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 Mr.
Robert Ramsey, BS (Aerospace Technology), EVMP®
Former Project Manager & Assistant Main Base Architect
Volvo Power
train of North America, Hagerstown, MD,
USA
(for the: Product
Modifications 11L, 13L & 16L Diesel Engine Platforms,
US 04 & 07 Emissions Certification)
Project
Manager of Engineering for Volvo Power train, Hagerstown, MD managed
product modifications with budgets up to $1.5M. Functions included
Development of Forecast Budgets and Resource management in all aspects of
Engine Development and Test for Product Modification Requests.
Assistant Main Base Architect of Engineering for Volvo Power train Lyon,
France for US04 & 07 Emissions Development of 11L diesel engine.
Mr. Ramsey
described his EVMP®
experience as,
"The EVMP® course presented by
Earned Value Management Institute®
offers the most valuable take away knowledge of any Professional Project
Management training I have experienced! I have been through many
seminars and training sessions including High Profile Project Management
Training with the most experienced Instructors."
"With this course (EVMP®),
presented by Earned Value Management Institute®, a thorough understanding of
Earned Value
Analysis & Project Controls
are taught as
motivating and empowering. Completion of the EVMP®
has taken Project Management to new levels of potential for me as a leader. The EVMP® has had a
rejuvenating effect on my view of Project Management. The drive and inspirational
teaching from EVMI® Instruction plus the expectation of completing the EVMI® testing sets EVMP® miles higher. Having
successfully completed the EVMP®
certification course testing enhances the degree
of confidence needed to implement all EVMP® tools to every project."
Acronym Key:
EVMP®
- Earned Value Management Professional®
BS
– Bachelor of Science
MD - State of
Maryland in the USA _______________________________________________________________________________________________
 Ms. M.
Monique Silver, BS (Communications), EVMP®
Former Project Manager and Project Control Manager
AECOM PMCM,
Healthcare and K12 Education Program Management Services,
(Project: $355M Replacement Hospital)
Mishawaka,
Indiana
Ms. Silver is an accomplished manager of design and construction on large
multi-building projects involving design-build and program/construction
management services. Ms. Silver has comprehensive experience in project
controls, project management, program management and design management. Ms.
Silver's background includes hands-on experience in development of
proposals, design standards, budgeting, cost estimating, contract
administration, and cost recovery for public sector facilities and
infrastructure programs/projects. Ms. Silver has developed
implementation plans, cost control systems, change orders, claims management
systems, and has instituted operating procedures on the design phases of
multiple programs.
Ms. Silver described her EVMP® experience as, "The EVMP®
certification was the next logical choice in my career development for
controlling and managing projects. I needed to secure the EVMP® credential
in order to transition onto a larger Federal Government program.
Little did
I realize when I registered to take ‘The Kwaku Akyeampong Approach to Earned
Value Management Excellence®’ and
Earned Value Management Professional® (EVMP®)
certification credential training, I would receive the most comprehensive
Earned Value Management (EVM) training a project management professional
could hope for. This course is intense. This course is challenging. This
course is empowering. This course is the next right choice for every
seasoned project management professional who wants to make project cost
overruns and schedule delays a thing of the past. EVMI®’s EVMP® training
equips you with the knowledge and tools to manage any project; regardless of
size, scale, technical scope and complexity."
Acronym Key:
EVMP® -
Earned Value Management Professional®
EVM –
Earned Value Management
BS –
Bachelor of Science
______________________________________________________________________________________________
 Ms. Debbie Hillard, BS
(Accounting), MBA (Information Systems), EVMP®
Vice President/ Division
Director/Program Manager
Health Information Systems
Division,
Gunnison Consulting Group, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
As
Vice
President in charge of Gunnison’s Health Information Systems Division, Ms. Hillard and her Team have been supporting Westat
in their most ambitious health related research projects (such as the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is one of the
largest and most complex surveys that collects data on our nation’s health)
for almost 15 years. Ms. Hillard is a senior technology specialist and program manager with more than
25 years of successful experience in designing, developing, and managing
large-scale system integration and development programs.
Ms. Hillard described her EVMP® experience as, “After successfully budgeting and estimating large systems integration,
development and business process re-engineering projects for many years, I
did not think I would gain much from the EVMP® class, but since many
contracts are now coming out with EVM as a requirement, I felt compelled to
take the class. I had assumed that the class would focus on how to
generate the required reports but it was an extremely comprehensive
and well presented overview of program management, risk management,
quality management, how to ensure your processes and systems are EVM
compliant as well as the technical aspects of how to schedule activities,
budget to those activities, and ensure your projects are on schedule and
within budget.”
“We have recently undergone a CMMI business process improvement initiative
to standardize some of our processes and procedures. By incorporating
EVM into these processes, it will help us to monitor and control each of
our tasks in a more standardized way and to ensure quality in all our
products and services”
Acronym Key:
CMMI
- Capability Maturity Model Integration
EVMP®
- Earned Value Management Professional®
EVMS – Earned Value Management Systems
EVM – Earned Value
Management
BS
– Bachelor of Science
MBA
–
Master of Business Administration
MD -
State of Maryland in the USA
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
 Mr. Jim Gibbons, EVMP®, PMP®,
ITIL®, CTT+
Program Analyst at Systems Made Simple (SMS) Syracuse,
NY, USA
As a
Program Analyst assigned to a Federal Civilian Agency in Washington DC,
my primary duties are centered on the development of IT Program
Management policies, standards and governance through the conduct of
Program Management (Focused) Reviews, Milestone Reviews, Operational
Analysis, and monitoring compliance with cost, schedule, and performance
goals (EVM) for major IT initiatives.
Mr. Gibbons
described his EVMP® experience,
"As a
result of attaining the EVMP® certification from EVMI®, I was able to
immediately apply direct knowledge and EVM planning considerations in
my role as a key team member on an ANSI-748 EVMS Compliance program, as well
as an overarching Integrated Program Management initiative here at the
Department. In the course of developing of a standardized WBS for
use in an IMP/IMS model, we were able to clearly articulate and
emphasize the critical importance of planning for, and embedding EVM
strategies and practices early in the planning and scheduling
processes."
"The skills and knowledge gained through my EVMP®
certification training were instrumental to our team’s development of an EVMS compliance program. Our implementation plan was augmented
with an EVMS Compliance Toolkit containing SOP’s, self-assessment
checklists and a CER handbook, as well as process validation and testing
procedures. We elected to demonstrate EVMS compliance on a target
program and validate the processes necessary to achieve EVMS compliance
during this demonstration. The end goal to set in place an EVMS
compliance program with repeatable processes that can be instituted by
all Exhibit 300 Programs in order to achieve EVMS compliance."
"My EVMP® training experience and EVMI®’s focus on the
management concepts related to Earned Value, rather than simply the
mathematical mechanics helped us to detail a plan to transform
the practice from a mandated series of reports, beyond an early warning
system, and into an executable program management mindset and
technique”
Acronym Key:
EVMP®
- Earned Value Management Professional®
EVMI®
- Earned Value Management Institute®
EVMS – Earned Value Management Systems
EVM – Earned Value
Management
IMS- Integrated Master Schedule
IMP – Integrated Master Plan
CER – Compliance Evaluation Review
WBS – Work Breakdown Structure
SOP – Standard Operating Procedures
ANSI-748 - Earned
Value Management Industry Standards (32 Criteria)
NY - State of
New York in the USA
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Mr. Arnold Reynolds,
MS (Mathematics), MS (Information Systems), EVMP®
Earned Value Management
Subject Matter Expert, Principal Consultant
SENTINEL Program at Federal
Bureau Of Investigation (FBI)
Keane Federal Systems, McLean, VA,
USA
"The
SENTINEL Program is a state-of-the-art, enterprise-wide level program
that will replace several current legacy systems. It will
institute new workflow and business processes for all FBI
employees, and establish critical infrastructure components for
future IT development." "I have
over 15 years experience in Project Management and in Earned Value
Management and was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the course and
exercises that I participated in while attaining the EVMP®
certification. My job primarily is to advise PMO on the
contractor’s EVM reports, processes, and policies, to write program EVMS
reports, to respond to several oversight groups, and to make sure that
SENTINEL remains ANSI 748B compliant."
Mr. Reynolds
described his EVMP® experience, "The
EVMP® certification program, with absolute certainty gave me valuable
knowledge and confidence as a leader and practitioner of EVM that I can to
do all these things better. When I speak on aspects of EVM, I am
reflecting EVM best practices, and its highest standards. I feel an even
greater degree of professionalism, and an amazing degree of foresight in
seeing beforehand the many challenges and obstacles that affect so many
software development efforts, and may help put things in place to reduce,
avoid and mitigate some of those perceived risks."
"My
program manager once said to me that he wanted an EVMS program that was on
steroids. The SENTINEL program with very few exceptions is a textbook EVM
system. An individual new to EVM looked through the course book and Project
Management book and remarked that we really do follow the books. We
remarked that EVM must not just be theory but something you practice. Our
EVM system is well integrated with other aspects of the SENTINEL including
Financial, Requirements, Technical, Quality, and Risk. Even so the EVMP®
certification program has fostered some process improvement in several
areas."
Acronym Key:
EVMP®
- Earned Value Management Professional®
EVMS – Earned Value Management Systems
EVM – Earned Value
Management
IT
- Information
Technology
PMO
- Program Management Office
ANSI-748 - Earned
Value Management Industry Standards (32 Criteria)
MS –
Master of Science
VA - State of
Virginia in the USA
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
 Mr. William D. Jenison,
BS (Industrial Engineering), ME (Industrial Engineering), MS (Systems Management), EVMP®
Earned Value Management
Specialist
Confidential Agency, VA, USA
Mr. Jenison described his EVMP® experience as,"Your EVMP®
course which I just completed reinforces my experience over the years with
EVM. As an industry standard and best practice, EVM provides transparency
and accountability of a project’s performance from the Control Account
Manager all the way to executive level managers. Further, as you
emphasized during the course, senior management support and the integration
of EVM with other management controls, such as Risk Management,
Configuration Management, Schedule Management, Engineering Management, and
Quality Management are essential elements of effective project management.
With strong management support and the integration of these controls the
project manager’s chances for managing costs, schedules, and delivering a
quality product are greatly improved."
Acronym Key:
"You" is in reference
to Kwaku Akyeampong, Senior Technical Lead & EVMP®
Program Instructor
EVMP®
- Earned Value Management Professional®
EVMS – Earned Value Management Systems
EVM – Earned Value
Management BS
– Bachelor of Science MS
–
Master of Science ME
–
Master of Engineering
VA - State of
Virginia in the USA
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 Mr.
Minh-Nhat Ngo, BS (Economics), MBA, EVMP®
Earned Value Management & Financial Analyst
PRAXIS, VA, USA
Mr. Minh-Nhat Ngo
works as Earned Value Management (EVM) & Financial Analyst
at PRAXIS providing Earned Value Management Advisory Services to the US Department of the Navy, in
Washington DC.
Mr. Ngo
described his EVMP® experience as, "After
receiving my EVMP®
certification, I learned to address any variances and program
problems before they escalate into something major. I learned how
to bring the program's problems to meetings to brainstorm a
resolution. In addition, I learned that to run a program
successfully, you have to allocate the program's responsibility
down to the CAMs and across to team members. I also gained more insight on how to calculate program variances and
mitigate program risks; and that allocating the responsibility to
the CAMs will make the program run smoother.”
Acronym Key:
CAM –
Control Account Manager
BS
– Bachelor of Science
MBA
–
Master of Business Administration
VA -
State of Virginia in the USA
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