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Position |
Name |
Photograph |
Biographical Sketch |
| President | Jeremy Bradford, PMP |  |
Jeremy has over 15 years’ experience in engineering and project management. The majority of that time has been working in the aerospace and defense sectors. He has also spent time working in various finance, governance and leadership roles. In addition, he spent 2 years living in Japan and working on the Japanese space program. |
| Past President | John Dennett, PMP |  |
John M. Dennett, Sr., MBA, MSc, PMP, is a manager and logistics engineer with over 30 years of progressive responsibility and experience in the commercial and government sectors of increasing management responsibility in the systems engineering, life-cycle support, contracts, and business administration. is certified in PMP, CSM, ITIL, and Six-Sigma Green Belt. He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Society of Logistics Engineers (SOLE, life member), the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), and the Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. |
| Director of Governance | Angela Lowe, PMP |  |
25+ years of experience in the Information Technology field with expertise in project management, operations management, and technical post-implementation support. BSBA, Auburn University at Montgomery MBA, Georgia College & State University |
| Director of Finance | John Crilly |  |
John is an experienced project manager with over 20 years of delivering projects to a variety of businesses of varying sizes. Starting right out of high school he helped transform several technologies into what we see today, which included the implementation of corresponding business processes. It is this focus on business processes that has given him his greatest successes in the Healthcare, Information Technology, Government, Manufacturing, Education, and Wireless Telecom industries. He is a graduate of the Troy University, Sorrell School of Business, Technology Management program and brings over 2 years experience as Director of Education for the PMI CoP Board, and 2 years as Director of Project Management at Atos. He gained his PMP certification in Sept of 2004 and has developed his skills so he can mentor students, conduct classes, and be a resource for business executives as they seek solutions to their complex project challenges. As a result, he looks forward to helping the chapter become a development center for future project leaders. |
| VP Technology; Director at Large for Maketing | Patrick Klingler, PMP |  |
Patrick is a career aviation operations manager, with his most recent experience in corporate (military C-suite) compliance and employee issues escalation management. He leads the chapter's website admin and branding. |
| Director at Large for Membership | Kimberly Ivey |  |
Kimberly has worked in Information Technology for many years in the Federal, Education, and Banking Industry, where her responsibilities included teaching, software development, software maintenance, project management, project analysis, review and recommendations. She is an alumnus of Alabama State University (Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science), Troy University Montgomery (Master’s degree in Computer Information and Science Technology), and Faulkner University (Executive MBA). Kimberly is passionate about service to others, tutoring students in Math and English, and also serves in her church teaching, volunteering, and performing missions work. Kimberly has been a PMI member since March 2010. |
| Director at Large for Programs and Educational and Development | David Hardgrave |  |
David is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and ScrumMaster (CSM) with 20+ years of experience managing projects in IT with cross-functional teams in the Government, Private and Non-profit sectors. Currently David manages IT Projects for the State of Alabama Medicaid Agency, having previously managed Major projects for the State of Alabama’s Office of Information Technology, leading the initiative to migrate the State Capitol to Cisco’s next-generation software defined network, VOIP System and WebEx Virtual meeting technology. Previous to his work with the State of Alabama, David lead IT projects on contracts for the DOD and VA as a program coordinator. David holds degrees from the University of Mobile as well as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and is also an Alabama State certified professional educator. |
| VP Sponsors & VP Programs | Joe Terranova, PMP | ||
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VP Outreach (Montgomery) |
KC Brooks, PMP |
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| VP Outreach (Wire Grass) | William Kagawa, PMP |  |
William Kagawa retired in Feb 2020. Prior to that he served as the Regional Director SE for Karthik Consulting LLC since 28 May 2019. His duties encompass the oversight of all Operations within this region. He also supports the V.P. of Business Development as a technical SME. William has over 30 years of direct Information Technology experience covering the range of IT from his initial position with the US Navy as a Computer Scientist, through roles as a Network Enterprise Center Director for the US Army in Belgium; Enterprise Project Manager with US Army Network Technology Command; Systems Engineering Consultant as part of the Tiger Team with US Africa Command; Knowledge Manager with Eighth US Army in Korea; and as the CIO/G6 for the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Ft. Rucker. Among his acknowledgements are: assisted the Army in establishing the initial Enterprise Configuration Management Program and the development of the Army Golden Master (AGM) workstation baseline image for all Army workstations; assisted US Africa Command in achieving initial Operating Capabilities (IOC); and established the Knowledge Management Program for the Eighth US Army and its sub-commands in Korea. CERTIFICATIONS: |
About Us
PMI South Alabama is an organization dedicated to improving and advancing project management in the river region and wiregrass areas of south Alabama. By becoming a member of our Chapter, and attending our regular programs and training, you will be offered many opportunities to grow and learn from recognized subject matter experts experienced across a wide variety of industries.
The South Alabama Chapter of the Project Management Institute offers great opportunities to meet other project managers and to learn about project management. Chapter activities include dinner meetings, speakers, seminars and project management courses in cooperation with Troy University at Montgomery. Our chapter includes members from local banks, insurance companies, government contractors, manufacturers, state government, and others.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) encourages member chapters (component organizations) to develop strategic plans/objectives to support PMI’s national goals and the long term growth/development of those chapters. A strategic plan is the natural progression of the chapter along the component maturity model. Since inception, as the Montgomery chapter, PMI South Alabama has focused on organizational and operational issues/activities. To continue our growth and development, the Board of Directors is focused on strategic goals and objectives. The first step is to develop a 3-5 year strategic plan. The chapter accomplishes this by conducting offsite sessions with the “Presidents” (current, future, & past), to assist in keepin this plan updated and relevent. The plan is maintained in the following order: SWOT analysis, mission statement, vision, and strategic goals/objectives. This plan was approved initially by the Board in July 2006 and will be updated annually by the Board.
Chapter Vision, Mission and Goals
Vision
The PMI® South Alabama Chapter will be known throughout the River Region and beyond as a principal source of advocacy and development of project management principles, disciplines and resources for professional project environments, and will foster and encourage advancement of the project management profession.
Mission
The PMI® South Alabama Chapter promotes the growth and development of project management practitioners and builds awareness of the project management discipline and its critical role in business and organization success. Making the PMI® certified project management discipline indispensable to business results is a major PMI objective. The PMI® South Alabama Chapter will pursue this mission by achieving the following goals:
GOAL #1 - Professional Education and Development: Provide an on-going educational and professional development program to assist interested project management practitioners improve their project management knowledge and proficiency.
GOAL #2 - Professional Relationships & Networking: Build upon existing project management related networks in the River Region and expand those networks by embracing new institutions and populations that can benefit thereby.
GOAL #3 - Marketing and Brand: Communicate to persons and organizations the value that professional project management adds to organizational effectiveness, professional development and career advancement; promote PMI® South Alabama as the foremost advocate for this value in the River Region; and seek to involve corporate organizations as financial sponsors and sources of professional expertise and growth in an effort to bind professionals and industries together in advancing the project management concept and discipline.