Speaker:  Kerstan Wong, P.E., PMP.
                   Director, Project Management Office -- Hawaiian Electric Co., Inc.

Program: “Risqué Management”

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P109150. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Synopsis: 
Are the phrases “Risqué Management” and “Risk Management” interchangeable?  In practice, it appears that the phrases are interchangeable.  While companies acknowledge the importance of risk management, seldom will you find it being implemented to PMBOK® standards.  Instead most companies and project managers rely on “risqué management,” which oftentimes translates to “risk-based decision-making.”  In other words, you discuss risks and make project decisions without the benefit of analysis, which in itself is “risqué” for effective project management.  Implementing effective risk management is not complicated if simple concepts are used, which will be the focus of this presentation.

Speaker Bio: 
Kerstan began his career at Hawaiian Electric Co., Inc. in 1987 as an electrical designer for substations and telecommunication facilities.   Since 1992 to present, he has been a project manager at Hawaiian Electric on various transmission and distribution projects ranging in costs from $1 million to over $50 million.  In 2004, he became Director of the Energy Delivery Project Management Division and co-developed Hawaiian Electric’s “Project Plan Development Class.”

For the PMI Honolulu Chapter, Kerstan was the Education Director from 1999 to 2001 and co-developed the “Introduction to Project Management for Private Non-Profit Organizations” class.

Speaker:  Greg Ng
                   Project Manager, Resource Shop Superintendent
                   Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard

Program: Project Management at Naval Shipyards

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P108180. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Speakers:  Glenn Kiso,  Sr. Technical Consultant, 
                     Clarity PPM Business Unit, CA Technologies

                               & 

                     Kevin Peiffer, Sr. Solution Strategist, 
                     Clarity PPM Business Unit, CA Technologies
  

Program: Tools/Systems to Automate Project Management Processes, Programs & Portfolio Management

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P107210. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Speaker:  Curt Ruotola, PMP.
                   Enterprise IT Portfolio Manager-- Kamehameha Schools

Program: Project Scheduling, Workload Management, and IT Portfolio Management Using Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Software

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P106160. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Speaker:  Eugene Hamamoto
                   Dir. Of Professional Services -- Pacific,  Decision Research Corporation

Program: Collaboration: The Grease that Lubricates the Gears of PMBOK

Zipped PowerPoint file

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P105190. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Speakers:  Glenn Hamamura, PMP
                      Principal Consultant, Systems Excellence LLC

                      AND

                      Larry Rowland,  Ed.D., PMP
                      Department of Financial Economics and Information Systems, Chair; &
                      Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Hawaii Pacific University

Program: The Logical Framework Approach, a 2010 Update

Link to Presentation File

Deadline to register is 04/19/2010 @ 8:00 PM HST 

Register Online OR email your response to Roy T. Uemura, Program Director at mailto:Programs@pmihnl.orgThisThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Speaker Bio: 
Mr. Glenn Hamamura, PMP, is the principal of Systems Excellence LLC, a Hawaii based consulting firm and a PMI Registered Educational Provider. He holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees from Stanford University, and has been involved in project management in the IT industry for many years.  Glenn is also a Stanford Certified Project Manager, a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), and an ASQ (American Society for Quality) Certified Manager of Organizational Excellence.  He has served as an Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (2006-2008) and as a Senior Examiner (2009).  

Dr. Larry Rowland, PMP, has been teaching project management at Hawaii Pacific University since 1998. He is also co-founder and board member of the PMI Honolulu Chapter and adviser to HPU’s Project Management Club. Larry was trained in the LFA in 1993 and has used the approach widely in consulting, training, and as part of his graduate level course in project management, facilitating over 500 LFA project matrices.
 

Speaker:  Jim Steele, PMP, MA, MS; Senior Consultant, AnalySeas LLC.
Program: Project Managers and Business Analysts: Conflicting responsibilities or synergistic allies?

Links to Presentation (2.75MB) and Poll Results (83KB).

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - 20th Floor Main Dining Room
PDU Info: Session #C166-P103170. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3
Fee Schedule  

Speaker Bio: 

Jim Steele is an IT Manager with 25+ years of experience in diverse technologies (including data warehousing, client-server, and web), in diverse industries (including banking, telecom, medical, not-for-profit, and the State of Hawaii), and in diverse settings (from start-ups to AT&T).

Speaker:  Judi Ushio, Manager-Planning & Program Management, Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc.
Program: The challenge of managing the installation of a statewide underground and undersea fiber optic network.

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club - Lower Level
PDU Info: Session #C166-P102170. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3
Fee Schedule  

Synopsis:  This presentation will explore the development of a multi-million dollar project, from defining its scope, procuring the funding, scheduling phases over many years, to anticipating the major risks and establishing mitigation measures.  For example, protocols were agreed to by federal, state and local officials for the handling of any ancient human burial remains or artifacts that may be found during the construction phase.  The challenges of managing the many types of land and sea conditions will be discussed; from sand in Maui, to red dirt in Molokai, to lava tubes on the Big Island to working around the weather and whale season for the ocean phase.  The project encompasses the tracking of many elements such as installing underground conduit and manholes, pulling fiber, building wire centers, installation of telecommunication equipment and ensuring that it all works.  This one project utilizes about every skill a project manager needs to have in his or her arsenal.

Speaker Bio:  Judi Ushio has been with Sandwich Isles Communications since it began building out its telecommunication network to Hawaiian Home Lands in 1997.  She has been involved in every facet of the emerging company including managing the installation of the fiber optic network.  She now oversees all Operations projects as the company expands its scope and services.  Prior to her work with Sandwich Isles, she managed many different projects through various government contracts in Washington D.C.  These projects ran from studies on vocational education in maximum security prisons to Bilingual education on Indian reservations to the refurbishing of fuel tanks for U.S. Air Force jets.

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club
Speaker: Harvey Berliner, Chief Facilities Engineer &
                  Honolulu Rail Transit Project, InfraConsulc.
Program: What stress? Managing Honolulu rail transit, the state's largest infrastructure project.

PDU Info: Session #C166-P101200. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Fee Schedule  Deadline to Register Online 01/18/2010 @ 8:00 PM HST

Synopsis:  This presentation will provide an update on the Honolulu Transit Project.

Speaker Bio:

Harvey Berliner has worked for InfraConsult for the past year as a member of the City and County of Honolulu Rapid Transit Division.  On the Project he is the Chief Facilities Engineer and Interim Safety and Security Manager.  Harvey has 32 years of experience working on transit systems.  He has worked on the design and construction support of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit System, Taipei Rapid Transit System in Taiwan, the Hudson Bergen Light Rail System and Newark City Subway Extension in New Jersey, the No. 7 Subway Extension in New York City and currently the Honolulu Rail Transit Project.

Harvey received his BS in Civit Engineering from Purdue University and MBA from DePaul University in Chicago. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois, New Jersey and New York.

Mark Hickson has 23 years in Construction Project Management in Rail & Highway Transportation, Retail, Residential, Research Facilities and Theme Park. He has 3 ½ years as Owners Representative – Project Management, Scheduling, and Estimating. Mark has managed 50+ staff as COO and Head of Development. Other areas of experience include; Program strategy and master planning of ‘Magic World’ Theme Park in Dubai; Primavera Authorized Representative – Sales, Implementation & Training; Extensive claims analysis for a major design builder on the California State Prison – Delano 2; Associate of the California Manufacturing Technology Center; 4.5 years in Software Development & Testing; Website Design and Programming.

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club
Speaker:  Dr. Jang Ra, Professor and Chair, Project Management Department, University of Alaska Anchorage 
Program: The Future of Project Management Education and Training Circa 2025

PDU Info: Session #C166-P9B18. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Fee Schedule  Deadline to Register Online 11/16/2009 @ 8:00 PM HST

Synopsis:   This presentation will focus on predicting the roles of project managers circa 2025 and use that knowledge to provide better education and training by reshaping the project management curriculum, teaching methods, delivery means, faculty and students. This approach is taken on the premise that future organizations will survive; (1) mainly through innovative and successful projects; (2) within a globally competitive environment representing many different cultures and time-zones; (3) by completing transformation cycles faster that their competitors.

Speaker Bio:  Dr. Jang Ra, PMP is a professor and founding chair of the Master of Science in Project Management (MSPM) Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA).  Under the leadership of Dr. Ra the MSPM program has grown to be one of the major graduate programs in the University of Alaska system.  His specialties are in project management, multi-criteria decision making and quantitative analysis.  He has taught more than fifteen different graduate-level subjects since 1987 at University of Pittsburgh, Portland State University, George Washington University, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Han-Yang University in Korea and UAA.  Dr. Ra has offered extensive PM professional consulting services and training in the State of Alaska and the Pacific Rim.  According to the PM Forum President David Pells, "Professor Ra is now growing one of the most visible and robust project management programs in the USA".  You can find out more information about his program at www.uaa.alaska.edu/pm

Time:   Friday November 13, 2009   5:30PM - 9:00PM,
Location: Hale Koa Hotel Waikiki Ballroom

PDUS:  1 PDU C166-P9B130

Early Bird Pricing Special recession-buster pricing of $20 per person includes a buffet dinner and up to eight hours of parking at the Hale Koa Hotel.
Limited pricing for only the first 100 guests that register by October 31st. 
After October 31st the pricing is $45 per person. Agenda details for the evening is still in progress but will include:

• PMI Honolulu Chapter "Vision 2010 and Beyond": A Case Study in Project Management of Strategic Planning (1 PDU)
• Member Survey results and drawing for the iPhone/iPod touch

 Bring your spouse or significant other and enjoy a great evening in Waikiki with the PMI Honolulu Chapter!  

Time/Location: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., The Plaza Club
Speaker:  Jitinder Singh, Milli Micro Systems, Inc.
Program: Continuous Process Improvement

PDU Info: Session #C166-P9A21. PMPs earn 1 PDU in Category 3

Fee Schedule  Deadline to Register Online 10/19/09 @ 5:00 PM HST

Synopsis: Using the systems approach (Analysis, Design, Development, Implement, Evaluate) to ensure process conformity, repeatability and success.

Jitinder Singh manages Milli Micro Systems Inc. a management services company. His education includes an MBA from UCLA with a degree in Engineering. His experience includes management of manufacturing, information technology, business development, purchasing, international trade and systems integration.  He has strong background in strategic planning and execution. Training Projects have Included Leadership, Project Management and Team Building, for, Department of Homeland Security, Metropolitan Water District, US Navy, Fox Channels Group, and Jupiter International. He has taught at UCLA, California State University, Keller Graduate School, and Pepperdine University in the adult learning programs.