PARMA
PARMA has supported California’s public risk managers since 1974. Since 2013, Aero has kept its digital operations moving.
PARMA is the professional community for risk management personnel at California's cities, counties, school districts, and special districts, plus the network of providers who serve them. Aero builds and maintains the website where members register for the annual conference, agencies publish RFPs, and six regional chapters run their programs.
Manual renewals, disconnected tools, and a statewide audience waiting.
The systems behind the old site had simply aged out. Event registration, member renewals, and content updates lived in separate tools, several of them manual, which meant staff spent time stitching gaps instead of serving members. The design and mobile experience had fallen behind modern standards, a real problem for an audience spread across every corner of California, from county risk offices to the legal and insurance firms that work with them. PARMA needed one platform that could carry events, membership, and communications together.
Where California's risk community meets, learns, and hires.
The site runs on Drupal, built and maintained by Aero, and hands membership records off to PARMA's association management system so joining, renewing, and member logins follow a single path. PARMA's staff publishes the rest themselves. Day to day, the platform:
Runs the events calendar
Members find and register for the annual conference, regional programs, and monthly webinars in one place.
Signs up members
Joining and renewing hand off cleanly to PARMA's membership system, keeping every record in one database.
Delivers CE credit
Conference attendees pull their continuing-education certificates straight from the site, current year and archive alike.
Publishes RFPs
Public agencies submit requests for proposals and providers browse them, making the site a working marketplace for risk services.
Lists jobs
Agencies post openings and candidates find them, keeping the profession's hiring pipeline visible statewide.
Anchors six chapters
Each regional chapter, from the Bay Area to San Diego, publishes its own officers, programs, and applications.
Puts sponsors up front
Tiered placements give titanium, platinum, and silver sponsors visibility with the exact audience they want to reach.
A partnership older than the current site.
PARMA has worked with Aero for 13 years, long enough for the website to be rebuilt from the ground up along the way. The association marked its 50th anniversary in 2024, and the site carried the celebration the same way it carries everything else: conference registration is already open through the 54th annual gathering, chapters keep their calendars current, and members renew without thinking about what happens underneath. That continuity is the point. PARMA's staff keeps publishing, the community keeps growing, and the platform keeps up.
