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2010 Board of Governors
Stephen has been a member of PMI and PMI-OC for 15 years, and has over 20 years of experience as a Project Manager and as a Business Analyst in IT and Finance. His most recent work experience has been in the health care field. Stephen has volunteered extensively for the Chapter in various capacities. Past roles include the Dinner Meeting Registration Chair, as well as a number of years on the PMI-OC Board as the Vice President of Finance, Vice President of Professional Development, IT Director and Chair-Elect. Stephen has been a PMP since 1998. He graduated from Stanford University and holds an MBA from the California State University, Long Beach.
As the President, Stephen envisions the Board focusing its activities upon fully implementing the goal of creating a truly strategic Board, to improve the value proposition to the chapter members, and to improve participation in chapter events by younger members.
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Sylvan Finestone joined PMI in 2002. He was the Volunteer Coordinator for the Chapter’s PMInAction in 2005 and the Chapter’s Volunteer Coordinator in 2006. In 2007 he was the Membership Director and served as Chair Elect in 2008.
He is also active in the chapter’s PMP prep courses, presenting the introduction and review classes as well as specific topics as an instructor. He has written monthly articles for the Milestones, and has presented as a speaker at our Advanced Topics Seminar. He also has spoken at the PMI National Conference, Region 7 conferences and the SCCTC.
During the 2008 year he took on key roles in the Web Site Development for which he received the President’s Award while he also worked in the Programs and Finance areas to support transition periods.
Sylvan is currently employed by CSC at the Raytheon Account where he is a Senior Portfolio Manager providing management oversight in the IT area of a major division in the company. He is PMP certified and he has a BA in History / Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an Masters in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach. He has 30 years of executive / management experience, working in a variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing and finance.
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Alvin Joseph began volunteering for PMI-OC shortly after he joined the chapter in July of 2007. Since then he has been an active and visible member of the dinner meeting team. He started out in a support role and stepped up to become the Dinner Meeting Chair. In this role he ensured that our dinner meetings ran smoothly since 2008, he helped coordinate our yearly career fair and he is also a co-instructor at our PMP preparation workshops. He has also been recognized as Top Volunteer of 2007 and named volunteer of the year 2008 by PMI-OC.
Currently, Alvin works as an IT Manager (Corporate SAP Applications) for Jazz Semiconductor in Newport Beach.
Alvin has two passions: Project Management and Engineering. His engineering passion led him to become Vice-Chairman and Programs Chair on the strategic Board of Governors of the IEEE Orange County Section. He now serves on the PMI-OC Board of Governors to take his strategic IEEE experience to see the following ideas come to fruition:
• More active participation by membership in chapter activities.
• More offerings to membership that promote project management knowledge/experience sharing.
• More corporate involvement and partnership to enhance member value.
• Smooth implementation of new board and operational structure.
Alvin sees himself as a leader with a strong vision and commitment to promote PMI-OC as a premier organization offering Project Management Resources in Orange County whose rich experience in strategy formulation will translate to both long & short term successes. He plans to build a support organization to achieve operational excellence.
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Nora Goto joined PMI in 2006. She served on the Membership Committee, working on membership statistics that was used for the chapter’s strategic planning process. Nora has served as the Operations Director since 2007.
Nora is PMP certified and has BSN from California State University, Fresno, and a Masters in Nursing, Health Care Administration from California State University, Long Beach. She has 10 years of experience working with data and information systems. Nora currently works as a Planetree Coordinator at the VA Long Beach HealthCare System.. In addition to her work as a Coordinator, Nora also has 6 years of experience working as a Project Manager for United Health Care and 10 years of experience as a nurse, and is an RN. She also holds a number of certifications and licenses in the healthcare field.
Outside of PMI Nora raises funds for different organizations every year. Last year, she coordinated efforts in her workplace to raise fund for the VA Long Beach Health Care System, March of Dimes, Working Wardrobes and the American Cancer Society. As a nurse, she volunteers her time supporting the MS Society Walk in San Diego and for Remote Area Medical helping the uninsured or under insured.
As a current board member Nora says that she is familiar with PMI-OC challenges. She understands the ongoing and sustaining activities required to manage the chapter. During her time as Operations Director she found that a productive and responsive leadership style encourages the same from others.
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Tariq has been a member of PMI since 2001 and PMI-OC member since 2005. He has over 25 years of experience in managing global projects. He currently works as a Senior Program Manager for ITT.
Tariq’s involvement as a chapter volunteer includes serving as the Dinner Chair in 2007. He has served on the PMI-OC Board as the IT Director since 2008.
Other chapter volunteer work includes being a PMP Workshop instructor over the last three years. One of the big projects that the Chapter undertook under his leadership was the Chapter Website Implementation Project.
Tariq also volunteers in other organizations. He has been on the Board of Directors for a local IEEE Chapter, and was a member of Motorola’s Worldwide Initiative for Project Management.
In his new role on the Board of Governors Tariq would like to focus on our financial processes and functions and help implement the following items:
• Transition working of the Finance function on the Board from a tactical level to a strategic level.
• Provide Fiduciary leadership & responsibility for the chapter.
• Complete implementation of out-sourced bookkeeping function.
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Derek has been a member of PMI and PMI-OC since 2005, and has over 28 years of experience in IT Sales & Delivery, Project Management, Business Systems Analysis, Quality Management, Test Automation, and Software Development. He currently works as a Client Manager for Compuware Corporation.
Derek has been involved as a chapter volunteer since 2007, serving first as our Speaker’s Chair and then as Programs Director on the Board of Directors. Derek was also involved in our recent, very successful 20-year Gala Dinner.
In addition to Derek’s volunteer work for the chapter, he is also involved in other groups, including past service as the Vice President, Marketing & Communications for the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Orange County Chapter. He is also very involved in youth sports organizations, having served as the Executive Director of California Sun & Surf International, Inc., a non-profit youth sports organization, and as the District Commissioner, Los Angeles County, California Youth Soccer Association-South.
As a member of the new Board of Governors Derek would like to contribute to the successful transition to the new organizational structure, which he helped define. He believes that this new structure will help our organization move from reactive to proactive and from tactical to strategic.
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Rick Nalle is the Director of Forensic Technology Services for KPMG in Los Angeles. In his career at KPMG he has made it his passion to evangelize the importance of formal project management training within the industry of corporate risk management, electronic discovery and fraud investigations.
He joined PMI and PMI-OC in October 2007. He is a volunteer on the PMI-OC Corporate Outreach Team, whose goal is to promote PMI-OC and the importance of project management to businesses in the county.
Rick has extensive experience as a volunteer. He serves as Assistant Scout Master for the Boy Scouts of America, as Auditor for the Village View Elementary School PTA, and in a leadership role for EDRM, the organization for Electronic Discovery Reference.
He formulates his desire to join the Board of PMI-OC as follows “I will work to create initiatives that offer PMI members opportunities related to job search, career development, mentoring, corporate outreach, and development of future leaders within PMI-OC.”
Rick brings 21 years of project management experience across several industries and project types to the board. Both professionally and as a volunteer he has developed programs that benefit the organizations he serves. This includes oversight in the creation of technical projects to facilitate business operations, business process improvement initiatives, and networking & relationship development for the purposes of raising awareness in the community to benefit programs and services.
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