Projects@Work - Editorial Board

AC Fred Baker, MBA, PMP, PMI-RMP, has more than 35 years of experience as a project management professional in a broad range of industries and disciplines. With a focus on prediction, prevention and the proactive management of projects, Baker has led successful initiatives in the areas of risk management governance; new product development; project portfolio management; performance monitoring and reporting; facility construction; and team facilitation.

Baker is the founding member of the North Carolina Chapter of the Project Management Institute and a recipient of PMI's Distinguished Service Award. He has also served as a Vice-Chairman of the Utility and New Product Development Special Interest Groups within PMI and as a reviewer for the Journal of Engineering and Construction for the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Baker holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Mike Beard, PMP, is a partner in Value Based Project Management, a program management professional services firm. He has more than 30 years in diverse technical and functional management positions, including more than 15 years of operations management in Southeast Asia. As a program manager, Beard directed multi-year programs with values up to $90 million. As a PMO deputy director, he managed program managers and 100-plus person teams in an integrated product team environment.

Beard consults a number of influential clients in Southern California, regularly presents on numerous program management topics at industry association meetings, authors articles on advanced program and enterprise management topics, and develops project management professional development courses. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Chapter of PMI and other non-profit international boards.

Beard's approach to real-world problems and solutions has resulted in over $5 million in program savings for companies in the past six years. He holds a BS from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a Certificate in Project Management from University of California Irvine.

Naomi Caietti, PMP, is an enterprise architect, consultant and project manager, assisting the State of California's Department of Corporations with an integrated enterprise technology solution to achieve business objectives and Strategic Plan goals.With more than 23 years in the IT and project management fields, Caietti specializes the delivery and operational recovery of data center services, custom software solutions for enterprise IT projects, and organizational change leadership. She has also coached and mentored global executives and project managers in the power of collaborative leadership.

She has served on the Board of Directors for PMI-SVC and is currently serving a two-year term as a member of PMI’s Leadership Institute Advisory Group as a leadership advocate and program strategist. She is also a chief advocate of a Leadership Interest Group on gantthead.com.

Caietti holds a BA with a minor in business from California State University Sacramento and is a graduate of PMI’s Leadership Institute.

William Duncan is a principal of Project Management Partners, a consulting and training firm in Lexington, Mass. As former director of standards for PMI, he was the primary author of the 1994 and 1996 versions of the PMBOK. He is currently the director of standards for the American Society for Advancement of Project Management (asapm).

In nearly 30 years of management and consulting, Duncan has worked on global projects for a range of clients, including Polaroid, Sybase and Texas Instruments. He has also developed numerous training programs and is currently writing a book to be called The Process of Project Management.

Duncan is a 1970 graduate of BrownUniversity and has done post-graduate work at BostonUniversity and Northeastern.

Kay Fleischer, PMP, MBA, is president of Fryklund Group, Inc. She has extensive experience in all aspects of business processes, process reengineering and privatization, strategic planning, risk analysis, business development, and project management, and implementation services related to information technology, telecommunications and Internet access.

In addition to her consulting work with private and public sector entities in the City of Chicago, Kay has spent six years living and working in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Kosovo, Yugoslavia. She has also served as an Electoral Supervisor for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the UN in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Russia.

Besides teaching and consulting, Kay is a Past President of the Chicagoland Chapter of the Project Management Institute, a member of the 2004 Leadership Institute and Vice Chair of the International Development SIG. Fleischer is also the president of USA Cares-Relief for Afghan Children, a non-sectarian, nonprofit charitable organization.

Elizabeth Harrin, BA, MBCS, is the author of Project Management in the Real World and has nearly a decade of experience in financial services projects. She is a Prince2 practitioner and trained in the Six Sigma process improvement methodology. Elizabeth has led a variety of IT and process improvement projects including e-commerce and communications developments. She is also experienced in managing business change.

Elizabeth is a member of the British Computer Society, spent eight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France), and now works in London in the healthcare industry. She writes the irreverent blog A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects. Elizabeth has a BA from the University of York and is currently studying part-time for an MA at Roehampton University, London. Her research interests are the roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders and their interactions across culturally diverse, distributed project teams.

Mark Mullaly is president of Interthink Consulting, specializing in the creation of organizational project management solutions. Since 1990, Interthink has worked with companies throughout North America to develop and enhance project management tools, processes, structures and capabilities.

Mark is also the author of Interthink's Project Management Process Model (PM2), a maturity model that has been used to assess over 550 companies worldwide.Mark is currently playing a lead role in a major research project, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, that will identify the strategic project management assets that can be sources of an organization's competitive advantage.

Sandra F. Rowe, PMP, MBA, MSCIS, is the author of Project Management for Small Projects, and has more than 20 years of project management experience, including leading IT and process improvement projects; developing project management processes, tools and techniques; and designing, developing and delivering project management training programs.

Sandra has taught graduate level project management courses and speaks regularly at project management conferences on a variety of topics related to project management processes, project management for small projects, and PMOs. She led a healthcare PMO implementation featured on the cover of Projects@Work magazine in 2001.

Sandra has a BS in business administration, an MBA and an MS in computer and information systems. She is the current vice president of finance and Lessons Learned project manager for PMI’s Troubled Projects Specific Interest Group.

Ray Stratton, PMP, is founder and president of Management Technologies, a program management training and consulting firm. He has taught Technical Performance Measurement, Earned Value, Program Management Metrics and Software Project Management for US and foreign governments, educational institutions, and commercial and defense companies.

He is a member, speaker, and seminar leader for the Program Management Institute and ProjectWorld. He is also a member of the Defense Acquisition University Alumni Association (DAUAA). Ray is the author of The Earned Value Management Maturity Model and a lead author of the PMI Earned Value Practice Standard, and presently serves as Vice President, Research and Standards, for the PMI College of Performance Management.

Ray has more than 25 years experience as a program manager with a Fortune 500 aerospace defense firm. While there he managed the development of radar, communication, and command and control projects. Previously he designed, developed, tested, and delivered real-time man-in-the-loop sensor based computer systems for a variety of military customers.

Ray retired from the Naval Air Reserve at the rank of Captain. He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electronic Engineering from CaliforniaStatePolytechnicUniversity, Pomona. Ray can be reach at raystratton@mgmt-technologies.com.

David A. Schmaltz wrote The Blind Men and the Elephant, Mastering Project Work-How To Transform Fuzzy Responsibilities Into Meaningful Results (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and founded the consulting firm True North pgs, but claims he still has no idea how to explain what he does. While David has helped many of the world's most innovative companies achieve real project maturity by focusing beyond prescribed processes and automated toolsets to those universal human elements that make a real, everyday difference in project work, he proclaims only that, "You are the most powerful project management tool you will ever use."

David has been widely published and edits True North’s periodical Compass. He’s been asked to stop submitting pieces to some journals because he wouldn’t support the party line. He delivers curiously effective keynote addresses, such as the one where, rather than imagine the audience in their underwear, he stepped from behind the podium dressed in his own underwear to demonstrate what it's like to get "naked" with a client. True North's Mastering Projects Workshop, which David authored, and BeyondLeadership residential, which he co-created with his partner Amy Schwab, evoke the deeply personal insights that are the foundation of every effective professional practice, or so Harvard says. David’s rather mute on the subject.

David resolves real-world dilemmas by considering them through the lens of human and family systems dynamics. His BriefConsulting techniques help identify small points of extremely high-leverage, which can quickly transform organizations as well as individual experience, but he gives his clients the credit for creating their own successes. Transformation requires a catalyst—not a cook who can explain the recipe for how to make a difference, but people who make that difference. David’s serves on Project@Work’s Editorial Board to promote the forward evolution of project work into a practice where it’s safe for humans to fully engage together.

Bob Tarne is a program manager with Lombardi Software, where he oversees the installation of products such as Teamworks and helps clients with business process improvement. Prior to working at Lombardi, he was a managing consultant with PM Solutions, where he specialized in implementing project management improvement initiatives. He has also served in project management roles at Sprint and Owens-Illinois. Bob’s career began in the U.S. Navy where he served for seven years as a cryptologist.

Bob holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He achieved designation as a Project Management Professional in 2001, Six Sigma Blackbelt in 2005, and Certified Scrum Master in 2008. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MS in Business from Johns Hopkins University.

Bob is a graduate of the inaugural class of PMI’s Leadership Institute. He has served in many volunteer positions with PMI, including board positions with the IT & Telecommunications SIG and a member of the 2007 North America Congress Project Action Team. He has presented at a number of PMI events. His blog can be found at zen-pm.blogspot.com.

Robert Youker is an independent trainer and consultant with more than 35 years experience in project management, serving both private and international organizations. He is retired from the World Bank where he developed and

presented project management training courses for the managers of major projects in many different countries, including Botswana, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Tanzania, Turkey and Zambia. Previously, Youker managed new product development projects at Xerox Corp., where he was credited with simplifying reporting.

Youker has been a member of the Project Management Institute since 1969. He has been an advisor and adjunct professor of project management at George Washington University. Youker also served as a deputy director in the Peace Corps in the 1960s.

Youker holds a B.A. in History from Colgate University and an MBA with distinction in International Economics and Finance from Harvard Business School.

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