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
Communications by and for the members of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), International. The chapter's Web site is at http://www.armaseattle.org. Earliest messages are at the bottom; later ones were added above them. Read from the bottom up.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Hello and welcome to another start of the ARMA year!
Summer is going by fast, it just seems like yesterday we were meeting in Richland for the 2012 GNW Region Leadership Conference. It was two days of education and planning and I hope the attendees had a great time and found some tips, resources and renewed energy to take back to their chapters. During leadership we took some time to say Thank You to our fearless leader for the past four years. And I want to take one more opportunity to say thanks to Marc Simpson for his dedication and leadership to the Great Northwest Region and to ARMA overall. Did you know that Marc has been in a leadership role at either the Chapter or Region level for 17+ years?! He has brought a wealth of information to the area and I know we will be tapping into that knowledge for many years to come (can’t get away from us that easily Marc!).
With Marc’s departure and me taking the Region Manager role, that left us with the Region Coordinator position to fill, which we did last spring. Andrew SanAgustin will be joining the Region team as our new RC. As he’ll be writing next month’s region message, I’ll let him introduce himself. Please take a moment to welcome him when you see him.
All of our lives are comprised of many blocks which when put together make us who we are. Family, friends, co-workers, peers, professional associates are all blocks of our lives. Each block can consist of more blocks, such as ARMA is a block of our professional associates, and within that block are more blocks, such as chapter meetings, GARP, webinars, etc. All these blocks work together to make us whole.
ARMA is one of the support bases for my professional building block. I know that every year the Annual Conference will supply me with new resources, tools, and educational opportunities for my position at the City of Seattle. It also is a great place for networking and meeting new peers. This year the Annual Conference is being held in Chicago, September 23-25th and it is looking to be another great conference. As always, we are looking to have a no-host region lunch during the conference. If you are (or someone you know is) attending let either Andrew or myself know and we’ll keep an eye out. Or check the announcement board (generally by the registration table) for updates.
Hope to see many of your throughout the year!
Jennifer Winkler
GNW Region Manager
Summer is going by fast, it just seems like yesterday we were meeting in Richland for the 2012 GNW Region Leadership Conference. It was two days of education and planning and I hope the attendees had a great time and found some tips, resources and renewed energy to take back to their chapters. During leadership we took some time to say Thank You to our fearless leader for the past four years. And I want to take one more opportunity to say thanks to Marc Simpson for his dedication and leadership to the Great Northwest Region and to ARMA overall. Did you know that Marc has been in a leadership role at either the Chapter or Region level for 17+ years?! He has brought a wealth of information to the area and I know we will be tapping into that knowledge for many years to come (can’t get away from us that easily Marc!).
With Marc’s departure and me taking the Region Manager role, that left us with the Region Coordinator position to fill, which we did last spring. Andrew SanAgustin will be joining the Region team as our new RC. As he’ll be writing next month’s region message, I’ll let him introduce himself. Please take a moment to welcome him when you see him.
All of our lives are comprised of many blocks which when put together make us who we are. Family, friends, co-workers, peers, professional associates are all blocks of our lives. Each block can consist of more blocks, such as ARMA is a block of our professional associates, and within that block are more blocks, such as chapter meetings, GARP, webinars, etc. All these blocks work together to make us whole.
ARMA is one of the support bases for my professional building block. I know that every year the Annual Conference will supply me with new resources, tools, and educational opportunities for my position at the City of Seattle. It also is a great place for networking and meeting new peers. This year the Annual Conference is being held in Chicago, September 23-25th and it is looking to be another great conference. As always, we are looking to have a no-host region lunch during the conference. If you are (or someone you know is) attending let either Andrew or myself know and we’ll keep an eye out. Or check the announcement board (generally by the registration table) for updates.
Hope to see many of your throughout the year!
Jennifer Winkler
GNW Region Manager
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