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Project Managers!
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Our first Breakfast Roundtable was heldon Tuesday, December 17 at 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. at the offices of Malcolm Pirnie. This interactive monthly event is an opportunity to discuss project management issues that affect our work and careers. Participants are encouraged to share their challenging experiences and benefit from the combined knowlege of attendees. All are welcome.
At our first Breakfast Roundtable we brainstormed topics for discussion in 2003 as well as locations and schedule. Contact Randi Ferrari Sachs at 914-641-2669 or email rsachs@pirnie.com for questions and suggestions. |
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| Chapter Meeting, December 12, 2002 Top of page | ||
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Edward B. Farkas 
Edward B. Farkas is Managing Director, Project Management Practice, ETR Technology Center (www.etrtechcenter.com) . Mr. Farkas has worked as a project & program manager in both the public and private sectors, and managed over $5 billion of aviation, construction, engineering, e-commerce, information technology, public safety and telecommunications projects. His project management experience includes projects in Argentina, Colombia, China, England, Hong Kong, Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Farkas has degrees in electrical engineering and engineering management, has held offices in PMI and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has published articles in PMI Update, IEEE Monitor, NewsNet One, Power Engineering Proceedings and PM Network (referenced below), and has been a guest speaker at Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States Military Academy, Rochester Institute of Technology, and other professional association chapters. |
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How to get your organization ISO 9001 certified
The presentation discussed a step-by-step approach to quality certification from the development of a project management methodology through the creation of a formal Quality Management System. The speaker answers the following questions:
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Development Center, Inc. ( DCI ) Ridgefield, CT Otto DeLuke, President Phone: (203) 431-3900 email: Ottod@dci-devctr.com www.dci-devctr.com The DCI Difference, a right arm to your IT requirements. |
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Malcolm Pirnie, 104 Corporate Park Drive in White Plains.
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| PMP Exam Prep Class, December 3,4, 2002 Top of page | Instructor: |
WIlliam Duncan, PMP
A rare opportunity to spend two days studying with the source, Bill Duncan, primary author of PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Bill is a Principal with Project Management Partners, a project management consulting and training firm headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts. He is the former Director of Standards for the Project Management Institute, a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Project Management Journal, and a certified Project Management Professional. |
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Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.
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BOCES Lower Hudson Regional Information Center
44 Executive Blvd Elmsford, NY 10523 Directions (new window) |
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| Chapter Meeting, November 14, 2002 Top of page | ||
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Lable Braun
Lable Braun, PMP, is Director of Consulting Services for Intel's Network Boards Divsion in Parsippany, NJ. During his 27 year career he has had regular opportunity for honing his negotiation skills, with especially productive outcomes once he started using Win-Win techniques over two decades ago. After ten fruitless years spent in the Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning arena he saw the light and became a Project Manager in 1985. Over his career he has built and managed several highly successful Program Management Offices and Professional and Consulting Service Delivery Teams. Lable can be reached at lablebraun@hotmail.com. |
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Win-Win Negotiating Techniques
Negotiating skills are the key to project success, from the dozens of everyday "little" interactions to the "big" negotiating events that are part of every project life-cycle. In this presentation, Lable Braun, PMP, will examine why so many of us are reluctant to enter into negotiations (the maybe-if-I-ignore-it-it'll-go-away syndrome), the conceptual barriers to negotiation (the but-this-has-never-been-negotiable-before syndrome), the various negotiation styles (and how to deal with them), and tips and techniques for ensuring a productive Win-Win Negotiation (the everything-we-think-we-know-may-be-wrong methodology of negotiation). Lable will tie these concepts directly into the challenges we all face daily as Project Managers. |
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Queue Associates, Inc. is a full service information technology-consulting firm, focused on providing Microsoft Great Plains back-office and front-office business solutions to small and midsize organizations. Featured product: Microsoft Professional Services Automation. Hosted by Howard Kaplan, email: hkaplan@queueassoc.com and Jeffrey Goldstein, email: jgoldstein@queueassoc.com. |
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The Infinity Consulting Group is an established full service staffing firm focused on information technology. We have provided our clients with candidates on a consulting, full time and try-buy basis. Our client base consists primarily of Fortune 1000 firms and other progressive, up-and-coming organizations. Included among our current clients are: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, CS First Boston, TIAA-CREF, A.D.P. and AXA Financial. We have served our clients by providing programmers, systems administrators, application developers, Internet developers, project managers, technical support personnel and many other IT professionals. Hosted by John Bonade, email: jbonade@infinitygroup.com. |
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| Location: | The Royal Palace, 77 Knollwood Road, Town of Greenburgh, in the Greenburgh Shopping Plaza next to Cinema 100. Phone: 914-289-1988. | |
| Chapter Meeting, October 10, 2002 Top of page | ||
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Doug DeCarlo, Principal
The Doug DeCarlo Group, www.dougdecarlo.com |
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Live with Purpose & Passion!
How to Find and Keep Your Beat in Today's Project-Crazy Organizations |
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TeamPlay Enterprise Project Management Software hosted by Paul Ettlinger of ETRAC Solutions.
ETRAC Solutions, the exclusive representative of Primavera Systems in the
New York area, will be presenting their TeamPlay Enterprise Project
Management Software. TeamPlay is a suite of role-based modules that ties
together project schedules, resources, portfolio and process management.
Primavera Systems provides seamless web-enabled functionality and
high-powered analytical tools. This enterprise solution delivers a
scalable, common data platform, which is accessable via the web, desktop and
handheld tools. For more information, please go to:
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Hosted by Ed Ashburn of Garrison Associates, a fully integrated employment search firm dedicated to placing talented professionals in the Information Technologies industry.
www.garrison-assoc.com |
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| Location: | The Royal Palace, 77 Knollwood Road, Town of Greenburgh, in the Greenburgh Shopping Plaza next to Cinema 100. | |
www.etracsolutions.com
www.primavera.com