Board of Directors

Karen Tilley, PMP®

President

tilley Karen Tilley began her career in Information Technology, spending five (5) years as a software developer and six (6) years as a technical team leader in the airline industry. In 1995, she became a Project Manager; and in 1998, she joined the US Airways Program Office as a consultant to the largest airline system conversion migration in airline history. She earned her PMP certification on September 14, 2001, just 3 days after the 9/11 tragedy. She came to South Carolina in 2003, when she joined the TRICARE division of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Project Office.

Ms. Tilley previously held the position of Vice President of Marketing for the South Carolina PMI Midlands Chapter where she implemented several volunteer opportunities for the Chapter members.

In 2010 the board of directors approved naming the Chapter's volunteer program The Edwin R. Brenegar, Jr. Partnership for the Promotion of Project Management in the Nonprofit Community. This name honors Karen's stepfather, who served in multiple capacities in the nonprofit sector in his 85 years, and who was as Tom Brokaw wrote of them, a member of the Greatest Generation. "Mr. B.'s" involvement in his community, and the discussions they shared, constituted Karen's first partnership in sharing Project Management methodologies pro bono.

Ms. Tilley holds a BS degree in Management of Information Systems from Gardner-Webb University. She also holds a Masters Certificate in Project Management from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management of Information Technology from Furman University.

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Angie Pantages, PMP®

Past President/Chair

Angie Pantages currently works in the Information Technology Medicare Project Management Office at BlueCross BlueShield South Carolina. Angie has over 10 years of information technology experience as well as 13 years of management experience. She has worked in various industries including retail, shipping, energy and healthcare.

Angie has her Masters in the Management of Information Technology at Bellevue University. She graduated from Marietta College with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and is a Project Management Professional with PMI.

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Cynthia Woodrow, PMP®

President-Elect

Professional Biography

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Barbara Gelberd, PMP®

Vice-President of Membership

Mrs. Gelberd has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare operations management, organizational design and development, governance, process improvement, internal and external consulting, sales and business development.

She has been a Senior Project Manager with Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC), since 2009 working on various national Veterans Administration projects. Projects include designing and executing a plan for Infrastructure Business Requirements necessary to consolidate North Chicago VA Medical Center and Great Lakes Naval Hospital and Clinic into one facility, program support for Office of Information Technology’s (OIT) Applications – Service Line Management (A-SLM) Team, providing project management to the SDE PAO InterAgency team on the development of an integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) for the DoD and VA. She has successfully managed multiple cutting edge “start up” and “turn around” healthcare scenarios and brings acquired, hands-on knowledge of leadership and proven communication skills to supplement her project management skills.

Beginning her management career as the single on-site clinical social worker for Health America, a staff model HMO, in 1980, Ms. Gelberd developed a successful behavioral health service delivery model over 5 years delivering services to a population that grew from 20,000 to 100,000. Ms. Gelberd successfully turned around a $12M UR/CM operation with 125 employees, receiving a corporate award after only 18 months. At Pfizer Health Solutions, Inc (PHS), Ms. Gelberd created and led several initiatives; she established a cross-functional leadership team as new form of governance, designed the restructuring of sales teams into more successful, collaborative multi-disciplinary teams, including both technical and non-technical members, she led an organization-wide Project Management skills training program, requiring significant stakeholder management and collaboration across technical, clinical and business teams.

Ms. Gelberd has a BA from Furman University, an MSW from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MPM from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and a Professional Project Manager (PMP). She and her husband relocated from Chicago to Columbia, SC in 2002, where they live warmly and happily with their two dogs and one cat.

Ken Mulchahey, PMP®

Vice-President of Marketing

Ken Mulchahey is the Product Marketing Project Manager for Avtec Inc. a telecommunications company located in Gilbert, SC.Ken is responsible for all outsourced software development and internal hardware projects. Ken earned a Master of Science in Project Management, with a 4.0 GPA, from New England College Henniker, NH in 2010, his PMP certification in June 2008, and his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from Villanova University in 2011. Ken has over 30 years of service with the U.S. Air Force Reserves and National Guard. Previously working as a Department of Defense contractor, Ken managed matrixed project teams dealing with many projects to include Biometric and Logistical IT systems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates. Ken’s project management abilities provided the construct for new programs which recovered over six (6) million dollars in unaccounted for government assets and drove down project costs by as much as 27% from original estimates.

Ruben Guardiola,

Vice President of Communications

Bobby Bower, PMP®

Vice-President of Education

Bobby Bower is the Vice President of Education. He is a Project Manager / Construction Manager at Daystar Properties, LLC. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Richard Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He studied project management at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.