PMI Nashville

Jennifer Schenck is a Senior Manager with The North Highland Company. She holds an MBA from Belmont University and a BS from the University of Tennessee. Jennifer has been involved with the Nashville PMI Chapter for over 5 years, and headed up the Nashville PMI Symposium team in 2009. She has served as the VP of Marketing and Publicity, the VP of Finance and President Elect on the PMI Board. Jennifer serves on the Board of Directors for the Patricia Hart Society of United Way, Williamson County. Jennifer is a member of the Nashville Symphony Association and is also a Docent for the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Elise Hudson began her career in technical support, and she naturally migrated into to project management because of her drive for organization and building teams. In 2006, she earned her PMP certification, and in 2011, she completed her Master of Public Affairs. Some of Elise’s specialties are implementing project management processes where none formally exist, change management, and reviving failing projects. One significant career highlight was Elise’s management of a 6- month project supporting scientists at McMurdo Station research base in Antarctica. She intends to visit all 7 continents in her lifetime (especially since the hard one is already checked off).

Chip Nuttall has 15 years of experience in operations and project management. He joined PMI and the Nashville Chapter in 2003 and has served on the Board for the past five years. As Director of IS Planning & Project Management at Genesco, he delivers projects with concurrent technology, process, and resource impacts. Along the way, Chip pays special attention to developing internal leadership. Before joining Genesco, Chip managed projects in healthcare, finance, and retail, directed hotel technology development, and spent several years in hospitality management. Most recently, he spent three years as a Senior Consultant with C3 Consulting. Chip is a Vanderbilt graduate and participates in executive leadership development through the Scarlett Leadership Institute. Chip lives in Brentwood with his wife Alice and their two dogs, Felicity and Annie Oakley.

James Mitchell has been a project manager for over 19 years, including 5 at HCA, and has worked at Comdata for the past year. Previously, he was a project manager at Central Parking, GEIS and Arnold Engineering Development Center. He has been PMI Nashville’s VP of Education for the past year, and served 2-year terms each as VP of Programs and Newsletter Director. He co- chaired the 2011 Symposium, and has volunteered for the chapter now for over 5 years.

Lindsay Morris is employed as a Supply Chain Project Manager by Genesco Inc., and has been there since June of 2009. Lindsay is also a 2009 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with her Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems and Masters of Business Administration degrees, both specializing in Project Management.

Lucie Hayward is a CISSP and PMP certified project manager with over ten years of experience in project management and consulting. She has managed software development projects for companies such as Target, Hershey’s, and GMCR. She is currently a Project Manager for Kroll Fraud Solutions in Nashville. Originally from Minnesota, she has an MBA from the University of St Thomas and a BA from the University of St. Catherine

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A graduate of Rice University, Suzanne Angele has worked on the Symposium team for the last four years including acting as Education chair for 2011. She currently serves as PMO Manager at Permanent General.

Over the past 2 years, Thom Hisscock served as the Director of Class Proctors for the PMI Nashville Chapter and is enthusiastic about the potential to serve on the Board. He has 11 years of Portfolio, Program and Project Management experience and an additional 10 years of valuable Service and Marketing experience in Healthcare, Retail, and Automotive industries. He currently serves as the Innovations Portfolio and Program Manager at Healthways. In addition, since joining Healthways in Jan 2006, he has been instrumental in the planning and execution of Strategic Initiatives as well as the initial forming of the Enterprise PMO.

Ryan Tabor is a Senior Consultant with C3 Consulting, where he provides strategic leadership to companies going though significant growth or change across an array of industries. He has managed teams ranging from two to twenty in the execution of dozens of projects spanning from a simple website to the deployment of enterprise-wide applications. Ryan is able to independently establish priorities, evaluate complex business and technical scenarios, handle a variety of multiple projects simultaneously, and perform exceedingly well under pressure. He holds a BS in Management Information Systems and is PMP certified.