Region Message: Ready or not, Fall 2012 is here -

Hello everyone,

I’d like to introduce myself - my name is Andrew SanAgustin and I have been selected to be the Region Coordinator for the Great Northwest Region of ARMA. Since I arrived in the Pacific Northwest back in 2004, I’ve been an ARMA member and held a few Chapter Board positions. Currently, I am the Records and Conflicts Manager for a Seattle based law firm. I have been in the RIM field for more years than I’d care to admit, and I’ve worked in different industries as a RIM professional. Before arriving to Seattle, I was involved with ARMA for many years (in one way or another) in New York, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC. I am very thankful and extremely excited to be offered this position as a member of the Region Team. I am dedicated in helping out as best I can and supporting our new Region Manager, Jennifer Winkler.
I am writing just days before the ARMA International Conference in Chicago, at McCormick Place (September 23-25) and I am truly looking forward to this event. Not only does Conference provide an opportunity to interact with constituents (past and present), it’s a perfect venue for meeting people, learning about new business and vendor trends, and to caucus with other professionals in our field. Jennifer mentioned the building blocks of your professional life and I believe Conference is a cornerstone. Each time I arrive at Conference, I expect to receive new information. I want to experience sessions focusing on varying insights of RIM. I want to attend exciting presentations that will make me think of initiatives that I can implement in my world today. I find I am rarely disappointed and I return with a revived sense of direction, enthusiasm, and camaraderie (the warm and fuzzies!). I hope everyone gets a chance to experience this.

Certainly it’s challenging keeping up with the Kardashians, our lives, and our careers. But, identifying the building blocks for our professional and personal life is critical - it’s imperative to establish a firm strategy to success, with room for balance. These blocks come in many different shapes and sizes – with one-on-one conversations with folks, work experiences, or events and Educational functions hosted by the Chapters, the Region, as well as opportunities on the national level – and I hope we share as many of them together as possible.

I look forward to the chance of meeting with you this upcoming year, and I can’t wait for us to share war stories and thoughts, and to encourage each other in the work we do.

Hope to see you soon, either at conference or at other gatherings!

Andrew J. SanAgustin

GNW Region Coordinator