March Dinner Meeting
Tuesday,
March 23, 2004 ~ Jim & Nick's on 220 Oxmoor Rd. in Homewood ~
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
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PAST
PRESIDENT'S NIGHT |
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Featured Speaker
Debra White
"Project Management and Starting Your Own Corporation"
Debra has over 8 years experience in IT. She is Co-founder and Principle
in Advanced Information Management Solutions, AIMS. She was a Project
Manager for AMS, American Management Systems, for over 7 years where she
led the charge on several high-profile, multi-million dollar projects in
their Telecommunications sector locally. She and her partner Cyndy Jones
have recently founded AIMS to specialize in the management, and deliver of
Project based services. AIMS is a Woman-owned, Minority company
headquartered in Tuscaloosa focusing on Project services in the State and
all across the nation.
Debra is married to her husband, Bill and they
currently reside in Tuscaloosa with their 3 children. She is a graduate
of the University of Alabama and avid Alabama fan.
Her presentation to the AITP will cover Project
Management services and the benefits and pitfalls of creating and
operating your own corporation. She has crammed a lot of experience into
her 8 years in IT. She has a lot to share and you will definitely come
away with a greater understand of the PM role and what it takes to start
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President's Message |
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 Well,
it’s that time of the month again. The Board meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, March 16th and the March monthly meeting will be on Tuesday,
March 23rd. This month we have a wonderful person and good friend of mine,
Debra White, speaking to us about the Wonders of Project Management. Debra
has many years experience and has plenty of valuable information that she
can impart. She is also a good person to know. So please join us this
month at Jim N Nicks in Homewood so that you may learn some new tricks
from the PM trade.
Also, this past month has been very
exciting. I had the pleasure of attending a Kick-off meeting at UAB for
the Student Chapter of AITP and for their new Business IT Degree. I am not
sure how many people were invited to this event but UAB had a wonderful
turnout. The Elite were there from several of the local major businesses.
Protective Life, Vulcan, ACIPCO, AmSouth, Regions, Drummond, ComFrame and
several others were in attendance along with the IT Faculty from UAB. The
official meeting was kicked-off by UAB with an overview of their recent
events, Introductions and a wonderful buffet. At 6 PM many of the IT
students from the UAB AITP Chapter came in to mix and mingle with the
Upper Crust of Birmingham’s business society. It was incredible to see the
support that the local business is offering to the UAB group. This is only
the first step in the journey to gain local business support for the UAB
endeavor. As their chapter grows we, as the local AITP chapter, can be
instrumental in helping to grow the commitment from businesses that were
not able to attend. The students were also very excited. This will be a
tremendous boost in growing the number of students participating in their
AITP chapter.
We now have the date set for the UAB AITP
chapter tour of ACIPCO. It will be this Friday, March 19th starting at 9
AM. There is a full day planned with lot’s of real-world information. I
know the students will learn a lot from this day. I want to thank ACIPCO
for allowing their people the time to do this for the students. And also a
personal thanks to John Barnhart and Andrea Simmons for making this
happen.
Again, this year our local chapter is
committed to assisting and growing the Student Chapters. Our rallying
point is in bringing the local business community together with the
Student Chapters. The future of IT in Birmingham is graduating from the
local Universities. It will benefit us all to get behind the student
Chapters and aid them in any way that we can.
I thank you all again for your continued
support and hope to see you all at our next AITP meeting on the 23rd.
Chapter President
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Minutes ~ February 17, 2004 |
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The February 17, 2004 AITP board meeting was held at Comsys on highway 31
and was called to order at 5:35 pm by Steve Romine, President.
Members
Present:
Steve Romine, Barbara Shook, Ted Hagler, and Paul Stewart. Charlie Cook
represented via proxy by Paul Stewart.
Members
Absent:
John Barnhart, Toni Ellis, Maurice Myers, and Andrea Simmons.
Minutes from
January 2004: Ted Hagler made a motion to accept the minutes as written.
Barbara Shook seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Treasurer's
Report:
John Barnhart submitted a written report. The balance in the bank account
was $227.61. Ted Hagler made a motion to accept the report as submitted.
Barbara Shook seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
President’s
Report:
Steve Romine began with a discussion about Past President’s night. Paul
Stewart made a motion to not charge past presidents the $5.00 meeting
fee. However, they will need to pay for their meal. Ted Hagler seconded
the motion and it passed unanimously. Barbara Shook made a motion to
designate the March meeting as Past President’s night. Ted seconded the
motion and it passed unanimously.
Liaison
Report:
Ted Hagler discussed the conflict of interest statement that he emailed to
board members earlier. This process began several years ago and is needed
as a safeguard. Ted also distributed the January 2004 chapter roster. We
have 30 active members as of 1/31/2004. Ted also distributed a printed
copy of an email about student scholarships. There are two $2500
scholarships available from AITP national. Ted also discussed the Region
7 student conference coming up in Nashville October 15-17, 2004. This
weekend event will also include the President Elect/Association Director (PEAD)
annual meeting.
Past President Report:
No report.
Student
Chapter: Barbara
Shook presented Andrea Simmons’ written report.
Publicity: Barbara
Shook presented Andrea Simmons’ written report.
Newsletter:
Paul Stewart presented a printed copy of the BITPRO.
Programs:
Paul Stewart discussed plans to schedule other AITP members to discuss how
they use technology in their respective industries.
Awards:
Barbara Shook has ordered the appropriate plaques and name plates for the
February meeting.
Membership
attendance and acquisition: Charlie Cook submitted a written report providing a status
on reservations for the February meeting as well as new contacts for
perspective membership. Paul Stewart encouraged everyone to send contact
information to Charlie to add to the email address for BITPRO
distribution and meeting announcements.
Old
Business: None.
New Business: Barbara Shook discussed fund raising options.
Barbara will look into what it will take for us to do a raffle event where
everyone pays to attend a event where a “reverse drawing” takes place.
Ted Hagler also discussed the possibility of hosting the 2005 PEAD
meeting.
Steve Romine adjourned the meeting at
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Board
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President
Steve
Romine -
sromine@comsys.com
Past
President
Maurice Myers
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mmyers@amsouth.com
Liaison
Ted
Hagler -
ted.hagler@motion-ind.com
Executive
Vice President
Barbara
Shook -
bshook@regionsbank.com
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Secretary/Treasurer
John Barnhart
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jbarnhart@acipco.com
Program
Chair/Newsletter
Paul Stewart
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pbs@uwa.edu
Toni Ellis
- tellis@regionsbank.com
Student
Chapter/Publicity
Andrea
Simmons -
javischristian@aol.com
Membership Attendance/Acquisitions
Charlie Cook
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ccook@uwa.edu
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AITP Anniversaries
March
Vesta Beatty -- Enjoying the retired life
Raymond Payne -- Atlantic Technologies
Andrea Simmons -- Miles College
Mark Whigham -- Lawson State Community College
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Deadline for articles submitted for the next
BITPRO is the first of each month. The editor reserves the right
to edit for clarity, accuracy, and length. All entries for
publication should be submitted to
Paul Stewart or
Toni Ellis by email. |
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AITP Region/Association |
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AITP has joined as an
affiliate with the Gartner Technology. This is a great time to participate
in one of many presentations that Gartner has scheduled. AITP members
receive a discount of $200 for Wireless Mobile and CRM, and may attend
Symposium/ITxpo for $2,800. The following are Wireless Mobile, March 8-10 in Chicago, IL Customer Relationship Management, March 15 - 17,
Baltimore, MD San Diego Symposium/ITXpo, March 28 - April 1, San Diego,
CA. This is just a small list of up coming events Gartner is presenting.
Please visit the AITP Web-site to get more details and information.
http://www.aitp.org/affiliates/vendors/jsp/gartner.jsp.
Have you visited the National AITP web-site this month,
there is so much information you can learn. This site is all related to
your job and will help guide you during your daily processing. You never
know what you will find.
The Regional 7 Student Conference, in Nashville,
October 15-17. Let's try to get several of our Student Chapters involved
in this conference. Then if every thing goes to plan, the news is the
National Collegiate Conference will be in Atlanta in 2005. This is still
in the planning stage so let's support Atlanta in the effort.
Please try to bring a new member or visitor to our
Chapter meeting this month. We as a Chapter need to encourage our
workforce to come and find out what AITP is all about.
Hope to see you at Jim N' Nicks, Tuesday March 23.
Chapter Liaison
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