First 2010 POINT meeting scheduled in Paducah, Feb. 9

John Truitt, president of Kalleo Technologies, will be the speaker at the first meeting of the year for POINT (Professional Organization of Information and Network). The meeting will be at 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9 at Paducah’s Red Lobster, according to Loretta Daniel, director of the Regional Business and Innovation Center (RBIC) at Murray State University.

The RBIC is one of the three partners that started POINT in February 2009. The others are Murray State’s department of computer science and information systems and the Center for Telecommunications Systems Management (TSM). Truitt has worked in the IT industry for 18 years with companies such as SBC, Citrix and Wal-Mart. Before starting Kalleo Technologies (a Paducah-based IT Service), he was director of product management at Wyse Technology in San Jose, Calif.

The mission of POINT is “to introduce and share knowledge in the high-tech fields of software development and information technology while providing environments for professionals to network on a regular basis.”

Membership is free and admission to the meetings is a business card.

Other scheduled meetings (second Tuesday of the month) for the year are March, Hopkinsville; May, Madisonville; August, Paducah; September, Hopkinsville; October, Murray; and November, Madisonville. June and July meetings are not scheduled due to summer vacations.

The April meeting will coincide with the TSM Patterns of Distinction Conference at Murray State, coordinated by Dr. Jim Gantt of Center for Telecommunications Systems Management and Dr. Victor Raj of the MSU department of computer science and information systems.

For more information or to register for a meeting, contact Amber Roach at (270) 809-3501 or Daniel at (270) 809-6071.