Several Escambia County employees recently completed the Certified Public Manager®
program, a nationally-recognized program for training and developing public managers and supervisors. They were among 350 participants to graduate this summer from the program, which has a primary goal of professionalizing public management and improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Escambia County CPM graduates are:
- Shawn Fletcher, Information Technology Director
- Julie Gonzalez, Waste Services Administrative Supervisor
- Felix Hotard, West Florida Public Libraries Network System Engineer
- Pat Johnson, Waste Services Director
- Chris Karp, Information Technology Manager
- Scott MacDonald, Information Technology Manager
- Leon Salter, Emergency Medical Services Deputy Chief
- Brent Schneider, PE, Waste Services Engineering and Environmental Manager
- Paul Williams, Escambia County Fire Rescue Deputy Fire Chief
The eight-level course took two years to complete, with the first seven levels taking place at the Escambia County Public Safety Building and the final level taking place in Tallahassee. Florida has one of the largest CPM programs in the country, with nearly 5,500 graduates from more than 100 agencies. Florida's CPM Program is administered by the Florida Center for Public Management, which is part of the Askew School of Public Administration at Florida State University.
Other participating agencies that attended in Escambia County included the Escambia County Tax Collector, Santa Rosa County Tax Collector, Florida Department of Children and Families, Florida Department of Revenue, First Judicial Circuit Court Administration and the Okaloosa County Clerk of Courts.
For more information about the CPM program and the Florida Center for Public Management,
click here.
