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The Board of Directors

LeAnn Willard – President:
LeAnn Willard is a native Memphian who spent 16 years working in the local IT arena and holds a degree in Computer Information Systems.  She has held positions from User Support Services Supervisor to Technical Writer/Trainer, Programmer, Data Analyst, Systems Manager, and Business Manager.  She is currently working as an IT Recruiter and assistant to Jill Herrin at JD Resources, Inc.  LeAnn is currently working towards her certification (CPC).   She is also an active member of the Technology Council for the Memphis Chamber of Commerce.

Bill Hillhouse - Webmaster:
Bill has over 20 years of experience in the information systems field.  His career involves both the management and technical areas of the IT world.  Eight of those years have been spent as a consultant & contract programmer for various clients.

Jill Herrin, CPC - Membership:
Jill Herrin, CPC is an experienced IT search and placement professional with over twenty years of successful recruiting industry background and 17 years of business ownership.  She is the Founder and President of JDResources, Inc. (JDR, Inc.) a company specializing in Information Technology People Resources.  Jill received a Bachelors of Personnel, Business Administration and Law from the University of London in 1978.  She is trained in all aspects of Personnel Search and Employment Law by National Association of Personnel certified trainers and received her Certified Personnel Certificate (CPC) in 1993. Jill is a Member of the Pinnacle Society (organization comprised of the top one percent of recruiters nationwide), a Member of the National Association of Personnel Services and a Member of the Million Dollar Circle. Jill was born and raised in London, England, has been a resident of Tennessee since 1982 and  became a United States Citizen in 1995.

Vikki Harrison - Treasurer:
Vikki Harrison is a senior business analyst with Williams-Sonoma, Inc.  She has been working in IT since 1968 and has grown up with the business.    A native of this area, she has worked in distribution, retail, educational and transportation environments.  Vikki has worked on IBM machines beginning with the old card sorters through today’s “super computers”.  Vikki is the mother of 3 children and 1 extremely fabulous grandson.

Dan Petit – Board Member:
Dan Petit is a Manager of Applications Development at Inventory Locator Service, winner of Forbes Magazine’s Best of the Web award in the aerospace industry several years in a row. Here he serves as Chief Applications Architect and Project Manager. He is also the President of FlexiSoft Solutions (www.flexisoftsolutions.com), makers of Standards Master, an automated coding standards enforcement tool for Microsoft technologies.

Dan is the author of the book Real Visual Basic and of numerous articles on such topics as advanced Visual Basic programming, software development processes, coding standards, object-oriented analysis and design, UML modeling, WinForms programming, and artificial intelligence.

Tami McBride – Board Member:
Tami is an IT recruiting and consultancy professional with JD Resources, Inc. with over 18 years of leadership managing IT teams in mid to large-scale environments, supporting both supply chain applications and technical infrastructure implementations, as well as leading large-scale global project implementations.