May 6, 2013, MADISON, Wis. – The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) announced winners of three awards during the association’s 2013 Executive Conference in St. Pete Beach, Fla..
Jeff Miller, PMP, director of project management at Interstates Control Systems Inc., Sioux Center, Iowa, U.S., was awarded the Charlie Bergman Award. The award recognizes an individual member for outstanding service to the organization through leadership, education, mentoring and advancement of CSIA’s goals.
Miller has served on the Best Practices and Benchmarks Committee for 12 years, including four years as chair. During his time as chair, the committee released the fourth major revision of the CSIA Best Practices and Benchmarks Manual and made the manual available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. “Everyone on the committee has day jobs, customers and urgent commitments, yet Jeff manages to shine through and remain the consistent force that holds all of us together,” according to Laurens VanPagee, JMP Engineering, one of the people who nominated Miller. “Jeff presents at the conferences, helps mentor new members, contributes to the online community, and shares his templates and best practices.
It is people like Jeff that consistently help push the CSIA to new levels.”
Randall Powell, engineering manager, General Control Systems Inc., Green Island, N.Y., U.S. was named CSIA Rising Star.
The award recognizes young professionals who have demonstrated a commitment to the profession and exhibited leadership potential. “Randy has been instrumental in the implementation of standards which have significantly benefited our integration business. Over the past two years Randy has been involved deeply with the streamlining of procedures and best practices that are enabling us to commit to CSIA Certification by year’s end. Without his enthusiasm, help and commitment, there is little way we would have attained our recent growth amid pending economic and regional issues,” said Clay Robinson, president of General Control Systems. MatrikonOPC, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, received the Partner of the Year Award.
The award recognizes a company that has significantly contributed to the betterment of CSIA and its members and promoted CSIA certification. Candice Ducharme, global channel program manager, MatrikonOPC, has been an active member of the association’s partner committee and instrumental in developing membership in Latin America. “Candice has been instrumental in developing a strategy for the global growth of CSIA, with a particular interest in serving the needs of system integrators in Latin America,” said CSIA Executive Director Bob Lowe. “We are indebted to Candice and Matrikon for translating CSIA information into Portuguese for access by Brazilian system integrators.”
About CSIA
Founded in 1994, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) is a not-for-profit, global professional association that seeks to advance the industry of control system integration. Control system integrators use their engineering, technical and business skills to help manufacturers and others automate their industrial equipment and systems. CSIA members provide a range of services in dozens of industries. Headquartered in Madison, Wis., CSIA is the “go-to” resource for control system integration.
CSIA helps members improve their business skills, provides a forum to share industry expertise, and promotes the benefits of hiring a certified control system integrator. CSIA has more than 400 members in 27 countries.