* Experience: Project Management supervisor since
1988, training adults in PC use and Project Management since 1985, overseeing projects as large and important as the successful
deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Rich then focused
on consulting and teaching, having developed/delivered curricula at:
- Boston University's Corporate Education Center
- Including development or delivery of custom courses at
- State Street Global Advisors
- ATG, Cambridge
- Millenium Pharma
- UPS
- Designed (and graded thousands of) on-line assignments
- Merrimack College
- Northern Essex Community College
- mScholar PM Prep program
- Including development/delivery of custom courses for
- University of Massachusetts - Lowell
- UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School
Rich has also professionally developed PMP-exam prep courseware, including exams and books. He even
edited and was "The Voice" for a set of 8 Audio CDs - a major part of a PMP prep course for mScholar, an international company,
for whom he has also facilitated PMP exam study groups.
*Education and certifications: Rich has an engineering background with a BSEE from the University
of Massachusetts and an MSIE from Purdue University. In addition, Rich has a mini-MBA from Wharton and a Master's Certificate
in international business management granted jointly from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and INSEAD of France.
From a Project Management standpoint, Rich received his PMP in 2000 after earning the Stevens Institute's Master's Certificate
in 1999. He has presented papers on Project Management at conferences in Huizen, The Netherlands, Mexico City and Long
Beach, California.
* Publications/Presentations: Rich served as an editor of the upcoming 4th-Edition PMBOK(R)
Guide and an author of the PMO Accord, a document produced by PMI's Special Interest Group on PMOs, focusing
attention on the purpose and effective functioning of a Project Management Office. He was also featured recently in
PMI's Leadership in Project Management 2008 annual magazine for work on the PM career path. As a
blogger, Rich established Scope Crepe and founded PM Bloggers, which gained nearly 500 members in just a few months.
Rich has presented papers at PM conferences in Mexico City, Long Beach, CA, and soon will present at the 2008
PMO Symposium in San Antonio, TX and the 2008 IQPC Conference in Coconut Grove, FL. He has also been published in the
Bell Labs Technical Journal.
* Philosophy: (from Albert Einstein: "Education
is what you remember after you've forgotten everything you've learned in school".
* Primary focus: Increasing Project Management
maturity and applying best-practice PM for the best-possible results.
