ISA Ireland Section

I hereby inform you that Kevin Dignam who served as ISA District 12 Vice
President in 2009 and 2010 is the new Nominator for our district.

Kevin Dignam’s term of office as D12 Nominator will cover the years 2011 and
2012. It is the duty of all the 14 District Nominators to attend one ISA
Leaders Meeting each year, namely the Summer Leaders Meeting (SLM). The
2011 meeting will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 25 – 28 June and during
this time the Nominating Committee will meet and thus select the new officers
of the society.

Kevin’s first duty as D12 Nominator will be to work with Dianna Noyes, ISA
staff member and organise an election for a DVP-elect. We need to keep the
leadership pipeline full and elect a successor to our current DVP, Jean-Pierre
HAUET. As a matter of fact, eleven of the fourteen ISA Districts have an elect
in place at this stage, hence we are one of the three districts which does not
have a DVP-elect at the moment.

I trust you will congratulate Kevin and wish him well in serving the district in
this important portfolio.

Regards,

Billy Walsh

Brian Curtis received an ISA Distinguished Society Service (DSS) Award for 2010. This is a great honour for Brian and the Ireland Section. A total of four DSS Awards were given out this year by ISA. Gianfranca Sanzeni of the Italy section received a DSS Award and hence two awards went to District 12. The awards were presented in the Westin Galleria Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA on Monday, 4 October during the H&A banquet. Brian attended with his wife Irene and four of their friends. K. Dignam, E. O’Riain, B. Walsh and D. O’Brien attended the H&A banquet as well in Houston.

More pictures from the event can be found here (http://www NULL.isa NULL.org/graphics/honors-awards/2010/Photo-Gallery/index_11 NULL.htm ).

Monday 21st June 2010: Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork @ 7.30pm

Complimentary Networking Evening for people that have been working in the
Engineering Industry over the last number of years throughout Ireland.

After the initial presentation, the presenters from the listed companies will be sitting at tables in different parts of the room. They will be available to speak to individuals giving the benefit of their experience. It will give you the opportunity to ask questions on a one to one personal basis.

The ISA Ireland Section wishes to welcomes Kieran to the committee. Kieran works for Life Science Consultants (LSC) and will make an excellent contribution to the committee.

This annual event is open to all members. Team entries can be submitted (requires one ISA member per team). This years event takes place at the the Water Rock Golf Course on the 14th May 2010. All enquiries should be directed to Eamon Bradfield at eamonis@gmail.com or by phone on (021) 4703386. Additional details will be added to the website in the next few weeks. Read More.

The month of April marked a new event for the ISA Ireland Section. As part of our misssion to foster links with educational institutions throughout the country, the ISA worked in partnership with the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown to deliver our first technical talk there. Mr. Dave Peyton of IT Blanchardstown and Mr. Jim Long (ISA President Ireland Section 2007/2008) organised and co-ordinated the event. The student technical talk was presented by a speaker from Marren Engineering, Dublin. The talk took place on the 14th April 2010 in IT Blanchardstown select the following link to view a full report on the tecnical talk. read more

A New Year, a new website! We have decided to revamp the website to make it more functional as the old one was not user friendly at all from a coding perspective.

Our website is now running on the ever popular WordPress platform and allows for easy on-the-fly changes and WYSIWYG content addition. I believe the current site navigation is better and links are easier to find too. Using the WordPress platform gives us the capability to add news and articles in blog style fashion, make the site Search Engine Optimized and add social media capabilities.
We hope you like the simplicity and functionality of the new design. Any comments or changes please let me know by sending an email to info@isa.ie

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you at future ISA Ireland Section events.
David O Brien, President-Elect (20 March 2010).

The ISA Ireland Section wishes to welcomes Santosh to the committee. Santosh has worked for Zenith Technologies for several years as an automation professional and will make an excellent contribution to the committee.