VOICEO 2018

MEMBERSHIP MEETING Where: DoubleTree Hotel

When: Wednesday

October 10, 2018

Social: 11:30 am

Lunch: 11:45 am

Cost: $15.00 for Members paying in advance

via PayPal paypal.me/NCMAEastTennessee

$20.00 for Non-Members paying in

advance via PayPal paypal.me/NCMAEastTennessee

The charges for paying at the door with cash, personal check or

company check are:

$17.00 for Members $22.00 for Non-Members

Speaker: MARTHA WEEKS

Leadership Communications Coach

University of TN

Topic: LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION

Menu: Fresh Garden Salad

Ranch or Honey Dijon Dressing

Chicken Picata

Wild Rice

Glazed Carrots

Assorted Dinner Rolls with Butter

C Iced Tea, Coffee, Decafe, Water

Apple Pie with Whipped Topping

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the day before event. If you pay after 11:00 am, your payment

may be credited to the following month’s NCMA event.

Just visit paypal.me/NCMAEastTennessee and enter your

amount.~

**You must still make your reservation with Vicki Dyer even

if you use PayPal to make your payment. We apologize, but

refunds cannot be given on advanced payments.**

Reservations UMUSTU be made by Monday,

Oct 8th by 11:00 a.m. Please contact

Vicki Dyer at 483-9332 or vdyer@scisale.com

Space is limited.

PRESIDENT’S CORNER

Dear Members,

It is officially Fall! And our 2018 / 2019 Program

Year is in full swing! The participation and attendance

at the first membership meeting of the year was

fabulous! We had two awesome speakers, Heather

Colar and Jamie Ford from the Department of Energy,

provide an update on local DOE projects. My take

away was that there will continue to be extraordinary

subcontracting opportunities in Oak Ridge, an

exciting time for development of our contracting

professionals!

This month’s program topic will focus on the area of

Leadership Communications. The importance of

effective communications is often under rated but, is a

soft skill that cannot be emphasized enough. My

personal experience has been that a large percentage

of delays, and rework in our field of work, are a direct

result of miscommunication. I hope you are able to

attend the October luncheon to hear Martha Weeks

from the University of Tennessee present on this

topic.

During the September Board of Director’s (BOD)

meeting, the Chapter’s PY 19 Budget was finalized

and I am happy to report that the Chapter continues to

remain financially solvent with a budget to

comfortably run operations. The BOD also approved

the PY Strategic Goals. We have 2 focus areas for the

Chapter this program year; increasing membership &

education and training excellence. Increasing our

membership can only be attained by offering program

topics, educational events, and professional

networking opportunities of value to our Members, so

the two go hand in hand. You can find the full

version of the Strategic Panning Goals for program

Year 2018 – 2019 on our chapter website @

http://www.ncmaet.com/ncma-overview/.

Our membership of record is currently 197. The

membership statistics from the last four (4) years are

shown below for your reference and demonstrate we

have sustained a steady, organic growth over the last

four (4) years.

• PY 2018 – 189

• PY 2017 – 183

• PY 2016 – 180

• PY 2015 – 155

We can continue to increase by introducing friends

and co-workers to our Chapter. I encourage you all to

talk with your co-workers about the NCMA-ET chap-

ter and how the exceptional programs and educational

opportunities have enhanced your professional con-

tracting skills. Katherine Bumgardner and Skip Skel-

ton have a great line up of presenters for us this year.

The membership application is attached to the end of

this newsletter and the fees are very reasonable. And,

don’t forget about our New Member Initiative Pro-

gram, “Bring a Friend.” If you have any questions

about membership types contact Dustin Mackay.

We have completed filling the committee positions

for the 2018 / 2019 program year. A new committee

position, the Student Community was added to in-

crease our relationships with colleges and universities

in the area and attract more student members and

scholarship applicants. Kelsey Holmberg and Ben

Hyman have graciously agreed to take on this role and

have already established some contacts to facilitate

the coordination efforts.

Please don’t hesitate to submit your ideas for ways to

make the NCMA of East Tennessee more valuable to

you and your peers.

Happy Fall, Y’all!

Cindy Morgan, President

SPEAKER BIO MARTHA WEEKS

Leadership Communications Coach

University of Tennessee

Martha has coached TEDx talks and hundreds of tech-

nical, business and healthcare presentations. She leads

workshops and coaches executives, engineers, entre-

preneurs and clinicians to create and deliver persua-

sive talks and written materials for conferences, inves-

tors, internal meetings and websites.

In addition to working with corporate clients includ-

ing Google, Microsoft and Zynga, Martha is a coach

and guest lecturer at the Stanford Business School and

the Haslam College of Business at the University of

Tennessee, Knoxville. At Stanford, she advises entre-

preneurs on investor pitches and is a story coach in the

LEAD executive education program.

At UT, Martha is a business communications lecturer

and coach in the Graduate Executive Education group,

Professional MBA program, and full-time MBA pro-

gram. Martha serves on the advisory board of the Col-

lege of Nursing at the University of Tennessee.

Martha earned an MBA from the Haas School of

Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a

BA in mathematics from the University of Tennessee,

Knoxville. For more information,

visit www.marthaweeks.com.

MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT

ANGELA HOLMBERG Manager, Contract Administration

ORAU

Angela Holmberg has been a Manager of Contract

Administration at ORAU since November of 2016.

Prior to that she held the roles of Corporate Director

of Working Capital at Leidos and V.P. for Admin-

istration and Senior Accounting Manager at SAIC, re-

sulting in over 19 years of professional experience.

She is a Certified Management Accountant. She has a

Master of Business Administration from Strayer Uni-

versity, a Master’s Certificate in Government Con-

tracting from George Washington University, and a

Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management

from Tusculum University. Angela has been an

NCMA member since 2016 and serves as the East

Tennessee Chapter Secretary. Her favorite training

that NCMA has sponsored was Disciplines of Speed

presented by Bill Peterson, and was able to immedi-

ately implement some of the tools learned to improve

her day to day activities. Overall, NCMA’s training

and networking opportunities with other contract pro-

fessionals have supported her career through the years

by allowing her to meet and getting to know counter-

parts from local businesses which her Company fre-

quently supports. By joining NCMA and serving on

the broad early in her career, she formed connections

that resulted in a near 20-year career with SAIC/Lei-

dos. When she’s not in the Office, Angela enjoys

spending time with her family and working on pro-

ductive projects such as rehabbing an antique chair or

weaving loom. She likes music and occasionally play

the guitar or other instruments. “Unlike Peyton, I was

in a real band once. Or twice.”

CHAPTER NEWS

MEMBERSHIPS:

There are a number of members whose membership

will be expiring by 12/31/2018. If you know you need

to renew or not sure when your membership expires,

please contact the Membership Committee, Dustin

Mackey at mackeyd@ornl.gov or Landon Hill at

hilldl@ornl.gov or you can go to www.ncmahq.org.

You can also complete the application located in the

newsletter and send it to Dustin Mackey or Landon

Hill.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION OPPORTUNITIES:

On the NCMA Headquarters page, there is a resource

called the Contract management Resource Directory.

This directory has a searchable supplier resource di-

rectory. It also features a searchable training and

webinar directory as well as a speaker and expert ros-

ter search.

The link is: http://ncma.webvent.tv/?navItem-

Number=10020

EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY

Register at: https://conta.cc/2ns1RzG

DONATION TO TORCH Below is a picture from our recent donation to

TORCH who was the beneficiary of our bowling

fundraiser back in the spring.

AREA JOB OPENINGS

• ORNL – Procurement Officer

• ORAU – Small Business Advocate Analyst I

• Dept. of Energy – Contract Specialist (2 vacancies)

• CNS / Y-12 – Subcontract Administrator (1 of 2)

• CNS / Y-12 – Subcontract Administrator (2 of 2)

• PSI – Administrative and Contract Administration Assistant

• SAIC – Contracts Support Specialist Lead

• SAIC – Contracts Support Specialist

• SAIC – Procurement Analyst, Sr.

• SAIC – Procurement Analyst II

• SAIC – Associate Buyer

• Kimberly-Clark – Global Transportation Procure-ment Manager

• 1st TN Bank – Procurement Specialist

NEW MEMBER INITIATIVE PROGRAM BRING A FRIEND!

In an effort to grow membership and networking

opportunities, the NCMA East Tennessee chapter is

now starting a new member initiative program to

encourage current members to invite a guest (peer or

co-worker) who is a non- member to one of our

monthly membership meetings. If the guest joins the

chapter within 3-months of attending the initial

meeting, the member and guest who joined will

receive a credit that would entitle both to attend a

future lunch meeting at no cost. In order to qualify for

the credit, the guest who joins must complete and

submit the member application attached to this

newsletter.

NEWSLETTER As always, if you have any thoughts or suggestions

on how to make our newsletter more informative

or useful, please let us know!

Tracie Miller tracie@edwardssupply.com

Stephen Weigel stephen@edwardssupply.com

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