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Volunteer of the Month - January 2016

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PMI Atlanta is pleased to announce January’s Volunteer of the Month – congratulations, Deborah Cromartie!

For over 10 years Deborah has served diligently as a volunteer for the PMI Atlanta Chapter and currently serves on the Operations Committee. With that outstanding length of tenure, it certainly demonstrates her enduring devotion to the project management profession and our PMI Atlanta Chapter. Deborah is an enthusiastic and assiduous volunteer who enjoys helping to further promote and move the PMI Atlanta Chapter forward. She states it's extremely gratifying and rewarding to her that she can assist others in furthering their project management education, training and certifications.

This positive and inspiring attitude for wanting to help and serve others in PMI Atlanta is what defines such an awesome volunteer like Deborah. With such a tireless pursuit of continual and never-ending improvement, commitment to excellence and selflessness to help others, clearly explains why she's so highly regarded in our organization. A fellow PMI Atlanta member commented, "Deborah is the shining example of our PMI Atlanta slogan…"Volunteers just don't do the work - they make everything happen, because she undoubtedly does the work AND makes things happen".

In addition to being such a stupendous PMI Atlanta volunteer, Deborah is also a world traveler who enjoys traveling to various destinations around the globe. She especially enjoys going to the Caribbean where she can enjoy the great beaches while soaking up the warm rays of the sun. When not traveling she also enjoys attending plays, concerts, reading and spending time with her friends and family.

Read and learn more about her below and what she enjoys about volunteering for PMI Atlanta.

What has been your favorite or most rewarding volunteer experience with PMI Atlanta?
It is impossible to narrow down the most rewarding experience of volunteering with PMI Atlanta for over 10 years. However, to participate in aiding and supporting the PMI Atlanta community, in the endeavors of Project Management training, education and certification is an enormous reward. I am very honored to be a part of the PMI Atlanta family.

2015 Executive Board of Directors Elections Results

PMI Atlanta would like to congratulate our new Directors to the Executive Board!  

 

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Chiquetta West, PMP
Secretary


     Bill Kay, PMP, MSOL
     Director-At-Large

 

The Executive Board is currently seeking candidates for Vice Chair. Please EMAIL US for additional information.

 

2015 PMI Atlanta Financial Report

As we near the end of 2015, PMI Atlanta's Executive Board of Directors would like to share the Financial Report for January through November 2015.  We thank our members for their support and look forward to serving you in 2016!

2015 PMI Atlanta Financial Report

Volunteer of the Month - December 2015

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PMI Atlanta is pleased to announce December’s Volunteer of the Month – congratulations, Carleton Moten!

For the past several years Carleton has served in various capacities for the Industry Forums Committee and has achieved outstanding success in each role, his most recent assignment was AVP for this committee. Carleton is a born leader and modern P.T. Barnum, a great master of advertising, promotion, communication and charisma. Under his auspices, the Industry Forums Committee footprint has grown exponentially, including event attendance, corporate sponsorships and professional engagement, as well as personally drafting many other volunteers for roles in the PMI Atlanta Chapter. This level of diligence and foresight is what spurs comments like the one below about our meritorious December VOM.

"Carleton is a POWERHOUSE! The amount of time and energy he put into building and supporting the Industry Forums is CRAZY!" - quote from a current committee VP

In his leisure time he enjoys his most relaxing activity, which is watching movies. And although he enjoys a variety of movie genre's he openly admits he's grown very fond of romantic dramas, and openly admits one of his favorites…….The Bridges of Madison County (awesome movie & book), gets him to sob every time. How can we not love, admire and appreciate a fellow volunteer who bares their soul so openly like that to our entire PMI Atlanta organization.

Moten CarletonCarleton's PMI Atlanta philosophy sums it all up………"PMI Atlanta affords a wonderful opportunity to work with committed individuals, all of whom are stretching themselves in important ways to grow themselves, PMI Atlanta, and the profession." What an insightful and tremendous thought process that is worthy of reverberating to each member throughout our PMI Atlanta Chapter and beyond.

Read and learn more about him below and what he enjoys about volunteering for PMI Atlanta.

"Military Veterans Know Project Management": November Dinner Meeting

by Mike Ososki, PMP, Public Relations Committee

The perfect theme for Veteran’s Day holiday was celebrated last Monday at the PMI Dunwoody Dinner. Veterans Mike Williams, Dave Harrington, and Craig Bergwall made their persuasive presentation to consider vets as perhaps one of the better PM hiring choices for industry. Also presenting by video was Vanessa Richardson, owner of Cygnal Consulting, sharing her great transitional success story.NovDinnerMililtaryPanel

Last year, PMI joined with the Dept. of Defense’s Defense Acquisition University (DAU) to support and aid the DoD/DAU’s “...Acquisition, Technology and Logistics workforce with a professional career path and consistency of training content and opportunity.” (www.dau.mil) The variety of PMI certification specializations (BA, Project, Program, Portfolio, Risk, Agile, Schedule, Org. Maturity) translate especially well to the various military specializations.

We are now in the middle of a massive planned military RIF (Reduction-in-Force): 1.2 million personnel exiting service between 2012-2017. How will they transition? What will they do as civilians? No one argues that ex-Army, Marine, Air Force and Navy are generally well-trained in discipline, leadership, motivation, and a wide variety of valuable practical skills—and these can include project management.

Other inherent, desirable characteristics are flexibility to relocate, diversity, adaptability, high performance under pressure, security clearances / drug-free, quick learning, educated, tech-savvy, strong ability to read situations, and the famously positive can-do attitude. Here in Atlanta, we are proud that Coca-Cola and Home Depot know the value, and routinely hire veterans. Many IT industry headquarters are here, too, and may do well to implement the same practice.