Certification Update Greetings Fellow CDOAs & Future CDOAs, It is unbelievable how the year is flying by so fast and we are already in March. As everyone is aware, these are trying times for the oil & gas business. In light of the challenging times ahead of us, be assured your CDOA Certification Committee is working hard this year to improve the CDOA Certification and Recertification experience. I am excited to let everybody know that NADOA will have a “NEW” & “IMPROVED” Certification System up and running on March 7, 2021. Note that the date was changed due to our Texas Winter Armageddon. Unfortunately, our website provider did not have electricity for an entire week. Our current system is no longer being supported from a technical standpoint. Please bear with us as we migrate to the new system. Additional information will be forthcoming when the new system is up and running the second week of March. As part of the CDOA Committee effort to improve, effective March 2, 2021, the CDOA Certification Policy Article IV, Section B has been revised. As a CDOA, you will have an additional 30 days to enter points for the original seminar, event, or webinar in the CDOA Portal. To maintain consistency and avoid confusion, all credits must be submitted within 90 days of the event. This includes seminars, webinars, and yearly employment points. This basically means that any NADOA webinar can be watched & entered for points anytime from the initial airing date for up to 90 days. You read that right. Effective March 2, 2021, you have an extra 30 days to enter your points into the CDOA Certification Website!! As always, it is the CDOA’s responsibility to enter the points into the CDOA Portal. Unfortunately, we are not able to apply the new policy retroactively. All pre-approved credits set up on/after March 2, 2021, will fall under the new 90-day deadline. The new language within the Policy reads as follows, “Each CDOA will be responsible for reporting the number of recertification credits appropriate for a seminar/ event attended by the CDOA, subject to audit by the Certification Committee. Each CDOA must enter the event on the CDOA member certification system
within sixty (60) ninety (90) days of the ORIGINAL seminar/event’s date. Did you know that the CDOA Committee has a new email address – cdoa@nadoa.org? I challenge and encourage each of you to get involved and reach out to the Certification Committee for volunteer opportunities. 2020 was a record year for credit submissions. Although we approved nearly 400 total credit hours less than we did in 2019, we supported more than 700 individual lines of credits than we did in 2019 . Due to the current environment, we have more one-hour credit submissions than in the past. Please continue to help us out by requesting pre-approved credits whenever possible. To obtain pre-approval, please send a request to cdoa@ nadoa.org and include the following information: Date, Time/Length of presentation, Speaker, Topic, detailed description of the Presentation, or a copy of the presented materials. We ask that you give us 2 weeks’ notice whenever possible. If you have an in-house event on the ‘fly’, feel free to ask for approval after the event. It’s easier for both the member and the Committee to submit/approve a pre-approved credit rather than a CDOA entering the credit(s) manually. If you have any questions, please contact Sherry Werth at srw6886@gmail. com and include cdoa@nadoa.org in your email. Are you aware that in 2020 we finally reached 701 CDOAs? CDOAs are all part of a small & elite group of professionals. NADOA is your organization, and the CDOA Committee welcomes your involvement. Whether it is to submit a suggestion such as testing alternatives (of course being budget-conscious), volunteering to re-write a Chapter in the CDOA Manual, creating a Study Group at your office, or volunteering to innovate CDOA Flash Cards in Quizlet, I desire to encourage each of you to recognize your natural talents and bring them forward for the next generation of Division Order Analysts in the Oil & Gas Industry. Your efforts can and will make a difference. As always, the Committee is here to serve the membership. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. By Yoli Bazan CDOA, CPLTA
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