Like the Great Oz, Dr. Dan Patterson PMP has been the man behind the curtain creating leading project management tools for over 20 years.
About Dan: A globally recognized project analytics thought leader and software entrepreneur, Dan has several highly successful Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software companies under his belt (most recently Acumen), Dan has a unique combination of solution innovation combined with extensive commercial & technical project management experience including advanced scheduling, risk management, project analytics & artificial intelligence. This experience has been used to lead multiple successful software company start-ups with Dan being a true visionary & renowned marketeer.
Most recently, as CEO and founder of Acumen, Dan spent 5 years organically growing and nurturing this now widely recognized industry leading project analytics company (www.projectacumen.com). Acquired by Deltek in 2013, today, the Acumen suite of products (Fuse, 360 and Acumen Risk) are used by thousands of Fortune 500 project controls specialists.
Episode 008 of the Project Management show features Elizabeth Harrin MA, FAPM, MBCS, the author of three books about project management: Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014).
About Elizabeth: Elizabeth is the award-winning blogger behind A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, a specialist blog aimed at helping project managers communicate more effectively. She is widely published on project management topics and has contributed to numerous websites and magazines.
She is a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a member of PMI.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems
When it comes to subject matter experts on creating schedules for large, complex projects, Rich is the best! He also scores a 10 on being an all around great guy that is fun to work with!
This podcast focuses on the initial phase of the project and creating short term actions for meeting the immediate needs of the project and then implementing the building blocks of a Work Breakdown Structure, cost estimates, schedules, and reporting tools that meet the long term success goals of the project management team and stakeholders.
Episode 003 of the Project Management Show features Mark Warner, who offers a great perspective for engineers that find themselves leading a team of other brilliant engineers.
Mark Warner is the Deputy Project Manager for the multi-decade, $350M Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) design-build construction project.
About Mark: He is a degreed and licensed professional engineer (PE), and has a project management professional (PMP) certification. His career spans 35 years as both engineer and manager, and his expertise includes aerospace engineering, management of large-scale science construction projects, design and fabrication of precision machinery and instrumentation, and the oversight and management of complex large-scale construction projects.
Mark is a regular contributor to the Project Management Show (projectmanagementshow.com) and also authors a blog on his site projectmanagementfor engineers.com.
This epidsode is sponsored by The Trident Group.
Episode 004 of the Project Management Show features David Pells, PMI Fellow and one of the foremost authorities in the field of project management, who shares with us his experiences as a pioneer in global project management.
About David: David L. Pells is Managing Editor of the PM World Journal, a global eJournal for program and project management, and Executive Director at the PM World Library. He is also the president and CEO of PM World, the virtual organization behind the PM World Journal and Library, and president of PM World Services, a U.S. firm providing high level PM advisory services for major government programs. David is an internationally recognized leader in the field of professional project management with more than 35 years of experience on a wide variety of programs and projects, including engineering, construction, defense, transit and high technology, and project sizes ranging from several thousand to ten billion dollars. He continues to act in advisory roles for several global programs and organizations. He has been an active professional leader in the United States since the 1980s, served on the board of directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) twice, and founded and led the Global Project Management Forum, a series of meetings of international PM professional leaders from around the world, during the 1990s. David was awarded PMI’s Person of the Year award in 1998 and Fellow Award in 1999. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM) in the UK, Project Management Associates (PMA – the national PM society of India), and of the Russian Project Management Association SOVNET. From June 2006 until March 2012, he was the managing editor for PMForum.org and of the globally acclaimed eJournal PM World Today. David has published widely, speaks at conferences and events worldwide, and can be contacted at editor@pmworldjournal.net.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems
Episode 005 of the Project Management show features Joe McMullin, Project Manager for the DKIST project. I have been fortunate enough to work on ATST/DKIST since 2006. After listening to Joe's podcast it will be easy for everyone to understand why I enjoy what I do so much. Very cool project working with the best people in the business!
About Joe: Joe is the Project Manager for the multi-decade, $350M Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)
Joe earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1994 (in physics and chemistry of nearby star forming regions). Since then, his career has been dedicated to the development and enhancement of new astronomical facilities. He worked at Steward Observatory on the commissioning of the Heinrich Hertz Telescope. Joe worked at NRAO for 14 years, where he first went astray from science and into science management, supporting and then leading the effort to develop a data analysis package for NRAO instruments. While at NRAO, he moved to Chile to lead the Assembly, Integration and Verification effort for ALMA and then lead the commissioning effort for the (then) EVLA (now the JVLA) and its early operations. In 2011 Joe became the Project Manager for DKIST which will be the world’s largest solar telescope upon completion.
This episode is sponsored by Bravo Reporting Systems