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• New North Florida AACEi Board member John P. Orr, PSP has been named the Section “You’re a Star” Award winner for 2011. Our congratulations to John! See article with photo here.
• North Florida AACEi has two 2011 scholarship winners: Andres Boral $8,000 and Maryam Mirhadi Fard $2,000. Andres Boral was AACEi's top award winner this year, and also received an all-expense paid trip to the Annual Meeting in California. Congratulations to both winners.
Our Section has had six local winners in the past four years. All received additional Section monies which qualified for a 50% AACEi match. The next application period begins January 2012. See our Scholarship page for details.
• 2011-2012 Election Results. See new officers and other board members listed on the About Us page. We had an excellent 37% of our members who voted, and want to thank everyone for their participation in this election process.
• North Florida AACEi Board member Joseph A. Brown, CCE, has been named an AACEi TCM Excellence Award winner for 2010. Our congratulations to Joe on this much deserved recognition. Click here for article with photo.
• North Florida AACEi member and VP-Administrative Susan B. Zimmerman, CCE has received the prestigious AACEi Outstanding Woman in Project Controls Award for 2009. Our congratulations to Susan. Click here for story and photo below.
• North Florida AACEi Section member and Treasurer William C. Sheerin, CCE was awarded the 2009 CCTS Technical Achievement Award at their Engineers Week Banquet. This makes the 2nd year in a row that our Section has won this important award. See below for photo and article.
• 2008 Member Survey: Click here for a summary. |
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February 22-23, 2012: NASA Project Management Challenge 2012. Focus on lessons learned, knowledge sharing, new ideas in program/project management, systems engineering, risk management, and related disciplines. Orlando, FL. Register here by 2/3/2012. For details, visit PM Challenge. POC: Lori Hicks, 321-867-4689 or lori.p.hicks@nasa.gov.
July 8-11, 2012: AACEi ‘s 56th Annual Meeting, Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, San Antonio, TX. For details, visit www.aacei.org.
Continuing: 2nd Wednesdays: Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS). Umbrella organization comprised of 31 Space Coast area technical societies, including North Florida AACEi. Organizing agency of the Space Congress.
Certification Exam Dates and Deadlines: See below for details.
As you are aware, if you are certified, you must earn 15 or more recertification credits every three years to recertify. One way you can earn recertification credits is to assist the Certification Board by grading CCC/CCE papers or Part IV exam sections in your specialty. This can be done at your current location with no travel, and all communication will be handled by e-mail and telephone.
To be accepted as a grader, you must successfully grade a sample paper or Part IV question according to the guidelines provided. If interested please contact Teri Jefferson at tjefferson@aacei.org. |
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• New Membership Certificates Awarded to Three Section Members. AACEi recently issued 25-year membership certificates to Giovanni R. Monteferrante, Kenneth A. VanderJagt, and Kirit R. Shah. They were presented at the Section December 9th Holiday Dinner Meeting. Congratulations to all! See photo here.
• The results of the 2010 AACEi Salary and Demographic Survey are in. The survey showed a more veteran membership base with just over half over age 45. Roughly 15% of the membership is now comprised of women. Just over half of the membership reported that the employer paid all or most of their AACE dues. Almost 95% have an associate degree or higher. While the largest majority of the responding members have been in the cost and management profession for more than 20 years (39.8%), the largest two percentages of members have been a member for less than 2 years or 2‐5 years (36.0% and 29.9% respectively).
Almost 73% of the responding members indicated that AACE is their primary professional association. 60% reported annual income (in U.S. dollars) in 2009 in excess of $80,000. Almost 70% indicated they managed at least one other person. The largest majority of respondents, 68%, do not receive a financial incentive (salary increase or bonus) for earning AACE certification; however, 43.4% of the members responding hold at least one AACE certification designation. All results at http://www.aacei.org/aaceonly/membersOnly/2010_MembershipSurvey_Summary.pdf
• Enrollment in Online CCE/CCC Courses Growing. AACE's online series of courses to prepare for the Certification Exam as a Certified Cost Consultant / Certified Cost Engineer (CCC/CCE) now has professionals enrolled from 23 countries. The Web-based program is based on the content in Skills & Knowledge, 5th Edition. Information can be found at http://www.aacei.org/education/dl/courses/SK.shtml or by calling 800.858.COST (2678) or 1.304.296.8444. |
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North Florida AACEi is now on LinkedIn, the premiere networking site for professionals and businesses. Soon, we’ll also add our own discussion group for questions and idea-sharing. Don’t wait — click our LinkedIn page to get connected! |
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Dallas R. Lee, CCC, has worked as a cost engineer, controls engineer, estimator and scheduler for the past 30 years on various projects in the private and government sectors. He has been an AACEi member for over 25 years, serving as treasurer and director in the Las Vegas Section, and currently as a director for North Florida AACEi. |
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Dallas is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe with a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management. He also has special training in Primavera Project Planner, and is a Certified Cost Engineer through the AACEi International. He has contributed to the AACEi’s Total Cost Management (TCM) document, an internationally recognized set of professional cost engineering guidelines.
Currently employed at Siemens Energy in Orlando, Florida, Dallas’ long career includes experience as an estimator, project engineer, cost engineer, scheduler, project controls engineer, construction cost analysis, and chief cost engineer. He has worked on a variety of projects for large and small companies ranging from petro-chemical to shopping centers, hospitals, light commercial and government work.
During much of the time from 1986 through 2011, Dallas worked for various NASA-related companies at the Kennedy Space Center, including the United Space Alliance, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Space Gateway Support, and E G & G Florida, Inc. His responsibilities included Ground Support Equipment and Facilities, the NASA Constellation Program and NASA Facility Development.
Dallas’ contributions at NASA helped build the International Space Station with a fleet of space shuttles, as well as the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. While at NASA, he helped develop forensic cost estimating and analysis to document facility cost, and contributed to the NASA Cost Engineering Desk Reference manual.
In addition, Dallas worked for Bechtel and IBEX Group in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1998 through 2002 on the Yucca Mountain Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository Project.
A resident of Titusville, Florida, Dallas is married with three children. He is active in his church and supports the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Dallas also operates his own business as an independent dealer for Amsoil synthetic motor oil. |
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To find out more about these publications, visit: www.compassinternational.net/books. Ask about their latest newsletter that forecasts key economic metrics on ten of the world’s major countries; this data has a direct impact on future engineering and construction costs. |
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North Florida AACEi member William Sheerin (right) holds his CCTS Technical Achievement Award with Section CCTS Representative Joseph Brown at CCTS Engineers Week Banquet February 19, 2009. |
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Section Member William Sheerin Receives 2009 CCTS Technical Achievement Award
Congratulations to North Florida AACEi Section member and treasurer William C. Sheerin, CCE, for receiving the 2009 Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS) Technical Achievement Award. This is the 2nd year in a row that a North Florida AACEi Section member has won this important honor.
Presented at the recent CCTS Engineers Week Banquet at the Brevard Community College Planetarium in Cocoa, FL, this prestigious award recognizes outstanding technical accomplishments among CCTS’s 31 Space Coast area technical societies.
The award was given for Bill’s exceptional support and contributions to the field of cost engineering, especially his use and demonstration of advanced four-dimensional planning which combines three-dimensional CAD drawings with a schedule to view proposed construction on screen set against a timeline calendar. Bill is also the recent winner of North Florida AACEi’s “You’re a Star” Award.
“I appreciate being nominated by North Florida AACEi, and am very grateful to CCTS for this honor,” said Bill. After the banquet, attendees were treated to a view of the night’s sky through the Planetarium’s telescope. |
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North Florida AACEi member Susan B. Zimmerman CCE (middle) receives the AACEi Outstanding Woman in Project Controls Award from Val Venters CCC (left), Chair of Women in Project Controls Task Force, and Stephen B. Warhoe PE CCE CFCC (right), AACEi Past President, at the June 2009 AACEi Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. (Photo courtesy of AACE International.) |
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North Florida AACEi Section Member Susan B. Zimmerman, CCE Wins International Engineering Award (June 2009 AACEi Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA)
Susan B. Zimmerman, CCE, North Florida AACEi member and Cocoa, FL resident, has recently been awarded the 2009 Outstanding Woman in Project Controls Award by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International (AACEi).
The AACEi Outstanding Woman in Project Controls Award is presented annually for substantial contributions to the field of engineering and to the community, and for success in facing the challenges of being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field.
Currently Lead Cost Analyst of the Cost Analysis Department for EG&G Kennedy Space Center’s Construction Services Division, Susan has worked at Kennedy Space Center since the launch of the first Space Shuttle in 1981, supporting NASA in cost estimating and analysis.
Susan is Vice President-Administrative of the North Florida Section of the AACEi and was nominated by that Section for the award. She is also co-chair of the North Florida AACEi Scholarship Committee, which has benefited many students majoring in related engineering fields in local colleges and universities.
Our congratulations to Susan for this well-deserved honor. |
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North Florida AACEi hosts all regularly scheduled U.S/World AACEi certification exams. The current location is in Orlando, FL. Please contact info@nflaace.org for updates.
Below are the current upcoming exam dates and deadlines in which North Florida will participate as host. To register or for details, contact Penny Whoolery at the AACEi Certification Department, pwhoolery@aacei.org, or visit our Section Certification page.
· March 10, 2012 Early deadline 12/6/2011, final deadline 1/3/2012. · July 21st, 2012 Early deadline 4/11/2012, final deadline 5/9/2012. · December 8th, 2012 Early deadline 8/8/2012, final deadline 9/5/2012.
Attention all CCC/CCE exam candidates. NEW Technical Paper deadline! Your technical paper must be submitted to HQ by the final exam registration deadline. Please click here for more information. |
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New! Read about the North Florida AACEi 2011“You’re a Star” Award Winner here!
Send nominations for 2012 to staraward@nflaace.org. |
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North Florida AACEi board member Joseph A. Brown, CCE (left) receives the 2010 AACEi TCM Excellence Award from AACEi President Mark G. Grotefend, CCC at the 54th AACEi Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. In the background at the podium is Past President Stephen P. Warhoe, PE, CCE, CFCC. (Photo courtesy of AACE International.) |
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Section Board Member Joseph A. Brown, CCE Wins 2010 AACEi Total Cost Management (TCM) Excellence Award (June 2010, AACEi Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)
North Florida AACEi member Joseph A. Brown, CCE has recently been awarded the 2010 TCM Excellence Award by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International (AACEi).
The AACEi Total Cost Management (TCM) Excellence Award is presented annually as one of the Association’s top international awards. It was created by the AACEi Board of Directors in 1995 to recognize exemplary current service and contributions to the Association, and for substantial contributions to the field of engineering and to the community.
Currently President of Con$truction Co$t Con$ultant, Inc., Joe is a graduate of the University of Florida, with a B.B.C. degree. He has over 30 years of successful constructing, bidding, proposals, building, planning, programming, scheduling and cost engineering experience. He has prepared and reviewed construction cost estimates amounting to over $30 billion and has been a consultant to commercial, industrial and residential complex interests in several states, including work for the Walt Disney World Contemporary Resort Hotel.
Joe has successfully prepared estimates for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NASA and Air Force facilities; and has received the prestigious Astronauts’ Silver Snoopy for professional excellence and his contributions to the success of the manned space efforts. A true space pioneer, he has published numerous papers and books, including a new book to be published in July, and is an accomplished lecturer in 47 cost estimating seminars in 17 countries, on six continents. Joe, who is an AACEi Fellow, has been AACEi internationally certified since 1976. He has served on the board of the North Florida AACEi Section for many years, and has mentored numerous engineering students through basic education and career guidance.
Joe’s newest book, Construction, Cost Escalation, Engineering and Management, is due to be published by Xlibris before the end of this year.
“I’m certainly honored to receive this important AACEi award,” said Joe, “and the award ceremony was very special. I’d like to thank all those from North Florida AACEi and my other colleagues and friends who helped make this possible.”
Our sincerest congratulations to Joe for winning this prestigious and well-deserved international cost engineering award. |
