Past Chapter Events - 2004
Chapter Meeting, October 14, 2004  
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5:30 Networking, buffet dinner, vendor and recruiter access.
6:15 Chapter business and announcements.
6:45 Guest Speaker, Frank Walker
7:30 Meet the speaker, continued networking, buffet dinner, vendor and recruiter access.
Topic:

Who Stole the Float and Why You Should Care

Why you should care. How to handle Schedule Impact Claims using Microsoft Project R, including a brief discussion of Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation.
Presentation slides (13Mb)

Speaker: Frank Walker is president of TWG and co-founder of GTW where he was president from 1988 to 1997 during a period of rapid growth in size, diversity and investment in internal IT development. TWG supports clients through all the stages of the program or project life cycle.  Frank is an excellent leader with the ability to pull the best people together for a project and to make a great team of them.  He is adept in all the aspects of project management (PM) including the management of time, resources, cost, risk, scope, contracts, quality and communication. Specialties include, team planning, fast-track project management, management by exception using earned value, litigation avoidance and mediation.

His seminars on PM, PMP certification & PM software are in demand, worldwide.  He has given classes to representatives of hundreds of companies. At Microsoft’s request, he led an in-house team to produce and market GTW’s Project Partner and other Microsoft Project companion products and to customize Microsoft Project for specific companies.  He has been quoted in Fortune Magazine, Engineering News Record, PMI, etc. and has been on IIL’s Satellite/Webcasting Learning Series. Frank has lived long-term in Sydney,

Vancouver, Turkey (where he was found equal to a donkey by a Turkish magistrate), Seattle, and Dallas and he currently lives in the Philadelphia /New York City corridor.
Career Corner:

First Impression Career Services, LLC, hosted by Anne-Marie Ditta, 1-877-HIRED-11 / 914-961-0579

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Location:

Eldorado West, 460 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, across the street from the Tarrytown Hilton, 914-332-5838 | Map It

Fees: $15 Westchester Chapter Members, $20 Non-Westchester Chapter Members. First timers are free, and anyone bringing a first timer is free.