| JACK
BEACHAM, C.P.M., A.P.P.
Jack is the Purchasing Agent for Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas,
since January 1996. His public purchasing background includes working
as the Assistant Purchasing Agent for the City of Irving, the first
Purchasing Agent for the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,
and setting up purchasing department for the cities of Greenville,
Texas; Carrollton, Texas; and Farmington, New Mexico. Mr. Beacham
has been in public purchasing since 1971. He is a graduate of Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He is Past President
of the National Purchasing Institute and the Texas County Purchasing
Association, and in January 2008 became the first President of the
newly formed Texas Public Purchasing Association.
DAVID BOHANNON
David is the Director of Procurement and eCommerce for the North
East ISD. He has over seventeen (17) years in public education purchasing.
A graduate of Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, of 1986 with
a BBA degree.
JOE L. LOPEZ
Joe has a BBA degree from UT-Pan American University. He is currently
a school board member with South Texas ISD. He is a past board member
with Brownsville ISD for ten years, eight years with Valley Appraisal
District, three years with the Boys/Girls Club, and Legislative
Board of Region One. He is a financial consultant and is involved
in his family-owned grocery store chain.
MIGUEL A. SALDANA, JD
Mr. Saldana is currently the General Counsel for the Brownsville
Independent School District, serving in that capacity for the last
five years. Additionally, he currently serves in the same capacity
for the Point Isabel Independent School District. He recently joined
the law firm Walsh, Anderson, Brown, Schulze & Aldridge, P.C.
Mr. Saldana practices school litigation and litigates management
and business issues, and school employment issues. Mr. Saldana graduated
from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 with a Bachelors
of Business Administration with Honors. He graduated from the University
of Texas School of Law in 1988.
LAURA S. FOWLER
A partner in the Fowler Law firm, her practice areas include construction
litigation with an emphasis in public works and labor law, educational
facilities and telecommunications, public finance and real estate.
In 1976, Laura Fowler received a Bachelor of Arts from the University
of Central Florida at Orlando. Immediately thereafter she entered
Baylor Law School with a full scholarship and was recruited by the
U.S. Navy. In 1983, Ms. Fowler served as counsel to the Texas Commissioner
of Education.
CHERYL K. TURNEY, C.P.M.
Cheryl has worked in public purchasing for over 19 years, the last
10 years as the Purchasing Manager for the City of College Station.
She received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree from
Sam Houston State University in 1986 and her Certified Purchasing
Manager designation from ISM in 1994. She is currently the first
Vice-President of the new Texas Public Purchasing Association, a
board member of the Local Government Purchasing Cooperative, and
her local Better Business Bureau.
BETH FLEMING, C.P.M., A.P.P.
Beth D. Fleming has held the position of Director of Purchasing
for Denton County since 1992. Beth received her BBA from Texas Woman’s
University and has received lifetime C.P.M. and A.P.P. certifications.
She has served in many professional positions including HGAC Cooperative
Board, Past President for the Texas County Purchasing Association
(TCPA) and Past President for the National Purchasing Institute
(NPI).
FRANK YBARBO
Frank has been in local government since 1970. His employment tenures
include the City of Dallas, Dallas County, City of Arlington and
currently Collin County in McKinney, Texas. Frank has been the Purchasing
Agent with Collin County since July of 2001. Twenty-four years of
his government service has been in the purchasing and contracting
arenas. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University. Frank
is a Board Member of the new Texas Public Purchasing Association.
CAROL COOPER, C.P.M.
Carol has been in the purchasing profession for twenty-nine (29)
years. She has both public and private sector experience in a variety
of industries. Carol is the Director of Material management for
the City of Garland, Texas and Board Member of the Texas Pubic Purchasing
Association and the Collin County Governmental Purchasers Forum.
MARTIN V. BLAIR
Martin Blair serves the State of Texas as Manager of Procurement
Operations and Customer Service for the Texas Procurement and Support
Services Division, Comptroller of Public Accounts. His responsibilities
include oversight of the statewide procurement operations team,
including term contracts, Texas Multiple Award Schedules and open
market contracts, and inspection and quality assurance, Centralized
Master Bidders List, Vendor Performance and the Cooperative Purchasing
Program. He holds a Bachelors Degree from the University of Texas
at Austin.
KAY FOSTER, C.P.M.
Kay Foster, C.P.M., A.P.P. has over 20 years experience in public
purchasing. She is currently the purchasing Administration Manager
at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and , before that,
let the purchasing Division at the Trinity River Authority of Texas.
Kay has served on the National Purchasing Institute Board since
2001 and on the Boards of the Public Purchasing Association of North
Central Texas from 1998-2007, and Texas Public Purchasing Association.
Kay received her Bachelors degree in Business Administration from
Dallas Baptist University.
CYD GRIMES, C.P.M.
Ms. Grimes has been the Travis County Purchasing Agent since 1992.
Her office supervises the procurement of commodities, construction,
and professional services. She is the past President and Vice-President
of the Texas County Purchasing Association (TCPA). Ms. Grimes holds
a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Stephen F. Austin
State University.
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| RICKY
HERNANDEZ
Currently, he is a Program Director of a Federal Grant. He has served
in a variety of professional positions at a University, Community
College, School District, County and as a Board of Trustee with
a School District. He graduated with an MBA from Sul Ross State
University/Rio Grande College.
GILBERT JALOMO, CPPB
Gilbert is the Purchasing Agent for Fort Bend County and has been
with the County since 1985 where he started as the Assistant Purchasing
Agent in the newly formed department. He is past President of the
Texas County Purchasing Association.
CINDY
BECKER
Cindy is a partner with the Austin law firm of Birch, Becker &
Moorman, L.L.P. Her memberships include the State Bar of Texas (Construction
Law Section, current Construction Law Journal Editorial Board member),
Illinois State Bar, Austin Bar Association (Construction Law Section,
former Secretary), Austin Young Construction Lawyers (former Chair),
and the American Arbitration Association (Commercial Panel). Cindy
is a Dean’s list of graduate of the University of Texas School
of Architecture, a registered architect, and a former member of
the American Institute of Architects. Ms. Becker received her J.D.
degree (with honors) from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
CARLOS
CASCOS, CPA
Judge Carlos is the newly elected Cameron County Judge, but he is
still a partner at Patillo, Brown, & Hill, CPA’s an accounting
firm with eight (8) offices located in Texas and New Mexico. A Certified
Financial Manager and a member of the American College of Forensic
Examiners, Carlos is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
MARK
ROGERS, C.P.M.
Mark is the Director of Purchasing and Central Services, Austin
Independent School District. Prior positions include Director of
Materials Management for the University of New Mexico at Alburquerque
and Director of Purchasing and Support Services for Austin Community
College. Mr. Rogers has been in public purchasing since 1974. He
is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
PAM
PERKINS
Pam Perkins is an investigator/program specialist in the Consumer
Protection Division of the Texas Attorney General's Office where
she has worked since 1988. Pam graduated from Stephen F. Austin
State University and completed graduate work at Southwest Texas
State University. Pam has investigated and worked on numerous bid
rigging, price fixing, and related antitrust cases involving public
procurement issues, and teaches classes throughout the state on
issues and concerns with public entity purchasing.
ANNE
WHEELER, C.P.P.B.
Anne is the Director of Supply Management and Assistant Manager
of Corporate Services for Texas Guaranteed Student Loan in Round
Rock, Texas. Anne has spect 30 years in various forms of government
purchasing, starting at Houston Light & Power, then moving to
the City of Natchitoches La. as manager, then Manager of Purchasing
for Texas Commission for the Blind and Director of Purchasing for
Austin Community College.
NARITA
HOLMES, C.P.A.
A C.P.A. in the state of Texas since 1971, Narita Holmes served
as Ector County Purchasing Agent from 1987 until she retired in
2004. Previous employment includes three years with a bit-eight
accounting firm, and fifteen years as chief financial officer for
financial institutions. She has been an accounting instructor for
Odessa College and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin
and also taught a variety of management courses including Purchasing
Management. Narita speaks frequently on a variety of topics for
workshops, conferences and in-service training. A graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Accounting, she earned
an MBA in Management at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
Narita is a Board Member of the new Texas Public Purchasing Association.
MELITON
MOYA, Ph.D
PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder, December 1981. Major
in Clinical Psychology, Minor; Social Psychology, BA from Pan American
University. Dr. Moya has extensive experience in working with psychological
arrangements, teaching psychology at the University level both undergraduate
and graduate courses. He is the founder of “The Process Manager”
specializing in educational management solutions.
WILLIAM
(BILL) RUSTEBERG
Bill is an independent insurance agent; he is currently the Employee
Benefits Consultant for numerous governmental entities. He has over
28 years of experience in the insurance industry. Bill also holds
a license in Risk Management (among others) issued by the Texas
Department of Insurance with reciprocal licenses in Illinois, Alabama,
and Colorado.
STEVE
FISHER
Steve is currently the Program Manager for TASB’s Texas Local
Government Statewide Purchasing Cooperative (BuyBoard). Mr. Fisher
has spent the last 17 years working with various governmental entities
throughout Texas. He also spent 6 years working with the TASB as
Assistant Director of District Services responsible for the statewide
marketing of the Associations programs and services.
PAUL
J. CALAPA
Purchasing & Contracts Administrator for the City of San Antonio.
Also has 34 years of experience in Purchasing and Business Administration
in the public and private sector. Appointed by then Governor George
Bush to the Texas Council on Purchasing From Persons with Disabilities.
Graduated from UT-Austin in 1974. He is currently a member of the
HGAC Cooperative Purchasing End User Advisory Committee, and a charter
member of TxPPA.
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