A History Of W. Marion Ivey explains how Cleaning Management Institute advances the industry. By: Phillip Lawless Increasing Efficiency S Since 1991, W. Marion Ivey, Cleaning Management Institute’s (CMI) director of training, has provided technical professional training covering commer-cial and industrial cleaning. Also founder and president of Ivey’s Training and Consulting Services, Ivey began training inter-nationally in 2002 as well. As a follow up to last month’s CMI 50th anniver-sary feature, we asked Ivey how CMI’s respected training and certification programs have helped the cleaning industry evolve. Phillip Lawless: How did you get your start training workers using CMI materials? W. Marion Ivey: I actually started in the industry on October 1, 1980. I entered the industry through the Oregon Department of Corrections, as an in-structor in their vocational education department. I was employed to literally start a building clean-ing maintenance program for the clientele that would be going back into the community. It was called, at that time, work-based education training for reintegrating people who had been convicted of certain crime categories. So this was a good pro-gram that they thought would make a nice launch for them to reintegrate back into society. I stayed with them until, I believe, 1992. At that time I moved over to the local community college here in Salem, Oregon, the state capital. Connec-tion with Cleaning Management Institute started in 1989. At that time CMI was located outside of Irvine, California. Dan and Nancy Harris were the owners of the company. In Chicago of 1990, [the operation] moved to the east coast. Humphrey Tyler and Susan Tyler, May 2014 Phillip Lawless is Editor of Cleaning & Maintenance Management magazine; he can be reached at PLawless@ GrandViewMedia.com. A graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lawless has over 13 years of professional writing and editing experience. “In our society, efficiency always equates to dollars.” for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Training . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select DIRECTORY from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Cleaning Management Institute . who owned other publications, bought Cleaning & Maintenance magazine from Dan and Nancy. At that point in time, it became a Latham, New York-based organization. I had only been working with the program in the correctional setting for a year at that point. I was at the meeting, matter of fact, in Chicago at the Hilton when this transaction was being final-ized because we had a cleaning conference that I was attending there. Humphrey and Susan wanted to meet me — the guy who was using the program rather successfully out of Oregon in the Oregon Department of Educa-tion minimum security facility. It was later that year I launched the program part time at the local junior college, Chemeketa Com-8 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ®
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