The latest CPTM/CGCIO™ news for you

September 2024 | Issue 3

Welcome CGCIO™ and CPTM Graduates and Alumni,

Joining our Alumni Association is an intelligent and worthwhile decision!

Thank you for participating in our newly formed CGCIO™ and CPTM Certified Alumni Program. This new forum provides many opportunities for our graduates to actively participate in CGCIO™ and CPTM functions, events, activities, and ongoing philanthropic efforts. More information can be obtained on the CGCIOFlorida.com website under the “Certified Alumni” Section.

In addition, for the nominal annual fee to be a member, your name will still appear as a “Certified Professional,” and you will receive the “Certified Alumni” designation instead of the active “Certified Through” year designation.

If you still need to do so, please sign up today using the button below to receive additional information and lock in a limited-time inaugural rate!

Join Today!

Exclusively for Alumni: Announcing the Upcoming Webinar Roundtable and Workshop Series Beginning on September 25, 2024

Our CGCIO™ and CPTM Graduates asked for it…and we listened! Many regularly share that they miss the structured peer learning and sharing dynamics from their classroom after completing the program year. In response, we developed a new monthly series to further our mission to further our members' combined personal and professional development needs. Designed for the busy IT Leader, the workshops are only an hour long but will contain updated discussions and educational materials from the current programs.

Our first in the series is entitled "Bringing Humanity to Technology" and will cover shared insights and experiences on IT hiring practices, developing a shared culture of high performance, and even touching upon how artificial intelligence may impact it all.

This workshop series is being provided to Alumni Members as a tangible opportunity to network and discuss real-world issues that public sector IT Leaders are actively dealing with today. Plus, you will earn CGCIO™ recertification hours for your attendance and participation!

Attendee spots are limited. If you are interested in attending, please register for the first workshop today!

VISION

To engage and inspire goodwill and stewardship from current and future government officials through a shared environment founded in lifelong learning, peer enablement, networking, mentorship, and volunteerism.

MISSION

To further graduates' well-being by uniquely serving its members' combined personal and professional development needs while providing real opportunities to give back to the communities they serve. Our values align with those of the CGCIO™ and CPTM Programs but add the elements of personal service and giving back to the communities we serve:

1. Strong Character: Authentic personal and professional actions with the highest integrity to one another.

2. Personal Ownership: Individual responsibility to actively give and contribute back to your fullest potential.

3. Uniquely Transformative: Expressing the dedication to affect meaningful change despite limitations and barriers presented.

4. Service Orientation: Demonstrate earnest gratitude toward your role, position in the community, and the accomplishments of others.

Alumni Leadership Committee in Action!

Many thanks to all who joined us at the Annual FLGISA Conference July 15-18 at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, Florida! We had an incredible number of visitors plus new member registration thanks to the diligent effort of your Alumni Association Leadership Committee and your overwhelming interest.

Two distinguished members from our Alumni Association Leadership Committee, Justin Meetoo (’21) and Harold Schomaker (’07), staffed our welcome and registration table and extolled the many virtues associated with interested parties becoming members themselves. What better ambassadors than two individuals who believe in the call to service of their peers and fellow graduates?

Congratulations to the CGCIO™ Graduation Class of 2024!

Adding to the quality and excitement of the FLGISA 2024 Annual Conference in July, twenty (20) local government professionals demonstrated their highly competent leadership by successfully completing rigorous course requirements and developing a business case to create tangible personal and organizational value. Each graduate gave a professional presentation to a packed room of attendees of their graduate-peer-reviewed Capstone Project topic, which held impressive value to the participants, their organizations, their citizens, and our industry. Remarkable work, folks!

Please join us in congratulating these hard-working individuals who have now earned their designation as a CGCIO™:

From left to right: Scott Olsen, Martin County Clerk of Court and Comptroller; Laurie Monroe, Formerly Marion County Clerk of Court and Comptroller; Thomas Farmer, City of New Smyrna Beach; M.C. Neal, Champaign County, IL; Joe Kynion, Hillsborough County Tax Collector; Joshua Zwolinski, Hillsborough County; Carlos Fernandez, City of Aventura; Justin Kenney, City of Titusville; Anthony Aguirre, Charlotte County; Guilherme Cardoso, City of Oakland Park; Jamison Delapena, Gainesville Regional Utilities; Tommy Cimilien, Saint Lucie County Property Appraiser; Erikk Ross, Lake County; Tim Murphy, Polk County Tax Collector; Tamecka McKay, City of Fort Lauderdale; Slav Talpis, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida; Jennifer Bryant, Pinellas County Tax Collector; Not Pictured: Clifford Albury, Formerly City of Fort Lauderdale; Kari Collier, City of Sarasota; Robert Steele, City of Lakeland.

Acknowledging our CGCIO™ Recertification Recipients for 2024!

Every three years after graduation, CGCIO™ Certified individuals must complete 120 hours of approved recertification hours to remain current on relevant trends in leadership, business, public service, and technology. Recertification demonstrates that our CGCIO™ Grads hold the skills required to take an active role at the executive table, maintain key interpersonal relationships between technology departments and other departments, and raise the overall professionalism of the technology industry.

We are proud to recognize our Alumni who recently demonstrated their recommitment to ongoing education and our programs by achieving their CGCIO™ Recertification requirements for 2024-2027. Our group of twenty (20) Alumni include, from left to right:

Tyler Roddenbery (’18), PWC; Sandra Stevens (’18), City of Boca Raton; Ken Watson (’18), Sarasota County; Dominic Antoniello (’18), Clay County Sheriff; Justin Meetoo (’21), City of Largo; Jason Biggers (’18), Hillsborough County.

Not Pictured, Class of 2018: Robert Curnow, Broward County; Tom Hughes, SFWMD; Laura Peele, Juvenile Board of Pinellas County; Jennifer Peters, City of Fort Lauderdale; Connie Robinson-Webster, Town of Jupiter; Alan Russell, Leon County; Raheem Seecharan, City of Hollywood; Bert Smith, City of Sanibel .

Not Pictured, Class of 2021: Jim Faulkner, City of Port Orange; Eric Frankton, City of Debary; Raju Gopinath, Charlotte County; Valerie Kendrick, Alachua County; Derek Kolb, Thomasville Public Library System; Eric Ryan, City of North Port.

Welcoming the CPTM and CGCIO™ Classes of 2025

We ask you all to kindly welcome and support our newest CGCIO™ and CPTM program participants, who now comprise the classes of 2025! All combined, the classes total an impressive new record number of 43 professional participants this year, and they are already actively sharing and growing their IT Leadership skills! Of note is the nearly equal number of CPTM and CGCIO™ students this year!

More on their journey and progress will be forthcoming in our subsequent editions of the Alumni Newsletter.

Have you updated your personal and professional profile?

If not, please do so now!

— CGCIOFlorida.com —

Many are unaware that certified professionals may log in and alter their listing for their title, organization, experience, and education, along with your contact or linked-in information. Taking the time to update your information improves the quality of information we share with our peers and allows us all to stay connected.

Additionally, for our Alumni Members in good standing, the “Certified Professionals” section of the website now includes your Alumni Status! Your peers and colleagues will be able to quickly identify your ongoing commitment to our programs as well as your active certification.

Our leadership committee would love to hear from you!

Your valuable input will help us shape our upcoming planning and activities to ensure they contain the most significant return value to our members. Reach out anytime to share personal and professional updates or stories to allow us to spotlight the thought leadership and other brilliant work our graduates consistently accomplish.

Details, Costs, Benefits of the Alumni Association

We currently offer all eligible program graduates’ membership to the Alumni Association for $30 per year. This nominal fee will allow us to present engaging activities aimed at continuing education, professional networking, mentoring, and participation in philanthropic causes. If you have not done so already, please sign up today using the button below to receive additional information and lock in a limited-time inaugural rate!

Join Today!