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2017 Executive Board PRESIDENT—JOE GUY, CPPB [email protected] 602-506-8718
VICE PRESIDENT—KRISTY GARCIA, CPPB [email protected] 480-644-5052
TREASURER—SHARON BRAUSE, CPPO, CPPB, CPCP [email protected] 480-644-2815
SECRETARY—HEATHER HODGMAN [email protected] 480-474-8500
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT— BILL MUNCH, CPPO, CPPB [email protected] 602-677-1988
The Official Newsletter of
the Arizona State Capitol
Chapter of NIGP
THE PURCHASING EXCHANGE
Arizona State Capitol Chapter of NIGP
September / October 2017
Inside this issue:
President’s Message 2
Meet the Candidates 3
Regional Conference 5
Regional Schedule 6
Career Seminar II Recap 8
Forum Recap 9
Upcoming Events 14
Membership Report 15
Member Birthdays 16
Celebrate Birthdays 17
Member Spotlight 18
Harvest Festival 20
Haunted House 21
Connected? 22
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Hello Chapter Members! We have had an exciting summer as a chapter. The National Forum in
Salt Lake was a great learning and team building event. It was fantastic to see so many of our
members in attendance this year. We fell short of the goal of being awarded Chapter of the
Year but we were awarded the Chapter Excellence in Membership Recruitment, Retention and
Engagement. We will beat them next year in Nashville.
Nominees for Chapter Vice President and Secretary have been set. Keep your eyes open for the
ballot in early October. The election results will be announced during the Regional Conference
and Expo.
Speaking of Regional, we now have sold 108 booths for the Vendor Expo. Flyers are posted on
the website for the membership to distribute to their customers. Attendance to the Expo portion
of Regional is free of charge. If you have not registered yet, please do so.
I sincerely hope that the Chapter is meeting your needs as a member. As always, please feel
free to reach out to me with any questions, comments or concerns.
Sincerely,
Joe Guy, CPPB
AZNIGP Chapter President
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Heather Hodgman
Heather Hodgman is a candidate for Vice President. Heather has been an
active member since 2008 and is currently working at the City of Apache
Junction as the Public Works Management Analyst. Heather is also currently
serving as chapter Secretary. Heather has served on numerous committee’s
over the years and is looking forward to the opportunity to broaden her
knowledge and experience as the chapters next Vice President.
Click here to read her complete bio and application.
Teena Ziegler
Teena Ziegler is a candidate for Vice President. Teena has been an active
member since 2005 and is currently working as the Chief Procurement Officer
at Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. She believes that ensuring
the continuation of this professional organization to meet the needs of its
members in the areas of training, leadership and support is important as ever.
Click here to read her complete bio and application.
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Susan Holt is a candidate for Secretary. Susan has been a member for 3.5
years and is currently employed as a Sr. Procurement Specialist at Arizona De-
partment of Environmental Quality. She enjoys the procurement profession
and is interested in volunteering her time in furthering the knowledge platform
for her peers.
Click here to read her complete bio and application.
Lori Noyes
Lori Noyes is a candidate for Secretary. Lori has been an active member
since 2011 and is currently employed as the Deputy Chief Procurement Officer
for the Department of Public Safety. Lori is excited to serve the chapter
through her participation on multiple committees and would like to further that
participation in a capacity that she feels can contribute immensely.
Click here to read her complete bio and application.
Susan Holt
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Countdown to Regional Conference
Regional Conference & Vendor Expo
If you have not already registered please do so now as time is run-
ning out to register and attend this year’s Regional Conference &
Vendor Expo being held at the Phoenix Convention Center on
October 26, 2017.
It will be an exciting day filled with many professional development
classes, a vendor expo, motivating speakers, and networking opportu-
nities with peers and vendors.
Come join us for this important event and educational opportunity.
Don’t miss this annual event that is fun and a huge fundraiser for
our chapter.
And remember to bring those donations for our furry friends from
Paws 4 Life. Wish list items are provided below. Thank you in
advance for your donations!
New Leashes
Water and Food Bowls
Unopened dog treats
Unopened dog food (canned or dry)
New dog toys: Kongs, rope toys, etc.
Brushes and/or combs
Gift cards to pet supply stores
Baby blankets
Doggy beds
Clean towels
Hand sanitizer
Cash donations
Don’t forget to vote in October’s
election for Vice President and
Secretary. Your vote counts!
Results will be announced at the
Regional Conference.
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Regional Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance
28th Annual Regional Conference & Vendor Expo
Phoenix Convention Center—South Building, 100 N. 3rd St., Phoenix
Registration and Continental Breakfast—7:00 AM—8:00 AM
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opening Plenary Session—8:00 AM—9:00 AM
“The Super Hero in You” - Keynote Speaker—Lourdes Coss
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grand Opening of Super Hero Vendor Expo—9:00 AM—9:55 AM
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Concurrent Sessions 10:00 AM—10:50 AM
• Shazam! - Scott Patterson—Reverse Auction 101
• Flame on! - Edith Baltierrez, Mike Cassidy, and Eric Bailey—Optimizing your team through intentional efforts
to improve diversity and inclusion
• My Spidey-Sense is tingling—Patrick Ibarra—Six Ways to Engineer Employee Engagement
• Purchasing powers unite! - Marcheta Gillespie—Collaborating to improve the Procurement Profession
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Concurrent Sessions 11:00 AM —11:50 AM
• Up, up, and away! - Lourdes Coss—Financial Analysis for Procurement Professionals
• Yo Joe! - NIGP Business Council—2017 White Paper: The Supplier-Practitioner Connection
• Here We Come to Save the Day! - NCPA—Job Order Contracting (JOC) Excellence and Performance Study
• Purchasing powers activate! - Tammy Rimes—What is your Super Power?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Luncheon / Business Meeting 12:00 PM—1:00 PM
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Concurrent Sessions 1:15 PM—2:10 PM
• Great Scott! - Lourdes Coss—Managing Vendor Communications
• Hi ho Purchasing away! - Jean Clark—Procurement Transformation Progression
• We have the power! - Peggy Ferrin—Body Language in Business/Negotiations
• Purchasing powers activate! - Tammy Rimes—Are you ready for the future?
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Regional Conference Schedule-at-a-Glance
28th Annual Regional Conference & Vendor Expo
Phoenix Convention Center—South Building, 100 N. 3rd St., Phoenix
Afternoon Break / Snack 2:15 PM—2:55 PM
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Concurrent Sessions 3:00 PM—3:55 PM
• Cowabunga! - Conversations that Connect—Cities
• Cowabunga! - Conversations that Connect—Counties
• Cowabunga! - Conversations that Connect—Schools
• Cowabunga! - Conversations that Connect—States
Blend your skills, knowledge and experience and connect with your colleagues to discuss current issues, problems,
best practices, and hot topics.
If you have any ideas of things to discuss to get the discussion started please email them to Kristy
Garcia, Conference Committee Chair at [email protected]. Thank you!
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Super Hero Vendor Expo is open all day (9:00 AM—4:00 PM). Please take the time to visit and support
our vendors throughout the entire day. Invite end-users to attend Vendor Expo for free.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Closing / Grand Prize Raffle 4:00 PM—4:45 PM
Must be present to win!
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Schedule is subject to change.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Available presentations will be posted to chapter website when available and also provided on a flash-
drive to all attending registrants.
Full schedule with speaker bios and class descriptions is available on the chapter website at
www.aznigp.org
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Career Seminar II Recap Career Seminar II—August 8, 2017 The last career seminar of the year was a great success. The seminar was held at ADOT on August 8, 2017, with 92 members in attendance. Thank you to Taryn Stangel, Michelle Hudson, and Megan Smith from the Arizona Auditor General Office who explained to us what they look for when performing audits. Also presenting was Dr. Wywiad Dean Kashiwagi who recently retired from ASU and presented on Best Value Procurement. His company, KSM Inc., are experts in business management and procurement of services. Learn more about Dr. Kashiwagi and what his team does at www.ksm-inc.com. Following the speakers, our business meeting was held, in addition to lunch, and was opened by our President, Joe Guy. The following items were highlight-ed during the meeting:
• Our next luncheon meeting will be held on September 12, 2017.
• If interested in running for VP or Secretary please submit your nomination form no later than September 12, 2017. The nomination form is available on the chapter website.
• Don’t forget to support our charity, Paws 4 Life.
• Scholarship money is available. Please apply today! Several members won prizes as part of the pro-d prize drawing, and Judy Leung, Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) and Dave Six, Central Arizona Project, won a free lunch to attend a future luncheon meeting.
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National NIGP Annual Forum
Recap
NIGP Forum 2017
The NIGP Annual Forum
was held this year in Salt
Lake City, UT, August 27-30,
2017. Our local chapter had
33 members in attendance so
we were well represented.
For the second year in a row,
our chapter won the Excel-
lence in Membership Recruit-
ment, Retention and Engage-
ment Chapter Excellence
Award. Thank you all for be-
ing active, engaged members
and helping our chapter be
successful. NIGP also recog-
nized our 40 Year Anniver-
sary as a chapter.
We had a fun time bonding
with other members and
have memories to remember
for a lifetime. Always an ad-
venture and memorable time.
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National NIGP Annual Forum
Pictures
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Upcoming Events
Chapter Luncheon
December 12, 2017—11:30 AM
Professional Development
September 18-19, 2017—NIGP Seminar:
Fundamentals of Leadership and
Management
October 26, 2017—Regional Conference &
Vendor Expo
November 20, 2017—NIGP Seminar:
Preparing for and Surviving Internal
Audits
Webinars
November 14, 2017—11:30 AM
Writing Specs that Result in Competition
Transitional Board Meeting
December 12, 2017—8:00 AM
If you plan on chairing a committee in
2018 please attend the transitional
board meeting. It is a fun-filled day of
training, planning events, preparing
the budget, and much more for our
Chapter for 2018.
NIGP Course to be held at ADOA
NIGP Seminar: Preparing for and Surviving Internal Audits
Date and time: November 20, 2017 (8:00 AM—5:00 PM)
Seminar Location: ADOA / SPO, 100 N. 15th Ave., 1st Floor
Conference Room, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Presented by: Omid Ghamami, CPSCM, MBA
Contact hours: 8.00 hours
Cost: NIGP Institute Members—$310; Non-Members—$410
To Register: Go to www.aznigp.org Under Upcoming Events
Overview
The purpose of an internal audit is to determine that an or-
ganization’s risk management, governance, and internal con-
trol processes are operating effectively. This course will equip
students with the necessary skills to assess their organiza-
tion’s operations and deal with the details of an internal audit.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course participants will be
able to:
• Perform a risk assessment for purchasing operations.
• Identify and prepare for commonly raised auditor issues.
• Effectively respond to an internal audit.
• Influence the audit team using their own language and
assessment criteria.
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Membership Report
Active Members = 438
Pending Members = 13
Expired Members = 1
Vacant Positions = 2
New Members = 25
It has been a busy start to a new mem-
bership year. So far this fiscal year we
have 25 new members. We hope you get
involved and reap the many benefits that
membership has to offer.
Benefits to being a Chapter member in-
clude free webinars, networking opportu-
nities, discounted professional develop-
ment events, scholarship opportunities,
enhanced leadership skills, National
staff and resources and much more!
Please contact Kristy Garcia, Member-
ship Committee, to redeem free lunch
vouchers, remove or add any members,
and with any questions or help getting
registered.
(tel) 480-644-5052
National Membership
Are you a member of NIGP National? If
not join today! A $25 rebate is given to
our Chapter for having non-National
members apply for and become new
Agency or new Individual Members of
the Institute. This money can be used
toward scholarships, seminars, events
and much more!
Join NIGP
Attention Members!
Please visit www.aznigp.org to ensure
your profile is up-to-date and that if you
are an NIGP National member, that the
proper box is checked. (The Chapter pays
NIGP different rates based on this!)
Also, make sure your Job Title and De-
partment are documented in the re-
quired fields.
You can also review your history, print
attendance certificates, and print
invoices/receipts under Review / Up-
date Your Profile then select the
History tab.
Your member history displays on this
page and includes meeting/event attend-
ance and membership payments.
To download a copy of an invoice or re-
ceipt, click the blue “paper” icon in the
left column next to the appropriate en-
try.
To download a membership or meeting
attendance certificate, click the blue
“seal” icon in the left column next to the
appropriate entry.
Welcome New Members!
Maureen Curley
Arizona Department of Health Services
Shonna McBride
Pinal County
Anita Case
Peoria Unified School District #11
Cary Case
Peoria Unified School District #11
Cora McCan
Peoria Unified School District #11
Anna Romero
Peoria Unified School District #11
Michael Soto III
City of Phoenix
Julie Smith
City of Phoenix
Debra Russell
City of Phoenix
Heather Roye
City of Phoenix
George Goodale
City of Phoenix
Emeka Ekpe
City of Phoenix
Gioia Bufkin
City of Phoenix
Nichol Shrum
City of Phoenix
Jessika Rodriguez
City of Phoenix
Melanie Bynoe Torzala
City of Phoenix
Brad Stephens
Arizona Game & Fish
Rod Robinson
Scottsdale Unified School District #48
Lori Keller
City of Phoenix
Enrique Rivera
City of Phoenix
Jennifer Calimag
Arizona Department of Child Safety
Jocelyn Almanzar
Arizona Department of Child Safety
Margaret Bobbitt
Arizona Department of Corrections
Ken Sanchez
Arizona Department of Corrections
Paul Pociask
Arizona Department of Corrections
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1st—Susanna Hernandez
1st—Shona McBride
3rd—Cathy Lonnegren
4th—Julie Smith
6th—Larry Larson
7th—Vicki Fitzpatrick
7th—Shivani Shrivastava
10th—Jason Harris
11th—Kelly Engelhart
13th—Inez Babchuk
13th—Joey Molina
14th—Melinda Holmes
15th—Norman Sophiea
15th—Carolee Stees
16th—Rebecca O’Brien
17th—Margaret Bobbitt
17th—Sharon Tohtsoni
18th—John Albin
18th—Ann Drake
18th—Cyndi Hawk
21st—Teena Giannini
21st—Mark Held
23rd—Garry Alexis
25th—Cary Case
25th—Andrea Nejeres
29th—Doug Boyer
29th—Patricia Jonas
30th—Dave Six
MEMBER BIRTHDAYS SEPTEMBER
4th—Judy Leung
6th—Suzanne Alberts
7th—Ingrid Arnott
7th—Elmer Garcia
7th—Anna Romero
9th—Anita Case
9th—Bruce Pampel
9th—Daniel Pinkstaff
16th—Lloyd (Geff) Weaver
18th—Martie Lambertson-Harrell
20th—Art Enriquez
22nd—LaVonne Morris
23rd—Amir Bonakdar-Sakhi
23rd—Linda Yuhas
24th—Robyn Caillouette
26th—Rebecca Seifert
26th—Mark Stoffel
27th—Monique Harris
28th—Sabina Moore
28th—Melannie Rustein
29th—Kelie Thomas
31st—Karie Ingles
MEMBER BIRTHDAYS OCTOBER
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Fun ways to celebrate employee birthdays!
Special Treat. Everyone deserves a treat on their birthday! Make sure to find out what the employee
likes—whether it’s chocolate chip cookies, a candy bar, or cake.
Decorate their desk. What better way to show employees you’re thinking about them on their birth-
days than to show up to the office early and really decorate that person’s desk? Go all out! Be creative
with some surprise decorations.
A note from the whole team. A birthday is a great time to show how much the employee means to the
organization. Instead of a generic birthday card, have colleagues write a few sentences about the employ-
ee’s contributions and what they like most about working with that person.
Give them a gift card. A simple, low-key way to celebrate an employee’s birthday is by giving them a
gift card. Just make sure it’s something they’re interested in first before you purchase.
Take them out for a meal. Suggest that you take them out for lunch or dinner at the restaurant of
their choice. Bring along some coworkers too so that everyone can join in the fun.
Give them the day off. Some employees may not be interested in celebrating their birthday at work,
instead choosing to be around family. Or your employee just might need a day off to recharge their bat-
teries. Whatever the case, offering a personal day for this once-a-year event is something employees will
appreciate.
SOURCE: www.tinypulse.com
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
G A R R Y A L E X I S , M B A , M H A , L S S G B
S R . P R O C U R E M E N T S P E C I A L I S T, A D OT
How long have you been in
Purchasing? I’ve been working in
this field for a combination of 24
years. 20 year military and 4
years civilian.
How long have you worked
for your employer? A
combination of 17 months. From
DCS, DEMA, and now ADOT.
How did you get into
Purchasing? I enlisted into the
Army in the logistics career field
and then continued in the field
of purchasing.
What was your most unusual
procurement? Working as a
facilitator translating French
creole to English for purchasing
goods for a country off the coast
of Southeast Africa.
Which procurement are you the
most proud of? Establishing a
Central Issue Facility (CIF) to
support over 100,000 plus
soldiers in Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar,
and Afghanistan.
Before joining my current
employer, I was: a supply chain
consultant at Palo Verde Nuclear
Power Station. What was your first car?
A 1995 Mazda 626
If you could have only one meal
for the rest of your life, what
would it be?
My mom’s lentil beans.
My favorite place is?
Trinidad and Tobago,
West Indies
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT CONTINUED...
What do you like to do outside
of work? Spending time with
family, travel, cooking Caribbean
food and my wife’s home
improvement projects. Where is your home town?
I was born and raised in Point
Fortin, Trinidad and Tobago and
then moved to Brooklyn, N.Y.
What makes you
laugh? Comedy
and funny stuff
people say.
It’s your day off.
What are you
doing?
Out on the town
with my wife.
Home improvement project
Favorite book? Animal Farm.
Favorite movie? Coming to
America. Dream vacation?
On an island mingling with
the locals and sampling local
cuisines.
Any recent accomplishment / recognition
you are proud of and would like to
share? Celebrated 20 years of marriage
this year and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Certification. Also, just completed my
2nd Master’s Degree: Master of Science
Medical Health Administration Health
Informatics (Cum Laude)
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VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED. PLEASE CONTACT BECKI WATSON AT [email protected] or
602-506-3823; Mobile 480-200-9780, to purchase tickets or to sign up to volunteer. Thank you.
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VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED. PLEASE CONTACT BECKI WATSON AT [email protected] or
602-506-3823; Mobile 480-200-9780, to purchase tickets or to sign up to volunteer. Thank you.
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