Recruiting Log

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Feb 23/24

  • Emails Sent through fellowship search:

-Daniel Ben-Horin: Tech-soup global

-Ray Kruzweil

-Ami-Dar (idealist)

-Jacquie Jones

-Kathi Weltcher

-Mathias Craig (blue energy)

-Rufus Pollock

-Alex Eaton

-Francois Grey

-Ramsey Ford

-Manuel Guerra

  • Calls to:

-Bjorn Kristensan: Starting building OSE style in Iceland. ASSESSMENT: Interesting builder, organizing himself.

-Luis Guerra: Genius chemist/mexican biodigestion activist.

-Dan Nordeng: Japanese busisnessman, wants to be ED? ASSESSMENT: Further talks needed.

-Storm Cunningham: Very interesting, writing a book. ASSESSMENT: ED?

  • Media coverage requests: Pop-SCI, POP-MECH, huff-po, Mashable, Democracy Now, Wired, Globe, Daily Show.
  • Score Chapter help requests: St.Louis, Central Virginia, San Francisco, New York, Phoenix, Tampa.
  • LinkedIN: Expensive! Have to be selective.

Feb 22, 2012

Arny Bereson

  • Started with Injection Molding
    • Shifted with Econ Development of Florida
  • Did FORESTERS, financial product group
  • Captures essence of what is going on today.
  • Paid Position - $135k. Health plan not needed.
    • Seasoned.
    • Online teacher.
    • Experiential learning.
  • Availability - couple weeks of time in advance.
  • Onsite? Not.
    • Not director of established organization.
    • Remote work means higher level of discipline. Says he has the focus.
  • Likes startups - every day is an adventure - hand in everything
    • Loses interest quickly if it's boring. Needs constant change.
  • Old job - did well, they don't need him any more.
    • Full time employment
  • 50 mi north of San Diego
  • Just remarried
  • Agile development? Not wwz
  • Peter Drucker - studied with him
  • Agile - not expert on it. Candid.
  • Conflict mitigation - handle before it happens.
  • Handle, motivate, and empower volunteers.
    • Bad volunteer is worse than no volunteer
    • American Diabetes Organization - dealt with a lot of dissatisfied volunteers
  • Need to set up standards - not a lot of meat on the bones
    • Need to really get to setting up structure - procedure, who to go to, platform for funds, what kind of avenues for fundraising
  • Could help us find an executive director; get structure in place and hand it over -
    • 3 months?
    • 1 year contract - yes
    • Doesn't want to temp
    • 1 year - staff and procedures in place
  • No web based or computer skills
  • That is proje
  • Board of diabetes certifiers - present
  • Assessment: Arny is seasoned and experienced. We will take our time to assess. Advantage: experience; Disadvantage: not a lifestyle investor, career nonprofit guy.

Feb 21, 2012

  • Conversations with Khoung Dinh and Arny Bereson: See below.
  • Postings to Stopdodo.com and engineertalent.
  • New SCORE strategy: contact the chapters and get them to distribute amonst themselves.
  • Time for a media blitz.

-Huffpo, democracy now, cbc news, wired.com, popular science, mechanics, anyone else?

  • Called Dylan Lydster. Assesment: Hard to determine potential at early stages.


Khoung Interview

  • Wesolveforx.com - Astro Teller, Meghan Smith
  • Experience in Agile/Lean!
  • Systems engineer GVCS at component level
  • Set up Scrum teams?
    • Assemble teams.
  • Pay? - like a Woofer
  • Location? - can be onsite
  • Availability - Starting early Marcin
  • Joe Justice analysis: distributed research and development
    • Problem of
    • Future combat system - independent teams went to their own corners, the integration was a waste of time due to lack of collaboration
    • Node leaders would follow a manufacturing process
  • Expertise: materials science and physics
  • Prepare functionality matrix
    • How much time?
  • Sysem engineer: assures scalability of enterprise, testable products, that GVCS makes sense.
  • Lifestyle Investment? 1 year ago quit DoD, figuring next path. Migrate. Now has soft skills. Now needs hard skills.
    • Wants lodging + stipend (phone, gas, food? Whatever is fair)
    • Kinda like Woofing
  • Work product - samples of work - https://www.jieddo.dod.mil/about.aspx - He did layers of spiral development knows lean/agile, https://www.tena-sda.org/display/JMETCpub/Home
  • Perfect System -

Jeff Clanon interview, SOL

  • Main message: Not any ED will do - lots of them are not good at learning part specific to SOL techniques
    • Sends me more info on SOL techniques, and we resume conference on Thursday morning.
    • Assessment: sounds like his network can yield the people for ED positionl Followup: Thursday call.

Andy Meyer Interview

  • His assessment of our work:
    • Zombie Apocalypse is deep fear of people
    • New Industrial Revolution
    • Real Tools
    • Finds higher purpose great
    • Glut of television of all types of engineers doing irrelevant stuff - here, it is altruistic. Does have a goal and value. Huge DIY culture tapped in.
  • 12-16 month for pitch. One 2 hour program, or 6-10 episodes
    • Not immediate documentation, but suggests Journalism/Film grad students
    • Pure Growth - James Weiss CFO frin PU '96, helps nonprofits by creating for-profit ventures. Assessment:
    • Home Depot and Lowes - falling over themselves to provide supplies. Assessment: our social capital makes them look at this as noble and worth supporting? Followup: Put it on a possible action item.
    • Ford and Chevy - donate pickup trucks?
    • Lots of these organizations have n
    • Taco Bell Foundation - huge philanthropic org that funds dreamers
    • All Fortune 500 Companies have divisions for giving. By law, pretty much have to do it.
    • Expert in High quality video cFamera - Journalism (top third in Missouri) or Film schools. Followup - film students from U. M. Columbia
    • Strategy - Discovery or PBS documentary would get all brands to open up check books.
    • Good friend for social media of Obama, worked in NPR before. In the know about how funding works.

Calendar

  • 02/20/12 - Wednesday: meeting with Arny Bereson.

Marcin interview with Stephanie Rosol 2/20/12

  • Go commando on people
    • Find out where they are
    • How do we get to them
  • Get lists of companies, around me - manufacturers
  • Prototyping orgs?
  • Write top 5 questions from TED
  • How do i market this in the right place.
    • Positioning piece - understand what someone cares about, link to that to assess their commitment
    • Companies with related subject matter expertise


  • How?
  • No matter what pool - there will be frustrations


  • Post on LinkedIn
    • Start with passion, then specifics of enterprise
  • Followup with logistics questions for people - is this really for me?
    • Where do you live,

Tom 20/2/2012

  * Response and contact with a dozen email inquiries, mostly from NPR and cbc show.

Potentail systems manager in Khoung Dinh. Assessment: experienced systems thinker and engineer, young and motivated, project management experience. Ethics: ‘turning his life around to suit his philosophies’. 

Sick of DoD. Next Step: Conference call 21/2/12.
   *Contact with Arny Bereson, PHD. ED of american diabetes association. Anyone know of him?
Assessment:  Experienced ED, management, chemical engineer, masters in material science.
What is he looking to get out of the project? he wants money. Next Step: conference call 21/2/12.
  • 5 more Score requests. Assessment: Will probably help acquire a senior advisory board.

Next Step: Keep up the 5 requests/day. 

  * Emails sent out to SOL: Bill Stillinger.- Assessment: Marcin talking to Jeff from SOL tomorrow

Next Step: contact others in network. 

  * Requests for quote made to FEP Executive Recruitment: http://www.fepsearchgroup.com/,

quote: “Established in 1975, the firm has been able to align clients with the industry's best talent. Our 16,000-plus highly qualified candidates placed successfully in leading companies vouch the statement that we are one of North America's most competent, aggressive and resource rich search firms. We belong to many different industry associations, and our consultants are specialists in new technologies, methodologies and challenges facing their own specific industries. Assessment: FEP specialize in technology and manufacturing!!! Next step: Wait for response. 

  * Dylan Lydster: Assessment: Not enough experience to be ED or PD, but potential project leader.
Next Step: Communicate to establish a role.
  

  * Coworker Search on Fbook -Using Facebook’s “basic” search interface, you can specify a company and search for “coworkers,” even if you’re not employed at the company you are searching for.

Simply enter a company that you suspect might employ people that you would like to target. Assessment: works ok if you have a company in mind. 

   *Yahoo’s linkdomain command allows you to search for and find websites/pages that link back to a specified site. For example, we can leverage Yahoo’s linkdomain functionality to search for websites/pages that link back to Facebook groups and pages.

Assessment: Works well! continue to explore.

2/18/11


  • Tom

- Ten more score mentorships. -Lots of TED and Ashoka fellows to contact

- resumes are flooding in, mostly from the NPR and CBC shows, and the blog.

-contact more outstanding international radio shows? (this american life, democracy now, ????).

-enough here to get a decent team together.

2/17/12

Aaron

Tasks

Information/Strategy

  • Most organizations have a company email address structured like this: @organization.org. If you look on the Staff section of a company's website and notice someone you want to contact, try either: firstname@organization.org or firstname.lastname@organization.com. I tested this with Engineers Without Borders today using an old email account, and it didn't bounce back with an error, so I know it went through. Is this ethical? No. Is this excellent? You decide.


tom

-Extensive talks with Carl maucione, score mentor. Looks like its best not to contact board heads for recommendations as Aaron posted. Poach their email contacts?

-5 more score requests. Unfortunately score does not allow hiring of mentors or them sitting on boards, but maybe call the chapters?

-Called nanoholding llc. universities! department heads at UT austen? Nanoengineers.

-called urban green energy.

-A few resumes have come in through the blog posts. No EDs but possible team leaders.

-I have found a good to-call list from the ashoka fellows list.

-Plan for tomorrow: call ashoka fellows, five more score mentors, mine the ted fellows networks, try to find more executive search engines, call Score chapters and heads, and call strategic executive search

2/16/12

by Tom Bamford

  • First day of specified contact. Hard to find contact numbers of anyone good. Working through groups (ashoka, EWB, Technoserve, Skoll) might be our best bet. Score might get some good returns, but have to send email and only 5/day.

LOG:

  • Called William Drayton @ Ashoka: No answer. Sent him an email.
  • Called Diana Wells @ Ashoka. Interest expressed. talking to board.
  • Created an account with the Ashoka-Changemakers community.
  • Called Hakan Lutz of Smyte cars- left a message.
  • Contact with James J Batz: looking at website.

Emails sent to:

  • Carl Macione - http://www.dow.com/financial/corpgov/leader/executive.html
  • Michael Snyder: former CEO of High-Tech
  • John C Roy: Nonprofit and industrial manufacturing management
  • Lincoln Craighead : projects director?
  • John E Ball: 40 plus years R+D management. industrial engineer.
  • SCORE Mentoring request list: Carl R Monnin,,, charles E Schafer (projects director!!),,, ROBERT J PAULY (NASA AND AT+T super engineer),,, Dennis. A Currrington,,,,Donald W Havas.
  • Note: Score allows only 5 mentoring requests per day.
  • Important to follow up on (Score senior advisors):
    • Som Karamchetty,
    • Carl Trautmann,
    • Jerry H Stienberg.
Start a changeshop? recruiting or financing?


-SKOLL: Gawad Kalinga? Not much there.

-Mark Duff: (On board at worldchanging.com), strategic business planner, e-business and marketing, etc (potential ED?) company: freestoneroad.com. No answer, Left a message.

- Brian Schofield!? On various boards (eg technoserve, EWB), fits the mold. Cant find contact. Do we have any contacts @ technoserve or EWB?


Tomorrow: Focus on Ashoka fellows, TED, and 5 more SCORE.

2/14/12

Job descriptions posted. Executive Director and Projects Director

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