Contributing Authors (G-M)
Daniel Galorath Daniel D. Galorath has over 35 years of experience in the software industry where he has solved a variety of management, costing, systems, and software problems, and performed all aspects of software development and management. Mr. Galorath is founder and president of Galorath Incorporated, maker of the SEER® suite of estimation tools. Mr. Galorath is one of the principal developers of the SEER-SEM™ Software Estimation Model. Mr. Galorath completed his undergraduate work and MBA from California State Universities. He is a member of the International Society of Parametric Analysis (ISPA), Society of Cost Estimation and Analysis (SCEA), IEEE, the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He was honored with the Freiman Award, recognizing his long-term contributions to the field of parametric analysis. Mr. Galorath teaches courses in software cost, schedule, and risk analysis; software project management; software engineering; systems architecture, and other related topics. He has lectured internationally and is the author of many papers about software project management. Mr. Galorath can be reached at info@galorath.com. His website is www.galorath.com
Professor Roland Gareis, PhD Professor Roland Gareis, Ph.D., is a university professor for project management at the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP, the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria and director of the university programme “International Project Management”. From 1986–2002 he was chairman of the board of the project management association Project Management Austria. In 1990 he organized the IPMA world congress on the topic “Management by Projects” in Vienna. Dr. Gareis is a former research director of the International Project Management Association IPMA, and has conducted extensive research on the subjects of “management by projects” and “project oriented society”. He studied at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, and habilitated at the University of Technology, Vienna. He was also a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, a visiting professor at the ETH, Zurich, at the Georgia State University, Atlanta and at the University of Quebec, Montreal. Roland Gareis was born in Vienna in 1948. He has two children with his wife Haldis: Luisa and Lorenz. Once a professional soccer player, today he plays tennis and goes skiing when not teaching, researching or consulting on project management.
Stanislaw Gasik Stanislaw Gasik received his Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Warsaw. Stanislaw moved to Project Management (PM) after working over 15 years as a software engineer, analyst and consultant in the information technology (IT) sector. He began his PM experience with several years of quality management, after which he started delivering his own projects. He has been a lecturer in software engineering and project management at the Warsaw School of Economics and other Polish educational institutions. He was a member of the team that developed the Guide to the PMBOK® 2004 for the Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was active in other PMI standardization projects like the development of the Portfolio Management Standard. Currently he is a board member of the PMI Warsaw Chapter, responsible for education and professional development. Stanislaw headed implementation of Primavera portfolio management tools at ComputerLand, Poland, which was distinguished with the Primavera Excellence Award in High Tech sector in 2006. His professional interests include portfolio management, PMO, maturity models, knowledge management and supplier-customer relationships in project management. Stanislaw can be contacted at sgasik@sybena.pl.
Professor Yan D. Gelrud Gelrud Jan is professor and department chair for "Enterprise and management" at the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia. His teaching disciplines include: "Mathematics", "Theory of probabilities and mathematical statistics", "Econometrics", "Economic and mathematical methods", "Mathematical methods of decision making", "Bases of methodology of decision making", "Economic evaluation of investments", "Mathematical methods and models of governing projects", and "Studies of managerial systems". Professor Jan has more than 100 publications and appearances at seminars and conferences. During the last 5 years, he has published 15 scientific works, 8 scholastic allowances, and a monograph entitled "Project management in conditions of risk and uncertainty". Born in 1947 in Birobidjan, Khabarovsk, he finished physicist-mathematical school at Novosibirsk in 1965 and graduated from the mathematical department of the University of Novosibirsk in 1970. From 1970 until 1991, he worked in the Research institute of automatic managerial systems, managing the mathematical division. He participated in the creation and introduction more than 100 automatic managerial systems for different branches of Russian industry. During 1991 – 1997, he was the general director of "URAL-ASC„O-SERVICE". Mr. Jan resides in Chelyabinsk and can be reached at E-mail gelrud@mail.ru
Florin Gheorghiu Florin Gheorghiu, PMP, has more than 10 years of experience in Project Management methodology and process implementation covering the entire project life cycle. His applied expertise is centered on “turn key” Engineering-Procurement-Construction projects in the power sector. His experience includes large power plants rehabilitation projects financed by the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD). He has worked for Parsons Power (Gilbert Commonwealth), Lahmeyer International and Pennsylvania Power & Light (PP&L) as a project Consultant. Recently he joined UTI Group, a holding of company in the field of large public buildings rehabilitation projects and building complex security systems. Mr. Gheorghiu is acting now as a Professional Project Manager for his company. His current assignment is a large complex hotel rehabilitation project owned by a globally reputed hotel chain operator. Mr. Gheorghiu lives in Bucharest, Romania and can be reached at fgheorghiu2001@yahoo.com.
Paul B. Giammalvo Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, PMP, CCE, MScPM, is Senior Technical Advisor to PT Mitratata Citragraha www.getpmcertified.com and Adjunct Professor of Project/Program Management, Lille Graduate School of Management, Paris, FRANCE. www.esc-lille.com. For over 14 years, he has been providing Project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia, Middle East and Europe. He is active in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), www.aacei.org and the Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA), www.cmaanet.org. More recently, he has been elected to the Board of Directors, Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards, (GAPPS) www.global-mstandards.org. Paul can be reached at pauldg@indo.net.id. Earl Glenwright Earl Glenwright, PE, has a career spanning 40+ years in construction project scheduling. Earl is certified as a Planning and Scheduling Professional [PSP] by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International [AACEi]. He is currently active with the PMI-College of Scheduling, and the AACEi Planning and Scheduling Committee. He frequently gives presentations at their annual conferences. Earl has both a BS in Civil Engineering and a MBA degree and is a Registered Professional Engineer. Earl’s career has included multi-year positions in several countries including Brasil and Saudi Arabia, and shorter tours in Sudan. He currently lives in Bulgaria and Colorado. Prior to 1988 he was employed by the [US] Bureau of Reclamation and the [US] Army Corps of Engineers. After retiring in 1988 he has been a free-lance consultant for both contractor’s construction scheduling and small business Enterprise Project Management. His experience includes large and very large [super-mega] construction projects, very small projects such as construction planning, and scheduling for home construction by his Habitat for Humanity affiliate. Through his extensive scheduling experience he has been recognized as a Subject Matter Expert [SME], a Master Scheduler, and an Expert Advisor. Earl has been active in the Project Management Institute for 30+years. He has presented “Time & Cost” training at PMI’s annual seminar-symposia, and was a member of the initial PMBoK Guide Project Team, the 2000 update team, and the project team that prepared the 3rd edition. Earl has recently presented ‘workshop/seminars’ for Bulgarian project scheduling and controls persons which covers the 3 phases of scheduling: framework preparation/planning, schedule development, and schedule management and control. The work books are dual language English and Bulgarian. Earl can be contacted at earl_bg@yahoo.com.  Tom Gilb is an international consultant, teacher and author. His 9th book is ‘Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage’ (Elsevier, August 2005) which is a definition of the planning language ‘Planguage’. Tom works with major multinationals such as Bosch, Qualcomm, HP, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, US DOD, UK MOD, Symbian, Philips, Intel, Citigroup and many others. For more information, visit www.Gilb.com. Tom lives in Norway and can be contacted at tom@gilb.com.  Donald Gubbins Donald Gubbins is an experienced insurance, credit, and banking IT consultant and applications manager in Columbus, Ohio. Don is PMP certified and has a Magna Cum Laude Bachelor of Science degree from DeVry University of Columbus. Also, Don received a Graduate Certificate in Project Management in 2007 from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He expects to graduate with his MBA from the UTD PMI-certified graduate project management program in December 2008. Don can be contacted by e-mail at .dgubbins@columbus.rr.com.
Donald R. Hammons Donald R. Hammons, PMP has a 15-year track record in project management. An eight-year Veteran of the United States Navy, Donald’s U.S. Navy telecommunication experience launched his civilian program management career in the U.Ss Telecom and IT sectors in the early-mid 1990’s. Don has led large multi-million dollar programs for Lucent Technologies, Alcatel SA of France, and Deutsche Bank AG in Asia-Pac. Donald is the former PMO for the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at UT Southwestern, a member of the Town of Flower Mound, Texas 4B Community Development Corporation Board, and is currently a management consultant in N. Texas. Don is a 2004 graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas where he earned a Master of Science and an MBA in Program Management.
Ronda Hayes Ronda Hayes, PMP has over 11 years of IT experience as well as an IT Contractor focusing on the functionality of project management and business analysis. Currently, she is the Oracle Coordinator at North Lake College and IT faculty member. In addition, she is co-creating a Risk Management course for the PMI Dallas Chapter. Ronda received her Master of Science degree in Information Systems and Technology from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Anders Heie Anders Heie is the Founder and CEO of KaDonk (Http://www.kadonk.com) located in Poway, California. KaDonk provides LiveProject FREE project viewer, and LiveProject Professional, a powerful real-time sharing and collaboration tool for Microsoft Project files. LiveProject has thousands of users worldwide, and has received rave reviews from project managers. Anders Heie worked as the Chief Software Architect for Nokia in San Diego, and has five US and one European patents. Anders was the Keynote Speaker at the Second Software Project Line Conference in 2002. He can be contacted at anders@kadonk.com.  Susan Hewitt Susan Hewitt is the Senior Manager of Program Management in the DTV Division, Consumer Electronics Group at AMD Markham in Ontario, Canada. She leads the program management team in the development of ICs for digital television. She has a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University and a Master of Business Administration with emphasize on Project Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Brian Irwin Brian Irwin, PMP, is President of PM Team Dynamics in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. Brian has worked in project and program management roles for more than twelve years for companies such as Gateway 2000, Hewlett Packard, and Rockwell Collins. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Management – Project Management, both from Colorado Technical University in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). PM Team Dynamics is a project management consulting and training firm which focuses on project teaming and leadership development, troubled project assessment and recovery, and OPM3 organizational self-assessment and improvement implementations. Brian is a volunteer for the Project Management Institute (PMI®), serving a leadership role on PMI’s OPM3 2008 update team and as a team member on the Portfolio Management Standards team. Realizing that project failure is often a result ofineffective teaming and a lack of leadership and interpersonal skills, he founded PM Team Dynamics and has concentrated his efforts on increasing the human relations and interpersonal skills of project leaders. Brian has also authored a book on politics and conflict in project management which will be released in November, 2007 by Management Concepts. He is an accomplished speaker and has presented project management topics to a number of audiences. He can be contacted at brian@pmteamdynamics.com.
Ali Jaafari Professor Ali Jaafari is the current President of Asia Pacific International College (APIC), a newly-founded and formally accredited Australian Higher Education Institution devoted to professional and systemic development of managers as well as professionalisation of project-based business units. APIC offers innovative programs in business and project management. He is an Honorary Professor of Project Management at the University of Sydney and has had a long and distinguished academic and industrial track record in Australia and overseas, including more than 20 years of academic service at the University of Sydney. He has acted as a consultant to industry and governments worldwide. Professor Jaafari has authored more than 170 publications and has conducted courses and seminars for over 3,000 executives, managers and professionals in Australia, Asia and Europe. His current research aims at understanding the complexity theory and its impacts on the discipline of management in general and project and program management in particular. APIC is a leading academic institution in terms of the underpinning educational theories and transformative approach to learning and development. APIC’s educational programs are supported by many tools including PH-Check that facilitate the application of the complexity theory to project and program management.  DT Jainendrakumar TD Jainendrakumar, PMP, is a Technocrat with over 20 years’ of extensive experience in the areas of IT Project management/Head IT PMO in e-governance at Ernakulam District Collectorate, District Courts of Kerala, Central Administrative Tribunal Ernakulam, Rajeev Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission New Delhi and Principal Systems Analyst in National Informatics Centre, Madhya Pradesh State Centre especially in the following areas of specialization: 1. IT practice management (Project Management Methodologies, Tools and techniques, Standards & Knowledge); 2. IT Infrastructure Management (Project Governance, Assessment, Organisational Instructions & Facilities and Equipments); 3. IT-Resource Integration Management (Resource Management, Training & Education, Career Development & Team Development); 4. IT-Technical Support (Project Mentoring, Project Planning, Project Auditing and Project Recovery); and 5. Business Alignment Management (Project Port folio management, Customer Relationship Management, Vendor Management & Business performance management). He completed a Master of Computer Applications (MCA), a 3 year post graduate course deals with software Engineering and Project Management. He scored 4.11 out of 5 in the project management (2005) examination conducted by brainbench.com, secured a Masters Certificate in Project Management, and is one among the top scorers (First in India in the experienced category). He is also working towards the PMP certification from PMI. Additional information about TD Jainendrakumar can be found at  Karen Jefferson Karen Jefferson is Vice-President and co-owner of David Jefferson Enterprises, Inc., an IT Management and Consulting firm based in Coppell, Texas, USA. Karen is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with twenty-eight years of professional experience in IT leadership and project management. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Dallas and a Master of Science (MS) degree in Administrative Science from The University of Texas at Dallas. She can be contacted at karen.jefferson@djenterprises.com.
Eric Jennett Eric Jenett, PMI Founder & Fellow - V.P. Brown & Root (Retired)
Lothar Katz Lothar Katz is a management advisor in the field of international business. He has helped many organizations grow their global competence and maximize their international business success. During his 16 years with Texas Instruments, a Fortune 500 company, Mr. Katz gained extensive negotiation, business leadership, and project management experience. As a Vice President and General Manager, he successfully led international organizations across four continents and regularly interacted with employees, customers, outsourcing partners, and third parties in numerous countries. Mr. Katz is the author of the book “Negotiating International Business – The Negotiator’s Reference Guide to 50 Countries Around the World”, a faculty member of the Project Management Program at the University of Texas at Dallas’ School of Management, and a Business Leadership Center instructor at the Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business. In addition to his work with several Fortune 500 companies and other clients, Mr. Katz is a frequent speaker at nationwide conferences and organizational meetings. Recent public lectures included “Negotiating International Business” (Council for Supply Chain Mgmt Professionals, Dallas, 2007), “Negotiating and Innovating a Partnership in China” (“Innovation with Partners in China” Conference, San Diego, 2007), “Project Management Across Borders” (PMI, Houston, 2007), “Initiating and Planning International Projects” (PMI SIG, 2006), “Executing International Projects” (PMI SIG, 2006), “The Hidden Cost of Offshore Outsourcing” (Financial Executives Initiative, Dallas, 2006), “Selection Criteria for Global Projects” (Management Roundtable, 2006), “Co-Developing Products in Asia” (MRT, 2005, 2006, and 2007), and “Doing Business in China” (“Building and Enforcing IP Value in China” Conference, San Francisco/New York, 2005, 2006, and 2007). Together with his partner Dr. Sue Freedman, he co-developed and frequently co-instructs a series of workshops on “Managing Projects Across Borders.” Lothar can be contacted at lk@leadershipcrossroads.com.
Sarim Khan Sarim Khan is CEO of PertMaster, a provider of risk and analytics software for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) environments, with a focus on oil & gas exploration, engineering, manufacturing, construction, aerospace, defence and governmental industries. Mr. Khan manages and holds responsibility for all aspects of PertMasters public business and technology strategies. He has over 12 years experience in the decision analytics software industry and has previously held management and executive positions at SPSS Inc., SAS Institute, Windmill Solutions and Jobpartners. Mr. Khan hasworked closely with many Fortune 500 companies to better apply predictive risk and analytics solutions -- enabling clients to win and deliver profitable real-life projects. Sarim is a member of PMI and the Association of Project Management (APM) in the UK. He has lived in Dubai, UAE for the last 3 years, and holds a BSc (Management Sciences, Operational Research) from Lancaster University Management School, UK. Sarim can be reached at sarim@pertmaster.com
Robert (Bob) Kimmons Robert L. [Bob] Kimmonsis 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."
Yuji Kishira Yuji Kishira is currently Director of Being Corporation and Director of Japan TOC Advancement Committee. Mr. Kishira joined Kyocera Corporation in 1984 and headed various projects associated with high technology ceramic products and market development for telecommunications, information technology, medical, and automotive industries. In 2004, he joined Being Corporation which has developed de facto-standard cost estimation software for Japanese public construction. He is actively supporting various BPR (business process reengineering) projects in commercial companies and government organizations. Yuji is the author of “Transformation Management: A Manager’s Guide”, “Project Management to exceed your goals” (Chukei Publishing), and “A Practical Guide to Marketing for Presidents” (Chukei Publishing 2003). Contact: kishira@beingcorp.co.jp
Fumiko Kondo Fumiko Kondo is the Managing Director at Intellilink – a specialist management consulting firm that improves the productivity of knowledge worker organizations. Her areas of expertise include; project management, talent management, IT governance and organizational change. She can be reached at info@intellilink.com.
Joel M. Koppelman Joel M. Koppelman is co-founder, co-owner, and chief executive officer of Primavera Systems, Inc. Primavera is a leading global provider of project portfolio management solutions which are helping companies improve the management of people, projects and process. Companies such as EDS, Guardian Life, Bechtel, and AOL/Time Warner use Primavera products to accelerate the delivery of products and services, reduce costs and risks, and align projects and resources with corporate strategy. Mr. Koppelman spent more than thirteen years at Day & Zimmermann, a large engineering-construction firm, and Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he held senior leadership positions. He is a registered professional engineer and an active member of several professional societies. Mr. Koppelman also co-authored the PMI best-selling book "Earned Value Project Management" with Quentin Fleming.Mr. Koppelman received the 2002 "Award of Merit" from AACE (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering), the 1994 "Distinguished Contributor Award" from PMI (Project Management Institute) and was named to the Drexel University 100 in 2000. Mr. Koppelman is also a member of Drexel University's Engineering College Advisory Council.
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J. Ajith Kumar J. Ajith Kumar is a graduate in Chemical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India and has over 25 years experience in various Project Management roles with many reputed engineering consultants like FEDO, Belleli, ILF, Parsons and WorleyParsons. Presently he heads the Project Services Department in WorleyParsons in the Sultanate of Oman. He can be reached at jajithkumar@hotmail.com
Michelle LaBrosse Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, is the founder of Cheetah Learning, and author of Cheetah Negotiation and Cheetah Project Management. The Project Management Institute (PMI®) recently selected Michelle as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Project Management in the World, and only one of two women selected from the training and education industry. She was featured in the October 2006 issue of PM Network Magazine, and also graduated from the Harvard Business School’s Owner President Managers (OPM) program in March 2006. She created the origins of the Cheetah Project Management methodology as an Air Force Officer in the mid 80’s. In 1995, she prototyped the concept of accelerating learning using “virtual classrooms,” to accelerate the way people learned and applied core business skills. As a corporate research scientist in systems engineering and adult learning for a large multinational corporation, she later created and tested a one-day approach to teaching Project Management. This approach would later evolve to become Cheetah Project Management, a fast and effective way of launching projects. Today, she is the leader of the course development team at Cheetah and sets the strategic direction for the company. Using the Cheetah Project Management techniques, LaBrosse has grown the company from three employees in 2000 to more than 100 in 2006. Cheetah is now the global leader in Project Manager Professional Development. Her articles have appeared in publications such as: European CEO Magazine, Plant Engineering Magazine, Industrial Engineer Magazine, Control Engineering Magazine, Journal of the American Association for Medical Transcription JAAMT, NSSEA Essentials Magazine, ASTN Network Magazine, Radio Sales Today, Sprinkler Quarterly & Technology Magazine, The Federal Credit Union Magazine Online, Business Quarterly Online American Society of Landscape Architects, ACRP Wire Association of Clinical Research Professionals, American Council of Engineering Companies Association and more. With a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, LaBrosse has done extensive postgraduate work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Educational Studies and with the University of Washington Industrial Engineering Program in accelerating adult learning with respect to meeting core business objectives. She lives in Nevada with her family and likes to rejuvenate in Alaska where you’ll often find her kayaking, golfing or hiking.  Debra Lavell
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Harvey A. Levine Harvey A. Levine, with 44 years of service to the project management industry, is founder of The Project Knowledge Group, a consulting firm specializing in the dissemination of PM knowledge through writing, training, mentoring and direct consulting. He has implemented or enhanced the project management capabilities of numerous firms, often combined with the selection or implementation of computerized project management tools. For more information on Harvey Levine or the Project Knowledge Group, please visit http://home.earthlink.net/~halevine/. Mr. Levine is the author of three books, and over 240 articles, whitepapers and videos on Project Management. His 2002 book, "Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools", is still available from John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Levine's latest book, "Project Portfolio Management, A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits", Jossey-Bass, was released in July, 2005. Mr. Levine is past president and chair of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), a recipient of PMI's 1989 Distinguished Contribution to Project Management award, and has been elected a Fellow of PMI. He was Contributing Editor to PMI’s PM Network for thirteen years and has contributed to dozens of periodicals and websites dedicated to project management. He is a popular keynote speaker and panel chair, as well as presenter of workshops and problem solving sessions in the private and public sectors. Mr. Levine has been an early supporter of Project Portfolio Management practices and has promoted PPM though books, articles, presentations, and individual mentoring and consulting. Mr. Levine has offices in Saratoga Springs, New York and San Diego, California. Harvey can be contacted at halevine@earthlink.net. Additional information about Harvey Levine can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#3.
Pablo Lledó Pablo Lledó is the Director of MasConsulting, www.masconsulting.com.ar, one of the Argentinean’s project management Consulting Companies and he is a distinguished international professor in the field of professional project management. His professional experience includes a wide variety of projects and his academic experience includes two project management books published by Pearson Prentice Hall. During the last 10 years, Pablo has been training and advising world’s leading companies located all around Latin America. Pablo can be reached via email at: pablolledo@masconsulting.com.ar. Pablo Lledó es el Director de MasConsulting, www.masconsulting.com.ar, una empresa argentina especializada en la Dirección de Proyectos y es profesor internacional distinguido en dirección de proyectos. Su experiencia profesional incluye una amplia variedad de proyectos y sus antecedentes académicos incluyen dos libros de dirección de proyectos publicados por Pearson Prentice Hall. Durante los últimos 10 años, Pablo ha estado entrenando y asesorando a empresas líderes mundiales localizadas a lo largo y ancho de toda Latinoamérica. Pablo puede ser contactado vía e-mail en: pablolledo@masconsulting.com.ar
Ronald Look Ronald Look, PMP, has 20 years of experience as a project manager in the IT sector. He has 9 years experience managing in-house projects for a national insurance company, first as a team lead and then as a group manager. He has spent the last 10.5 years managing projects as a Senior Consultant for an international IT consulting firm, specializing in IT application outsourcing and project development. He has project management experience from the perspective of both a buyer and supplier of IT services. Ron lives in Schaumburg, Illinois, USA and can be contacted at ronlook@comcast.net.
Suresh Malladi, PMP Suresh Malladi is a certified PMP® and works as a Client Services Manager with a major software firm headquartered in Philadelphia. In this role, Suresh manages software projects and has managed the pre-sales and post-sales process for many clients on the East Coast in the USA by providing technical consulting, project execution methodologies, and coordinating the project execution with teams across the globe. Suresh has extensive experience in software development and testing, having led several software projects to successful completion for Fortune 1000 clients and Independent Software Companies. He has worked globally in many domains like financial services, banking, insurance, manufacturing, etc., during his professional stint. Suresh has amaster’s degree in IT from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from India. Suresh can be contacted via sureshmalladi@yahoo.com
Venkat Madireddy Venkat Madireddy has over 10 years experience in IT industry. Venkat holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, India and a Master of Business Administration - Operations Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University, India. He recently graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Graduate Certificate in Project Management (GCPM) Degree. He is a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) from PMI, IT Service Management (ITIL) and IT Service Quality Management (SQM) Certified by EXIN, Netherlands. He is based in Singapore. He works as Independent IT Service Management Training Consultant. Venkat can be reached at pminstitute@gmail.com.
Jerry Manas Jerry Manas is the author of Managing the Gray Areas (RMC Publications, January 2008) and Napoleon on Project Management (Nelson Business, April 2006). Through his company, The Marengo Group, Jerry helps organizations implement the principles outlined in his books. His Service-Oriented Project Management (SOPM) framework has been recognized as an innovative achievement model that fosters systems thinking and a client-focused mindset. In addition to his extensive consulting career, he has managed numerous large-scale, global programs spanning Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, and North America. Jerry is an active volunteer with the Project Management Institute (PMI), and is currently on the Board of Directors for their Aerospace and Defense SIG. He has contributed to several of PMI's international standards, including their Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3), where he assisted with the integration of the model and helped define the glossary; and their new standards for Program and Portfolio Management, where he was recruited to help lead the program (consisting of more than four hundred people around the world) as part of a core leadership team. Jerry is also co-founder of PMThink! (www.pmthink.com), a popular blog site. Visit Jerry’s website at www.manasbooks.com.
Major Adrian Marsh Major Adrian Marsh spent his company grade officer career as a combat engineer serving in leadership and staff positions in Georgia, Germany, and Kosovo. Upon becoming an Acquisition Corps Officer he has served as a project officer for PEO-EIS in the Army Knowledge Online Program Office. In Afghanistan he served as the Deputy, Interagency Resource Cell, an office unique to the U.S. Embassy, Afghanistan, designed to synchronize interagency program funding. Major Marsh's holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the United States Military Academy, a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla and a M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He is currently serving as the Army Knowledge Online - Forward project officer.
Russ Martinelli Russ Martinelli is the Manager of Program Management Methods within the Corporate Platform Office at Intel Corporation, where he focuses on the definition and implementation of program management practices across Intel. Additionally, Russ is the chairman of Intel’s global Program Management Community of Practice, an adjunct professor at the University of Phoenix, and co-founder of the Program Management Academy. Russ has held a variety of positions at Intel and Lockheed Martin in the areas of systems engineering, general management, operations management, and project and program management. Contact Russ at: mailto:russ.martinelli@programmanagement-academy.com
Michael A. Martinez Michael A. Martinez is the Manager of Care Project Management for North America at Nokia Siemens Networks. He has managed R&D, software development, systems integration, network deployment, and services projects. He has a B.S. in History from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a B.S. in Computer Science from Angelo State University, and a M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has a Certificate in Project Management from the University of Texas at Dallas. He can be contacted at michael.martinez@nsn.com.
Avneet Mathur Avneet Mathur works for Zeratec, Inc. which provides utility computing solutions to individuals and companies, as their Chief Technology Officer managing various projects for the organization. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, as awarded by the Project Management Institute. Avneet holds an MBA in General Business Administration, with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship and Finance, with an additional Master's Degree in Computer Science and Networking from University of Missouri, Kansas City. He also has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Aurangabad University, India. He can be reached at Avneet_mathur@hotmail.com for further questions.  Jim Miller Jim Miller, PMP, CISSP, CISM is a Vice President  Randy Miller Randy Miller has 11 years of customer-focused experience in sales and services delivery. Prior to joining Journyx in 1999 as the first Timesheet-specific sales rep, Randy spent five years in the Corporate Sales and Retail Management divisions of leading electronics retailer CompUSA. Since then Randy has held many different positions at Journyx, including: Sales Engineer, Trainer, Consultant, Product Manager, Support Team Manager, and Implementation Manager for Enterprise Accounts. Randy has personally managed development and implementation efforts for many of the company's largest customers and is a co-holder of several Journyx patents. Randy was named Director of Services in 2005. Randy can be reached at randy@journyx.com.
Rudolf Melik Rudolf Melik is CEO and one of the original founders of Tenrox. He has over fifteen years of experience in software engineering and the project workforce management industry. He has extensive knowledge of and speaks regularly about software solutions that support compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, DCAA, GAAP project cost accounting, revenue recognition, and labor laws such as FMLA and FLSA. He was also the principal author of the first book on Professional Services Automation. Melik holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from McGill University. Melik is the author of the 2007 book The Rise of the Project Workforce: Managing People and Projects in a Flat World (Wiley, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-12430-7, $34.95). For more information, please visit www.projectworkforcebook.com.
Ruth Murray-Webster Ruth Murray-Webster, APMP, PMP is managing partner at Lucidus Consulting Limited in the UK. She has over 20 years of experience as an organizational change facilitator, coach, consultant and manager. In her early career, she led significant organizational re-alignment programmes for ICI and Amersham International. For the past ten years, she has worked as an independent consultant, helping a wide range of clients with project, programme, quality, risk and change management solutions. Ruth is a Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and PRINCE2 practitioner, and a full member of the Association of Project Management (APM), the Project Management Institute (PMI®), the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, and the Institute of Quality Assurance. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Henley Management College. Ruth has a wealth of knowledge and experience, including international PM experience in China, Japan, Norway, Russia, the UK and the USA. She is co-author of the book ‘Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude’ which is now widely acclaimed as leading the way in helping to manage risk effectively. More information about Lucidus can be found at www.lucidusconsulting.com. Ruth Murray-Webster can be contacted at Ruth@LucidusConsulting.com.  Hussein Mzee Hussein Mzee holds a BA in Economics and an MA Degree from Kokusai Daigaku (IUJ) Japan and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA Degree in Project Management from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has wide consulting experience with major IT and telecommunication companies both in Japan and the US including Lehman Brothers, IBM-Japan, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu-AMD, Hitachi, and DHL. He is currently employed by Perot Systems and is based in the company’s global headquarters in Plano, Texas. He can be contacted at Hussein.Mzee@ps.net. |
