Dr. Ray Bareiss - Director of Educational Programs - Carnegie Mellon University, West Coast Campus

Shared his experiences on Project Planning 

Shared his experiences on "Creating Products People Want"

Dr. Ray Bareiss is Director of Educational Programs and Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon West. He was formerly Executive Vice President and Senior Design Architect at Cognitive Arts, in charge of its New York office. Prior to joining Cognitive Arts, Ray was Assistant Director of the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) and an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Education at Northwestern University. Before joining ILS, he was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University. As a specialist in computer-based learning environments, corporate memory and computer-based performance support, cased-based reasoning and multimedia computing, Ray served as a senior software designer for many academic and corporate training courses.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences and a B.S. in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked on academic e-learning courses for Columbia University in the fields of ESL, Information Technology, Economics, Physics, and Psychology, and on courses for Northwestern University. Ray is the author of a number of books and articles.

Wade Vesey

Shared his experiences on "Why Projects Fail" on June 3rd 2008

Wade Vesey is a Venture Partner for eCarnegieTech, the venture capital arm of Carnegie Mellon University. He has over 20 years of senior management experience in software, internet and telecommunications fields with a number of well-known services and software companies in Silicon Valley. Roles include being the 11th employee at Nextel Communications, co-founding the pioneering company in the machine-to-machine space - Aeris Communications, and playing key management roles in late stage venture-backed start-ups such as infrastructure provider Ceon and IP Communications provider Sonim Technologies. More recent activities include exploring Web 2.0 opportunities for Adobe Systems.

Mr. Vesey received a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from Harvard University.

Tom Allen - COO and EVP @Road inc.

Shared his experiences on Project Execution and Control 

Tom Allen is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Allen leads all activities related to systems engineering, IT architecture, service operations, software development and emerging products. He is responsible for deploying and operating the @Road Information Technology infrastructure. This includes providing leadership for @Road product marketing, products, services, network, computing and internal systems design and support teams. Mr. Allen has 20+ years of experience in the IT industry with companies such as Visa International, Edison International and Atlantic Richfield. Most recently Mr. Allen served as Vice President of Network Engineering at Visa International where he led the voice and data network engineering and operations functions. In this capacity, he played a key role in the rollout of Visa’s e-Commerce initiatives, enabling Visa to launch key internet based services including SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) and Bankruptcy/Fraud Risk Prediction Services. Mr. Allen’s team successfully built two large fault tolerant internet portal sites in the US and Europe in support of these programs. Prior to that, Mr. Allen managed the Technology Integration Division of the IT organization at Edison International (EI), where he oversaw development projects in the TCP-IP networking and client/server computing areas. Mr. Allen testified before the California Public Utilities Commission in support of technology initiatives and projects at EI. Mr. Allen holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo, an M.B.A. from San Jose State University and a Certificate in Executive Management from the Peter F. Drucker Management Center at the Claremont Graduate University.

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Dr. Brian Murphy - President De Anza College

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Brian Murphy joined the De Anza family as its third president on July 1, 2004, after serving as the executive director of the San Francisco Urban Institute at San Francisco State University (SFSU). The Institute is a nationally recognized model of university collaboration with civic and community-based organizations, bringing together resources to address issues critical to San Francisco and the Bay Area, including economic development, workforce preparation, urban environmental restoration, inner-city education and health, and business and community development. 

Dr. Murphy earned doctoral and master’s degrees in political science from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Williams College.

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Shared her experiences on Project Control and Closing

Suzanne Furlong currently works as a Project Manager for Socratic Arts. She has worked as an Educator and is currently involved in managing project involving course design that implement Learning by Doing Approach.

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Sukhjit Singh

Talked about De Anza's Project Management Curriculum on Nov 20th 2008 

Sukhjit have over 15 years of experience in software engineering, executive consulting and project management. 

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Satya Mannem PMP

Shared his experiences on "Solution Delivery Management" on Nov 20th 2008  

Satya is a Solution Delivery Manager and consultant. He has over 18 years of experience in managing and delivering software applications to maintain critical corporate information. Recently managed and lead the  delivery of CRM at NetApp for global support center users, customers and partners. Prior to NetApp delivered various information systems at HP, Juniper Networks, Agilent, @Road, etc..
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·MS in Information Engineering – Arizona State University
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Sandeep Bhatia

Shared his experiences on "Qualities of a successful project manager" on June 17th 2008

Sandeep has about 12 years of software development experience in various roles including development, QA, and management of software development & QA teams. His domain experience includes health care, semiconductor, finance, supply chain event management (SCEM) and shrink-wrap software. Sandeep currently holds the position of Senior Development Manager for an organization in Small Business Division at Intuit. He holds a patent in software development in the field of SCEM. Sandeep has a B.S. in Computer Science from Regional Engineering College , Kurukshetra , India and an M.S. in Software Engineering from San Jose State University .

Shared his experiences on Project Management and Control in Education Market

Prof. David Stringer, currently teaches in Business Department. During his  tenure he  has been the the Department Chair of Business for a number of years in addition to serving two terms as Division Dean.

Shared his experiences on Project Planning and Execution

Prof. Jack Lynch, currently teaching in Business Department. He has worked in several senior management positions in the industry and holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Shared his experiences on Project Execution and Control

Mr. Motupalli is a VC for last several years and is currently involved with several small Business Acquisitions. Previously, he has worked for several startups such as @Road and large corporations such as HP, Cisco in senior management roles.

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Robert Lin and Ingemar Flores

Shared how they planned their Project

Robert Lin and Ingemar Flores are scholars of Software Development Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Robert and Ingemar both work as software professionals currently.

Shared his experiences in Project Planning and working with Project Management Office

Vikas Bakshi a graduate of College of Notre Dame  and currently works as in Project Management  at Genentech. Prior to Genentech Vikas worked at Exodus and City of Palo Alto.