ITBusiness Canada, 5/9/2002 (Leesa Barnes, Wayne Hicks)

Black IT Professionals Forge Global Alliances. To Black Data Processing Associates president-elect Wayne Hicks, the recent alliance forged between his group and Canada's BITePRO offers a new twist on the old boys' network. The old boys' network, he says, has traditionally worked against women and people of colour, but by forging their own networking associations, Black IT professionals on both sides of the border are finding strength in numbers.

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BDPA Monthly Newsletter, 4/1/2002 (Milt Haynes, Woodie Lesesne, Tony Lesesne, A.J. Pearson)

Newsletter: National BDPA (Apr 2002)

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General Atlantic, 3/13/2002 (Wayne Hicks)

Intelliseek Moves to Cincinnati's 'Digital Rhine'. Intelliseek today announced it is expanding its corporate headquarters and relocating all of its Greater Cincinnati employees to accommodate the technology company's unprecedented growth. Despite the current economic downturn, Intelliseek revenues have grown 300% annually since 1999, the company has gained remarkable customer momentum in 2001 and it is poised to deliver 300% growth again in 2002...

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Direct Access, 3/1/2002 (Bill Manns, Annette Yates)

Newsletter: BDPA Richmond (Mar 2002)

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Los Angeles DataBits, 3/1/2002 (Hermia Craft, Angela White-Parker)

Newsletter: BDPA Los Angeles (Mar 2002)

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BDPA Monthly Newsletter, 3/1/2002 (Brooks Baker, Roger Berry, Michael Gaines, Reginald Gardner, Milt Haynes, Brian Parker)

Newsletter: National BDPA (Mar 2002)

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Business Wire, 2/22/2002 (BDPA Dallas)

Dallas Convention Center to Host Diversity Career Fair On March 5; Top Employers, Hundreds of Professional Jobs, Multiple Industries. For several thousand professionals from all communities and leading local and national employers, opportunity comes in the form of the NAACP Diversity Career Fair which will take place from 11 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at the Dallas Convention Center. This event is presented by the NAACP Region VI and the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches and is sponsored by Merck. Partnering with the NAACP Career Fair to promote workforce diversity are Asian American Professionals of Dallas, Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) -- Dallas Chapter, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME) and the National Society of Hispanic MBAs -- Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter.

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BDPA Monthly Newsletter, 2/1/2002 (Bob Blackwell, Reginald Gardner, Milt Haynes)

Newsletter: National BDPA (Feb 2002)

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The Free Library, 1/10/2002 (BDPA Los Angeles)

Martin Luther King Day NAACP Career Fair to Feature Top L.A. Employers on Jan. 21. For several thousand professionals from all communities and more than 45 leading local and national employers, opportunity comes in the form of the NAACP. Partnering with the NAACP Career Fair to promote workforce diversity are Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) Los Angeles Chapter, Forty Plus, LULAC - California and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 1/7/2002 (Franklin Mayfield, Marshall LaNier)

Dot Cincinnati: Cincinnati chapter of BDPA. A Walnut Hills Web designer is predicting "interactive fun" for those cruising the new and upgraded site from the Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates.

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Cincinnati Enquirer, 1/6/2002 (Gina Billings, Blaine Clark, Wayne Hicks, Frank Hill)

Group Trains Teens in Technology Skills. The Cincinnati chapter of the Black Data Processing Association (BDPA) has in recent years run programs training teens interested in computers or technology. Called the Student Information Technology Education & Scholarship Program, or SITES, the program consists of a computer camp, a youth technology seminar series and the formation of a team for the National Computer Competition.

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The Philly Portal, 1/1/2002 (Beverly Chandran)

Newsletter: BDPA Philadelphia (Jan 2002)

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BDPA Cleveland Newsletter, 1/1/2002 (Beverly Peterson)

Newsletter: BDPA Cleveland (Jan 2002)

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BDPA Monthly Newsletter, 1/1/2002 (Gina Billings, Milt Haynes, Renee McClure, Earl Pace)

Newsletter: National BDPA (Jan 2002)

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TrueCareers, 12/11/2001 (Renee McClure)

Diversity in IT. The U.S. population is a smorgasbord of diversity. One would think then, if recollections of probability theories from statistics classes are correct, that our various populations would be represented in similar proportions within the IT industry. However, such is not the case...

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The Pipeline, 9/1/2001 (Letitia Andrews, David Trammell)

Newsletter: BDPA Dallas (Sep 2001)

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 8/20/2001 (Gina Billings, Wayne Hicks, Frank Hill)

Hicks Named National BDPA President. Wayne Hicks, president of the Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates, was named the national president-elect of the association at a ceremony during BDPA's national conference this past weekend. "Part of what got me elected is the belief that what we've done in Cincinnati, we can replicate in other chapters in the United States," he said.

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 8/20/2001 (Gina Billings, Wayne Hicks, Frank Hill)

Hicks Named National BDPA President. Wayne Hicks, president of the Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates, was named the national president-elect of the association at a ceremony during BDPA's national annual conference this past weekend...

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Chicago Sun-Times, 8/17/2001 (Ricky Penick)

Speaker Got Wired Early. Back in 1964, Ricky Penick jumped at the chance to take the first computer class Roosevelt High School in Gary, Ind., offered. He was one of only a few students because the class was at 7 a.m., before school started."I was a little amateur futurist," he said. "I thought 'Oh, yeah, in the future computers are going to be a big thing.'"

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SlideShare, 8/15/2001 (Gina Billings)

BDPA Chapter Building Workshop: Leadership (2001). Chapter Building Workshops were offered to BDPA leaders at the 3rd quarter National BDPA board of directors meeting in 2001. The session on 'Leadership' was led by (then) BDPA Cincinnati chapter president-elect Gina Billings.

BDPA Chapter Building Workshop: Leadership (2001)

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 7/30/2001 (Toyota Motor)

BDPA lands Toyota as sponsor. The Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates landed Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America as a corporate sponsor.

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 6/4/2001 (Cincinnati Bell, The Circuit)

BDPA Racks Up Sponsorships. The Cincinnati chapter of the Black Data Processing Associates has attracted Cincinnati Bell and The Circuit as corporate sponsors. The Circuit, formerly Greater Cincinnati Software Association, is contributing to BDPA's Student Information Technology Education & Scholarship (SITES) program -- which includes a high school-level computer camp, technology seminars and participation in a national BDPA student competition. The Cincinnati BDPA student team placed second in the national contest last year.

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City of Cincinnati, 5/9/2001

High School Level Citywide Computer Competition: Showcasing the Demand for a High School Computer Competition. The Black Data Processing Asscoiates has agreed to drive the implementation for this Citywide Computer Competition. The City of Cincinnati's role in the event can be to assist in promoting the event, to provide proclamations regarding the event to help in its promotion, and to offer City recognition as extra recognition to a select number of schools, students and educators who participate. We expect there will be opportunity for the Mayor and Council Members to be visible in their support of this initiative by attending scheduled activities.

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Business Courier of Cincinnati, 3/20/2001 (BrassRing)

BDPA Keeps BrassRing as Sponsor. The Cincinnati Chapter of Black Data Processing Associates retained BrassRing as one of its 13 corporate sponsors. BrassRing is a high-tech recruiting firm that produces more than 300 career events annually in 60 markets.

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ITworld, 12/22/2000 (Clifford Clarke, Steve Edmonson, Les Pearson, Carl Williams, George Williams)

Equity? "I have seen in certain situations, although the [white executives] try to disguise it, African American men and women and other minorities being dealt a little harsher treatment. I know they're held to different standards. I've seen two people with the same sales quotas, and all sorts of excuses were given for the non-minority not making his numbers, but when it came to the minority, they're saying "You should make that number.' Yet he was given the worst territory out there."


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ComputerWorld, 12/11/2000

Dabbling at Diversity. Vincent Estacio, 29, is an up-and-coming systems administrator at Sun Microsystems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. In August, he graduated from a community-college-based program that trains minorities with IT potential, and now he's working full-time on Sun's systems migration team...



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Digital Divide Network, 12/4/2000 (BDPA Cincinnati)

BDPA Cincinnati Reaches Youth and Beyond. BDPA Cincinnati's mission is to become a member-focused organization that exists to provide professional development programs, services and community outreach to position our members at the forefront of the information technology industry. The BDPA Cincinnati was chartered in December 1989.

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SlideShare, 11/30/2000 (BDPA Cincinnati)

BDPA Joins ITEC Conference in Cincinnati OH. ITEC conferences are designed to display those cutting edge technologies that can and will help your company improve productivity and bottom line - through longer term vision in ITEC keynote presentations, real-world answers and applications in ITEC conference sessions, and productivity enhancing solutions available today on the ITEC exposition floor. BDPA Cincinnati chapter was a presenter at the ITEC Conference held on 11/30/2000 at the Cincinnati Convention Center. This is the .ppt presentation used during that presentation.

BDPA Joins ITEC Conference in Cincinnati OH

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Charlotte Business Journal, 10/23/2000 (First Union)

Investing in Computer Literacy. The pilot round of First Union Corp.'s eCommunitiesFirst initiative to raise computer and Internet literacy ended last week with 80% of the 550 people enrolled completing their classes ... In the pilot, that has meant the city of Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, BDPA-Information Technology Thought Leaders, UJAMMA, and University Park Baptist Church. But she says that the response has already been so strong that First Union is considering additional partners in Charlotte.

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Compuware Press Room, 10/4/2000 (Peter Karmanos, Kenneth Stephen Burnley)

Compuware Team Takes First Place in National Black Data Processing Associates High School Competition. Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) announced today that the Detroit Public Schools' team captured first place in both the computer programming and the web design competitions in the Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) High School Computer Competition. The Detroit team, consisting of four local high school students, received the highest score in the history of the competition, compiling 244 points of a possible 272.

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