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About Us
Bonnie Handy has been self-employed since the
beginning of 1999, after taking a couple of months off for her first
"retirement." She currently has several clients who keep her busy
doing a variety of things including project management, employee research,
departmental finance support, website maintenance and presentation
development.
Prior to working for herself, Bonnie was
employed by MCI (pre-WorldCom) as an Executive Manager in Corporate
Communications. Over the 12+ years she worked for MCI, Bonnie was in a number of
different Marketing, Sales and Communications organizations as the company
re-organized, merged, and right-sized. During her tenure, she played active
roles in policy development and implementation, budget planning and management,
information management, employee communications, customer support, project
assessment and management, and business analysis.
Before starting at MCI, Bonnie graduated from
Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She
completed a Masters of Science in Management in the Spring of 2002 and is
currently pursuing a dual degree MBA from UMUC.
Bonnie currently resides in
Atlanta, Georgia, where she has lived since 1991. An East coaster by birth, she
grew up in the Midwest and misses the winter snows. She has two furkids, both
Dalmatians. Her "girls" as she calls them, are both rescues and
provide an inordinate amount of entertainment as they play tug-of-war, run
around the house, chase balls, or just want pets and hugs.
When she's not studying,
working or playing with her furkids, Bonnie likes to read, play games, spend
time with her niece in Tulsa and of course she loves to watch tv. An admitted
tvaholic, Bonnie is the person to ask if you want an update on the latest
episode of West Wing, CSI, Buffy, etc. Bonnie is also an admitted cutting edge
technology junky although she often can't afford the latest gadgets. Typically
up on the latest trends, she herself is attached to her combo cell / pda and as
a tv addict, had two Tivos before most of her friends knew what one was let
alone had a Tivo.
Contact
Information:
(H)
770.458.2766
(C) 404.274.1366
(E) bonnie.handy@mindspring.com
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Christopher (Chris) Lim is
currently a Grants Management Specialist with the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA). His primary responsibilities include coordinating review
meetings of grants applications from not-for-profit health-related organizations
as well as overseeing the processing of these grants applications.
Concurrently, Chris holds
a part-time position as an Associate Director of the Adult Health and
Development Program (AHDP) at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP),
which is an undergraduate course and community service-learning program that
introduces elderly, developmentally challenged, Spanish-speaking, and veteran
members of the College Park community with undergraduate students/volunteers
Previously Chris worked as
an Environmental Health Specialist/Investigator for the Montgomery County Dept.
of Health and Human Services. He conducted health inspections of nursing homes,
assisted living institutions, food service facilities, and swimming pools as
well as investigations of food-borne illnesses linked to food service facilities
throughout the County.
Chris graduated from the
University of Maryland College Park with undergraduate degrees in Hearing &
Speech Sciences and General Biology (in 1997 & 1998). He is currently a dual
degree MSM/MBA candidate with his MSM in Health Care Administration as earned
back December 2001 and hopefully his MBA by February 2003.
In his spare time, Chris
enjoys volunteering in the community, being a Terrapin, spending time with his
family and friends, traveling, enjoying the outdoors as much as he can, and
living in Montgomery County, MD (where he was raised). He loves Italian food
and Chinese food. He can’t stand to miss an episode of “Buffy….”, “Mutant X”,
“Charmed”, “Friends”, “ER,” “Will & Grace”, and the “Law & Order” franchises.
Contact
Information:
(H)
301.570.3924
(W) 301.443.4248
(C) 301.467.6794
(E) mistachris@excite.com
or clim@hrsa.gov
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Dayna McKnight is an Accreditation Manager with
the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a non-profit organization
that assesses the quality of health care organizations. Her primary
responsibilities include working as a liaison between my organization and health
plans that are preparing for NCQA's accreditation surveys. She spends a great
deal of time traveling to different health plans to actually evaluate them
against our standards.
Before joining NCQA, Dayna enjoyed a brief stint
at an Alexandra patent law firm, while she was entertaining the thought of going
to law school. She received her B.S. in Business Administration (Marketing) from
Frostburg State University in 1996 and completed her M.S. in Management, with a
concentration in health care, last December at University of Maryland University
College (UMUC). Dayna is currently taking her last class in UMUC's dual degree
MBA program.
Dayna currently resides in Manassass, Virginia,
a suburb of Washington D.C. She was raised in Maryland, but made the move across
the bridge a few years ago. Dayna is married with two small boys ages two and
seven. Like Bonnie, Dayna is an admitted tvaholic and favorite shows include any
movie on Lifetime, CSI, ER, Alias, and the Practice. In her spare time, she also
enjoys reading, participating in church activities, and spending quality time
with her family.
Contact
Information:
(H)
703.580.9657
(W) 202.955.5148
(C) 301.908.0744
(E) mcknight@ncqa.org
or daynamcknight@hotmail.com
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Miriam "Penny" Milsom
is a Human Resources Manager in charge of Compensation, Benefits, and HRIS for
the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC). She currently oversees the
Pension Plan, 457 Plan, Health, Vision and Dental Plans, Short Term Disability
Plan, the Compensation Plan, the Performance Appraisal System, and the HRIS
system.
Penny began her first
career after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Education with a minor in
mathematics. She taught for a few years and then decided she would be more
challenged as a librarian. Heading back to school, Penny earned a Masters of
Library Science. During her search for a library position, she landed a job
utilizing her mathematics with a Human Resources Consultant Group. Conducting,
analyzing and presenting salary and benefit surveys she discovered a second
career. After receiving a Human Resources certification specializing in
Compensation (CCP) she began working for Provident Bank of Maryland as a
Compensation Professional.
After accepting the position at HABC, Penny
began her acquisition of a Master of Science in Management with a Human
Resources concentration at UMUC. A true believe of lifetime learning, Penny is
now pursuing her dual degree MBA.
Penny firmly believes in the value of family,
and dedicates the weekends to her husband, their six grown children, two
in-laws, and three grandchildren. There is also a granddaughter on the way, and
two four legged members, an adorable puppy and a snooty
cat.
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Pamela (Pam) Stokes received her undergraduate
degree in criminology. She her a Masters of Science in Management with a
concentration in Interdisciplinary Studies from UMUC. Due to some cajoling from
her academic counselor Pam decided to complete the dual degree program at UMUC
obtaining her MBA as well.
Pam recently started a new job position as a
Treatment / Criminal Justice Evaluator. This entails, as of right now,
evaluating data and programmatic information for substance abuse programs that
her company, Washington / Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (W/B
HIDTA) funds. Pam started the position in the latter part of October, 2002,
and so far finds it to be very interesting. Prior to this latest role, Pam
worked as an analyst researching alcohol and other drug (AOD) programs and
initiatives.
In her spare time (when she has any), Pam likes
to read novels, visit museums, and relax with a glass of merlot, in a bubble
bath surrounded by candles.
Pam's excited and looking forward to researching
India, China and Staples as she works on the Team project.
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Joel Vilmenay was named General Sales Manager at
WZZM-TV in July 2001. In this
capacity, he is responsible for leading all national and local sales efforts on
behalf of the Grand Rapids, MI ABC Affiliate. Joel came to WZZM-TV from
W*USA-TV, the Gannett-owned CBS Affiliate in Washington, DC, where he led a team
of seven Account Executives and a three-member Integrated Marketing unit, as the
Local Sales Manager. In 1996, Joel joined W*USA-TV as National Sales Manager,
and was responsible for guiding W*USA-TV’s sales strategy through 19 regional
sales offices from New York to Los Angeles.
Prior to that, Joel
worked at Blair Television / New York as an Account Executive, where he
negotiated sales on behalf of nine network television affiliates across the
country. His television sales
career began in 1992 at W*USA-TV as a local sales Account Executive. He was the
recipient of the first Circle of 9 Award for Outstanding Performance in Sales
and Marketing.
Joel began his
broadcast career as an Account Executive with WWWZ-FM in Charleston, SC, before
joining ABC-owned WMAL-AM in Washington, DC.
Joel is a 1990
graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, where he received a B.A.
in Radio, Television and Film. He
also holds a Masters of Science degree in Management with a concentration in
Financial Management from the University of Maryland University College. Joel
was named one of four National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation
Fellows in 2001.
Contact
Information:
(H) 616.774.3919
(W) 616.559.1380
(C) 616.481.9914
(E) jvilmenay@aol.com
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