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Paul C. Dinsmore, PMP
President
Dinsmore Associates
www.dinsmore.com.br
Considered to be the father of Enterprise Project Management,
Paul C. Dinsmore, President of Dinsmore Associates, is an
international authority in Project Management. Mr. Dinsmore
is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificated
by the Project Management Institute (PMI), where he received
the Distinguished Contributions Award and was also elected
a Fellow of the Institute. Since 1999, he has served on
the Board of the PMI Educational Foundation. He is the author
of 9 management books including The AMA Handbook of
Project Management and Winning in Business
with Enterprise Project Management, both published
by Amacom, NY, as well as the co-authored Creating
the Project Office published in 2003 by Jossey Bass.
He has spoken and consulted in South America, North America,
Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. He resides in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
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Steven Weidner, PMP
President,
Program Navigators, Inc.
www.programnavigators.com
Steven Weidner, MBA, PMP, is the Founder and President of Program Navigators, Inc., a Bellevue,
WA, based management firm that focuses on strategic alignment, portfolio and program management,
enterprise project management, and organizational transformations.
Steven is recognized as a leading practitioner of implementing
program and project management enterprise-wide and is a
long time member of ProjectWorld's advisory council. He
has been involved in over $9 billion worth of projects and
has been directly accountable as a Project Manager for over
$200 million worth of projects in his 20 plus year career.
His years of experience guides his practical and effective
approach helping navigate companies and governmental agencies
to improve business results by focusing on how project work
is accomplished by executives, senior management, and project
teams. |
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Gerald I. Kendall, PMP
Vice President
TOCInternational
www.tocinternational.com
Gerald Kendall is a noted management consultant, public
speaker and facilitator who has been serving clients worldwide
since 1968. Mr. Kendall began his career with IBM as a systems
engineer. After becoming an I.T. director, he broadened
his experience in marketing, sales and operations with international
focus.
Mr. Kendall is the author of Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the
PMO and Securing the Future: Strategies for Exponential Growth Using the Theory of Constraints.
He is also the author of the chapter on Critical Chain in Dr. Harold Kerzner’s book,
Project Management, A System’s Approach, 8th edition. Gerald is also the author of several
white papers, including“Integrating Critical Chain and the PMBOK”, “Choosing the Right Project
Mix”, and “How to Get Value from a PMO.”
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Mitchell Ummel
President
UmmelGroup International, Inc.
www.UmmelGroup.com
Mitchell Ummel has over 17-year’s
of experience in management, leadership, and consulting
within the Information Technology profession. He has held
CIO, executive management, and consulting roles serving
state governments, electric/gas utility cooperatives, and
one of the largest home and business monitored security
companies in the world. His company, UmmelGroup International,
Inc., is an IT Management Services Consulting organization
known for delivering innovative “fast track” IT strategies
to forward-thinking organizations. Mitchell is a frequent
speaker at business and technology conferences. Mitchell
holds B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from
Fort Hays State University. He also is a 2002 graduate of
the Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. |
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Margo Visitacion
Director, Research Leader
Forester Research, Inc
www.forrester.com
Margo Visitacion is an analyst covering project management tools and methods,
as well as quality assurance methodology. Her research focuses on:
- Project management tools
- Project management processes
- Requirements management tools
- Requirements management processes
- Quality assurance processes and staffing
Margo has 12 years of experience in IT organizations, developing and implementing
QA and project management practices. Before joining Giga
Information Group, Margo was assistant vice president of
the project office at BHC Securities, where she was responsible
for creating project office and quality assurance departments,
managing the project implementation and testing of the company’s
client/server and Internet trading systems. |
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Robert Johnston, PMP
Partner
Value Based Project Management LLC
www.vbpm.org
Mr. Johnston is a PMI Certified
Project Management Professional (PMP) and has written and
presented on a number of topics focused on the business
value of Project Management, the Program Management Office
and Managing Business by Projects. He has presented at the
PMI Seminars & Symposium on Project Management Maturity.
He has spoken at several PMI Local Chapter Meetings, including
the Orange County Chapter on the PMO panel discussion and
the PMI San Diego Chapter. Mr. Johnston has contributed
a number of articles on Project Management for the PMI PM
Network, including being featured on the cover of the December,
2002 issue. |
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Mike Beard, PMP
Partner
Value Based Project Management LLC
www.vbpm.org
Mike Beard is a PMP with over thirty years in diverse technical
and management positions. As a program manager he concurrently
directed several programs some spanning 4-5 years in length
with values ranging up to $90M (labor dollars). As a Deputy
Director in a PMO he managed more than 10 program managers. |
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Michael Stratton
Senior Project Manager
The Boeing Company
www.boeing.com
Michael J. Stratton is a senior
project manager for The Boeing Company. He presently works
in the Finance organization of the Shared Services Group,
one of the major business units within Boeing. Mr. Stratton
has been a key player in launching the Portfolio Management
Process within his business unit and has developed an extensive
Business Case Process Guide and array of templates and tools
for use within Boeing. He regularly contributes his expertise
in the development of Business Cases throughout the company
for projects worth millions of dollars to Boeing. |
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Richard Larson
Principal
Watermark Learning
www.watermarklearning.com
Richard Larson is a principal and
founder of Watermark Learning, an Edina, Minnesota-based
business and technical training company committed to providing
skill development relevant to its clients' business needs
and delivered in an environment that energizes, motivates,
and builds confidence. Before founding Watermark in 1992,
Larson was the training director for a major Twin Cities
consulting firm. He has trained thousands of students in
technical and management areas since 1985. He has also managed
scores of small projects for Watermark and others, learning
a great deal about how to deliver big results on a small
budget. |
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Ric Moxley
Production manager, Writer, Director, Producer and Editor
WriteWorks Agency
www.writeworksagency.com
Ric Moxley’s presentations and
historical mix includes seven years in live theater as
an actor and director, six years as a Web content manager
for Disney Channel and H&R Block, Brand Strategist and
Project Manager for BlairLake New Media, a decade of service
as a freelance writer, four years as a Web consultant
and, currently serves as President of WriteWorks Agency,
a company delivering writing and copy editing services
to businesses on a project-by-project basis.
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Mark Paulk
Institute for Software Research
Carnegie Mellon University
www.isri.cs.cmu.edu
Mark is a Senior Systems Scientist
at the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI)
in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mark is currently working on topics related to the eSourcing
Capability Model (eSCM) and IT-enabled services for ISRI.
He is also involved with ISO and IEEE software engineering
standards. Mark's current research interests center on high
maturity practices and statistical control for software
processes. From 1987 to 2002, Mark was with the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon. He was the
project leader during the development of the Capability
Maturity Model (CMM) for Software.
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Jeff Davis
IT Systems Project Manager
Dendreon Corporation
www.dendreon.com
Jeff is a PMP and holds a Masters of Science degree in Project
Management as well as an Bachelors degree in Economics.
His experience includes being a project manager in Engineering
and Information Systems for The Boeing Company for 25 years
prior to joining the PACCAR ITD Project Management Office
as a project consultant. |
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Jack Greenfield
Program Manager
Expedia
www.expedia.com
Jack holds a degree in Computer
Science and a Master of Business Administration. He has
held IT and financial related positions with several companies
including The Chicago Tribune, Simpson Investment Company,
and is currently a Program Manager at Expedia.
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Stephen O'Brien
Program Director of Project Management
School of Business and Management
City University
www.cityu.edu
Stephen O'Brien has over 30 years of professional experience
in business. He has run projects in electronics, education, textiles, catering and
aerospace. He assisted one of the top clothing manufacturers in Northern China to
attain their first loan from the World Bank. Stephen holds a MBA in Technology and
Engineering Management from City University, a BSBA in Production and Operations
Management from Colorado State University, and recently re-certified in Production
and Inventory Management by APICS. In 2002, he received a Special Commendation from
the Boeing Company for his community service with homeless children. In his current
position as City University's Program Director of Project Management, he oversees the
faculty and curriculum for the Project Management Program domestically, in China and
Canada.
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