President

Connie Pierson, SPHR
Progressive Insurance

president@csshrm.org

 Connie Pierson has 15 years of HR experience and keeps her SPHR current.

 She has been on the CSSHRM board since March 2009 as the Director of the Ambassador Program, Membership Chair, and now as the VP/President Elect.

 Connie has been with Progressive Insurance as an HR Consultant in the contact center for the last 4 years. Prior to this, she worked as an HR Manager/Consultant for The Personnel Department with employees in 38 states. Her specialty is employment law and employee relations.

She enjoys reading case law, swimming, hiking and over all fitness.

Vice President/President-Elect

Programs

Liz Biewen Wilson

Wilson Foxen LLC

vp@csshrm.org

Liz  Wilson holds an SPHR. She received her MBA from the University of Florida and her BA from Purdue University.  She started her career with and spent over 12 years with the Walt Disney Company in Florida and California where her speciality was on-boarding, cultural assimilation, and HR business partner functions. She has also worked in higher education and government contracting.   Liz’s current portfolio includes organization change management (OCM), military transition, facilitation and organization assessments. Her HR expertise is rooted in strategic HR: organization development, executive & management coaching, and T&D leadership roles.  Liz is a Qualified MBTI Facilitator and was certified by the National Veteran’s Training Institute as a Transition Assistance Program (TAP) trainer. Her most recent SPHR recertification was in 2008. Liz has attended SHRM Annual Conferences in Washington, DC and San Diego. 

Vice President, Membership

Art Hayes, SPHR

ComCor, Inc.

Lauri Dennis

secretary@csshrm.org

Treasurer (in transition)

Registration (in transition)

Liz Aragon, PHR

ComCor, Inc.

treasurer@csshrm.org

treasurer@csshrm.org

registration@csshrm.org

 Liz Aragon joined CSSHRM back in 1999 as part of the membership team.  She has been on the CSSHRM Board the whole time moving from Membership to Treasurer, to Vice President and then President.  In 2010 when she moved from the President's role she took on the role of Website Chair. 

 Liz has worked at ComCor as the Human Resources Manager since 1998 and prior to that worked in the HR field with AAFES.

 Liz Received her BS/BA in Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resources in 2002.  She obtained her PHR in 2004.

Military Outreach (new position, 2011-2012)

Volunteer Coordinator

Ann Wortman, PHR
USAF Academy

ann.wortman@usafa.af.mil

Public Relations

Marketing

Communication

Open

pr@csshrmm.org

Student Liaison

Terry Huskins

students@csshrm.org

HRCI Certification

Becky Strickland
Human Resource Matters
certification@csshrm.org

 Becky Strickland, SPHR  has worked in the field of Human Resources for 20 years.   Becky has a strong background in recruitment, employee relations and training.  In March of 2007 she joined Time Warner Cable as a Human Resources Manager for the customer contact center.  Prior to joining TWC  she has worked in telecommunications with Sprint and T-Mobile in Human Resource Management positions.   Becky has also worked as a college instructor for CNM community college as a instructor of Human Resource Management, and in recruitment positions for PANTEX and Presbyterian Healthcare Systems.   Becky holds a MBA from Colorado State University from Fort Collins and a BBA and BS degree from New Mexico State University.  She has lifetime certification as a SPHR through the Human Resource Certification Institute.   Her professional accomplishments include being an item writer for HRCI for the PHR/SPHR test from 2005-2007,  SHRM Special Expertise Panel Member for Staffing and Workforce Readiness 2005-2008,  SHRM Human Resource Technology Special Expertise Panel Member 2001-2003 and currently serves on the National Task Force for Job Descriptions for SHRM.    She has held numerous volunteer leadership positions with local SHRM chapters in New Mexico and is excited to serve the CSSHRM chapter in the HRCI leadership capacity this year.

Legislative & Government Affairs

Linda Sommer

legislative@csshrm.org

Diversity Chair

Yolanda Adrian

diversity@cssshrm.org

Workforce Readiness

Kathy Vincent

workforce@csshrm.org