Get involved and make a difference: Join one of CSIA's Committees
For additional information about CSIA committees and how to get involved, contact the CSIA Executive Director.
Best Practices Committee
Chairman: Jeff Miller, Interstates Control Systems, Sioux Center, IA
Mission: To attract industry leaders to actively participate and contribute towards the advancements and adoption of best business and technical practices. The committee actively leverages and adopts existing best practices whenever possible and when not, creates them and shares them with fellow CSIA members. The committee work to provide fellow CSIA members information in a format that is easily accessible and further works to provide training to facilitate understanding and acceptance. All activities support the CSIA Mission Statement.
Partner Committee Chairman: Sam Hoff, Patti Engineering, Inc, Auburn Hills, MI
Mission: To maximize input of partner members to CSIA goals including membership growth, certification, and end-user marketing. Promote tenants of best practices.
Insurance Committee Chairman: Brian Beaufeaux, Industrial Automation Engineering, Inc, Ham Lake, MN
Mission: To promote appropriate insurance for the CSI industry and promote the benefit to prospects and members. Evaluate captive insurance model for CSIA to provide the most cost-effective insurance for the industry.
International Committee Chairman: Eduardo Acosta, Omnicon S.A., Cali, Valle, Colombia
Mission: International Advisory Committees are devoted to advancing the strategic objectives and goals of CSIA in their country or region. Recognizing that experiencing all the benefits of membership may not be possible for members when they are located at a distance from North America, the committee will act “locally” when necessary on behalf of the association. However, the desire of CSIA is to keep all members united. Unity will enable a full and rich learning experience for all members regardless of location in the world.
Marketing Committee Chairman: Tom Walther ESE Inc, Marshfield, WI
Mission: To provide outreach to the media and related trade publications in order to continuously market system integration and CSIA. Develop ideas, collateral and programs to educate CSIA membership's client base about the CSIA organization and the value to them of using CSIA Certified Members. Target audiences are members, prospects, partners and end-users. A full PR plan is developed annually and implemented by staff. The executive council is currently the main "go to" group, and the committee hopes to develop this over time to include much broader representation of members. All PR/marketing collaterals are housed on the CSIA Web site and promoted on an ongoing basis.
Membership Committee Chairman: Joseph Martin, Martin Control Systems, Dublin, OH
Mission: To retain and grow CSIA membership in the U.S. and internationally.
Nominating Committee Chairman: Ed Diehl, Concept Systems, Inc., Albany, OR
Mission: To develop and grow volunteer leaders within CSIA. Identify needs and cultivate leaders in various roles - speakers, panelist, committee or task force member, executive council leadership.
Program Committee Chairman: Bob Lowe, CSIA Executive Director
Mission: To work with the Executive Council to develop a theme, speakers and block chairman for the annual Executive Conference.
Statistics Committee Chairman: PC Romano, Avid Solutions, Winston, Salem, NC
Mission: To gather data to benchmark other system integrators - done annually with an outside firm.
Web 2.0 Task Force
Chairman: Ed Diehl, Concept Systems, Inc., Albany, OR
Mission: To develop a social networking long-range plan for CSIA and identify the best platform to accomplish goals. Provide content and ideas on an ongoing basis. Includes representation from all CSIA committees.
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