Harry's goal as the Vice President of Community Relations is to serve you by building a stronger sense of community for portfolio, program, and project managers and all who we touch as practitioners. He believes that our community includes those of us who practice our craft, the businesses that we serve, the academic community that will create our next generation of leaders, and the community organizations that enrich our everyday lives.

As a strategic thinker and executive manager with over 30 years of experience, Harry has the knowledge and expertise to develop sound, practical, and sustainable programs for our membership, but this can neither be done in a vacuum nor without involvement by you. He would like to encourage you to get involved in shaping the destiny of our chapter by helping to define and deliver programs that will enable all to learn, share, network, and above all have some fun.

You can do this by contacting the Community Relations office at vpcr@pmi-sfbac.org.

Athens comes from Event Planning and Retail Management, has a Bachelors in Marketing and a Masters in Project Management. Bringing her Customer Service expertise to the Professional Development role, she develops educational offerings which address the needs of PMI-SFBAC’s Member/Owners.

Her current focus is on promoting a balance between technical skills and soft skills, using both to deliver satisfying project results. Athens is an Emotional Intelligence Skills Assessment facilitator as well as a PMP Exam Prep instructor.

She has an enthusiastic energy and passion for achieving growth both for herself and for others. And above all, she believes we should have fun while we’re busy getting things accomplished!

Alan is a management and governance consultant, and instructor, with over 25 years of professional experience. Alan's not-for-profit governance service roles include President, President-Elect, and Director of Finance serving PMI-Honolulu; Community Involvement Lead serving PMI-Global Diversity Community of Practice; Treasurer, Board of Directors serving the Life Foundation, an HIV/AIDS services agency; Secretary, Board of Directors serving the International Institute of Business Analysis – Hawaii; and, Business & Community Partner, National Educator Program Alliance. Alan is a member of the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class – 2011 North America. Alan has been a member of PMI since 1997.  Alan like to hike, go to the gym, and has not owned a television since 2002.
 

Ray is passionate about project management and has been an active contributor of PMI since 1987, attaining his PMP #560. As a senior level practitioner with over 25 years of experience he has applied these skills leading local, national and global teams for AT&T, Wells Fargo, Sun Microsystems, City of Oakland, Cisco, Chiron, Perot Systems, CSAA, CompuMentor, Gilead and now at California Pacific Medical Center. He also serves as VP of Programs for the Diversity SIG and is a member of the Taiwan and Honolulu PMI Chapters.
Born, raised and still living in San Francisco, Ray continues to support the community as a volunteer to the United States Tennis Association and as an instructor at the University of California Berkeley Extension, Project Management Certificate Program. He also enjoys telling his project management stories to international conference audiences or while sharing a plate of Siena Pici pasta or a cup of Hangzhou Dragon Well tea. His philosophy on life is simple, “apply a balance of art and science to forge long term relationships for nurturing and growing social and professional networks.
 

Elaine Law has over 14 years of experience managing large application, infrastructure, and process development/improvement projects for company such as McKesson Drug Company, Chiron Corporation, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, and Robert Half International. She has managed projects from $6 million dollars and programs over $33 million dollars. She has successful project experience in GXP environments as well as software development including process development, business analytics, procurement, resource management and PMO development.

Elaine's most recent endevours center around teaching and coaching in Agile and Project Management. Elaine earned her bachelor’s degree in Medicinal Chemistry from University of the Pacific as well as her PM certificate from UC Berkeley Extension. In addition to her CSM and PMP professional certifications, she is also the CFO of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Project Management Institute.

Elaine's favorite hobbies are classic cars, dogs and gourmet food.