All posts by Jeff Cavanagh

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.

A Letter from the Director, Bay Pines Health Care

Benefits, Events, General News

I invite you to attend a special Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing ceremony for our new Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) program now available for Veterans enrolled for health care at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System.  The ceremony will take place in the building 20 auditorium located on the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center campus on February 15, 2017 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  Driving instructions and a campus map can be accessed here: www.baypines.va.gov/BAYPINES/locations/directions.asp.

The MLP program is a result of a multi-organization partnership between the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Stetson University Veterans Law Institute, Bay Area Legal Services, and Gulfcoast Legal Services and is supported by the St. Petersburg/Bay Pines MyVA Community Engagement Board.  The program is designed specifically for Veterans enrolled for care with the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System (some exceptions may apply) who are in need of legal representation/consultation for non-criminal offenses, who may not otherwise be able to afford legal representation.  Services are provided by MLP attorneys at no cost. The program officially became available for Veterans on February 1, 2017.

This special partnership is only the thirteenth of its kind in the nation – a significant community accomplishment that has already yielded a tremendous benefit to the men and women we have the honor and privilege to serve.  On the first day of the program alone, the MLP attorney staffing the office served 11 Veterans and received 168 phone calls.  There is tremendous demand for this wonderful program that will, without a doubt, greatly assist Veterans with their legal concerns while allowing them to more fully engage in their personal health and well-being.

Your presence during the ceremony  and ongoing support will contribute to the overall success and strength of this program now and in the future.  I look forward to you joining us as we officially move forward in this partnership that will positively impact the lives of many Veterans and their loved ones.

If you have any questions about this event or MLP, please contact Ms. Meghan Booth, LCSW, Social Work Supervisor, at 727-398-6661 extension 15191 or Mr. Fred Liggett, Transitional Patient Advocate, at 727-398-6661, extension 15893.

Sincerely,

SUZANNE M. KLINKER Director, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System

Pull up a chair at Downtown Clearwater’s Station Square Park

Events, General News

The city of Clearwater’s Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is hosting a celebration to kick off the activation of Station Square Park, 612 Cleveland St., Clearwater, from 12 to 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6.

The city’s CRA recently installed chairs, tables and large umbrellas at Station Square Park to encourage people to utilize the urban park in Downtown Clearwater. Please bring your lunch to the Feb. 6 park celebration to enjoy live music and the great outdoor ambiance of Station Square Park.

Throughout the year, several local organizations will sponsor events at Station Square Park. Activities will include yoga classes, music performances and art presentations.

“Station Square Park is located in the heart of our downtown, and we’re thrilled to work with community partners to make it a great place for everyone to enjoy,” said Laura Canary, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency coordinator. “We hope to attract many park visitors by offering a wide array of programming.”

Station Square Park features 24,000 square feet of space, including concrete pavers, pastel café seating, shade trees and a raised circular stage. The chairs, tables and umbrellas were installed last week, and it is expected they will draw Downtown Clearwater workers and visitors to this comfortable urban oasis.

Station Square Park is a Clearwater historical landmark as it was the location of three Clearwater train depots that transported passengers and cargo, according to the Clearwater Historical Society. It also assisted nearby businesses, including a citrus packing company, barrel and crate manufactures and lumber businesses.

The first rail station was a wooden station built in 1888 for the Orange Belt Railway.

In 1895, the railway line was bought by the Plant System, owned by Henry Plant. The original rail station was replaced with a larger, wooden railway depot.

After Plant died in 1899, the Atlantic Coast Line took over the Plant System in 1902. The Atlantic Coast Line built a brick railway station that lasted until the 1960s when it was torn down to make room for a public park.

The park was updated and rededicated in 2009.

For more information on the Station Square Park celebration and activation, contact Seth Taylor, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency director, at (727) 562-4072 or seth.taylor@myclearwater.com or Laura Canary, the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency coordinator, at (727) 562-4024 or laura.canary@myclearwater.com.

Immediate Job Opening: Scrum Master Consultant

Jobs

LOCATION: Atlanta, GA

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world.  The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.  Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.

Software Engineering professionals work across the Service Delivery Lifecycle to analyze, design, build, test, implement and/or maintain multiple system components or applications for Accenture or our clients.

Job Description

Agile professionals define an adaptive model based on greater collaboration and communication between teams; Agile is a cultural change that impacts people, processes and tools in different ways across the organization; based on iterative, time boxed and incremental approach, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and Cross-Function teams, Agile promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery and encourages a rapid and flexible response to change. Agile Coaching professionals help adopt and improve agile at project or enterprise level.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure team compliance with agile scrum framework/ADM
  • Facilitate process activities of Agile software development/scrum encouraging and supporting the teams to self-manage their iterations using a servant-leader management style
  • Train others in the Scrum Framework
  • Remove barriers to effectiveness
  • Manage external tasks
  • Overall sprint and data management for the project
  • Tracks team capacity and velocity metrics for planning purposes
  • Ensure self-organized team’s continuous improvement – Monitor and coach
  • Serve as communication liaison between the team and Product Owner, Program Manager, and Stakeholder
  • Develop people through coaching and by fostering a positive work environment
  • Schedule, plan and facilitate collaboration per the Scrum framework, daily stand-up meetings, regular iteration reviews and planning meetings between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders
  • Schedule and facilitate regular team retrospective meetings per the scrum framework
  • Work with the Product Owners to identify that the product backlog is in place and ranked/ groomed to the appropriate level to start and continue development iterations
  • Challenge the team to implement team operational improvements.
  • Encourage and instill process improvements
  • Ensure that identified agile software progress metrics are in place and that the team and product owner are enabled to input data for said metrics. Responsible for collating and preparing metric data on a regular basis using repeatable methods
  • Assist self-managing teams to coordinate resources and accepted work
  • Monitor the team’s work flow
  • Assist the product owner in maintaining a product strategy/roadmap, including competitive and market positioning
  • Facilitate ADM/ Scrum Framework process compliance inspections and artefact creation and inspections.

Basic Qualifications

  • Minimum 6 years IT/software process improvement experience
  • Minimum 6 years Development or test experience
  • Minimum 6 years of experience managing teams
  • Minimum 4 years of leadership experience within an agile software development team
  • Minimum 4 years of Agile experience
  • Minimum 2 year of managing multiple Agile teams (i.e.scrum of scrums)

Preferred Skills

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • At least 2 years of experience in agile coaching and training.
  • Hands on experience on agile flavors such as SAFe, Scrum and Kanban.
  • Nice to have knowledge about CI, DevOps TDD BDD practices.
  • Certified SAFe Agilist SA, CSM, CSPO

Professional Skill Requirements

  • Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Desire to work in an information systems environment
  • Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status). Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Mark Simonsen

Talent Acquisition Expert

mark.e.simonsen@accenture.com

(720) 359-5839

 

Youth Resource Fair

Events, Jobs

ATTENTION:

ARE YOU BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 TO 24, OUT OF SCHOOL AND NEED A JOB? THEN CAREERSOURCE TAMPA BAY’S YOUTH RESOURCE FAIR IS FOR YOU. THIS EVENT CONNECTS YOUTH WITH EMPLOYERS THAT ARE PREPARING TO HIRE, NO COST TRAINING, COLLEGE FUNDING, AND MUCH MORE! JOIN US FEBRUARY 11TH FROM 10AM TO 3PM AT THE TAMPA CAREER CENTER FOR A LIVE DJ, REFRESHMENTS, AND A RAFFLE FOR A FREE IPAD. WE HAVE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR OVER 200 YOUNG ADULTS THROUGH OUR PAID WORK EXPERIENCE SO COME DISCOVER NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO PLAN YOUR FUTURE. FOR DETAILS GO TO CAREERSOURCETAMPABAY.COM!

 

 

Supply Chain Management Event

Benefits, Events, Jobs

Notice to all!

St Petersburg college Supply Chain Management presents a new event on January 24th 2017. The name of the event is “We Mean Business – Exploring Supply Chain Management”

Please share this upcoming event with all interested parties.

for more details refer to the flyer link below or contact

Marta Przyborowski

Program Manager | LINCS Grant

St. Petersburg College | College of Business

Office: (727) 341-7973

przyborowski.marta@spcollege.edu

 

SCM Event – We Mean Business – Jan. 24

 

 

VA Speed Networking Reminder

Benefits, Events, Jobs

This is just a friendly reminder about the upcoming St. Petersburg/Bay Pines MyVA Community Engagement Board speed networking event scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

The event will take place in the at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in the J.C. Cobb Room located on the first floor of Building 100, the main hospital building.  If you would like to reserve a seat for this important activity, please RSVP via email to me at Jason.dangel@va.gov TODAY.  Please feel free to share this invitation with other professional contacts you feel would benefit from this event and who have an interest in helping Veterans who reside in Pinellas County.

Additional details about this event are available in the invitation information provided below from Fr. Robert “Bob” Swick, Chair, St. Petersburg/Bay Pines MyVA Community Engagement Board.

 

 

Corporate Volunteers Descend on C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center to Give Back to Veterans

Benefits, Events, Jobs

A small army of more than 150 employees from Southwest Airlines descended on the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center to give back to America’s Veterans by completing a host of volunteer assignments on Jan. 11, 2017.

From site beautification and landscaping, assisting with pharmacy mail outs, a little balloon volleyball and more, the corporate volunteers took every opportunity to serve those who once donned the military uniform in service to the nation. Click here to watch the full video story.

“Today is an opportunity to bring the Southwest Airlines marketing team to [Bay Pines] and spend time here with those who served…interacting with them, working on beautification projects, anything that folks here need, we want to be hands on today,” said Thais Hanson, Advisor in Culture and Communications, Southwest Airlines, during the day of the event.

The volunteer activities were coordinated by United Way Suncoast and the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System’s Voluntary Service department. The local partnership between Bay Pines and the United Way makes it possible for large volunteer outings to occur at the medical center consistently throughout the year.

“Assisting Veterans is one of our main focuses out in the community,” said Jonathan Terry, Manager, Corporate and Community Engagement, United Way Suncoast.

“Southwest Airlines reached out to us with [Veterans] being one of their corporate social responsibilities. We reached out to Bay Pines and set up a few projects for [Southwest Airlines] to have a meaningful experience with the [VA],” he said.

For Veterans at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center, visits from volunteers brighten their day and remind them of the community support for America’s Heroes across Tampa Bay.

“I think it is wonderful that Volunteers come out…for a small thing like playing volleyball with a balloon,” said Robert Henry, U.S. Navy Veteran, World War II and Korean War.

To learn more about VA’s largest Voluntary Service program in the state of Florida and to find out how you can give back to Veterans, visit www.baypines.va.gov/giving.

Veteran Resume and Interview Guidance

Benefits, Events

 

                                  

Get your resume up-to-date! USO Central Florida and PricewaterhouseCoopers are partnering together to give separating military the tools they need to start a successful transition into civilian careers. Join us for Session One of “Resume and Interview Guidance” on Thursday, January 26th from 1730-1930 at PwC Headquarters in Tampa. This interactive session will partner Veterans with PwC Hiring Leaders and Recruit-ers to craft the perfect resume and answer your transition questions.

▪ Build employer relations

▪ Tailor your resume for the civilian workforce

▪ Learn from your fellow vets

▪ Position yourself for success

RSVP to Amy Phillips at  aphillips@usocentralflorida.org   by Tuesday, January 24th to reserve your spot. Space is limited; registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

U.S. Forest Service Hosts Online Hiring Event for Veterans and Persons with Disabilities, December 16-20, 2016

General News

DATE-LOCATION-The Forest Service is excited to hire excepted service eligible applicants, such as Veterans and persons with disabilities (Schedule A). Applications will be accepted on www.usajobs.gov, December 16 – 20, 2016.

Positions include: Frestry Technicians (GS-5) Engineering Technicians (GS-5) and Visitor Information Assistants (GS-5). Jobs are available throughout the United States. Requirements

  • US Citizenship
  • High School diploma or G.E.D.
  • If declaring Veteran status, you must submit DD-214, SF-15 or VA documentation
  • If you’re applying as a Schedule A applicant, you must submit a Schedule A letter certifying you meet the criteria set forth in 5 CFR 213.3102 (u). Medical documentation is not accepted.

Application Process

  • Applicants must apply on www.usajobs.gov. Job vacancy announcements open at 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Friday, December 16, 2016 and close at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Tuesday, December 20, 2016.
  • Login or sign up for an account. Build or upload a resume on the USAJobs site.
  • Search for job announcement using search criteria such as location or job title. Follow the application process as outlined by the USAJobs site.
  • For assistance, go to: http://help.usajobs.gov/index.php/Main_Page.

For more detailed requirement and duty location information, visit www.fs.fed.us/workfornature or email recruitmentandhiring@fs.fed.us. You are receiving this announcement as you receive the VetJobs Veteran Eagle newsletter. Feel free to forward to any other veterans who you think might be interested in this opportunity.