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Max Smith, PMP retired

Certification Number 2325, Project Management Institute

Over 25 Years of Project Management, Cross Industry Experience

Professional Experience:

Hewlett-Packard Company 1989 - 2003

· Program Management Office, Central Region

· Program Manager, Develop and Implement Multi-vendor Service Programs and Projects

· Executive Consultant, sales support for opportunities in U.S. and Latin America

· Manufacturing Consultant, Develop and implement programs for Fortune 500 Companies

Fluor Daniel Corporation 1976 - 1989

· Program Manager, Managed $75 million worldwide Kodak Manufacturing Program

· Project Manager, Development of Kodak’s Project Management Division

· Material Manager, Managed $250 million material function for Tenneco Refinery Project

· Program Manager, Managed $30 million, computer installation for ARAMCO Gas Program

Thompson Ramo Woolridge (TRW) Corporation 1969 - 1976

· Marketing Manager, for Urban Traffic Control Projects

· Project Manager, Managed $16 million Traffic Control Project for Baltimore, MD

· Project Manager, Proposed and Managed $600k Traffic Control Project Boulder, CO

· Project Engineer, Apollo Lunar Module, Abort Guidance System Software

Education and Professional Affiliations:

· B.S. Engineering, UCLA; M.S. Control Engineering, UCLA

· Project Management Institute

· Founder and Chairman of PMI Service and Outsourcing Specific Interest Group (SAO SIG)

· Director at Large of the SAO SIG

Publications:

"Project Management of Outsourcing and Other Service Projects", PM Network, October 1996
"Do Service Projects Require Enhancement of the PMBoK", PMI ’97, Chicago, September 1997
"Financial Constraints on Service and Outsourcing Projects", PM Network, October 1998
"Service and Outsourcing, A Growing Project Management Trend", PM Network, October 1998
"Anatomy of Service and Outsourcing Projects", PMI '98, Long Beach, October 1998
“Scope Management of Service and Outsourcing Projects”, PMI ’99 Philadelphia, October 1999
“Quality in Service and Outsourcing Projects”, PM Network, February 2002
“Service Projects in the Experience Economy”, PMI’02 San Antonio, October 2002