Optional Pre-dinner Presentation:
Registration:
Dinner & Program:
LOCATION
Marriott
Courtyard,
MENU
London Broil - topped with
marsala mushroom sauce, served with whipped potatoes and fresh seasonal
vegetables.
*Vegetarian meals available: request at time of RSVP
COST
$20; receipt available upon request
RSVP REQUIRED
Call 828-6323 by
DINNER SPEAKER/TOPIC
Jack Harrington, V P, Business Affairs
Eclipse Aviation
Mr. Harrington
will provide an overview, production plans, and marketing strategy for the
Eclipse 500. The Eclipse 500 is designed
to carry six passengers about 1,500 miles at more than 400 miles per hour. The plane is touted as the first jet under
$1million and manufacturers of the Eclipse 500 are determined to prove their
new entry-level business jet is the “little airplane that could” revolutionize
air travel.
PRE- DINNER PRESENTATION
Bill Cavin, BC Professional Services, Inc.
NMGRT – New Developments
Affecting R&D and Professional Services Companies.
2002-2003 Chapter
Officers:
National Director
President
Bill
Cavin , williamjcavin@aol.com
275-7330
President-Elect
Donna
Heinz, donna.heinz@kafb.saia.af.mil
846-2394
Secretary
Jo Cunningham, jecunni@sandia.gov
844-6116
Treasurer
Steve
Avery, savery@saverycpa.com
323-6161
Vice
President, Education
Doug
Thomas, thomasd@gt-corp.com
345-5591,
x 3079
Vice
President, off site
Christopher Fresquez, chrisjf@lanl.gov
505-665-7175
Vice
President, Membership
Roosevelt Burden, rosey-burden@worldnet.att.net
293-1971
Vice
President, Programs
Lillian
Retallack, lretallack@doeal.gov
845-4442
Certification
Chair
Chad
Twitchell, catwitc@sandia.gov
844-5027
Director
at large (programs)
Rhonda Dukes, radukes@sandia.gov
844-1939
Director
at large (education)
Brian Leen, bdleen@sandia.gov
844-1921
Director
at large (membership)
Maj. Holly
Mangum, clearlyholly@aol.com
Newsletter Editor
Jack Harrington
brings to Eclipse extensive experience in aviation insurance, litigation and
governmental affairs. Prior to joining
Eclipse, Harrington had been in private practice as an aviation lawyer since
1986, during which time he developed a noteworthy list of clients including
aircraft and parts manufacturers and aviation industry trade associations.
His aviation
insurance experience is complemented by broad experience in general casualty,
and product liability insurance defense matters.
Harrington is a
member of the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, the Aviation Insurance
Association, the National Business Aviation Association, the National
Transportation Safety Board Bar Association, and the Experimental Aircraft
Association (EAA), of which he is a director.
He serves as a
Director of the Experimental Aircraft Association, and the EAA Warbirds of
America, and is a Federal Aviation Administration Aviation Safety Counselor. He holds a commercial pilot certificate with
airplane single-engine land and sea, multiengine and instrument airplane
ratings.
Our 2002-3 program year is
quickly taking shape. Your board of
directors is enthusiastic and eager to provide the programs you want, and our
primary goal for this year is to increase meeting attendance. This means we must provide programs that you
want to attend. Within the next few
days, you will be hearing from a board member.
Please give us your candid thoughts on how we can enhance our programs
and see you at the meetings.
We also hope to involve
more members in the planning and execution of our Chapter’s programs. Board members will appoint chairmen to assist
with their primary duties, and we will have special chairmen for unique
missions, such as Certification and Graalman.
At the National level, our
own Gary Zura, NCMA’s President-Elect, will be shepherding some exciting
changes. One of the more important of
these is an enhanced certification program that will be accredited by the
university community and will include commercial contracting. Back home, Chad Twitchell of Sandia will be
chairing a study group, and we hope to have some of the first holders of the
new certifications.
If you have not been active
recently, I encourage you to rekindle your relationship with NCMA and its many
fine people, as I did a few years back.
Start by attending the next meeting.
To volunteer your talents, contact any board member – it’s easy and
rewarding.
Bill Cavin, Albuquerque chapter
president
As we prepare to attend our dinner meetings and
special learning events this fiscal year, I want to share with all of you what
has been happening and will probably happen.
First of all: we will be having the normal dinner
meetings, and other members of the Board of Directors will be sharing the plans
for speakers and events.
We will be
offering educational opportunities in addition to our always-popular dinner
speakers. The first will be presented
by our President, Bill Cavin, before the registration and visiting time at the
September meeting. Chad Twitchell will
present a timely topic prior to the October meeting. Our basic plan includes offering an hour of
professional education earlier in the afternoon than in the past, in order to
give participants the opportunity for meeting and sharing with others before
dinner.
I want to recommend to all of you the upcoming
all-day event which is presented by the Zia Chapter, titled "Nuts, Bolts
and Beyond II: A Contracting Symposium". If you have not received the
information yet, send me a message and I will be glad to forward it to you.
They are putting on a really informative and professional event on October
10th, and there should be something for everyone. The Albuquerque Chapter will host a similar
event in February 2003.
Now, what about the normal headquarters-sponsored
seminars? Things are changing in the professional world, and our association is
making plans to be more-responsive to the membership. The following is a copy
of a memo I sent out to the boards of our chapter and Zia Chapter, and as of
this writing no more is known. When we learn more details I will be definitely
sharing with you, our members.
(Through the end of last fiscal year,) the Fast
Track/Fast Response seminars basically took the same format as the NES, so in
effect we had two seminars to provide to our membership during the program
year.
A decision has been made to call all the seminars
NES, but they will be expanded to include as many as four per year (12-month
year). They will cover different functional areas of contracting, and chapters
can choose to put on all four in one year, or select two per year, or whatever.
There will not be a HQ-contracted text any more - we
will be using a published textbook, probably from a current course being
conducted at various institutions of higher learning. The traditional paper
version of the overhead to make notes on will probably still be used, but we in
the chapters may be asked to download a master copy and print out for our
members. That is still up in the air.
We will probably see many of the same names of
presenters that we already know - that aspect won't change very much, and we
will likely continue to interact with them on a case-by-case basis and make
whatever arrangements are in the best interests of both parties.
We will likely see some formal discussion of the new
program in one or both of the news messages that come from HQ, then possibly a
more-extensive discussion in the September or October issue of CM Magazine.
That is what I know for now. Pricing, costs,
support, etc., will probably be sent to us as the program gets more firm. As
more information becomes available, and as our plan for the year is firmed-up,
I will be sharing my thoughts and plans with you. For the time being, we have
an exciting year ahead of us, and I hope many of you, if not all, will take
advantage of the programs available to you.
THIS JUST IN
….ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM NATIONAL AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
NES…IT’S BACK, BUT IN WHAT FORM? CHECK OUT THE 2002-2003 NES SERIES
The new NES Seminar Series will launch its first
seminar this October. The first topic will be "Project
Management in the Contracting Process." This
one-day course will present the essential aspects of
successful project management. Everyone involved in
the buying and selling of goods and services, in
both the public and private sectors, needs to
better understand how to effectively manage their scope of
work, budget, schedule, and resources to ensure
customer satisfaction. Key topics of discussion will
include: vocabulary, teamwork, cycles, and the
management elements/best practices.
Every seminar attendee will receive a copy of
Amazon.com's best-selling book on project management,
Visualizing Project Management, 2nd edition, by
Mooz, Forsberg, and Cotterman (Wiley, 2001).
This
highly interactive seminar features numerous
exercises, case studies, and lecture-discussions.
The learning objectives for this course are as
follows:
-Understand why project management skills are
valuable for contract managers;
-Know what are the four essentials for every
project;
-Understand the importance of having a common
project vocabulary to improve; communications
between
buyer and seller and their respective team members;
-Learn the best practices of building and
sustaining teamwork on projects and their related contracts; and
-Understand the project cycle and how to accelerate
delivery.
Doug
Thomas, vp education
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
Welcome to new members:
Maria Armijo Marvin
Frazier Laurian
Ott
Sandia
National Labs 27 CONS
(Cannon AFB) Blackhawk Management Corp
Hans Augustus Stephen
Frochen Daniel
Stafford
27 CONS
(Cannon AFB) 27 CONS (Cannon AFB)
Sandia National Labs
Mary Drobot Victoria
Grimm Chad Twitchell
US Fish
& Wildlife Service Applied Research Associates Sandia National Labs
Samuel Felix Brian
Murray
Sandia
National Labs
The Proteus Corp
Happy Anniversary to: Lillian
Retallack 20 yrs
George Daly 10 yrs
Deborah Dennis
5 yrs
Clifford Meier
5 yrs
The Albuquerque chapter would like to recognize our
chapter members who have recently renewed their memberships. Thanks for your continued support!
Thomas Courtin Jackson & Tull
Sheehan James Goodrich
Corp
Janice Jillson MCT Industries
Dennis Jontz Eastham Johnson Monnheimer & J
Pamela Klein Honeywell Inc
John Norwood Voss Scientific
David O’Leary 27 CONS
Michael Pierotti Los Alamos Nat’l Lab
Kenneth Walters IT Corp
Moises Zamora Los Alamos Nat’l Lab
DON'T FORGET TO RENEW: We would like to encourage members to renew
their memberships. If you already have,
thanks for your continued support of the
chapter!
CHECK-OUT THE NATIONAL WEB SITE
If you haven’t been to www.ncmahq.org
recently, it’s worth a few minutes of browsing time. You will need your member ID number to access
the members-only portion of the site – and I know we all have those pesky
little membership cards handy! To get
your member number, call any chapter officer, we’ll be happy to look it up for
you.