Company Overview
SherStaff is the premier staffing and consulting source for technical talent in Florida and beyond. The company provides recruiting and consulting services to both Fortune 1000 companies and to job candidates in a wide range of technology areas of expertise including the Microsoft Technologies, Oracle, WebSphere, Java/J2EE, and open source/Linux based technologies. The primary focus is recruiting application developers, network engineers and database administrators. The company prides itself on the long term relationships established with both employers and employees to ensure placement of the best quality candidates in the top quality jobs.
Services Overview
In addition to offering traditional recruiting services, SherStaff has become the hub for IT networking in Florida through its creation, leadership and support of multiple technology users groups and networking groups including the .NET Miami Users Group and the South Florida Association of Internet Professionals. The company provides on-going support to the South Florida Java Users Group, the .NET Gold Coast Users Group, the Florida Linux User Xchange, the South Florida Oracle Users Group, and more.  Modeled after similar groups in Silicon Valley, these groups provide an opportunity for potential employers and employees to mingle in an informal setting. Additionally, they offer a forum for learning and exchanging information on multiple technologies.

 

South Florida Association of Internet Professionals

 

This group meets the last Tuesday of the month for an IT Networking and Social in Murphy’s Law Irish Pub at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino entertainment complex near Ft. Lauderdale – located West of I-95 on the corner of Stirling Road and Route 441.  Attendance ranges to over 100 IT professionals each month.  Dozens of job openings are  announced by hiring companies at each event and informal job interviews are conducted on-site.

 

Special events are often held at the Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Theater of Nova Southeastern University.  Audience attendance ranges to over 400.  Three recent events at the Miniaci have been collaborative group meetings of the SF-AIP and the Users Groups listed below.  The focus of the events is on educating the technology community through technical competitions and special speakers.  Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computers, was one of these special speakers at the recent “Woz at the Shore” event. 

 

On-stage Technical Competitions have included the entire “War at the Shore” series of technology debates, beginning in the year 2000.  In “War at the Shore V, Gladiators of Code”, we presented three teams of three I.T. professionals each in an on-stage technology exhibition, complete with Roman Goddesses.  Speakers included corporate representatives from IBM and Oracle, as well as I.T. professionals representing Microsoft and Linux technologies.  In “War at the Shore IV, Windows vs. Linux” at the Miniaci, we organized two teams of three I.T. professionals each debating Operating Systems. Speakers came from Red Hat Corp for Linux and Microsoft Corp. for Windows.  Supporting debaters came from the local community, including Dr. Raul Salazar of Nova Southeastern University. The first “War at the Shore” was an Internet Applications Development debate entitled .NET vs. Java and featured corporate speakers from Sun Microsystems and Microsoft; In “War at the Shore II” the database debate of Oracle vs. SQL Server starred hard hitting speakers from the Oracle and Microsoft corporations.

 

 

TechGalaxy

TechGalaxy is an annual mega Users Group event held at Nova Southeastern University.  Over 20 different education sessions and panel discussions on a wide range of technologies illuminate and inspire the knowledge base of technology community.  www.techgalaxy.org

 

 

.NET Miami Users Group

 

The role of this organization is to educate and support I.T. Professionals on Microsoft .NET and SQL Server technologies.  The group meets monthly at a variety of venues around the greater Miami area, including the world headquarters of Carnival Cruise Lines and the Latin American Headquarters of Microsoft Corporation. Previous programs have included “Get rid of Oracle with the SQL Isolation Model”, SQL Server 2005 Architecture and ASP.NET 2.0.  www.miamiusersgroup.org

 

 

South Florida Java Users Group

 

This users group provides education and support for I.T. Professionals on Java and WebSphere related technologies.  The group meets monthly. The structured programs focus on highly technical Java programming and related technologies.  www.MiamiJug.org

 

 

.NET Gold Coast Users Group

 

Provides education and support for IT Professionals on Microsoft .NET and SQL Server technologies.  The group meets monthly in Boca Raton at the Embassy Suites hotel.  Previous programs include Microsoft Web Services technologies.  www.gcdotnet.net

 

 

Florida Dot Net Users Group

Provides education and support for IT Professionals on Microsoft .NET and SQL Server technologies.  This group meets at NCCI in Boca Raton and DeVry University in Miramar.  www.fladotnet.net

 

 

South Florida Oracle Users Group

 

Educates and supports IT Professionals on Oracle related technologies.  The group meets monthly in Hollywood, Florida.  The programs focus on informal networking and structured Oracle education programs, including Oracle 10g development and Oracle 10g Grid Computing.  This group often meets at Dave & Buster’s in Hollywood.  www.sfoug.org

 

 

Florida Linux Users Xchange

 

Provides Education and support for IT Professionals on Open Source/Linux technologies.  The group meets monthly at a Nova Southeastern University.  The programs focus on Open Source technologies such as MySQL, PHP and freeware applications.  Previous programs included “Exchange Killer – how to get 90% of Microsoft Exchange functionality for free”.  www.flux.org