Events

Lydon Solutions was pleased to attend this year’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Internship and Career Expo on October 27th. The event was hosted by Cal State Fullerton’s Career Center, along with the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

The event provided a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students studying computer science and engineering to discover internships, and to learn about potential employment opportunities.

Lydon Solutions was on-hand at the event to meet and talk with these bright, young minds and provide them with information about potential internships with our company. As our VP Rusty Ostboe explains, “Lydon Solutions is committed to providing opportunities to local talent in both Computer and Construction oriented fields.”

We were impressed by the caliber of students we talked with, and we appreciated having this chance to meet and talk with so many enthusiastic and eager minds pursuing STEM occupations.

Sometimes you hear comments from people concerned about future generations.  After my recent trip to Penn State, I’m here to say that the future generations will be just fine given the opportunity.

I was honored to be invited to speak at the Penn State Entrepreneurship Seminar last week along with Martin (“Marty”) Nealon and Kirk DeForest of Medical Consulting Solutions. Marty, Kirk and I were asked to share our insights about starting and running our own businesses with young entrepreneurs from multiple disciplines at Penn State. The seminar was part of a relatively new cross-discipline entrepreneurship program at PSU. The program is gaining a lot of traction as a result of the dedication of mentors like Bob Beaury, the Interim Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor at PSU.

I was thoroughly impressed by the enthusiasm and motivation of these student entrepreneurs. They were engaged, asked smart questions, and had some great ideas for businesses. A highlight of the event for me was talking to the students individually after the presentations. Several were already well on their way with budding business of their own! It was inspiring.

Marty and I graduated from Penn State in 1993 and went on to work for large corporations most of our professional lives.  We became frustrated with the politics and lack of innovation in the corporate world at about the same time in our careers.  Ultimately, we branched out as entrepreneurs to do things better.  We were both fortunate to have incredible partners, mentors, and employees that believe in what we are doing and who go over and above to make our companies successful.

I joined Marty and Kirk at the Penn State event to give a little something back.  But I was reminded that mentoring works two ways. After a day of talking to a room full of intelligent, confident and savvy student entrepreneurs, I came away from my alma mater even more inspired myself.

The Lydon Solutions team had a great time at the CMAA Capital Projects Symposium held last week in Long Beach. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our ‘SharePoint Construction Program Portal’ information session. We enjoyed the opportunity to talk with symposium attendees about our award-winning hosted Program Management solution for construction.

If you missed us at the symposium – or you were not able to attend – contact our team for a free consultation and demo.

Here are some photos from the symposium.

Photos courtesy of CMAA. Visit the CMAA Flickr photo album to view more.