's famous dessert sampler.

For reservations, call 328-2310 by 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10.