Volunteer of the Month Award

Starting January 2009, PMI SV is selecting a volunteer for the Volunteer of the Month award
for his/her outstanding contributions towards the Chapter's activities.

Month	Name/Title	Bio	Photo
July 2010	Nicole Kim Co-Director, Tools & Techniques Logistics
June 2010	Richard (Rick) Mazzerela Cupertino Breakfast Meeting Host	Rick has extensive PM experience markets ranging from commercial-agile to highly-regulated environments. He has managed product lines with up to $80M/year revenue as Director of R&D, SQA, Product Lifecyle leader and operations-related positions. He has extensive experience turning around challenged programs and product lines via his PM skills, customer engagements, and product/management innovations. He is an earlier developer and practitioner of portfolio management systems to achieve product roadmap and market gain optimums. Rick’s staff management experience includes managing groups of up to 35 staff, managing multinational development teams, and building/rebuilding product development teams. Rick’s technical background began in the aerospace industry. His software development experience lead to senior positions in systems engineering and, ultimately, project management. He holds a BA in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. Rick is now at Asyst Technologies; a robotics company in the semiconductor industry. At Asyst Technologies, Rick holds the title of Senior Manager; Applications and Product Support group.
April 2010	Esther Rodriguez Co-Director Evening Program Logistics	Esther has only worked for one company her entire career – IBM. She is in her 34th year of service with IBM. She is currently a Manager of 19 Project Managers. She leads this diverse team of employees to drive complex multi-platform projects, Acquisitions and Divestitures using best PM methodology and practices. They are leaders who have managed highly successful projects, deliver project results and are recognized by the customer as key contributors to the project’s success. - Drive cohesiveness across several IBM organizations to ensure high quality of services. - Encourage employees to be innovative, and support ideas that should be implemented. - Established a department Project Management database with it inherent procedures, plans and records for managing projects In addition she provides WW Due Diligences Services for new IBM Acquitions or Divestitures. Verified and presented accurate information obtained during due diligence for sizing proposed solution and financial viability of the IBM solution.
April 2010	Carolyn Jay, PMP Co-Director Evening Program Logistics	Carolyn's Public Profile on LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-jay/8/b57/a33
March 2010	Rekha Amble, PMP Director Community Outreach	Rekha graduated from Bangalore University with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. She has comprehensive and successful experience with leading highly competent technical and business teams in the successful executions of medium and large enterprise wide application deployment and systems integration projects for major corporations such as IBM. Her expertise includes managing projects and resources dispersed geographically.   Rekha has been a PMP since 2002. She worked on a project for PMI Education Fund, the scope of which was to define, develop and produce a "Career Day" book defining the project management profession, the individuals working in project management, the various industries using project management and the related career opportunities. It provides a source of information for those seeking entry to their profession and was rolled out at the Leadership Meeting in Baltimore during September 2003. Rekha has always wanted to give back to the community and so gets involved with local community work and creating awareness among people about programs offered by local utility authorities. On a global level, she has been actively involved with UNHCR- UN Refugee Agency and a non-profit organization that raises awareness about important causes such as global warming, genocide, human trafficking and empowers people to take action. She is also part of an initiative, The Greener Living Project, which is a group endeavor to explore, over a one year period, ways and means to create a more sustainable lifestyle. The members are a diverse group of people who bring to the project different levels of understanding of the issue; they are united by a keen interest in making their lives greener through an informed and systematic approach that also emulates the benefits of healthy group interaction.
February 2010	Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM Co-Director Career Management Logistics	Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM has 13+ years of experience in Software Industry covering areas of Customer Service, Quality Assurance, IT administration and Software Development. Kuntal has managed and participated in IT and Software projects of the size of small team to large corporate-wide projects. He is able to build cross-functional teams, negotiate various levels of hierarchy, and apply his experience to small and large businesses alike. He has strong customer oriented skills and technical development experience to work cross functionally for resolving customer issues. Kuntal holds degrees in Computer Science and lives in California's Silicon Valley.
January 2010	Maura Fujieh, PMP Breakfast Meeting Host Consultant Breakfast	Maura Fujieh, PMP, develops and supports planning and project controls systems for government research programs and projects. She has been involved in the roll-out of several web-based tools to customers in both industry and government. She has overseen the development and implementation of integrated processes and procedures for various projects performing long-term aerospace R&D. Maura has consulted in the area of aerospace, supply chain, earned value management, consumer goods and finance, most often with customers who have large, complex organizations. Maura has facilitated the Contracting & Consulting Breakfast since 2007.
Award committee members: Board of Directors