UMBC Technology Center Building - South Campus
1450 South Rolling Road
Baltimore, MD 21227-3898
For a printable vicinity map: click here -- for Google® Map directions: click here
From Baltimore and points North:
Take I-95 South, following signs toward Washington, DC. Take Exit 47 A-B, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Catonsville, MD 166. After exiting, keep RIGHT and follow Exit 47B, MD 166 North toward Catonsville.
Follow green signs to UMBC Tech Incubator, staying in MIDDLE LANE marked MD 166 – do not take UMBC Campus exit on your RIGHT.
Continue in lane marked MD 166, now keeping LEFT. Follow MD 166 past Park and Ride Lot on your LEFT. Follow road sign for Rolling Road, Catonsville to stop sign at top of hill.
At stop sign at top of hill, turn LEFT onto South Rolling Road and follow for approximately 0.5 miles to RIGHT turn onto two-lane, secondary road marked S. Rolling Road/Gun Road. You will see green signs to UMBC Tech Incubator and Training Center on your way.
At South Rolling Road/Gun Road, turn RIGHT and then keep LEFT to remain on South Rolling Road. Follow South Rolling Road past Satellite Lot #1 and guard shacks on your LEFT.
Keep RIGHT past guard shacks and follow up slight hill past Satellite Lot #2 on LEFT.
After passing entrance to Satellite Lot #2, keep LEFT at fork in road and follow sign “1448 1450” to the LEFT past large building with curved front and “UMBC Technology Center” emblazoned on front of building.
Turn LEFT into parking lot, park car and enter building through lower-level lobby. Take elevators or stairs located behind reception desk to cafeteria and event registration desks located on third floor.
From Washington and points South:
Take I-95 North, following signs toward Baltimore. Take Exit 47 A-B, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Catonsville, MD 166. After exiting, keep LEFT and follow signs to UMBC Campus and MD 166 toward Catonsville. Keep LEFT and follow road under I-95 bridges.
Follow green signs to UMBC Tech Incubator, staying in MIDDLE LANE marked MD 166 – do not take UMBC Campus exit on your RIGHT.
Continue in lane marked MD 166, now keeping LEFT. Follow MD 166 past Park and Ride Lot on your LEFT. Follow road sign for Rolling Road, Catonsville to stop sign at top of hill.
At stop sign at top of hill, turn LEFT onto South Rolling Road and follow for approximately 0.5 miles to RIGHT turn onto two-lane, secondary road marked S. Rolling Road/Gun Road. You will see green signs to UMBC Tech Incubator and Training Center on your way.
At South Rolling Road/Gun Road, turn RIGHT and then keep LEFT to remain on South Rolling Road. Follow South Rolling Road past Satellite Lot #1 and guard shacks on your LEFT.
Keep RIGHT past guard shacks and follow up slight hill past Satellite Lot #2 on LEFT.
After passing entrance to Satellite Lot #2, keep LEFT at fork in road and follow sign “1448 1450” to the LEFT past large building with curved front and “UMBC Technology Center” emblazoned on front of building.
Turn LEFT into parking lot, park car and enter building through lower-level lobby. Take elevators or stairs located behind reception desk to cafeteria and event registration desks located on third floor.
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Real PM Solutions: Top Project Management Challenges and Resources You Can Use - featuring Carl Pritchard!
Dinner Meeting
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 4:30 PM
UMBC Technology Center Building - South Campus, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD 21227-3898
This event/activity qualifies for 2.00 PDUs.
Need Directions? MapQuestNOTE: Registration for this event was CLOSED on Sunday, April 22 at 6:00 p.m. EDST.
VENDORS and SUPPLIERS: If you are interested in being an Exhibitor for this event, please contact Joshua Herring at Joshua.Herring@gmail.com.
For Exhibitor information and an application: click here
Event Description
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see aspiring project management students in action at a PMI® Baltimore dinner meeting held at the UMBC Technology Center Building located on UMBC's South Campus!
Featured speakers to include: CARL PRITCHARD, RICK HAMMOND, LEAH ZIMMERMAN AND JOSHUA HERRING (see Expert Panel bios below)
This event will feature presentations on the top project management challenges and discuss tools and resources to overcome them. It will include a number of vendors and exhibitors offering an array of free resources, books, tools, and templates, as well as demonstration of trial software and other project management solutions for meeting attendees.
Graduate students from UMBC's Graduate Engineering Management Project Management Fundamentals Course (ENMG 650), under the direction of their instructor, Anita Griner, MBA, PMP®, invite you to attend their event, “Real PM Solutions: Top Project Management Challenges and Resources You Can Use!”
In order to be an effective project manager, you must have a solid understanding of the discipline and methodology (learning from lectures, PMBOK® and written information) but you must also gain “hands-on” experience performing project management activities in order to truly develop your project management skills.
This event is the culmination of a semester-long effort where the students learn and apply project management concepts to initiate, plan, execute, monitor/control, and close a real PMI site event project. The purpose of this assignment is to enable students to “flex their project management muscles”; to put project management concepts they are learning in class to use in real-time.
During the semester, students will carry out their project as they work through the project management concepts -- through teamwork, presentations, and the execution and evaluation of the project. The students are responsible for identifying and recruiting event vendors and exhibitors, and all aspects of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling and closing to include the production and management of various project management documents to include; Project Charter, Requirements Document, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (graphical & indented list formats), Schedule, Risk Management Plan, Risk Register, Change Management Process, Change Request Form and Log, Lessons Learned, Action Item Log and more.
You can see the student’s work, as it develops, at their Project Website. See the project schedule, which risks have been identified, lessons learned, and much more!
Event Details
This event is sponsored by PMI® Baltimore, UMBC Continuing and Professional Studies Department,and the UMBC Training Centers.
The event will begin with a networking opportunity and hors d'oeuvres, featuring exhibitors demonstrating their project management tools and solutions. Networking will be followed by presentations by the students, PMI® Baltimore, UMBC Continuing and Professional Studies and UMBC Training Centers.
An Expert Panel will also address the group with presentations on top project management challenges and resources that you can use to overcome them.
Registration, networking, hors d'oeuvres, Exhibitors and Sponsor presentations will take place in the cafeteria (Glenmore Cafe) on the third floor of the UMBC Technology Center. Coffee and dessert will be served following networking and prior to the start of the main meeting presentations on the lower-level lobby.
Expert Panel presentations will be held in Room 1.007 located on the lobby-level. Rest rooms are located behind the reception desk.
Access to Exhibitors is FREE. Featured Exhibitors to be announced.
Expert Panel Bios
Carl Pritchard
Carl Pritchard is seasoned project management communicator and the author of "The Project Management Communications Tool Kit" (Artech House). Prior to becoming a project manager, Carl was a member of the media, serving last as the news director at WASH-FM, Washington. He's an internationally sought-after lecturer, and served as the speakers' coach for the National Leadership Conference during the late 1990's. He has authored six books, produced two audio training programs in certification, and was the architect of ESI International's landmark e-learning programs in project management. He serves on the board of directors for ProjectConnections.com and is the U.S. Correspondent for the U.K. project management journal, Project Manager Today. He holds a B.A. from the Ohio State University, and is a Project Management Professional™ as certified by the Project Management Institute.
Rick Hammond
Rick Hammond is the Practice Manager, Business Performance Improvement, for UMBC Training Centers. Prior to joining UMBC Training Centers, Rick was an independent consultant/business owner for nearly 29 years. Early in his career he held positions in information technology, was the Manager of Training and Development for a major financial institution and was Manager of Human Resource Planning for a large corporation. During this time, he worked with Dr. Lyman Steil, considered to be the world's foremost authority on listening and Mike Vance, former Dean of Disney University on Creative Thinking. In addition, he was a certified instructor for Kepner-Tregoe, an organizational development consulting firm, specializing in methods for problem-solving, planning and decision-making, and for Blessing-White, a consulting firm specializing in career development initiatives.
During his consulting career, Rick worked closely with a variety of large clients to modify their business processes and to supply their people with the skills needed to be a success. Recently, the bulk of his efforts have pertained to improving clients’ project management and business analysis processes and skills. His subject matter expertise and teaching experience includes: Project Management, Application Development, Management and Personal Development. Rick holds a B.S. in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, in College Park, MD and holds the Project Management Professional® (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute.
Leah Zimmerman
Leah Zimmerman consults, trains, and mentors in project management and project controls through Dynamics Research Corporation, and has been an instructor of PMP exam preparation for over 7 years. She specializes in earned value management, configuration management, information security management and quality control. Leah has over twenty years of project management experience in diverse projects, such as information technology, shipbuilding, financial systems, and waste management. Leah has supported projects for the Canadian Navy, Canadian Coast Guard, U.S. Army, Department of State, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Transportation Security Administration. Leah holds the Project Management Professional® (PMP) credential from the Project Management Institute.
Joshua Herring
Joshua Herring is a project manager serving the Innovation Center within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where he is leading the development and implementation of a large scale health care model designed to drive better care, better health, and lower costs through improvement. He speaks, teaches, and develops and delivers training on project management topics and tools for audiences ranging from graduate students to seasoned industry professionals. Prior to joining the federal government, Joshua supported a number of defense contractors in a variety of project management, process improvement, portfolio strategy and business development roles. Joshua holds Project Management Professional® (PMP) and Scheduling Professional ® (PMI-SP) credentials from the Project Management Institute and a Microsoft certification for Microsoft Project.
Time and Location Information
Agenda
4:30-5:30 p.m. Registration open
5:00-6:00 p.m. Networking, hors d'oeuvres, Exhibitors and Sponsor presentations
5:45-6:00 p.m. Coffee and dessert
6:00-7:50 p.m. Student Research Questions and Expert Panel Response Presentations
7:50-8:00 p.m. Prize raffle, wrap-up and adjourn
5:00-6:00 p.m. Networking, hors d'oeuvres, Exhibitors and Sponsor presentations
5:45-6:00 p.m. Coffee and dessert
6:00-7:50 p.m. Student Research Questions and Expert Panel Response Presentations
7:50-8:00 p.m. Prize raffle, wrap-up and adjourn
Additional Information
Cost: PMI Baltimore Chapter members, non-members and Event Exhibitors: $20
For a printable vicinity map: click here
For a printable vicinity map: click here
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