Board of Governors

Mai Tran is a senior project manager with 20+ years of progressive leadership and project management expertise in high-profile capital projects and strategic network optimization. She has worked in multiple Fortune 500 international companies and coordinated several multicultural project teams in Europe, South America, and China. She has been a volunteer at PMI-OC for over 8 years, as Director of Volunteer for 5 years and as elected VP of Strategy for the last 2 years. She is a strategic thinker and leader with a passion for organization building where she uses her skills and experience to help guide and develop future chapter leaders. As chapter President, her focus is on serving members’ professional development and fostering a collaborative PM community.

Narmela Sargis is a Senior Program Manager / Portfolio Manager with over 20 years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies.  Currently working on title insurance automation for First American Financial.  Previous experiences include managing the migration of 700+ applications to the cloud at First American.  Managed the upgrade of all legacy systems in Town of Hempstead (Long Island) to the Oracle Fusion.  Extensive experience as IT Program Manager working at Cisco (16+ years).  Managed an $85 million budget for the Data Services organization at Cisco.

Paya has been a diligent volunteer at PMI-OC for a number of years and was the Director of Online Programs before moving to his current position as the Vice President of Administration and Technology. He joined PMI-OC in 2016 as a volunteer to lead a team within the finance group.

Darren has been a part of PMI Orange County since mid-2019 and has been a volunteer since mid-2020. He received his PMP certification on the first attempt back in November of 2019

Darren has been working with setting up the production of recording and streaming the event to the virtual attendees and took up the organization of accounts, design, scheduling, and content of posts and started PMI Orange County Chapters first Instagram account. He continues to innovate and improve the event/production quality and experience

Darren currently works as an Implementation Consultant at HdL Companies

Tolulope has over 20 years of hands-on experience in Information & Communication Technology, Software Development, Data Analytics, Data Migrations & Integrations, Systems Integration via Oracle Middleware, Decision Support, Business Analysis, Distressed Projects Recovery, Business Process Management, Management Consulting, Generic IT Problem-solving, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Products reinvention & innovation, IT Hub management, myriads of Solutions Deployments, and finance. Emphasizes focus on Customer Experience, Continuous Improvement and Revenue Growth in every engagement.

Robbin is a shining example of passionate and capable volunteers who will step up at short notice when their support is needed, contributing enormous amount of personal time and effort to achieve a common goal even though it is outside of their regular role.

Robbin has shown extraordinary leadership in bringing back in-person dinners in late 2021 and has successfully continued with monthly dinners since.

Robbin is currently a Project Manager at Cinergy Financial.

Dr. Vazi Okhandiar is Vice President, Engineering and leads the product development for big data analytics products at mLogica. With more than 30 years of experience in management, architecture, and design. Vazi has led IT implementation projects for Fortune 500 companies including Kaiser, HPE, Oracle, Toyota, World Bank, and many more. At National University (Costa Mesa), Vazi was the youngest Head of the Department for the School of Management and Technology. Vazi has received a certificate of commendation from the United States Congress, is PMP Certified, and holds a Doctorate in Business Administration, an MBA, and a Master’s in Computer Science. Vazi joined the PMI-OC volunteer team in 2009.

Niketa Mehta is a Senior Program/Project Manager and currently manages complex IT projects at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT). With twenty+ years of experience in Project/Program Management, Software Development and Systems Implementation, Niketa has managed complex COTS, Custom application implementations, Global deployments at fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Prudential, Johnson and Johnson, Discovery Communications, etc. and also worked in in the healthcare, telecommunications, Media and State/Federal Government consulting industries. She has been volunteering with PMI-OC since end of 2019 in different roles and now transitioning to VP Strategy.