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2018 Board Election of New Members

Heartiest Congratulations to Christy Laird and Prasanna Adavi on their recent election to the PMINEO Governance Board.  Broadly speaking, the Governance Board plays several roles in the management of our Chapter.   

• Oversee the maintenance and implementation the chapter’s strategic plan, known as BluePrint 2020.   
• Provide guidance and mentoring to chapter officers. 
• Establish policies and objectives for governing the chapter to ensure compliance with PMI headquarters. 
• Provide chapter financials oversight. 
• Manage specific projects initiatives assign by Board.

Meet your new Governance Board members:

Prasanna Adavi, PMP, MCTS, MCITP is a currently the Senior Manager, Project Portfolio Systems, at MOEN.

With more than 14 years’ experience, during which he worked with several in helping organizations meet their business needs in the areas of Project Management and Portfolio Management, he specializes in bringing a balanced blend of process and tools for his customers.

He has worked with several Fortune 500 organizations helping them realize the value through their project management practices.

In addition, Prasanna Adavi is a well-known speaker, author, and community expert in the areas of Project and Portfolio Management.

He has presented at several Project Management events across the country, including PMI Global Conference 2017. He has been awarded the Most Valuable Professional award every year since 2014 by Microsoft for his contributions to the community.

He blogs regularly at http://www.prasannaadavi.com and runs a podcast dedicated to MS Project, Project Server at http://www.msprojectpodcast.com

Why I would be a good fit for this opportunity:

A 14+ year career, which spans from hands-on project management to helping several Fortune 500 organizations to realize the value of their PMO investments, through a combination of systems, processes and tools.

• A wide variety of project management experience in several domains like Software Application development, software testing, Creative services, Automotive in addition to several other areas.
• A strong desire to help the project management community through the use of my skill set. This desire has led me to volunteer, speak at various events across the country, publish several articles on a regular basis, help the community in various technical forums and so on.
• I have been recognized as a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional), for my contributions to the community over the last several years.

I am looking for ways to help the project management community at a strategic level, and this opportunity allows to do so via an esteemed organization like PMI.

Details:
Speaking Engagements: http://prasannaadavi.com/speaking#.W1I2d0xFx_s
Publications: http://prasannaadavi.com/publications#.W1I2l0xFx_s
Blog URL: http://www.prasannaadavi.com
Twitter: @prasannaadavi
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/prasanna-adavi-pmp-mct-mcts-mcitp/8/634/919

 

I am Christy Laird, PMP and have been a PMINEO member and volunteer for 8 years. I don’t recall a time during my tenure that I wasn’t in some type of volunteer capacity. I started my first PMINEO assignment on the programs committee as the Director of Events. In March 2017 I moved into the VP of Membership position. I additionally volunteered to rollout a few of the marketing projects that we started last year by filling an interim VP of Marketing role for 6 months in 2017. In that short tenure, I worked with our webmaster and the Board to rollout the new email system, Zoho, elevate a new and improved homepage, and setup up our Document storage system.
During my tenure as VP of Membership, I have worked with a data analyst to create a full membership and events access database to bring together data that is not normally easily searchable. Querying the data from PMI and Proteon systems is a very manual process (member and event data not aligned). With the creation of this new database and a volunteer analyst to support it, we can finally start doing analysis we haven’t been able to do before on our membership and understanding their interests (through event registration and attendance) with PMINEO.
I graduated from Youngstown State University with a Math major/ CS minor. I celebrated my 20-year anniversary this June at Progressive Insurance. I was a programmer for 7 years and an IT Manager/Project Manager for 13 years. I received my PMP in 2010. In January 2015, I won the 2014 Kerzner Project Management Excellence award. A very humbling experience being recognized not only for my Progressive projects, but for all the hard work and time I have invested in PMINEO. It’s easy to volunteer and do my job, it’s another to be recognized for it all by your friends, peers and coworkers that think you do it well. My other additional volunteer extracurriculars: Secretary on FELC (Friends Early Learning Center) Board, Supervisor for Kids Kingdom child check-in team at Willoughby Hills Friends Church, and the web administrator and event planner for the NEW ERG (Network of Empowered Women Employee Resource Group) at Progressive. I’m a change agent and love any variety of work that will challenge me and give me new perspectives.
Attending LIM in 2017 for the first time inspired me to do more as a chapter leader. I’d like to make a broader impact across PMINEO. I am a versatile volunteer and I will pitch in wherever I’m needed without being asked, I offer to help whenever I can. Our membership base is at an all-time high, our retention is increasing, I would like to see our volunteer base grow. The more engaged the members are as volunteers, the more they will get out of the chapter. I aspire to be an engaged Board member and active participant in the chapter activities. Seeing our chapter recognized globally by PMI for being an active and engaged chapter above and beyond the norm should be a challenging, but not unrealistic, goal over the next 5 years.