Joel Koppelman
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit (GBU)

Joel Koppelman was a co-founder and the CEO of Primavera Systems for 25 years until its acquisition by Oracle. The Primavera GBU continues to focus on project, program and portfolio management helping customers to plan, execute and control the projects that grow their enterprise and advance their business strategy. Primavera solutions are used globally by project-centric organizations whose success requires on-time, on-budget and on-scope delivery making the best use of talented and scarce resources.

As a GBU within Oracle, Primavera is now able to deliver Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solutions that tightly integrate with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions including Oracle’s eBusiness Suite, JD Edwards Enterprise One and PeopleSoft, as well as SAP R/3.

Mr. Koppelman co-authored with Quentin Fleming the Project Management Institute (PMI) best seller “Earned Value Project Management”, now in its third edition. Together they have written dozens of articles published in many well known business publications including the Harvard Business Review. He was elected to the Drexel University “100” and has received the prestigious “Award of Merit” from AACE and the “Distinguished Contributor Award” from PMI. In 2008, Mr. Koppelman was selected as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Drexel University.

Mr. Koppelman holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Drexel University and MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has two daughters and in his spare time is a passionate sculptor and an aspiring sailor.

Brian M Evans
PMP, PMI-SP, EVP, Principal, MCR LLC

Brian Evans is a Principal in MCR’s Project Solution Group. The group is responsible for Integrated Program Management support across MCR. Mr. Evans is responsible for scheduling competency throughout MCR. He has over 20 years of Program Management experience on a variety of Federal programs. During that time he has been involved in the planning, budgeting, and execution of a variety of major DOD Weapons Systems, and Federal Civilian IT programs.  During his career, he has served a variety of roles including deputy program manager, project manager, program control chief, business analyst, scheduler, risk manager, and contract manager.

Bruce Stephan
P.E, PMP, PE, PMP, Managing Principal, PMA Consultants, LLC

Mr. Bruce Stephan, PE, PMP has thirty years experience performing a variety of systems implementations, construction management and claims analysis functions. He holds a juris doctorate degree, a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and is a certified PMP and a licensed professional engineer in New York and New Jersey. Since 1998, he redefined business processes and/or implemented Primavera Scheduling and Cost Control systems for the Port Authority of NY & NJ, the Columbus Regional Airport Authority, PSE&G and King County WA. He currently is a Regional Construction Manager in charge of $300M of construction on the SFPUC’s $4B Water System Improvement Program, where he helps define program wide procedures and systems.

Mr. Stephan is the Managing Principal in charge of the Western Region for PMA’ Consultants LLC, a 200-person project management consulting firm founded in 1971.

Carlos Nazario
PMP, Principal Associate, PMA Consultants, LLC

Carlos Nazario has over 10 years of experience in project and construction management. He has significant project controls experience and has excelled at assisting clients develop integrated schedules in the fields of residential and commercial development, healthcare, transit systems and other public infrastructure. Currently Mr. Nazario is supporting BP’s Integrated Supply and Trading Division as Schedule Manager for the BrightLights relocation project in Chicago, IL. Mr. Nazario earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and a MS in Project Management from Northwestern University.

Chris Carson
CCM, PSP, Corporate Director of Project Controls, Alpha Corporation

Chris Carson is Corporate Director of Project Controls for Alpha Corporation, a professional engineering/construction firm, managing a team of project controls professionals, providing CM services in scheduling, schedule analysis, claims avoidance, dispute resolution, and estimating. He is a CMAA Certified Construction Manager (CCM), and an AACEi Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP). Presenting at CMAA, AACE, DBIA, and PMI College of Scheduling conferences, Mr. Carson received a 2009 College of Scheduling award for “Significant Contributions to the Scheduling Industry”, earned “Best Paper in the Scheduling Track” at the 2006 AACEi national conference, and received the “Chairman’s Award” by CMAA in 2006. Mr. Carson is also Managing Director for the PMI College of Scheduling SEI project, writing Best Practices and Guidelines for Scheduling and Schedule Impact Analysis, and was just elected Vice President for SEI for the College.

Colin Cropley
PMP, PRINCE 2 Certified Practitioner, Technical Director Risk Management & Project Controls, Hyder Project Management Group of Hyder Consulting Pty Ltd (Formerly Crescent PSS Pty Ltd)

Colin Cropley has over thirty five years experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for major companies including BHP Billiton and Woodside.

Colin is a Chemical Engineering Graduate of The University of Melbourne and was Chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009.

He has been guest lecturing in project management at universities since 1991 and has delivered presentations at many project management related conferences. He is a member of PMI, including Risk SIG, College of Scheduling and College of Performance Management.

Dan Patterson
PMP, CEO and President, Acumen

Dr. Dan Patterson PMP is the founder of Acumen and is a recognized thought leader and visionary within the project management industry. Prior to starting Acumen, Dan was Executive VP at Pertmaster leading the Americas business unit from inception through to acquisition by Primavera. Dan is also responsible for developing a now widely accepted integrated qualitative/quantitative approach to risk analysis through facilitated risk workshops. His depth of knowledge extends well beyond risk into schedule analytics and project optimization.

Dan has a proven track record across multiple industries including A&D, government, energy and EPC. As CEO of Acumen, Dan now places focus on Acumen Fuse, the most advanced & comprehensive project analytics tool available for MS Project, Primavera, Deltek, MS Excel and more. More information can be found at www.projectacumen.com

Darrel Field
PE, LEED AP, Senior Principal, PMA Consultants, LLC

Darrel Field has 34 years experience in project management consulting and is a Senior Principal with PMA Consultants LLC. He specializes in helping clients plan, procure and manage large capital projects and programs to provide infrastructure, water and wastewater facilities, power generation, and information systems with a cumulative value of more than $6 billion. Mr. Field also provides expert analysis of delays, productivity and costs to assist clients in resolving construction disputes. Mr. Field is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Ohio and Michigan.

Dave Somanchi
Owner, Construction Scheduling Experts

Dave Somanchi is the Owner of Construction Scheduling Experts (CSE). His experience includes 8 years of construction management and 15 years of construction scheduling and claims representing Contractors as well as Public Owners. He provides expert testimony services on various projects including educational facilities, hospitals, waste water treatment plants, dams, commercial buildings, highways and bridges. He delivers seminars on scheduling and claims.  He is certified as a Professional Civil Engineer in the state of California, Planning & Scheduling Professional and Project Management Institute Scheduling Professional.  His education includes BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Structural Engineering and Construction Management.

David Gorski
Senior Project Manager / Chief Project Scheduler, Gannett Fleming, Inc

David Gorski is a Project Manager/Chief Project Scheduler for Gannett Fleming Inc., a graduate of Penn State, holds an EIT in Pennsylvania and a member of PMICOS since 1995. For 7 years, Mr. Gorski was employed by the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation; was involved in the Agency’s light rail and commuter rail programs. Presently with Gannett Fleming he has been involved in construction oversight, mass transit planning/design, construction estimating/scheduling, design project planning, scheduling and maintenance. Mr. Gorski is presently working with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in the statewide project scheduling program. Mr. Gorski has authored papers on transit support facility requirements for SMART and contributed in PennDOT’s Publication 352, Estimating Manual and Publication 615, – Scheduling Manual Operating Procedures for Design Schedules using Open Plan / WelcomHome.

Dennis D. Lane
PMP, MBA, Principal Consultant, AcceleratedPM LLC

Dennis’ career has been dedicated to Project, Program, and Portfolio Management. He has managed many large projects, programs, and groups of programs, always being an advocate of Process Based Project Management. He has been a major contributor to companies developing a robust Project Management System capability, including Magnavox, Hughes, Raytheon, Eaton, and DRS Technologies, Marathon Oil Company, and Shell. Dennis enjoys working with companies with a passion for implementing project management systems. Dennis has actively contributed as a Principal Consultant focused in Portfolio Project Management and EVMS and has extensive knowledge and experience in applying Oracle Primavera P6 products.

Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon
PE, PMP, LEED AP, CEO/Managing Principal, PMA Consultants, LLC

Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon, is recognized as one of our nation’s foremost planning and scheduling experts. He has pioneered a number of project scheduling innovations and has written widely on the use of CPM in construction contracts and schedule/delay/acceleration analysis. Dr. Gui’s broad professional experience includes executive and senior roles as investor’s developer, program manager and construction manager.

Starting with his doctoral work, Dr. Gui’s 40 year career in project management is still going strong. His Graphical Path Method (GPM®) is aimed at revolutionizing planning and scheduling at a level not seen since the advent of critical path methods in the 1950’s. Dr. Gui earned his Ph. D. from the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Following graduation, Dr. Gui served as adjunct professor in the graduate construction management program from 1973-1989.

Gabriel Saenz
Global Chief of Planning & Scheduling, Shaw Energy & Chemicals

Currently Global Chief of Planning & Scheduling for Shaw Energy & Chemical with on 20 years experience on major international EPC projects in the hydrocarbons industry. Career opportunities have included extensive work on claims, application of historical data, and strategic execution planning. Previous positions held were with KBR, Stone & Webster, and the Mexican Ministry of Water Resources.

Gabe holds a degree in MS Construction Management from Ohio State University and a BS Civil Engineering from Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua. Born in LA and grew up in Southern California.

George McLaughlin
Principal, McLaughlin and McLaughlin

Mr. McLaughlin is a principal in McLaughlin and McLaughlin, an international project planning and management consulting firm. He is certified PMP and a licensed General Contractor in California. Mr. McLaughlin holds a BS (US Naval Academy), MS (Catholic University of America) and MBA (The Wharton School).

Over the last 5 years, Mr. McLaughlin has been involved in the following project types: Hydrogen Plant, Sulphur Recovery Plant, Data Center Program, Carbon Monoxide Plant, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Melamine Production, Refinery Retrofit, Ethanol Production, LNG Terminal, LNG Production, Desulphurization Facilities, Power Generation (gas fired, geothermal) and others.

Within these projects, his scope of services included: Program / Project Development / Planning, Program / Project Management, Claim Preparation, Claim Defense and Counterclaim, Litigation Support / Testimony and other.

Glen Palmer
PSP, CFCC, Owner, GR Palmer Consulting Services, LLC

Glen Palmer is the owner of GR Palmer Consulting Services, LLC. His firm specializes in Planning and Scheduling, Project Management, Dispute Resolution, and Risk Management projects. He has nearly three decades of engineering/construction experience in power, oil & gas, commercial, infrastructure, mining and process industries. He has recognized expertise in project/construction management, and project controls, including planning & scheduling, and cost engineering. He is a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) and a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC). Mr. Palmer has provided expert testimony in mediations, ICC Arbitrations and US courts. Global project experience has included projects in Europe, South America, North America, and Asia. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Maine, USA.

Gokhan Gelisen
Ph.D. Cand., P.E., Cost Manager, Skanska USA Civil Inc.

Gokhan Gelisen has been in construction industry for more than 10 years. Currently, he is a Cost Manager at Skanska USA Civil Inc. and a Ph.D. Candidate in Construction Management at Polytechnic Institute NYU. Mr. Gelisen holds a M.S degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, a M.S degree in Structural Engineering from Lehigh University, and a B.S degree in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in New York and Connecticut. Mr. Gelisen is currently serving as President of Society of Turkish American Architects, Engineers and Scientists.

Jacqueline Nevils
PMP, PMP, Senior Project Manager, Raytheon Corporation

Jacqui Nevils is a Senior Project Manager in Raytheon’s Corporate Information Technology department. She is currently an Enterprise IT Lead for the Product Data Management (PDM) program office, an enterprise-wide common PDM solution affecting 35,000 users worldwide. Previously, Jacqui was a Senior Electrical Engineer for Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems. Jacqui focused on developing a web application to ease the collection, validation and storage of engineering data.

Prior to Raytheon, Jacqui worked as an independent IT consultant specializing in strategic planning and management of high visibility/high dollar technology initiatives. Jacqui also served eight years in the US Air Force.

Jacqui graduated with honors from Tufts University with a BSEE. She also owns a Master’s of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University.

James Quillian
PhD, PMP, Principal Analyst, Tecolote Research, Inc

James D. Quilliam, PhD, PMP is currently a Principal Analyst in the Los Angeles Division of Tecolote Research, Inc. a privately-held company that provides high quality, integrated services that rely on an empowered and experienced professional staff, proven business and analytical processes, and automated tools that are based on a strong knowledge of customer requirements and leading edge technology. James has successfully assisted and consulted with organizations to help them foster and implement initiatives to produce intelligent, fact-based decisions to improve mission effectiveness, resource efficiency, and resource savings. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, a Masters of Business Administration, and Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Joanna "Asia" Alvord
PSP, PMP, Project Controls Manager, HDR Engineering, Inc.

Asia has over 14 years of experience, including 10 years of project controls experience with HDR Engineering. She has extensive knowledge of various project controls applications. Her project and technical management experience include development and evaluation of schedules using CPM and linear schedule methodology; schedule baseline and updates review and analysis; cost management; implementation and management of electronic data management systems; contract compliance; claims avoidance and analysis; business process review and analysis; and IS project management. She has experience developing procurement documents and reviewing proposals for design-build projects.

John Zann
PE, PSP, LEED AP, Principal, PMA Consultants, LLC

John Zann has 15 years experience in project management and is a Principal with PMA Consultants LLC. He specializes in cost and schedule controls for complex construction projects. His experience is in multiple industries, including: hospitality, commercial buildings, wastewater, and power generation. Mr. Zann earned his BS and MSE in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Michigan.

June Thompson
PMP, Project Services Manager, BP IST

June Thompson has worked in all areas of project controls over a 25+ year career. She has specialized in Accounting, Internal Controls, Corporate Audit, Strategic Planning and Project Management for General Electric and BP. During her career she has managed process improvement, construction and systems implementation projects. June is the BP Project Services Manager for the project to build BP’s new Chicago office. Ms. Thompson has a BS in Accounting.

Jyh-Sheng Chi
PMP, Managing Principal, CH Innovation

Mr. Chi is a seasoned project management and project control expert, and he specializes in PMIS implementation and integration. Mr. Chi has been involved in enterprise PMIS implementation and integration in various industries: construction, manufacturing, software development, and government agencies. Currently, he is an independent consultant to New York City Department of Environmental enterprise PMIS implementation.

Laura Williams
CMIP, PMP, PMI-SP, Senior Consultant, Project Management Methodologies (PMM)

Laura Williams’ 26+ years of project management experience began with the Lockheed Martin Corporation, planning and scheduling projects at Vandenberg AFB, Denver, and New Orleans. Highlights included: network schedule development and audit; EV analysis; PM software evaluations; program master planning; team leadership for MRPII implementation; PM process and software training development, delivery, and support; and systems analysis on integrated scheduling environments. Since 1995, Laura has been a senior consultant at Project Management Methodologies (PMM), providing consulting in all aspects of project management, PM process/tool analysis and training, including enterprise wide implementations with an emphasis on Microsoft Project environments.

Lev Virine
Ph. D., President, Intaver Institute Inc.

Lev Virine has more than 20 years of experience as a structural engineer, software developer, and project manager. In the past 10 years he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes as well as to conduct risk analyses of complex projects. Lev’s current research interests include the application of decision analysis and risk management to project management. He writes and speaks to conferences around the world on project decision analysis, including the psychology of judgment and decision-making, modeling of business processes, and risk management. Lev received his doctoral degree in engineering and computer science from Moscow State University.

Lorne Duncan
Partner, Integrated Project Services

Lorne has over 20 years of industrial experience in operations and planning in biotechnology, chemical and petrochemical. He has spent the past several years focused on the application of linear planning and scheduling for pipeline, heavy civil, bridge, and power transmission capital projects. The use of linear programming, widely adopted in Europe, is now gaining popularity in North America as the superior method for tracking distance related projects. He actively provides training and consulting services on a variety of linear projects using TILOS as the linear planning tool of choice.

Lubov Guzhova
Director, Spider Project Team

Liubov Guzhova is the Director of Spider Project Team branch in Sochi – the capital of Winter Olympic Games 2014. The preparation of Sochi 2014 is the huge construction program with more than $30bln budget. It involves construction of Olympic Arenas, Olympic Village, Hotels, Airport, Sea Port, Rail and Motor Ways, Gas pipelines, Power Plants, Utilities. This program is managed using Spider Project, the software developed by Spider Project Team, Liubov coordinates the work of Spider Project Team consultants and participates in development of construction schedules for Olympic Program.

Mark Groff
Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Mark J. Groff is a Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. offices of the international law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.  For the past 25 years, his practice has been devoted to representing parties in the construction and government contract industry.  He is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Project Management Program, where he teaches graduate courses on the legal aspects of design, engineering and construction.  He is a co-author of Construction Scheduling:  Preparation, Liability, and Claims (3rd Ed. 2010) published by Aspen Publishers. Mr. Groff is a graduate of Hofstra University and the George Washington University Law School.  He may be reached at mgroff@akingump.com.

Matt Allen

Mehdi Dadgarian
Project Control Manager, AECOM Technology

Mehdi Dadgarian has 22 years of experience in private and public capital construction projects. Result-oriented leader with proven project management, analytical and construction support skills. Significant strengths include planning, organizing and communicating project’s goals and priorities.
Currently Mehdi is the Project Control Manager for the 2nd Avenue Subway Project ($17 billion) and HIB/AECOM Libya Housing & Infrastructure Board ($55 billion). Designed, implement and maintain an Enterprise Project Control System to manage and report on the status of these mega programs. This Enterprise System provided the team with the earned value, cash flow, construction in place (CIP) and future program planning.

Mervyn Extravour
PMI-SP, PMI-SP, Team Leader, PRO-DEV

Consulting Lecturer PM, Soc. Valsayn Campuc, Cipriani College, Cert. Quality Assurance Evaluator; Education Consultant-Trainer/Facilitator Mgt, Entrepreneurship, Proj. Mgt., Strategic Planning; Director – CANQATE, TTCSI, ‘Pro-Dev Consulting’, Pres. NATPETT.

Former Dept. Head – Proj. Mgt., BSc Soc. Sciences, UWI-CCLCS, Chair HR, Self Study; Distinguished Award PMI 2005 (Can) Academic Dev. In PM programs, Mgr. OAS/ILO Education For Work Project, Facilitator BWIA PM training for transition.

BSc Sociolocy & Mgt., MPM – Fellow - AAPM, (USA) Post Grad. Training (OAS/UWI/IDB/WHO/ILO; Univ. of Mt. St. Vincent, Can. – Curr. Dev., PMP Training Cert. Dips. Tech Teacher, Bus, Mgt.Law. Developed and produced several training manuals and publications on PM, Education, Quality Assurance.

Michael Cholden Brown
Project Controls Manager, AECOM- Water

Michael Cholden-Brown has over 20 years in experience in NYC public construction, from hospitals to major industrial projects. He has worked on the Owner side as well a CM and Contractor. Prior to that, he worked in oil refineries as a steamfitter.

Michelle Colodzin
PMP, PMI-SP, MCTS, MS Project Black Belt, Senior Program and Project Manager, MetaVista

Consulting Group, Ms. Michelle Colodzin is a PMP and PMI-SP certified project manager with over twenty years of experience in IT program and project management in the public and private sectors. Ms. Colodzin established and managed the IT Mergers and Acquisitions Programs for Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. In this role she developed project management and project scheduling processes, procedures, templates and tools that were used by her project managers located around the world. Ms. Colodzin is recognized as an expert in the area of project scheduling and was twice selected by PMI to contribute and review questions for PMI’s scheduling certification exam.

Mike Mosley

Mike is currently Chair for the update of the PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling and previously was the Deputy Project Manager for the 1st Edition.

Over 25 years of experience in the engineering and construction industry. Experience ranges from estimating duties and pre-project planning at the Home Office to Project Director over large, complex projects. Experienced in the overall responsibility of construction of multiple power and industrial facilities. Responsibilities range from conversion of a major steel facility to support mini mill operations to the execution responsibility a design-build generating station.

The roles as Project Director include multiple, large EPC projects, addressing over $2 Billion of concurrent work. A portion of this was as the Simple Cycle Program Manager over 9 concurrent projects and 24 large frame turbine units. The projects have included work with multinational companies and in international project work.

Pradip Mehta
CCE, PSP, EVP, PMI-SP, RMP, Manager of Project Controls, AECOM

Pradip Mehta is serving as the current President of PMICOS. He is also currently the Manager, of Project Controls for AECOM, a global design and program management conglomerate. He has more than 30 years of extensive and diversified experience in implementing project control processes and systems at the corporate and large program levels for both owner and contractor organizations. His broad based expertise lies in the transportation, environmental and energy Industries. Pradip has been nationally recognized as an expert in implementing project controls best practices and has spoken and written extensively on this subject. Prior to joining AECOM, he served as a Vice President of construction consulting and dispute resolution practice at Marsh USA, in Princeton, NJ.

Pradip holds a Masters in Construction Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology..He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified Cost Engineer (CCE), a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP), a certified Earned Value Professional (EVP) and a certified Risk Management professional (RMP). He has published more than 20 papers in the area of project controls, claims analysis, earned value management, and enterprise – wide system implementation.

Raphael Dua
FAICD, FAPE, MACS, PCP, GRAD DISC, Owner & CEO, Micro Planning International Asia Pacific Pty Ltd

Mr. Dua Has worked in the PM field for the past 55 years developing software, planning and scheduling projects. 31 years with UK Computer Company ICL included two years seconded to Kelly and Walker (the original authors of CPM), 2 years seconded to Booze Allen Hamilton on POLARIS and nuclear submarine construction. Has been a project Manager and Director inn over ten countries.

Co-author of all PM software ICL wrote 1958 and 1984, plus early development of EVPM. From 60's to now worked many major projects in Australia and Worldwide.

Lectured at Melbourne University as visiting senior Fellow on Scheduling, Cost Controls, Resource Management in Construction, Committee Member of ISO group for PM standard, and Australian EVPM Standard

Richard Sappe
E&C Industry Strategist, Oracle

Richard E. Sappé is the E&C Industry Strategist for Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit. Oracle’s Primavera solutions are used by general contractors, construction managers, design firms and subcontractors as well as public and private owners to manage the entire capital facility project lifecycle to ensure capital projects are delivered on-time and on-budget. Mr. Sappé combines experience from both the professional and the technology side of the AEC Industry. Mr. Sappé writes papers and articles for publication on the intersection of technology and the AEC industry, and frequently speaks at AEC industry events. Before Oracle|Primavera, Mr. Sappé worked for Bentley Systems, Inc. and Haestad Methods, Inc., developers of engineering & design and analysis applications. Prior to that, Mr. Sappé served as a project manager for an environmental engineering firm.

Mr. Sappé earned a Masters of Environmental Management degree from Yale University and a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Ursinus College.

Rob Richards
Ph.D., Project Manager, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc

Robert Richards, Ph.D. is a Principal Investigator and Project Manager at Stottler Henke Associates, Inc. Prior to joining Stottler Henke in 1999, Dr. Richards’ work included Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Process Engineering at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; this work included project scheduling/management. Since joining Stottler Henke, he has been involved in projects that dealt with Critical Chain project management software design & development, training system development including intelligent tutoring systems, and decision support. Dr. Richards was responsible for learning Critical Chain and designing the Critical Chain enhancement to Stottler Henke’s intelligent scheduling tool, Aurora; the resulting product is Aurora-CCPM.

Robert Johnson
MBA, Senior IT Project Manager, Raytheon Corporation

Robert is currently a Senior IT Project Manager leading an agile software development team for Raytheon Finance. He has a strong background in DoD test and acquisition program management with ten years experience leading multiple IT and Security teams in the deployment of IT services for government and commercial customers. He served for ten years as an active duty Naval Flight Officer, and is a Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserves. He holds a BA from Ithaca College, and a MBA from Webster University. He resides in Allen, TX with his wife and two children.

Shane Molinari
PMP

Spencer Lamoreaux
MBA, MBA, PMP, PMI-SP, MCP, IT PMO Tools Integration Manager, Intel

Spencer Lamoreaux, works for Intel Corporation as the Tools Integration Manager for the IT Program Management Office which oversees 6,000 employees. He oversees proper usage and setup for 700+ projects and programs by deploying and monitoring tools and metrics including MS Project Server. He has over 11 years in the project management industry at both Intel and Motorola and has spoken at several PMI and other professional events. He has his PMP, PMI-SP, MBA, B.S. in Information Systems, a Master's certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and is a certified professional on Microsoft Project Server (MCP).

Steve B. Hurlbut
Managing Shareholder, Akerman Senterfitt LLP

Stephen B. Hurlbut is Managing Shareholder of the Tysons Corner office of Akerman Senterfitt LLP. Mr. Hurlbut is a member and past Co-Chair of the firm’s national Construction practice.  For more than twenty-five years, Steve has represented a variety of parties in a wide range of scheduling-related disputes before the boards of contract appeals, various federal and state trial and appellate courts, and arbitration panels.  After two successful editions, Mr. Hurlbut co-authored a third edition of “Construction Scheduling: Preparation, Liability and Claims,” published by Aspen Publishers in January 2010.  Mr. Hurlbut has been recognized by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US.  He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Washington University School of Law.  Steve may be reached at steve.hurlbut@akerman.com.

Tarek Bahgat

Tim Calvey
P.E., Vice President, Calvey Consulting LLC

Timothy T. Calvey has over thirty years of experience managing and studying construction projects and providing construction consulting services on numerous projects ranging from the Cleveland Browns Stadium to the Boston Big Dig. In addition to providing CPM Schedule and Cost Impact Analysis, he has assisted in negotiating settlements on numerous construction disputes and is an experienced expert witness at trials, arbitrations and mediations.

Prior to co-founding Calvey Consulting, LLC, Mr. Calvey was the Senior Vice President for R. V. Buric Construction Management Consultants, was Manager of Construction Services for Middough & Associates, Inc., was Project Director/Senior Consultant for Hill International, and started his career with Davy McKee Corporation

Timothy Mather
PMP, CTO, Managing Principal, PMA Consultants, LLC.

Timothy D. Mather, CTO & Managing Principal with PMA Consultants LLC, a diversified, US-based global project management firm. PMA employs 200+ professionals in 16 offices and ranks as the 29th Construction Manager for fee firm in the US, according to the 2008 survey by Engineering News-Record.

Mr. Mather is currently orchestrating the launch of PMA Technologies LLC and its flagship product NetPoint®, a visual, gestural, collaborative, project planning software tool based on the revolutionary Graphical Planning Method (GPM®). Mr. Mather holds a bachelors degree from Michigan State University, a Graduate Certificate in Project Management Strategy from The University of Chicago, and is certified as a Project Management Professional by The Project Management Institute.

Tom Burke
P.E. President, Orion Associates International, Inc.

Tom Burke is a Professional Engineer and an Arbitrator. Mr. Burke graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in diesel and nuclear submarines. Following his naval service he worked on the construction, start up and operation of power plants, including 5 years in New York as the project manager for a large nuclear station and 8 years in Saudi Arabia and Paris building power and desalination plants, airports and housing developments. Since returning to the States in 1986, he has provided engineering, construction management, and dispute resolution services to sureties, attorneys, owners, and contractors.

Tom Papachristos

Victoria Shavyrina
PMP, General Director, Spider Project Team

Victoria Shavyrina, PMP, is General Director of Spider Project Team - the leading Russian project management consulting company with branches in Belarus, Brazil, Romania, and Ukraine.

Spider Project Team developed Spider Project, most powerful professional Project Management software package that is now used in 27 countries. Her company is PMI Global Registered Education Provider.

Victoria has an experience of managing large construction, telecommunication and manufacturing projects. She teached project management in Moscow University Business School.

Today she is involved in consulting and training of project management teams that build objects for Winter Olympic Games 2014.

Vladimir Liberzon
PMP, General Manager, Spider Project Team

Vladimir Liberzon, PMP, is Sponsor and Vice-President of Moscow, Russia PMI Chapter, General Manager of Spider Project Team - the leading Russian project management consulting company.

Vladimir is an author of 4 books and more than 150 papers on Project Management. He spoke at many PMI and IPMA Congresses and Conferences since 1994.

Vladimir is involved in management of many large scale projects including the development of Russian Pacific Area and preparation of Asia-Pacific Summit 2012, the development of Sochi region and preparation for 2014 Winter Olympic Games, the preparation of International Student Games 2013 in Kazan. He has an experience of managing projects in many application areas including aerospace, construction, manufacturing, oil&gas, shipbuilding, software development, telecommunications.

He manages the development of most powerful Russian Project Management software Spider Project.

Wesley Gillette
Senior Product Manager, Oracle

Wesley Gillette is Senior Product Manager for Oracle's Primavera Global Business Unit. He is responsible for product strategy and product management of Primavera Risk Analysis, previously known as Pertmaster. Prior to his current role at Oracle, he was the US Services Manager and consultant for Pertmaster for 3 years. During that time, in addition to consulting and training, he was responsible for developing enterprise risk methodologies for use within multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Energy, and Engineering and Construction. Gillette holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and is a frequent speaker at project management conferences and seminars.

Yancy Qualls
PMI-SP, PSP, Manager of Integrated Program Scheduling, Bell Helicopter

Yancy Qualls. Yancy is the Manager of Integrated Program Scheduling for Bell Helicopter. He has 17 years of experience building and maintaining aircraft development and production schedules, supervising teams of schedulers, training program personnel, and setting company policy on scheduling best practices. Yancy holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, and is both PMI-SP and PSP certified.

Zsolt Putnoky
PMP, PMI-SP, PrimaFrance, PrimaConsulting

During the last 13 years, Zsolt had been working mostly on telecom projects for major telecommunication companies across the globe. His roles revolved around issues with Project Control and Project Scheduling. Participating in projects, involving different cultures, business practices and technologies turned his attention towards complex project scheduling. At present he is holding the position of Senior Consultant at PrimaConsulting, a project management consultancy and training firm in France. Currently Zsolt is leading the development of Constellation together with PrimaFrance Systems. He is a PMP and PMI-SP certified practitioner. He lives with his family in France and enjoys rebuilding his sailing boat in his free time.