'A Project without Earned Value Management (EVM)
is like driving your car at night in pitch darkness without your headlights
on™' By Kwaku Akyeampong, EVMI® President on 27 April 2010
EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT (EVM) EXECUTIVE; GLOBALLY RENOWNED IT CONSULTANT, EVM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERT; INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIST; TRAINER;
SPEAKER; AUTHOR & VOLUNTEER
Educated in Ghana; the former Soviet Union; and in the
United States, Professor Kwaku Akyeampong, MS
(Economics), MS (Project Management), MS (Information Systems Technology),
MPOTA™, CEVO®, EVMP®,
RQMP®,
aka the 'EVM Professor™', aka the 'Project and EVM Doctor™' is a
prolific speaker and passionate advocate for ending: bad attitudes; poor
management practices; complacency; failed leadership; lack of team work;
lack of team building programs; lack of proper EVM training; lack of project
controls training; lack of proper project management training; lack of
transparency; lack of accountability and oversight; lack of risk management
and quality management systems; lack of efficient change management systems;
lack of efficient communications systems; and many more factors that cause
projects to end up in cost overruns and schedule delays on a recurring basis
globally.
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong is a globally renowned trainer and consultant for project
executives, project personnel, managers, senior managers, project
managers and professionals seeking to prevent cost overruns and schedule
delays on their projects using advanced project management methods,
processes and systems; earned value management (EVM) methods; quality
management and risk management to improve overall project performance and
results.
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong is a Senior
Project Management and Information Technology expert with over two
decades of experience providing Information Technology (IT) advisory
consulting, advanced project management services, project controls
implementation, and earned value management (EVM) consulting and training
services across industry, defense, commercial, federal government and
international sectors. In addition to providing project management
consulting, Professor Kwaku Akyeampong globally trains in both English and
Russian languages, project participants in the areas of project controls,
EVM, project management, construction management, risk management, quality
management, project scheduling, project planning, database management and
information security.
Professor
Kwaku Akyeampong is President, EVM Executive and Senior Technical
Instructor at the Earned Value Management Institute®, EVMI®; and
Executive Director at the EVMI® Leadership and
Winners Academy™
Over the
past two decades, Professor Kwaku Akyeampong has worked on Information
Technology projects as Executive Director at EVMS Consulting Group (USA);
Advisory Information Technology (IT) Specialist & Project Manager at
IBM Global Services (USA); Senior Manager & Corporate Earned Value
Management (EVM) Lead at BearingPoint (USA); Senior Project
Management Subject Matter Expert/Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
(USA); Senior Information Technology Project Manager at SI
International (USA); Senior Project Controls Manager at
Rockwell Collins (USA); Senior Earned Value Management (EVM) Analyst
at Conwal (USA); Senior Project Management Consultant at
Intellisource Information Systems (USA); Senior Database Technology
Manager at NTT Verio (Japan, USA); Project Management &
Technology Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting (USA); and
Adjunct Computer Science Professor at Howard University (USA)
teaching computer science courses to graduate students.
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong holds Master of Science (MS) in
Economics, Kiev State University, Soviet Union; Master of Science
(MS) in Information Systems Technology and Master of Science (MS) in
Project Management, George Washington University; CEVO®, Chief Earned
Value Officer® and EVMP®, Earned Value Management Professional®
from Earned Value Management Institute®, EVMI®, Virginia, USA; and Chief
Information Officer (CIO) Executive Competencies Certificate, CIO
University, Washington DC, USA.
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong has invented several methods and
approaches in project management, Earned Value Management and information
technology that are leveraged today in industry and government.
EDUCATION:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong is holder of:
Master of
Science (MS) Degree in Economics from Kiev State University, Soviet
Union (USSR). Specialization in International Economic Relations & Trade
Economics.
Master of
Science (MS) Degree in Information Systems Technology from George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Master of
Science (MS) Degree in Project Management from George Washington
University, Washington DC, USA
CURRENT:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong
is President, EVM Executive and Senior Technical Instructor at the
Earned Value Management Institute®, EVMI®; and Executive Director at the
EVMI® Leadership and Winners Academy™
PAST
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong has previously held
the following positions (1989 to 2009) in academia, industry, and worked
internationally on Information Technology projects around the globe, from Russia to Asia, Europe,
Africa and the United States:
Executive Director at EVMS Consulting
Group, USA (EVMS Consulting Group provides earned value management
consulting services)
Advisory Information Technology Specialist
& Project Manager at IBM Global Services, Fairfax, USA (IBM
Global Services is the world's largest technology and management
consulting services firm)
Senior Manager & Corporate Earned Value
Management (EVM) Lead at BearingPoint, USA (BearingPoint was one
of the top management consulting services in the USA, and now owned by
Deloitte Touche)
Senior Project Management Subject Matter
Expert/Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, USA (Booz Allen
Hamilton is one of the top three management consulting services firms in
the United States)
Senior Information Technology Project Manager at SI
International, USA
Senior Project Controls Manager at
Rockwell Collins, USA (Rockwell Collins is a leading aerospace and
engineering firm in the USA)
Senior Earned Value Management (EVM)
Analyst at Conwal, Inc, USA
Senior Project Management Consultant at
Intellisource Information Systems, USA
Senior Database Technology Manager at NTT
Verio, Japan & USA (NTT Verio is the world's largest web hosting
company)
Project Management & Technology Consultant
at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, USA (PricewaterhouseCoopers
Consulting, formerly owned by Pricewaterhousecoopers was a top
management consulting services firm in the USA, and acquired by IBM in
2002)
Adjunct Computer Science Professor at
Howard University, USA (Howard University is the oldest and premier
minority university in the USA)
Intern, VNESHECONOMBANK (Foreign Economic
Relations & Trade Bank), Moscow, SOVIET UNION (VNESHECONOMBANK was the
largest Foreign Trade Bank in the former Soviet Union)
INVENTIONS:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong is inventor of:
EVMRQM®,
Earned Value Management Risk &
Quality Model®
EVPMO®,
Earned Value Project Management
Office®
GPMS®,
Global Project Management Systems®
The Kwaku
Akyeampong Approach to Earned Value Management Excellence®
The Kwaku
Akyeampong 7 Keys to Effective Earned Value Management®
The Kwaku
Akyeampong Approach to Project Management Excellence®
KAP3M4™,
The Kwaku Akyeampong Project,
Program and Portfolio Management Monitoring Maturity Model™
SOLUTIONS
ZONE™
THE KWAKU
AKYEAMPONG FORMULA FOR EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (EVMS) SUCCESS™
ATOM™
MOLECULE™
ELEMENT™
P3D® -
President's Projects Portfolio Dashboard® (Kwaku Akyeampong designed P3D®
for Earned Value Management (EVM) and other Management Reporting. P3D® is USED on ALL PROJECTS ACROSS ALL INDUSTRIES)
TAUGHT/TEACHES UNIVERSITY GRADUATE PROGRAMS:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong teaches and has taught the following courses at
the graduate level:
Systems
Engineering 1
Systems Engineering 2
Database
Management Systems
Advanced
Project Management
Earned Value
Management Systems (EVMS)
FOREIGN
LANGUAGES:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong speaks fluent Russian, basic Japanese
and German.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong is holder of:
EVMP®,
Earned Value Management Professional®, Earned Value Management
Institute®, EVMI®, Virginia, USA
CEVO®,
Chief Earned Value Officer®, Earned Value Management Institute®,
EVMI®, Virginia, USA
RQMP®,Risk
& Quality Management Professional®, Earned Value Management
Institute®, EVMI®, Virginia, USA
MPOTA™
Master's Certificate In Project
Oversight, Transparency & Accountability™;
Earned Value Management Institute®, EVMI®, Virginia, USA™
Chief
Information Officer (CIO) Executive Competencies Certificate, CIO
University, Washington DC, USA
MEDIA & NEWS APPEARANCES:
Professor Kwaku Akyeampong's Appearance In
Washington Post, Metro Section Page B3, May 19, 2003
SOURCE: Washington Post, Metro Section Page B3,
May 19, 2003
CONNECT:
FOLLOW PROF. KWAKU AKYEAMPONG
ON :
CONTACT:
PROF. KWAKU AKYEAMPONG
President,
Earned Value Management Institute, P.0 Box 1965,
Leesburg VA 20177 USA
FOR SPEAKING
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PUBLIC SPEAKING APPEARANCES:
KWAKU AKYEAMPONG'S
SPEECH AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB ON 05.13.2009 (SPEECH IS ABOUT ENDING COST
OVERRUNS & SCHEDULE DELAYS ON OUR PROJECTS. FOCUS IS ON APPLYING EVM BEST
PRACTICES & INDUSTRY STANDARDS ON US STIMULUS PROJECTS OVER $1 MILLION IN
VALUE):
KWAKU's FAVORITE
POEM - TENNYSON'S ULYSSES
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged
wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and
sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel: I will
drink Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d
greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry
heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates,
councils, governments, Myself not least, but honour’d of them all; And
drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy
Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world
whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. How dull it is to
pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’
to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to
me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence,
something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three
suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human
thought.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the
sceptre and the isle,— Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil This
labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro’ soft
degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good.
Most blameless is he, centred in the
sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness,
and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works
his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil’d, and
wrought, and thought with me— That ever with a frolic welcome took The
thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I
are old; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but
something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not
unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the
rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round
with many voices.
Come, my friends, ’Tis not too
late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and
the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the
gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And
see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and
tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and
heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find,
and not to yield.
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