CHAPTER MEETING
November 7th, 2017 

Your PMI CRB Chapter Board is pleased to continue its efforts for the 2017/18 Program Year to enhance and provide value to the membership by offering Monthly Chapter Meetings. 

CHAPTER MEETING & GUEST SPEAKER

5:30 - 6:00 p.m.  - Networking and Social Time

6:00 - 6:30 p.m. - Dinner

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - “PMI Columbia River Basin - Project of the Year. Opportunities and lessons learned" presented by Lisa Rosenblum. 

Lisa will discuss the Project of the Year nomination opportunity; what that nomination entails; project requirements; available support; what advantages the competition and the awards gala can add to your career; and recognition of your project, your project team, and your company as leaders in the project management community.

LISA ROSENBLUM

Lisa Rosenblum’s multifaceted career includes over 25 years of experience spreading across the entire supply chain process including communications/marketing, design/development, manufacturing/production, purchasing, and general project management.  Her design degree enabled her to work for 15 years in the garment industry for companies such as Byer California, Gymboree, and Nike.  Working with Nike, she had the opportunity to travel all over Asia including Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand while contributing to pricing negotiations, work package development/approval, and research/development. 

After moving back to the Tri-Cities, Lisa evolved her career into visual and written communications. Creating effective communication through branding, visual graphics, verbal presentations, written materials including newsletters and professional presentations, website design, and other communication media, which promotes building and maintaining business relations, cooperation and innovation, effectual marketing, and company transparency.  Currently, Lisa is the face of Communications for the Project Management Office at Washington River Protection Solutions LLC.

Lisa also holds the VP-Marketing and Public Relations board position for the PMI Columbia River Basin Chapter.  She was elected and has served the chapter for 3 years.  Her main focus in this position was to create a strong branding statement for the chapter, and a consistent and recognizable statement that could be spread across all forms of promoting and advertising materials.  She developed a marketing plan that not only aligned with the chapter’s financial plan, but also increased the relationship between the local chapter and the public/private sectors in our local community.  Another big focus of Lisa’s was creating an outstanding and memorable Project of the Year Event.  A competition that would honor and celebrate our local companies and their project teams, for exemplary project management.

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DINNER MENU - TBD

As always a No Host Bar and Snacks will be available during the Networking.

VENUE - CG Public House and Catering (former Country Gentlemen)

REGISTRATION -  required NLT midnight on the Monday immediately preceeding the Tuesday meeting.