PARMA Member Spotlight Meet Steven Schwartz, CSP Risk Manager, City of Fremont Tell me about how you became a risk manager? My path to risk management has been circuitous at best. I started my career as a robotics engineer working in Silicon Valley. After several years of robotics work, I was given an opportunity to transition into the role of a corporate environmental/ safety engineer. I found the area of safety engineering rewarding and after a couple years I accepted a job in the Pacific Northwest as a safety officer for a large park district which included overseeing two wildlife parks

PARMA is excited to announce a new series of no cost webinars related to various aspects of managing COVID-19. The series titled COVID Conversations will be presented by "subject matter" experts. Each Conversation will include a 45-minute presentation with Q&A to follow. You won't want to miss these engaging, thought provoking conversations. Watch for email notices with registration links coming soon! Visit our events calendar for more specific information for each webinar as it becomes available. Date: August 20, 2020 Time 11:00am Subject: Facility Considerations This session will address how

Description With many states and localities introducing phased reopening plans, employers are preparing to return to normal business operations. But "normal" may not be a reality for some time. So how do you operate a business effectively while ensuring the safety of your employees and clients? And how do you mitigate exposure for everyone else if someone in the workspace is exposed? In this complimentary webinar, we will review best practices for reopening and how to reduce potential risks associated with COVID-19 transmission. Attendees will learn: Federally-recommended guidelines for

PARMA Member Spotlight Meet DeAnna Soria, Risk Manager, City of Huntington Beach Tell me about how you became a risk manager? I started working in a claims office (Kemper Insurance) years ago, in National Accounts, as a transcriber. Imagine that! I stayed with this insurance company (which eventually sold off their products and became a TPA) for 16 years, - and by the end of my tenure there I had promoted to Business Development. After exposure to all facets of claims, underwriting, and marketing with this TPA I left the claims arena and went to work for a national healthcare company (St

PARMA Member Spotlight Meet Carrie Willson, Staff Risk Manager, State of California Tell me about how you became a risk manager? After my good friend tried to recruit me to a small managing general agency/surplus lines broker for about a year, I finally took her up on her offer. I left the hectic restaurant business thankful for the 9-5 business hours and holidays! I started as a file clerk, and I found myself very interested in the insurance industry. From there, I started volunteering for other job duties that lead to working 16 of my 17 years at this agency, identifying and analyzing risk

PARMA Member Spot Light Meet Diane Caminite, CPCU, ARM Tell me about how you became a risk manager? I came to the risk management field the way many do – unintentionally. I was originally planning to go into nursing and began my education with that focus. Since I needed to work my way through college, I had also decided it would be a good idea to get a job in healthcare. I ended up getting an administrative job in the risk management department with a local hospital group. I had no idea what risk management was and ended up being exposed to insurance, risk mitigation, risk financing as well as

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Meet Tony Giles, CPCU, ARM-P PARMA Member Spot Light Tell me about how you became a risk manager? Like most of my risk management colleagues, I came to risk management almost entirely by accident. More generously, I suppose we could say that fate intervened. I worked for the County of Santa Clara for several years in a variety of roles – most of them administrative. I accepted a job as the Senior Management Analyst for the County’s Director of Risk Management. At first, I saw my role as supporting the Director but not really doing risk management. After several years, I started taking on more

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PARMA 2020, The Art of Risk To submit a session for consideration for PARMA's 2020 Annual Risk Management Conference, The Art of Risk, please complete this form and then click the Submit Button at the bottom. You will receive a copy of your submission sent to the email address you provide below. If you do not receive a copy of your submission, the session did not get submitted correctly. The submission deadline is April 1, 2019. Note: PARMA does not pay speaker fees. Do not submit sessions where the speaker requires or requests a fee. Selected presenters receive complemenatry conferece