Top Professional Designation Earned by Orlando Sentry Management Manager

ORLANDO, Fla. - Sept. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Deborah J. Myers, Regional Training Manager for Sentry Management, Inc. joined the elite group of community association managers who have earned the Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) designation from Community Associations Institute (CAI).  Myers is one of less than 2,000 active managers nationwide who have earned the highest level of professional recognition in the community association field.

Community Associations Institute is a national organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, responsive, competent community associations. Some 50 million Americans live in the nation’s estimated 250,000 association-governed communities.

To earn the PCAM designation, managers must have five years of community association management experience and complete more than 100 hours of course work.  In addition, PCAM designees must fulfill continuing education and service requirements and adhere to a code of ethics.

Professional managers provide administrative, operational and managerial counsel to community association boards.  They typically are responsible for managing budgets and contractors, directing association personnel and overseeing compliance with association covenants and restrictions.

With 55 state, regional and local chapters, CAI works on behalf of the professionals and volunteers engaged in the management and governance of homeowner and condominium associations, cooperatives and other planned communities.  CAI’s 16,000 members include community association volunteer leaders, managers, management companies and businesses that provide product and services to these communities.