May PM Tools - Gregory Summer - "PM of the Year Award Winner Speaks on Best Practices"
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This event was held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009
“2008 PMIWDC PM of the Year Award Winner Speaks on PM Best Practices”
featuring
Gregory Summer
Project Manager at Creative Information Technology Incorporated
View the presentation slides (250KB PDF)
Location and Cost
COST
PM Tools is always free of charge, and registration is not required.
DATE
Every third Tuesday of each
month, at 5:30,
Immediately before the monthly
chapter dinner.
LOCATION
Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner 8661 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA703.448.1234 http://www.Sheraton.com/TysonsCorner
About the Program
2008 PMIWDC PM of the Year Award Winner Speaks on PM Best Practices
Could you use some helpful tips to make your job easier? Of course, we all could benefit from this type of beneficial information. This session will attempt to provide you with some of this insight by focusing on best practices implemented on an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) project currently being implemented at the U.S. Department of State.
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence projects are often very complex and political and must be handled carefully to ensure success; this particular project was no exception. Greg Summer was working on this project when he won the PMIWDC PM of the year award in November 2008. Greg will discuss some of the best practices that were implemented on this assignment which not only helped make the project a success, but were also a major factor in his award selection.
The session will highlight strategies that were utilized on the task as well as a brief discussion of how these items impacted the project. The intent behind this discussion is to introduce you to some new best practices, or perhaps allow you to see how best practices that you are already familiar with were implemented on a different assignment. At the conclusion of this session the goal is for you to have identified at least one practice that you may be able to implement to benefit your project and your team.
About the Speakers
Gregory Summer, PMP, is an Associate Director and Program Manager at Creative Information Technology Incorporated (CITI) focusing on the United States federal government sector. Greg was the recipient of the PMI Washington DC Chapter Project Manager of the Year award in 2008. He is an innovative leader with a unique blend of technical and interpersonal skills. His diverse leadership techniques and management experience have been utilized in a wide array of projects. Currently, Greg oversees five projects being executed at the U.S. Department of State, one of which is an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) project where Greg is the project manager leading an effort to design, develop, and deploy an EDW for the State Department.
Greg has overseen customer service oriented projects such as a world-wide software deployment effort, and a technical help desk providing tier 2 and tier 3 software support to a worldwide user base of approximately 25,000 end users. Additionally, he has managed full lifecycle projects, leveraging structured software development and project management methodologies. These projects included a large, complex data integration project for the Department of Defense and a biometric project whose scope included data consolidation and reporting for the Department of Homeland Security. Greg encourages team collaboration to address project challenges and identifies creative ways to resolve conflict and mitigate risks.
Greg is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and holds a Master of Information Technology degree from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science from James Madison University. Additionally, Greg has obtained graduate certificates in Software Development, Business Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems. He is a dedicated contributor to company initiatives as a charter member of the CITI Quality Management Board and an active participant of the Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence practice area.
