A final reminder that the XP Denver monthly meeting is one week early this
month, with the meeting and Al-Noor Ramji's talk beginning at 6:30 PM
tonight. The auditorium doors open early at 5:30 PM for refreshments and
networking. See below for directions if this will be your first time
attending an XP Denver meeting.

It will be an interesting talk with the prominent CIO of a Fortune 500
company (#121 in 2002) offering his perspective on agile methods and related
topics.

DIRECTIONS:
The Qwest auditorium is at their building on the corner of 17th and Curtis
at 1005 17th Street. At street level, to the right of the escalators, are
doors leading to elevators. Take an elevator to the "A" level (Auditorium).
If those doors are locked, you can take the exterior escalators to Level 1
and enter via doors to the right of the escalator landing. If these doors
are locked, go to the main building lobby which is on Level 1 if you walk
straight from the escalator landing.

In addition to street parking, there is an outside parking lot on the East
side of the Qwest building that costs a flat $5 after 4pm. Several other
lots are within a few blocks and covered parking can be found in the Tabor
Center for $4.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex [mailto:aviggio@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:35 AM
To: xpdenver@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xpdenver] Meeting 07/21 - Qwest CIO Al-Noor Ramji

Our July meeting will take place a week early this month. Join us at the
Qwest auditorium in Downtown Denver next Monday, July 21st for guest
speaker
Al-Noor Ramji. Al-Noor is the Chief Information Officer at Denver-based
Qwest. The meeting details will be posted later this week to the XP
Denver
mailing list and at our website http://www.xpdenver.org. XP Denver
monthly
meetings are free and open to Denver high tech professionals.

Al-Noor is responsible for all information technology for Qwest
including
the creation of market-focused IT teams who quickly develop new products
and
services. Prior to joining Qwest, Al-Noor was global chief information
officer for the investment banking firm Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Prior to that, he was chief operating officer and managing director at
Swiss
Bank Corporation and head of operations at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Al-Noor has 25 years of executive experience in information technology
for
the banking, finance and communications industries. Earlier he held
several
technology assignments at British Telecommunications. Al-Noor earned a
bachelor of science in electronics from the University of London and is
a
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).