Cheryl Allen is a project management consultant and trainer specializing in practical project management processes for technology projects. She has over 20 years of experience on software projects and has implemented software project management processes and training for leading computer software and hardware manufacturers as well as government organizations. Her clients include Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, UC Berkeley, California State Health and Human Services Agency and California State Department of Transportation. Ms. Allen has a unique mix of business and technical skills. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), holds an MS in Computer and Information Science for the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Mathematics from Montana State University. Ms. Allen is a member of PMI, IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
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Kathleen Donohue, PMP, is an independent consultant who offers training and consulting services specializing in project management and team building. She is also a trainer and consultant for Griffin Tate Group, a Charter Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) Ms. Donohue has been a manager, project manager, consultant and trainer in various organizations, consulting firms and independently since 1987. Before that, she worked for various Wall Street firms in trading and operations. She has worked with project managers and functional managers around the world to improve project management processes and project team performance by coaching and teaching project management tools and techniques including communication, motivation and team-building skills. Ms. Donohue is a graduate of College of the City University of New York where she holds a bachelor’s degree (BBA) in human resource management and she is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).
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Joan Knutson, renowned project management consultant, author and lecturer, has earned an international reputation as a project management thought-leader. Her experience includes: founding and managing a successful, multi-million dollar project management training and consulting firm; being a published author of several highly regarded books on project management, including her most recent work, Succeeding in Project-Driven Organizations; and speaking to thousands of people world-wide through her interactive and informative keynote presentations, seminars and e-learning offerings.
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Jim O’Donnell, MBA,MAEd, has an extensive background in managing sales and marketing projects at high-tech companies. He teaches project management at UC Berkeley Extension and San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA, and is MBTI certified. He is director of instructional design at MSI Learning, where he manages the development of online project management content. He has an MBA and a Masters Degree in Instructional Technologies.
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Carl Pritchard, PMP, principal and founder of Pritchard Management Associates, is a leading authority on risk management, presenting on topics ranging from project essentials to the complexities of network diagramming and team motivation. As an author and researcher, he has published articles on project management maturity, the international trends in project management, advances in risk management, and on the nuances of training on the Internet. He performs keynote addresses regularly for organizations working to enliven their project management practices. He has worked as an instructor with leading international training organizations, private clients and the PMI. He is the United States correspondent for Project Manager Today, the United Kingdom’s leading, longest established, independent project management magazine. Pritchard is the author of Risk Management Concepts and Guidance (3rd Edition), The Project Management Communications Toolkit, Precedence Diagramming: Successful Scheduling in the Team Environment and How to Build the Work Breakdown Structure. He serves on the board of directors for ProjectConnections.com and recorded a nine CD audio training program called The Portable PMP Prep with J. LeRoy Ward. He consults and coaches on project management, presentation skills, risk, distance learning and course development. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University (USA) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).
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Michel Thiry, MSc, TVM, PMI Fellow, PMP, is managing partner of Valense Ltd., an International Consultancy and Education Network and Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.). He works internationally as an organizational consultant and instructor and has over 30 years worldwide professional experience. He holds a master’s degree (MSc) in organizational behavior from Birkbeck College University of London, London, England, and is currently doing a PhD with University College London (UCL). He has written and lectured widely on project, program (PgM) and value management (VM) at an International level. More specifically, he authored Value Management Practice (PMI, 1997) and coauthored the "Managing Programmes of Projects” chapter in the Gower Handbook of Project Management (3rd Edition). He also coauthored the “Program Management” and “Value Management” chapters in Project Management Pathways, published by the U.K.-based Association of Project Management in early 2003, and the same chapters in The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects, published in 2004. He regularly writes and reviews for the International Journal of Project Management, is an adjunct professor for the ISGI (France) / UTS (Australia) and a lecturer at Reading University United Kingdom. Thiry has been director of PMI’s Montréal and United Kingdom chapters and president of the Value Management European Governing Board for Certification and Training. He participated in the development of the official French language translation of PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ® Guide) and coordinated the development of the Managing Projects Step-by-Step® CD-ROM (PMI, 1996).
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Cinda Voegtli has 20 years experience building organizations in both start-ups and large corporate environments. She has held director-level positions managing up to $50 million (US) budgets across as many as 80 projects simultaneously. She has held senior management consulting roles at corporations and with clients such as Lam Research, Nellcor, and Mobil Corporation. She is the past president of the IEEE Engineering Management Society; author and worldwide speaker on engineering and project management; and co-author of a Fortune 500-targeted book on rapid product development.
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Alex Walton, MBA, PMP, is a well-known practitioner, teacher, facilitator and consultant focusing on effective program/project management for new product development, process improvements, re-engineering, strategic planning and other activities. Mr. Walton teaches in the University of Berkeley International Programs and for 22 years has provided significant support to numerous client organizations, including Cisco Systems, Harris Corp, Abbott International, UC Berkeley, Wells Fargo, and Franklin Covey. Mr. Walton is a recognized reviewer to the PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—1996.
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