To: Region 3 Committee
Fr: Lee Stogner, IEEE Past Director, Region 3
Cc: Region 3 ExCom
Sb: Past Director’s report to Region 3 Committee
Dt: 18 March 2012

My 2010 - 2011 Region 3 Directorship ended this past December 31.  I want
to thank everyone for their support over the past two years.  During those
years, Region 3 went through the peak of the Recession.  Many of our fellow
members were laid off.  Too many are still unemployed and are still faced
with how to manage a career change that was not on their schedule.  As a
response, we launched a two year effort to train volunteers in every Region
3 Section to become part of the Region 3 Employment Assistance Team.  We
also organized online resources and conducted a series of person to person
workshops and web casts to ensure that every Region 3 member had access to
our support network.

We are not out of the full Recession by any means.  In 2012, Ed Kirchner
leads our career and employment assistance efforts in Region 3.  Please let
him know if you need help and he will assemble the team (I'm still
involved) and we will respond.  One activity you can do locally is to
establish a Jobs Board.  The Section Jobs Board is a volunteer with the
time, connections and personality to collect and share job openings within
the Section.  Please try to find that person.  We will train, support and
keep that person motivated.

One role that I started during my tenure as Region 3 Director was Co-Chair
of the 2012 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference that was held in
Greenville, SC on March 4-8.  That conference just ended with 646 very
senior international registrants.  This conference was a forum that brought
together the experts from around the world that will be pushing electric
transportation from a few thousand vehicles on the road to the millions of
vehicles that will be required in just a few years.  For more information,
please visit our web site at,

https://electricvehicle.ieee.org

Shortly we will post videos of our Plenary Sessions for you to learn more
about clean, efficient and connected transportation systems.  But the
conference doesn't just stop.  With the approval of the IEEE Board of
Directors, we are starting the IEEE Electric Vehicle Initiative that will
be a multi year effort to organize the world wide electric vehicle
resources of the IEEE such that we can help accelerate the change to
electrified transportation.

As a Past Director, I also wear the hat of Nominations & Appointments.
Starting in 2012, we have expanded the team that will be involved in the
process.  Our goal has been to achieve “diversity of perspective” in the
operations of the N&A.  We are doing this by,

 - The GOLD Chair has been added to the committee.

 - Engaging Area Chairs and Section Chairs directly in the nominations
process should aid in increasing the number of nominations.

 - Review and revise the calendar of events and dependencies for clarity
and completeness.

- Introduce additional requirements for candidate documentation
(biographical information, position statement).

- Develop and document a process for handling the Bylaw requirement for
“nominations from the floor” by the ExCom.

Our expectation is that all of these changes will enable every member of
Region 3 to fully participate in the process of selecting our leaders for
the future.

I have also volunteered to create a Director's Manual for Region 3.  My
goal in creating this manual is to bring more Project Management concepts
into the position to ensure that future Directors will benefit from the
Best Practices that were developed by the Directors that came before.

Sincerely,

Lee Stogner, PMP
Past Director, Region 3
Co-Chair IEEE Electric Vehicle Initiative
Member, IEEE Public Visibility Committee
Chair, IEEE-USA Membership Development Committee

864-360-9415
l.stogner@ieee.org