TriStar Staffing News Oct 2006 Portland Oregon

Our Mission Statement

1. Exceed Our Clients Expectations
2. To Find Careers rather than Jobs
3. Develop Long-Term Relationships
4. Become A National Leader in providing Highly Qualified Specialized, Professional Staff, temporary, permanent and contractors
5. Provide Diversity in Workforce

"We connect specialized professionals with clients who demand

the best talent in the marketplace!"

-CEO & President , Rudi Bellinazzo

TRI-STAR SEARCH, LLC

WE'RE ON THE MOVE TO A NEW OFFICE

HEADQUARTERS!!!!!

6960 SW VARNS ST.

TIGARD,OR. 97223

We are pleased to announce that Tri-Star Search, LLC will be moving offices effective November 10th, 2006. The new office will serve as our Corporate Headquarters as we expand into the Pacific NW. The office building will be fully remodeled to improve the workflow for our awesome team of recruiters and our clients! The new office is much bigger: it is four times as large! We have hired a number of experienced professionals to our team and this will allow us to be able to stretch out a bit more in our new space. In addition to the new office we’re taking PRODUCTIVITY and EXCELLENCE in RECRUITING to a whole new level by installing a cutting-edge VOIP phone and an improved network system: the systems will integrate voice, video, and data applications over our existing IP network giving us the ability to extend full telephone functionality to local and remote users. This means when we have client-in-office interviews, no matter how remote our clients or candidates, we’re equipped to provide video conferencing for the interview process directly from our office. There will be an open house after the remodel and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone!

Senior SAP FI/CO Business Support Analyst	Welding Applications Engineer
Senior Cost Accountant	SAP Functional Analyst FI/CO
Credit Supervisor	InPLAN, Oracle, Sox analyst, architect, and developer
CFO	Oracle Financial's Apps Project Manager
Assistant Controller	Director of Technology Infrastructure-ss

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Information Technology

Jeff

Oracle DBA

An intelligent, careful Oracle database administrator with 17 years experience managing multiple and large Oracle databases in heterogeneous computing environments.

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Vinay

SAP

A certified P.M. capable of managing the implementation of SAP, PeopleSoft or Oracle. He has a finance background.

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DARRALL

IT Executive

Nearly 25 years of IT Leadership experience. Multi-faceted and disciplined project management skills in all areas of IT including software development, infrastructure roll-outs and

network improvements. Value creation through numerous Oracle ERP, CRM and related core business systems and infrastructure projects .

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Engineering

Karen

Process/Quality Engineer

Over fifteen years of engineering experience in the semiconductor electronics packaging industry, including low and high volume manufacturing, materials characterization, quality assurance, project management, R&D, technical customer support, process engineering, and design. Extensive hands-on experience with DOE, SPC, Six Sigma, TQM, FMEA, DFM and JIT manufacturing practices. Familiarity with ISO and QS 9000 requirements, JEDEC, EIA, WEEE, ROHS standards and MIL specifications. >>Request More Information

David

Journeyman Millwright/ Sr. Engineer

Duties are machinery repair, maintenance, welding and fabrication, electrical/mechanical design, installation, service, maintenance and repair of capital equipment. Servicing included electrical, mechanical, hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum systems, pressure vessel testing and repair, instrument repair and calibration, steam fitting, plumbing, boiler maintenance and repair, electronics, welding, machining, and fabricating. >>Request More Information

Finance and Accounting

Craig

CPA

Craig is a CPA who just moved here from Hawaii. He's got 8 years of public accounting experience ranging from a small firm to one of the Big 4. He also has consulting experience with a large local firm where he worked in-house for his clients helping them set up accounting systems and closed the books. Craig is motivated, ambitious and looking for the next great career opportunity with a pleasant "Aloha" personality making him a real joy to work with. He is open to long-term contract or direct hire positions. Craig won't be on the market for long!

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Michael

Senior Cost Accountant

Senior Cost Accountant with a strong manufacturing background. 12 years of relevant experience dealing with standard costing, inventory valuation and variance analysis. Developed labor, material and overhead rate structures and created manufacturing departmental budgets for full absorption modeling.

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Scott

10 plus years of experience in Finance.

Most recent position is working as a Finance Manager leading long-range strategic planning. Has led the budget process for $250 million organization supporting 2 factories. Has managed a team of up to eight employees and looks to take on a mentoring/trainer role to create a developed career path. Very hands on individual that can see the big picture for an organization.

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John

CPA

John, has a strong financial statement, general ledger, and cash management background among other attributes. Prior accomplishments include increasing productivity of data entry in the past by converting to Access, implementing new accounting software programs, and successfully merging accounting departments of two separate companies. John is a polished individual who enjoys his work.

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Temporary work opportunities are no longer just for the entry level workers. Trends are showing Executive level opportunities are on the rise, check out the statistics below.

*Firms specializing in interim executives stated their business recently grew 50% - California based Staffing Industry Analysts.

*Most temporary executives can earn around $2,000 a day – Journal of Accountancy

*Executive temp wages were $2.8 billion, up an average of 800% since the 1990’s

- Bureau of Labor Statistics

*An average of 30% of executive level placements are CFO’s - Tatum Partners

*Executives and professionals now make up 10% of the temporary workforce –Journal of Accountancy

*Pay scales vary widely, in a rage of 112% to 150% of salary – ASA

*Average duration of an interim executive level opportunity is between 8-16 months.

-Career Journal

Market Commentary

October 2, 2006

The Markets

Like a downstairs neighbor waiting for the other shoe to drop, investors haven’t fully embraced the idea that the economy may be coming in for a soft landing.

During the third quarter, historically a difficult time for markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average turned in its best performance in 11 years, according to MarketWatch. Investors could hardly have asked for more: the Federal Reserve did not raise rates; energy prices fell significantly; MSN Money reported that the impact of the housing market slowdown may be behind us; and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance is predicting that real economic growth will be about 2.5% next year.

Of course, economic news is rarely all good or all bad. Tempering the positive news last week was the Commerce Department’s inflation data, which pushed the Federal Reserve’s favorite measure of inflation to an 11-year high, according to Yahoo! Finance. That reignited some investors’ concerns that the Fed may be forced to address inflation by raising rates again. In addition, the fact that the Dow Jones Industrials Average has been flirting with new highs has some technicians concerned. You can read more about the Dow in the next article.

Inflation may be a potential fly in the ointment, but rebounding markets, favorable Fed policy, falling energy prices, and a stabilizing housing market are all signs that the economy may be headed for slower but continued positive growth.

Returns through 9/29/06	1-Week	Y-T-D	1-Year	3-Year	5-Year	10-Year
Dow Jones Industrials	1.5	9.0	10.5	7.1	5.4	6.9
Nasdaq Composite	1.8	2.4	5.0	6.7	8.4	6.1
Standard & Poor's 500	1.6	7.0	8.7	9.3	4.8	6.7

Source: Yahoo! Finance, Barrons

Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. Three-, 5-, and 10-year returns are annualized. Assumes dividends are not reinvested.

There was a lot of talk last week about the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow) reaching an all-time high. While that sounds exciting, it doesn’t mean the economy will grow faster or the market will outperform. Indices like the Dow are not predictors of future performance. They tell us where the market has been and help investors better understand market trends.

The Dow crossed above record highs last week and normally that would be good news. However, some market technicians say this is one of the largest “non-confirmed” moves we’ve had in a long time. “Non-confirmed” means that some of the other indices are still a long ways from reaching their all-time highs and thus, have not “confirmed” the Dow’s move. For example, the Nasdaq is still about 55% below its all-time high and the S&P 500 is about 12.5% below its all-time high. While some market technicians think this is a short-term red flag, others think it may be setting the market up for a positive move into the middle of next year.

The Dow is one of the most widely followed stock market indices in the United States. It was developed by Charles Dow, the founder of Dow Jones & Company, as a means of measuring the performance of the industrial portion of American stock markets. When it was first published, way back in the late 1800s, it included 12 “smokestack” companies. Today, just one of those companies remains in the average: General Electric. Other charter members of the Dow have become parts of Unilever, Amstar Holdings, Michelin, and other companies.

Today, the Dow tracks 30 companies, many of which—like Citigroup and Coca Cola—are not involved in heavy industry. The DOW measures their movement and provides a price-weighted average performance each day. Price-weighted means that the performance of higher-priced company stocks is given more weight than that of lower-priced ones.

Is it possible that employers are looking at health care costs in the wrong way? That’s what Michael E. Porter, of Harvard Business School, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, suggest in their new book, Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. Not only does the pair identify ways to fix the broken healthcare system, they suggest that reducing benefits and shifting costs to employees is a mistake that reduces short-term costs and increases long-term ones in the form of lost productivity and sick time.

This Commentary brought to you by:

David A. Riback

Wealth Counselor

Riback Wealth Management

Tri-Star Search is growing! We are happy to announce even more exciting growth in our team of dynamic recruiters. We are happy to welcome: Ron Brett, Ben Davidson, and

JR Edera !

Ron Brett joins Tri-Star Search, LLC, bringing with him 16 years of successful recruiting experience primarily in engineering disciplines. Originally from Boston, a graduate of Lesley University School of Management in Cambridge, MA, with a B.S., Organizational Behavior and a Masters in Counseling Psychology, Ron relocated to the Portland area in 2004.

Ron has three children: Two daughters and a son. He is a sports fanatic and a lifetime fan of the Boston Celtics, Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots. Ron is not just a watcher of sports: He played college basketball and baseball. Ron coached men’s competitive softball teams for sixteen years. He also loves to sing and has been bass in quartets and church choir for many years.

Ben Davidson graduated with a degree in Accounting at Boise State University. While on academic scholarship at Boise State, Ben played tennis where he was ranked individually as high as 34 in the country and helped to make Boise State finish his senior year season ranked 5th in the country in Div IA. Ben went on to pursue an Accounting profession at Arthur Andersen in public accounting. Ben then left public accounting and has been helping his fellow accountants with accounting and finance recruiting for almost five years now. He has a very strong track record of success in the recruiting industry and is a great addition to the Tri-Star Finance & Accounting Division. Ben and his wife have two beautiful little girls.

JR Edera comes to Tri-Star Search, LLC with an extensive background in Technology, Banking and Recruiting. J.R. has his Bachelor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology. J.R. played an intricate part in developing products in the software technology industry for America Online Inc. and Synergy SoftwareTechnology. He has also recruited for Dell Computers and Umpqua Bank.

J.R. is not all business: He is an avid sport enthusiast as well and to say the least is a Ducks' football ticket holder! J.R. loves to play and coach football and basketball. J.R. is a bright and energetic individual that brings a plethora of talent to Tri-Star Search, LLC. We are excited to introduce him to the Portland area from Roseburg, Oregon.

Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination The first exhibition of its kind, Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, combines costumes and props from all six Star Wars films with real-world technologies, video interviews with filmmakers, scientists and engineers, and two large Engineering Design Labs, where visitors can build and test speeders and robots. Visitors will explore prototypes, learn about the engineers and designers who are creating new technologies, and discover intriguing similarities between how scientists and filmmakers think.

EVENT DAY(S):
10/11/06 - 01/01/07
11am-11pm Fri-Sat

11am-10pm Sun

LOCATION:
OMSI

1945 SE Water Avenue
Portland, OR 97214

PHONE:
503.797.4000

ADMISSION/TICKETS:
$15Adults; Children3- 13 and 63+,$13 under are free of charge

HOURS:
Call or refer to the web site for specific times and events.

Map it!

Kruger's Corn Maze and Farmers Market

“The Maze is always a fun and challenging project for me,” says Peter Rockwell, maze designer and builder. “This year I’ve decided to go more basic -- with triangles, circles and pathways instead of a larger design theme. It’s a fun maze with lots of surprises." Kruger’s Farm features a produce market with vegetables and fruit hand-picked every day, u-cut flowers with over 50 varieties, u-pick produce and picnic areas. Kruger’s Farm also carries canning supplies and features a retail section with market baskets from Ghana, sun hats and children’s garden items

EVENT DAY(S):
09/09/06 - 10/29/06

LOCATION:
Kruger's Farm
17100 NW Sauvie Island Road
10 mins. from Portland on Hwy 30
Sauvie Island, OR

Map It!

HOURS:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 9:00 a.m.-10:00p.m.
Sunday; 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.

PHONE:
503.621.3489

ADMISSION/TICKETS:
Adult, $5; children age 5-12, $3; 4 and under, free; Thrifty Thursday $2 all

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Tri-Star Contest

Free !! NO Cost Weekend Lunch Cruise for Two aboard the Portland Spirit: Your riverboat dining experience aboard the Portland Spirit includes fresh Northwest cuisine prepared in our on board galley, superb service, beautiful views of Portland's downtown skyline and live entertainment . . ... all this and your own personal table. With this wonderful opportunity, you even get to pick the weekend that will work best for you. Happy sailing!

To enter, just click on the email link below. Be sure to enter contest in the subject line of the email and tell us the best way to reach you, ex: email or telephone. Official drawing will be held on Oct 20, 2006.

>>Click here to enter

or email contest@tristarsearch.com

New Rental Movie Releases:

Lonesome Jim(2005)

Poseidon [WS](2006)

Silent Hill [WS](2006)

Scary Movie 4 [Unrated] [WS](2006)

RV(2006)

The Shaggy Dog(2006)

V for Vendetta [WS](2006)

Benchwarmers [WS](2006)

Failure to Launch(2006)