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TDC Vice President Achieves CEcD Certification
Press Release - Sept. 16, 2007
Victoria Zinser Johnson, Vice President of The Development Corporation Clinton County, has successfully met the requirements for certification by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) as an economic developer. The IEDC is the world's largest membership organization serving the economic development profession, and providing the standard certification in economic development (CEcD). Certification entails the successful completion of a series of six multi-day courses in various disciplines of economic development, demonstrating significant relevant professional employment experience, and passing a two-day exam. Ms. Johnson successfully completed the exam in Phoenix, Arizona on September 15 and 16, 2007.
Ms. Johnson joins only five other professional economic developers across the North Country region who are board certified in economic development. These include: James Fayle of Jefferson County Job Development Corporation, Watertown, Robert Juravich of the Development Authority of the North Country, Watertown, Adoré Flynn Kurtz of The Development Corporation, Plattsburgh, Roseanne Murphy, Deputy Regional Director of Empire State Development, Plattsburgh, and Tom Plastino of CITEC, Potsdam. Ms. Johnson also holds certification from the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) as a city and regional planner. She came to The Development Corporation following a career in urban and regional planning in both the public and private sectors, in New York and Florida.
The Development Corporation is a not-for-profit economic development organization with a forty-five year legacy of growing jobs and investment in Clinton County. The corporation develops industrial parks, markets the county for new business investments, and works to retain and expand local industry. The corporation also administers the Clinton County Empire Zone, the County of Clinton Industrial Development Agency, the Town of Champlain Industrial Development Agency and Clinton County's Foreign-Trade Zone. Ms. Johnson works in all areas of economic and community development within TDC, with a focus on economic development marketing and industrial facility planning and development. She serves as the Zone Coordinator for the Clinton County Empire Zone. 
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