Agenda:

6:00-6:30pm Registration & Networking with Peers (Cash bar available)
6:30-7:30pm Dinner - Select your choice of an entre of fish, chicken or vegan.  Beverage of tea or coffee.  Dessert is served.
7:30-8:30pm Monthly Meeting Program 

Who Are We, Why Are We Here? The Current State of the Records Management Community

Please join ARMA NOVA for our March chapter meeting.  Our program theme for this Chapter Season is “On-Ramps to Information Governance,” and our speaker for the February meeting is Joel Westphal, Deputy Director Department of the Navy Records Management.   

The title of Joel’s presentation is, “Who Are We, Why Are We Here?”  He will provide his perspective about the current state of the records management profession, based on his experiences at the Department of the Navy, Office of Personnel Management, the United States Central Command, and numerous Federal agencies.  He will discuss the changing role of records managers in the emerging field of information governance. 

Our chapter theme this year is: "On-Ramps to Information Governance"

Find out why so many people keep coming back to ARMA NOVA meetings.

• Attendees can earn 1 CEU for many credentials, including CRM and IGP, and potentially PMP, CIP, etc.

• Create or strengthen connections with colleagues and potential business partners.

• Hear from world-class speakers on cutting edge Records and Information Management and Information Governance topics.

Speaker: Joel Westphal, Department of the Navy

Joel Westphal is the Deputy Director, Directives and Records Management Division within the Department of the Navy’s (DON) Office of the Assistant for Administration under the Secretary of the Navy and is also the designated Records Officer of the DON. Prior to this position he has served as the Agency Records Officer for the Office of Personnel Management and as the Command Records Manager for United States Central Command in Tampa, Florida, as the Chief, Records Management Section. During this time, Mr. Westphal also served as the Executive Agent for the Preservation of all Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM records created by Central Command and all subordinate Joint Task Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.  In his role as the Command Records Manager for a Combatant Command, Mr. Westphal also served as the records management oversight for United States Forces-Iraq and United States Forces-Afghanistan and worked with them on collecting and preserving their operational records. 

Prior to his work at Central Command, Mr. Westphal worked as a records manager at numerous Federal Agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Railroad Administrations, Environmental Protection Agency, and also worked as the Head Processing Archivist at Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Naval Yard.

He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught American and military history and received Master’s Degrees in history and Library and Information Science.