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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Peter Tensmeyer from GTRI Program at DOE to Deliver Keynote Speech at IPMA World Congress in Rome
The management team for the IPMA 22nd World Congress on Project Management has announced that Mr. Peter Tensmeyer, Deputy Director for the Office of North and South American Threat Reduction in the GTRI program office, will be a keynote speaker at the ROMA 2008 World Congress in Rome. The IPMA 22nd World Congress on Project Management will be held in Rome, Italy during 9-11 November 2008. According to the "ROMA 2008 - Project Management to Run" project team, Mr. Tensmeyer will present for the first time a summary of the management of one of the world's most important security programs, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI).
The GTRI is a global program financed by the U.S. government that includes portfolios of projects in countries around the world, with a critical global mission - to protect society from the malevolent use of nuclear or radiological materials that could be used in an improvised nuclear device (IND) or radiological dispersal device (RDD), commonly referred to as a radiological "dirty bomb." The program includes the cooperation and coordination of governmental bodies, contractors and project teams in more than 100 countries.
Peter Tensmeyer has been a project manager for nuclear security and nonproliferation programs for 6 years. He is currently the federal Sr. Project Manager and Deputy Director for the Office of North and South American Threat Reduction, one of three regional offices within GTRI, which is aimed at reducing and protecting vulnerable nuclear and radiological materials located at civilian sites worldwide. His prior assignments include: Lead Project Controls Expert, NNSA's Megaports and Second Line of Defense Core Programs * Project Director, GTRI's Program Management Information System Development Project * Project Manager, GTRI's Nuclear and Radiological Protection Portfolio.
The topic of Mr. Tensmeyer’s speech in Rome will be "Project Management techniques applied to a worldwide challenge: Reducing the Global Threat of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism." Mr. Tensmeyer’s keynote address will describe the scope of the GTRI program, the methods used to achieve its mission, the results achieved to date, and the difficulties that lie ahead. The Address will focus on the management challenges that this initiative poses and the technical and management concepts, processes, systems and tools developed and implemented in response to these challenges.
The concepts of program, portfolio, and project management have been adapted to the total scope of GTRI, and Mr. Tensmeyer’s presentation will describe how these concepts have been applied successfully to this global effort. The lifecycle scope of GTRI involves hundreds of projects around the world. These projects pose many interrelated technical, political, health, economic, environmental, and logistical risks at many levels. Risk management is therefore also a primary consideration in the GTRI management approach. Some of the difficulties encountered and methods used for overcoming these difficulties will be described.
Of most importance, this speech will describe how modern professional project management concepts and principles are being used to protect society from very real dangers. This will be the first time that this program has been presented to the world’s project management professional community.
The local host organizations for the ROMA 2008 World Congress in Rome, Italy are the Italian Project Management Academy and the Italian National Association of Industrial Plant Engineering (ANIMP). The President of ANIMP is Mr. Fabrizio Di Amato; the President of the Italian PM Academy is Mr. Roberto Mori; the Congress Chairman is Mr. Luigi Iperti; and the Project Manager for IPMA 2008 is Mr. PierMarco Romagnoli. For registration, schedule and other information, visit the conference website at www.ipmaroma2008.it.
Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is the world’s oldest project management professional organization. IPMA is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve the specific development needs of each country in its national language.IPMA provides an umbrella organization to represent them at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level Project Management Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents project management awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2007-2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch.
The GTRI is a global program financed by the U.S. government that includes portfolios of projects in countries around the world, with a critical global mission - to protect society from the malevolent use of nuclear or radiological materials that could be used in an improvised nuclear device (IND) or radiological dispersal device (RDD), commonly referred to as a radiological "dirty bomb." The program includes the cooperation and coordination of governmental bodies, contractors and project teams in more than 100 countries.
The topic of Mr. Tensmeyer’s speech in Rome will be "Project Management techniques applied to a worldwide challenge: Reducing the Global Threat of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism." Mr. Tensmeyer’s keynote address will describe the scope of the GTRI program, the methods used to achieve its mission, the results achieved to date, and the difficulties that lie ahead. The Address will focus on the management challenges that this initiative poses and the technical and management concepts, processes, systems and tools developed and implemented in response to these challenges.
The concepts of program, portfolio, and project management have been adapted to the total scope of GTRI, and Mr. Tensmeyer’s presentation will describe how these concepts have been applied successfully to this global effort. The lifecycle scope of GTRI involves hundreds of projects around the world. These projects pose many interrelated technical, political, health, economic, environmental, and logistical risks at many levels. Risk management is therefore also a primary consideration in the GTRI management approach. Some of the difficulties encountered and methods used for overcoming these difficulties will be described.
Of most importance, this speech will describe how modern professional project management concepts and principles are being used to protect society from very real dangers. This will be the first time that this program has been presented to the world’s project management professional community.
