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BOARD OF DIRECTORS - ALUMNI (GA) WILLIAM H. BROOKS Atlanta (GA) Alumni
William Harold Brooks, affectionately known as "Butch", was born on November 16th 1963, and was Student Council President during his senior year of high school, graduating from Neptune Sr. High School in June of 1982. He attended Morehouse College and earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Mathematics in July of 1987. His professional career commenced two months after graduating from Morehouse College, moving to Washington, DC, and working at RJO Enterprises, Inc. in Lanham, MD. He was the youngest Computer Engineer in the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Division of the company. Butch left RJO in 1989, and moved back to Atlanta working at Compuadd, a company out of Austin, TX for two years and then started working for The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a contractor in Atlanta, GA, where he set up the Atlanta DEA’s first ever computer networking system in a solo effort. It was at this time that other agencies noticed his skill set for networking and computers. While working as a contractor
with the DEA, he established his contracts with the U.S. Attorney's Atlanta office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation until 1998. With a short stint at Scientific Atlanta (now Cisco) from 1998 until 2000, Butch went to work for Worldspan, now Travelport, from 2000 until 2020, a span of 20 years, holding titles of Engineer, IT Manager, Technology Change Manager, and Director. He also worked at USAA as a Technology Change Manager, The Walt Disney Company as a Technology Change Manager, and now Charles Schwab as an Organizational Change Manager. Butch was PTA President for several years in the school system where his children attended school, was President of the DADS Association simultaneously, and was a yearly invited member of the Superintendent's forum. Butch was initiated into the Atlanta Alumni Chapter during the Spring of 2013 along with his line brothers "The Ten Sons of the Diamond." He has chaired almost every committee in the chapter and has been, at least, a member of all of the committees. He has held the positions of Strategus, Keeper of Records, and Vice Polemarch, and he is the immediate past Polemarch of the chapter. He was elected in a late election during the heart of the COVID pandemic in 2020, and during his tenure as Polemarch, the Chapter established the Atlanta Diamond Foundation and accomplished a myriad of other successes, which include: 1. Increasing membership under his leadership from 73 brothers to 255 brothers in two and a half years as Polemarch. 2. Winning Reclamation Chapter of the Year under his leadership in the Southeastern Province every year. 3. Winning Website of the Year Chapter under his leadership in 2021 and 2022. 4. Having the largest reclamation in the history of Kappa under his leadership in 2022 with 73 reclaimed brothers (also 72 in 2023). 5. Being the first chapter (pilot chapter) in the history of Kappa under his leadership to receive a merchandising license to sell Atlanta Alumni Chapter goods and paraphernalia in the online "Kappa Store." 6. Raising the largest amount of funds in the history Atlanta Alumni under his leadership at $239,000.00. 7. Starting out with an exchequer of $36,000.00 in 2020 and ended with an exchequer of $130,000.00 in 2023 under his leadership. 8. Distributing the largest amount of scholarships to students in the history of the chapter under his leadership. 9. Being co-creator of the Cigars and Kocktails fundraiser, the largest fundraiser in the history of Atlanta Alumni Chapter. 10. Initiating a full sponsorship on Atlanta Alumni's holiday baskets with AARP because of his engagement.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS - UNDERGRADUATE (GA) JORDAN N. KARIM Georgia Institute of Technology Chapter, the Lambda Delta
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