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Monthly Dinner Meeting – Outstanding Lean presentation

Thank You to Jerry Bussell and his son James for a striking presentation at our April dinner event.

Over 50 chapter members enjoyed his astute and entertaining insight into the background and importance of Lean Thinking for modern companies to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

We look forward to engage Jerry further with his work in the Jacksonville Lean Consortium and can provide the slides from the evening on request to anyone who wishes to further study this key cultural differentiator.

PMI Spotlight: EMAG

EMAG 1 The Ethics Member Advisory Group (EMAG) works in partnership with PMI Legal Staff as the Global Advocates in educating PMI members, certificate-holders and non-member volunteers regarding the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (the “Code”).

The EMAG acts as Product Leader in creating tools and techniques to facilitate stakeholder understanding and application of the Code, identifies improvements, facilitates translations to the 13 official languages of the Code, communicates ethics related issues, and interfaces with the Ethics Review Committee to share knowledge, expertise and content.

Periodically, you will see posts and thought-provoking questions via our Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds. If you interested in joining the discussion, we hope you Like, Comment and Share. If you’d like to learn more about the EMAG, contact our chapter or send a note to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Member Spotlight: John Briesmeister

construction projects If you have published a paper or webinar with a professional organization, please let us know so we can give the credit you have earned.

Author	Title	Medium
John Briesemeister	Managing Complex Construction Projects: A Systems Approach	Amazon.com

Kudos to our own John Briesemeister for writing this world-class work on Project Management best practices within the construction industry.

John is currently working offshore but has volunteered to present at a future chapter meeting.

One example of an NEFL member contributing considerable value to our profession. We look forward to hearing about more of our members publishing papers, writing books, winning awards or just completing productive and very cool projects. Please submit to Eddie Sumner: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Headshots

Thank you to Fiechia Crosby of tealtalkwithfiechia.com for joining us at the April dinner meeting and providing the opportunity for our chapter members to have professional headshots taken.

These will be invaluable networking tools that can be uploaded to any digital medium, including company address books, digital business cards and LinkedIn.

Please let us know on the dinner surveys any other services we can look to provide.

Leadership Forum

The North Florida chpater is looking to astablish a Leadership Forum. More information will be posted to the website, social media and the newsletter and suggestions are being welcomed for a suitable day of the week and time, lunch or dinner.

Please contact Susan Daniels, VP Corporate Alliances: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

April 24^th Cocktail N Learn

RLofton2015 Thank you to our PMI-NEFL President Ralph Lofton, PMP for leading a very insightful Cocktail N Learn session on the evening of Tuesday April 24^th. He shared tips and tricks for navigating USAJobs.gov to improve chances of landing a PM job with the military or other government organizations. There was also a lot of networking and knowledge sharing among the 16 attendees. Join us at a future Cocktail N Learn!

June 5^th Social Event: Top Golf!

On Tuesday, June 5th join us at Top Golf Jacksonville from 6pm - 9pm for some networking, camaraderie and GOLF!

You'll earn zero PDU's for this event, but you will get to experience one of the hottest new attractions in Jacksonville with your fellow PMI-NEFL members! Not a golfer? Don't worry, the Top Golf facility and format includes equipment and is suitable for all levels of skill and ability.

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PMI-NEFL members pay just $20 ($30 for non-members) which includes:

Three (3) hours of play in our own bay (including club rental)
Non-alcoholic beverages
Light fare and appetizers

Spots are limited, so register today!

Job of the Month

Sponsored by Meridian Technologies This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Senior IT Project Manager

IT Project Managers are responsible for the overall direction, management, communication, coordination of status reports, and accountability of project oriented work efforts and success of their projects across the IT organization. This position focuses on technical projects related to the design, development, execution, implementation or maintenance of systems or software. IT Project Managers ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations. They create scope documents based on approved charters and project plans (work breakdown structures.) They track key milestones and adjust project plans, budget requests and/or resources to meet the needs of customers.

Manage projects or components of projects with few dependencies, limited scope, low risk and effort, few integration points and short duration within a single team of resources.
Identify & resolve discrepancies in planned costs versus actuals incurred.
Responsible for developing and reviewing/validating details project plans and tracking financial information.
Communicate status of project to leadership, project team and to more senior PMs on a project.
Understands the need for Business Case/ROI and ensures its completion.
Participates in change initiatives and workgroups.
Communicate project status to project team, stakeholders leadership and PMs associated with other projects.
Advise leadership, Project Team/Project Managers on tactical solutions to dealing with barriers within a project.
Accountable for project delivery including meeting time, budget and quality standards and customer expectations.
Facilitates project meetings.
Creates and maintains relationships with stakeholders and team members in order to achieve mutual goals.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

5 or more years of Project Analysis and/or Project Management work experience
Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field or equivalent work experience
Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback.
Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Understanding of and SDLC disciplines
Understanding of the concepts, theories and processes of the Project Management Methodology.
Broad knowledge of IT functions.
Demonstrated proficiency in the use of labor, cost management and project tracking and management tools such as MS Project.
Ability to lead and facilitate project team status meetings to obtain schedule, issues, risk , and dependency updates.
Ability to document meeting minutes, action items from project status meetings.
Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
Experience using Agile as a Scrum Master

Preferred

PMP certification.
3 or more years of senior Project Management work experience

Planned Events:

May 21st Chapter Dinner Meeting (2 PDUs)

"Leading an Enterprise Agile Transformation"

Presented by Rick Hall, CTO Acosta

Member Social Event!

June 5th 6pm - 9pm

Top Golf