Tustin engineer wins small business award | program, rawal, sba ...

The owner of a Tustin engineering firm will be honored as small-business owner of the year at a luncheon Thursday as part of Minority Enterprise Development Week.

Dhananjay Rawal started Enviro Compliance Solutions Inc. in his garage in 2001 after his employer filed for bankruptcy.

Dhananjay Rawal started Enviro Compliance Solutions Inc. in Tustin after his former employer filed for bankruptcy. He is the 2012 MED Week small business person of the year for the Santa Ana District of the Small Business Administration.

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"We were expecting our second child and my wife couldn't believe I wasn't going to take a job with benefits, but I needed to do it on my own," Rawal said.

The company has grown from a one-person consulting firm to nine employees doing engineering, environmental consulting and construction nationwide. The MED Week award honors owners whose businesses have participated in the U.S. Small Business Administration's 8(a) program that assists socially and economically disadvantaged business owners.

Rawal said he didn't know anything about the program until a potential customer mentioned that Enviro Compliance Solutions could get more contracts if it were certified as an 8(a) company. "I got the certification and my first contract was $160,000," Rawal said. "Now we are doing $5 million to $6 million in projects a year."

He said his company has benefited from classes in such topics as accounting principles from an SBA representative.

Rawal came to the United States from Mumbai, India, in 1988. He attended UC Irvine and then finished his education at Cal State Fullerton while he worked full time.

Also at the MED Week luncheon, Kusuma Kavia, executive vice president of Combustion Associates Inc. in Corona, will be honored as the 8(a) graduate of the year, which recognizes companies that have outgrown the government assistance program.

Marie Johns, SBA's deputy administrator, said, "The 8(a) program is one of the most effective tools we have to help small businesses and entrepreneurs in underserved communities grow and succeed."

She said the SBA has recently launched an online series of programs to help companies that are not yet ready for the 8(a) program. The first 30-minute tutorial is an overview of the program. The second 40-minute tutorial is about winning federal contracts. Two more tutorials will be released by the end of the year. The tutorials can be accessed at sba.gov/gcclassroom.

Contact the writer: 714-796-7927 or jnorman@ocregister.com

Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/program-375520-rawal-sba.html

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Message Center ? USO and Partners Invite Americans to Grant a ...

Oct 25 2012

The USO and partners will recognize Veterans Day with Grant a Wish for Our Heroes, an initiative that will give Americans opportunities to thank those who serve in the Armed Forces by granting wishes for our troops and their families by supporting them in a variety of ways. Through Grant a Wish for Our Heroes, Americans can take part in supporting the unique programs and services most requested by our troops and families by supporting the USO and its many partners at uso.org/grant-a-wish.

For years, troops and families have been telling the USO what programs and services they need the most through a comprehensive annual survey, ?Tell USO,? and the USO has responded. Our programs help ease the stress of deployment for both troops and their loved ones. Others provide the comprehensive support our servicemen and women need when they return home. And many help our wounded, ill and injured troops as they recover and re-enter their new lives as veterans.

This Veterans Day, the USO asks Americans to help support these USO programs and initiatives that our troops have requested most:

• Holiday Boxes for Deployed Troops- Many deployed troops spend holidays away from their families. The USO helps bring a touch of home to troops with boxes containing decorations games, snacks, movies and themed items. All designed to bring holiday cheer those serving in the most remote corners of the world.
• Connecting Troops to Families Back Home- Missing the birth of your child may seem hard to imagine, but it?s a reality for many of our troops overseas. The USO has made it possible for some of our military dads to witness the birth of their child, via Skype. This November, we?ll also be helping those dads send some special items home to their newborn and mom- so they can be a part of those first precious weeks of their child?s life.
• Support Child Heroes- Help the USO provide the book ?Little CHAMPS? (Child Heroes Attached to Military Personnel) to military families in order to ease their challenges and fears of deployment, relocation and injury of a loved one. Author Debbie Fink provides a book that tells the story of five child heroes and their military lifestyles and raises awareness of military connected challenges.
• Education, Employment and Community Reintegration for our Wounded Warriors- USO Warrior and Family Care provides Hire Heroes USA/USO Workshops and Careers Opportunity Days for wounded, ill and injured service men and women, their spouses and caregivers. The workshops focus on resume writing, mock interviews, professional work practices and translating prior military experience into a civilian career. Career Opportunity Days are in collaboration with Hire Heroes USA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and offer our healing heroes, spouses and caregivers a non-traditional career fair where employers connect on a personal level based on interest and background. Employers conduct mock interviews and provide feedback, providing an additional level of support for transitioning troops to meet with employers offering jobs.
• USO Warrior & Family Center at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda- On November 7th, the USO will break ground on its second 20,000 square-foot building that will support our healing heroes and their families battling invisible wounds like traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress. The first center at Fort Belvoir is scheduled to open in 2013 and will support our healing heroes recovering from physical wounds. The two centers will include movie theaters, classrooms, sports lounges, business centers, healing gardens and more.

To learn more about Grant a Wish for Our Heroes, visit uso.org/grant-a-wish which highlights our USO corporate partners, USO best-in-class program partners and our USO locations and events that are granting wishes this Veterans Day.

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Kaspersky software could secure nuclear plants

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Matt Smith , Reuters

DUBAI (Reuters) - Russian anti-virus software company Kaspersky Lab is developing a secure operating system to run computers inside nuclear power plants and other vital infrastructure and industrial plants, its founder and CEO said on Tuesday.?

Eugene Kaspersky, the Russian computer scientist turned multi-millionaire cyber security expert, told reporters at a company news conference in Dubai the system was at the prototype stage, with his Moscow-based company in talks with government institutions about installing the new operating system. He declined to identify any, saying the talks were confidential.?

Energy and water plants, factories and transportation systems are typically run with SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems that are accessible via conventional computer networks, making them vulnerable to hackers, Kaspersky said.?

SCADA software is sometimes left unaltered for decades, which means that it does not get updates to protect against security bugs as they are discovered.?

"It's not possible to design SCADA in a secure way, so the most obvious solution is to have a secure envelope which monitors what's going on within SCADA," Kaspersky told Reuters after announcing the project.?

"Engineers travel with laptops, USBs, so even if the system is disconnected from the Internet there is traffic."?

Computer hacking was once seen as the preserve of rogue programmers working alone or in small groups.?

These usually targeted company websites and caused little long-term damage, but the rise of so-called "hactivist" collectives as well as suspected state-sponsored cyber attacks has shifted the threat towards government-run institutions energy, transport and telecommunications networks. Many such plants use firewalls designed to protect SCADA systems from being infiltrated by malicious bugs. But Kaspersky said he was developing an entire security-focused operating system to beef up their security further.?

Some 30,000 computers at state oil producer Saudi Aramco were infected in August, although there is no evidence that the virus got into its industrial control systems. But the Stuxnet worm virus that penetrated Iran's nuclear enrichment facility is now freely available on the Internet.?

"After Stuxnet, the attacks on Aramco and other incidents, governments and enterprises are listening," Kaspersky said.

Earlier this month U.S. lawmakers said China's top telecom equipment makers should be shut out of the U.S. market as they posed a potential security threat, but Kaspersky was unconcerned that his new operating system might attract similar concerns.?

"This system is quite compact ? it's easy to check it doesn't have extra functionality ... you own it," he added.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/kaspersky-plans-software-securing-nuclear-plants-1C6519427

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Sales Manager - Apparel, Easton-Bell Sports, Scotts Valley, CA ...

Job Description
The Sales Manager - Apparel will be responsible to establish the selling foundation of our emerging Giro - Apparel business. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in successfully creating an initial yet scalable sales program to meet and exceed business & market expectations. The Sales Manager - Apparel will implement all dimensions of sales management (i.e., strategies, forecasting, pricing, competitive landscapes, market conditions, and customer/field sales support programs) at the regional level. It is a goal/results driven position requiring a positive, highly motivated and apparel market savvy sales leader.

Essential Job Functions:
Achieve or exceed sales objectives, while maintaining profitability and ensuring 100% customer satisfaction.
Work with the National Sales Director to analyze business and product trends, opportunities for growth and development of actions plans to maximize sales.
Maintain strong customer relationships with all the key & target accounts in the assigned region to build and maintain our categories business.
Travel to each sales territory a minimum of twice per year and provide feedback from our customers to product marketing, R&D, customer service, operations and sales management teams.
Develop annual sales and incentive programs to drive growth while maintaining or improving margins.
Provide the operations team with annual forecasts and rolling projections.
Meet regional sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances and initiating corrective actions.
Work with the product marketing and R&D teams to help develop products that will keep the brand in a market leadership position.
Develop a strong working relationship with Regional Sales Managers, Key Account/OEM management including the International Sales team as appropriate to facilitate team selling.
Periodically review and adjust national sales plans as needed to ensure that objectives are being met.
Partner with IBD Reps to establish effective pre-call plans and objectives to ensure productive and consistent customer interactions.
Maintain a strong working knowledge of EBS products and services, competitive product features and programs as well as applications utilized by our customer base.
Maintain a working knowledge of current and potential activities/situations that may affect sale revenues.
Recruit, hire, educate, direct and manage IBD sales representatives in the assigned region.
Drive regional sales force performance through leadership, vision, motivation and business acumen.
Attends all sales meetings, training sessions, trade shows, clinics and conferences as required.
Travels up to 40-50%.

Education and Training:
Bachelor Degree in Business Management, Marketing or related field experience required.
Minimum five (5) to 10 years successful sales and/or sales management experience selling athlete apparel / lifestyle apparel required.
Management level experience in developing, leading and maintaining a successful sales team.
Proven track record of teamwork and working well within a matrixed organization (e.g. marketing, management, finance, R&D, customer service) to complete sales and to service customers.
Proficient with MS Office applications. SAP experience desirable.

Skills and Abilities:
Excellent time & project management skills.
Strong people management skills with proven track record of developing & mentoring successful sales teams.
Ability to quickly build/maintain positive and effective working/customer relationships.
Demonstrate a high level of energy and enthusiasm.
Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
Strong business acumen with acute understanding of sales cycles
Self-confident, self-motivated, self-starter, results-oriented and success driven.

At Easton-Bell Sports we love determination and perseverance it is part of what makes us a great company! And we also value the professional privacy of each of our team members. Therefore we respectfully ask that you do not contact our executives or hiring teams directly.

Resumes and cover letters will only be accepted by clicking the apply now button below or submitting by direct email to:
joinus@eastonbellsports.com

To learn more about careers at Easton-Bell, please visit:
www.eastonbellsports.com/careers

Choosing to cross this boundary is cause for a personal foul, flag on the play, time in the penalty box, well you get the picture! We hope to see your resume submitted soon!

Easton-Bell Sports is an equal opportunity employer.

We are Easton-Bell Sports.
Tomorrow is ours.
Because of the time we put in today.
We will be smarter. And faster. More resilient. More Clever. More Vocal. More open.
And maybe a little less serious.
We are devoted to sports and the people who play them. We vow to make them stronger and better.
If we fail, we learn. If we win, we improve.
Because our direction is ever forward.
Our passion is always with purpose.
Our success, humbly inevitable.
This is our time. Tomorrow is ready.
Lets take it.

Are you ready to take it?
We are looking for the very best to help create our tomorrow.

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Technology Creep: Remember When Motorcycling Was Simple?

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I'm no luddite. In fact, I'm probably as anchored to my iPhone as a teenager making prom plans. But bluetooth helmets have me eternally conflicted over the issue of technology creep.

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Helmets with listening devices are nothing new (remember the good ole' Chatterbox?), but Schuberth's new S2 takes audio technology a step further by featuring the world's first embedded antenna. Schuberth says the dual-band antenna?improves FM radio reception and?enhances sound quality when communicating with other riders up to 1/2 mile away. The otherwise innocuous looking lid also offers bluetooth connectivity with streaming stereo audio, along with active noise cancellation so the folks on the other end can't tell you're jamming down the highway at breakneck speeds.

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Do I unconditionally disapprove of devices that distract from the simple joys of moving through space on two wheels? Absolutely not. Especially on long rides, there's something great about listening to tunes or discussing the finer points of scenery with your riding partners. But like limiting hours spent watching television or surfing the 'net, a little bit of discretion goes a long way towards maximizing the enjoyment of the very thing you've set out to do... what do you think?

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/auto-blog/schuberth-helmet-features-embedded-antenna?src=rss

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Twilio Is Crushing It: 150K Devs, 1.5M Phone Calls/Day, 500M Total ...

Twilio?s CEO Jeff Lawson gave a passionate keynote today at his cloud telephony startup?s conference today peppered with big stats and quotes like ?Communications is now in the domain of software. We focus on the user, and we will win.?

Twilio now powers big names in tech like Uber, eBay and Hulu, has 150,000 developers and is expanding internationally to disrupt ye old telecom industry.

The news was unveiled today at TwilioCon, Twilio?s developer conference in San Francisco, as co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson took to the stage to proclaim Twilio?s success in disrupting the carrier hegemony. ?In telecom, the playing field has been leveled,? he said, because of the shift away from expensive hardware to cloud-based software, such as kind that Twilio offers.

Twilio today announced that there are now 150,000 developers using its APIs, with?almost 1.5 million phone calls a day and 500 million phone calls done on the Twilio platform. [Correction: Twilio has processed 500 million total phone calls and 1.5 million phone calls per day, not 1 billion total and 1.5 million API calls as we originally published].

And Twilio is on track to accelerate with the introduction of local numbers now into 20 more countries that will take its total footprint to 40 countries. This is a significant addition, considering that in the past Twilio has ramped up in increments like this. You can see the full list of supported countries here.

The expansion means that Twilio can now offer developers local phone numbers on every inhabited content [excepting Antarctica], reaching markets where it has not been before such as Australia, parts of Asia and Latin America. (Australia, notes Lisa Weitekamp, associate product manager at Twilio, had been the most-requested country of all the ones where Twilio did not offer numbers.)

Though it has momentum, this all doesn?t mean cloud telecom is a one-horse race. Veteran telephony API provider?Voxeo Labs has 200,000 developers in its Tropo?dev community ? more than Twilio does today. There?s also?talk that Twilio has lost some key talent?around developer relations, which could mute optimism about the company.

The company is taking on carriers around the world with its innovative API-based service, which lets developers create cloud-based phone numbers in web and mobile apps that cost less than similar services offered by carriers, and are significantly easier to deploy across multiple geographies ? users do not need to strike country-by-country relationships for one thing.

But carriers are now starting to get with the program: Telefonica, for example, has its Blue Via API effort, which recently added its first outside carrier, Telenor, with plans to extend that to more in the near future. (Interesting side-note, Telefonica?s former head of developer relations for Blue Via, James Parton, now works for Twilio in Europe.) Twilio announced its biggest partnership yet with AT&T?last month, though the integration?s deployment seems to be on hold as some materials about the deal were retracted.

These partnerships are leading Twilio to start focusing not just on more universal services ? such as this 20-country expansion for voice, but also to focus more on the quality of its service. To that end, today it also announced a new Global Low Latency (GLL) and quality service created by ?employing geographically strategic data centers and intelligent routing?. In layman?s terms, this ensures that calls made on its network are only cost-effective but also that they sound good.

It also potentially introduces the idea that Twilio may at some point start offering different quality-of-service levels for users, similar to the way that carriers do.

Weitekamp notes that Twilio is starting with voice but is looking at ways of extending other services to more markets as well. SMS, she notes, needs separate mobile agreements in many countries, which will take some time to iron out. She would not comment on whether and when Twilio would roll out entirely new services such as video calls or billing.

?Striking carrier deals and deploying infrastructure around the globe was a significant undertaking,? said Thomas Schiavone, director of product management at Twilio. ?But we knew we?d be measured by our call quality and this is only way to ensure the best experience for our customers around the world.?

Twilio continues its goal to deliver one API with global reach. In July, the company announced outbound SMS to over 200 countries, and support for a variety of languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Russian and dozens more.

The big message of Twiliocon was the idea of prioritizing customer experience. Lawson praised Twilio developers, exclaiming ?You?re focused on the user instead of the scaffolding. Others are shackled to big hardware and big software. You?re going to win.?

Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. Twilio allows developers to use their existing web development skills, existing code, existing servers, existing databases and existing karma to solve these communication problems quickly and reliably. System is based on Asterisk.

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/twilio-is-crushing-it-150k-developers-1-5m-api-calls-a-day-1b-total-phone-calls-expanding-to-20-more-countries/

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