PMFORUM and PM World Today Contributing Editors And Authors
Managing Editor: David Pells
David
Pells Chief Operating Officer, iWorld
Projects & Systems, Inc. the parent company of pmforum.org, Inc.,
is an internationally recognized leader in the field of professional project
management, with over twenty-five years’ experience in project management
related positions. His professional experience includes a wide variety
of programs and projects, including engineering, construction, transit,
defense and high technology, and project sizes ranging from several thousand
to ten billion dollars.
Hugh Woodward
Hugh
Woodward is the President of Macquarie Business Concepts, and an internationally
recognized leader of the project management profession. He served two terms
as Chair of the Project Management Institute and almost six years as a member
of PMI's Board of Directors. His professional experience includes projects
and programs in manufacturing, construction and IT, and involving both the
public and private sectors. He continues to promote the profession as a frequent
conference speaker, having addressed audiences in Argentina, Australia, Canada,
China, France, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore,
the United Kingdom, and the United States.
David Curling
David Curling was the founder of Project Management World Today and PMFORUM.
He has been a professional soldier, systems engineer, logistics engineer,
procurement executive, senior public servant, and project manager, providing
project management consulting to both government and industry. David has
particular expertise in the management of major international projects.
Max Wideman
Max
Wideman is an engineer and professional project manager with experience in
systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering
projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he
is past president and chairman, and for whom he developed the 1987 version
of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution
of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineering. His web site is at http://www.maxwideman.com
Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka
Hiroshi
(Hiro) Tanaka is the PMFORUM Correspondent for Japan and is the founder and
the National President of the Japan Project Management Forum (JPMF), fellow
and special project management delegate of ENAA, Japan and is one of the distinguished
leaders of the global PM community. He was an invited speaker at PM conferences
in 15 countries. Hiro is also a member of PMI, IPMA-PMA (India; fellow), IPMA-SOVNET
(Russia), AIPM, PMCC (Japan) and SPM (Japan).
Paul B. Giammalvo
Paul
D. Giammalvo, CDT, PMP, CCE, MScPM, is Director of the ASEAN Project Manager’s
Center of Excellence, Inc. (APMX) For over 12 years, he has been provided
Project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia. He is active
in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International,
(AACE); Construction Specifications Institute (CSI); Construction Management
Association of America, (CMAA) and serves on the Global Project Management
Forum Steering Committee. http://www.getpmcertified.com
Glen Alleman
Glen
Alleman is a Principal Consultant with Niwot
Ridge Consulting specializing in enterprise application integration, system
architecture, business process improvement, and project management. Glen has
applied his project management and software development skills for nearly
25 years in the petrochemical, electric utility, manufacturing, aerospace,
process control, publishing, and pharmaceutical industries.
Rainer Volz
Rainer
Volz has been an IT architect and manager for over 10 years, mainly in the
airline and financial services industries. He specializes in technology
and management consulting for virtual organizations, and edits the "Virtual
Projects" website (www.vrtprj.com
/ www.vrtprj.de) to provide
more information about collaboration and distributed project management.
Dr. Martin Barnes
Dr.
Martin Barnes has been working in project management for the last 30
years. The management consulting business which he founded merged with
what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1985. Since 1996 he has been an independent
consultant. He is also Executive Director of the Major Projects Association,
the prestigious association for businesses and governments involved in
major projects based in the University of Oxford, UK. http://www.majorprojects.org
Gillian Birkby
Gillian
Birkby is a Partner in Mayer Brown, Rowe & Maw is one of the UK's
leading commercial law firms, based in London. It has 79 partners and over
300 lawyers. Because of the nature of its client base, the firm is frequently
engaged in international work. It has an established network of relationships
with leading law firms in most of the world's major jurisdictions. It has
built a reputation for delivering an innovative partner-led and cost-effective
service to all of its clients. Great importance is placed on developing long
term relationships with clients and delivering pragmatic, commercial advice.
Construction and Intellectual Property are just two of the specialist groups
within the firm.
Rose Blackburn
Rose
Blackburn is a founding partner and the CEO of QuantumPM, LLC, a portfolio
management organization offering portfolio and project management solutions
to organizations across the globe. She holds a Masters of Technology Management
degree, has been a PMP since 1994, and has over 20 years of experience in
the project management field. QuantumPM
helps organizations evolve and mature their project management capabilities.
Services include assessment, solution development and implementation, tool
implementation, custom solutions, and training.
Christophe Bredillet
Professor
Christophe N. Bredillet, PhD in Project Management, MBA, Dr.Sc., MSc Eng
EC Lille, Certificated Program Director IPMA Level A, CMP, CCE, has 18 years
of experience in project and program management with several industries (banking,
sporting goods and IT).
For the past 10 years, he has been the program director of the MS, MBA and Doctorate in Project & Program Management at ISGI-Groupe ESC Lille. He isa Steering Committee member of the Global Project Management Forum, of the Global Working Group Standards for IPMA and of the international non-aligned "think tank" group named OLCI.
He is a member of the Board of Directors and Regional Manager, North of France, for AFITEP (the francophone PM association) and Director of the Certifications for this association. He is a founder and President of the PMI Chapter "Hauts-de-France".
Chris Clucas
In
1999
Chris
Clucas, President, Aspen
Consulting, Inc founded Aspen Consulting and proceeded to develop Aspen's
unique style of delivering training. Since Aspen's inception, Chris has led
hundreds of participants to a new understanding of the Project Leadership
role. Before founding Aspen, Chris was involved in the development of the
services marketplace at both Cadence Design Systems and ECAD, Inc. Working
in all capacities within the service arena, from individual contributor to
project manager to running a service organization throughout North America,
Chris is able to connect with audiences because he has been through what they
have been through. Chris holds a BSEE from Purdue University and his background
is in IC design and development.
Contact: (321) 953-4557
J. Kent Crawford
J.
Kent Crawford is the CEO and president of PM
Solutions, a Philadelphia-area project management training, consulting,
and research firm. A former president and Chair of the Project Management
Institute, Crawford has advanced the global profession of project management
through his international relationships. He is the author of several project
management and industry publications, and also offers seminars on the topic
of project office deployment.
William R. Duncan
William
R. Duncan is a principal of Project
Management Partners, a project management consulting and training firm
headquartered in Lexington, MA USA. He is the former Director of Standards
for the Project Management Institute, Inc. (USA) and is currently Director
of Standards for the American Society for Advancement of Project Management
(asapm).
Mr. Duncan has nearly thirty years of management and consulting experience including five years with a major international consulting firm. He was the primary author of the 1994 and 1996 versions of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the most widely used project management standard in the world. In addition, his "process model" of project management was used to organize both ISO 10006, Guidelines for quality in project managemen.
Mr. Duncan is a 1970 graduate of Brown University in Providence, RI and has done post-graduate work at Boston University and Northeastern.
Quentin W. Fleming
Quentin
has had over four decades of professional experience in project management,
with two distinct careers: one in private industry and another as a consultant
in project management.
Quentin has written seven textbooks project management, which collectively have sold over 60,000 copies world wide.
In 1995, Quentin was honored when the Performance Management Association, which has since become the PMI College of Performance Management awarded him their prestigious Lt. General Hans Driessnack Distinguished Service Award for his work in earned value management.
Kevin Aguanno
Kevin
Aguanno is an IBM Certified Senior Project Manager and the Canadian lead
for IBM's Project Management Knowledge Network. In recent years, he was
the Principal responsible for business development and project delivery
for IBM's services work in the Media & Entertainment Industry in Canada,
and was the Executive Producer of IBM Canada's Interactive Media Studio.
Kevin
Aguanno (905) 316-8966
Robert (Bob) Kimmons
Robert
L. [Bob] Kimmons is the Managing Partner for the Kimmons-Asaro
Group Limited, Inc. in Houston, Texas. K-AGL is a company dedicated
to the advancement of the project management profession and conducts workshops
on Project Management and Contracting Strategies worldwide. He has published
over thirty papers and two books "Project Management: A Reference
for the Professional" and "Project Management Basics: A Step
by Step Approach".
John Schlichter
John
Schlichter has implemented PMO’s and other project management solutions
in many organizations. He has presented on project management topics throughout
the world to many organizations. He has spoken at the PMI’s Seminars
& Symposiums, the PMI Europe Conference, PMI Chapters in America and Europe,
and the IPMA’s World Congresses.
He earned both his Bachelor of Arts and his Master’s in Business Administration from Emory University. You may reach John Schlichter at 404.728.0650.
Robert Youker
Robert
Youker is an independent trainer and consultant in Project Management
with more than thirty-five years of experience in the field. Mr. Youker is
a graduate of Colgate University, the Harvard Business School and studied
for a doctorate in behavioral science at George Washington University. His
project management experience includes new product development at Xerox Corporation
and project management consulting for many companies as President of Planalog
Management Systems from 1968 to 1975.
PMWT Foreign Correspondents
Alcides Santopietro
Alcides Santopietro is founder and partner in Proage, a consulting and training company based in São Paulo, Brazil. Industrial Engineer and PMP, with post-graduate diplomas in Marketing and Project Management, has conceived and currently directs the development of a winning PM software named GP3, in use in Latin America and Europe. Alcides has also been creating and coordinating on-site, e-learning and outdoor training courses and also works as professor in MBA disciplines in Brazil.
Member of Leadership Institute Masters Class 2007, team member in the OPM3 update revision project and project leader of the most important project in PMI São Paulo, Brazil chapter, Alcides plays an active PMI volunteer leader role at this time.