Featured Speaker(s)

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Walter O. Bowman, PMP

Walter Bowman serves as Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Project Manager Center. He is responsible for the content, quality, development and delivery of project management-related professional training, consulting and mentoring services offered by the Center. Under his technical direction and the operations and marketing direction of Mark Balish, President of the Pittsburgh Project Management Center, the organization has grown from an initial offering of one course in 1997 to an entire track of courses that leads to a Master’s Certificate in Project Management in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business. The Pittsburgh Project Management Center also offers preparatory courses for the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) examination, advanced standard and custom courses in project management and full consulting and mentoring services in the area of project management implementation and solutions.

Mr. Bowman has over thirty-five years of practical experience in project and executive management of high technology and business projects in industry and academia. His experience spans software system development and implementation, placing cameras on the moon, building and modifying nuclear power plants, process control system design and construction, engineering services, and development, administration and delivery of educational programs for both academic credit and professional development. Mr. Bowman has practiced and taught extensively in all areas of project management, from small to large projects as well as programs with organizations ranging from start-up companies to major corporations.

An active member of the Project Management Institute, Mr. Bowman is a certified Project Management Professional, a founder, past President and former Director of Professional Development of the Pittsburgh Chapter. Internationally, Mr. Bowman helped develop PMI's original Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and has served as Co-Chair of PMI's Certification Committee, Chair of the Council of Chapter Presidents, Vice-President of Technical Activities, a member of PMI's Board Executive Committee and Board of Directors and President of the PMI Educational Foundation.

Mr. Bowman received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1961, his Master of Science in Business Administration degree from Robert Morris College in 1982 and completed post-graduate work in Engineering Management at the University of Pittsburgh.


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Sean O’Hara, PMP
President of PMI’s Pittsburgh Chapter
Senior Manager, Global Support and Projects
Ketchum

Sean O’Hara, PMP, is an experienced manager of programs, projects and processes, with successes as both a consultant and employee in a variety of industries. He has 7 years of program/project management experience, 8 years of business process redesign experience and 13 years of customer service/support experience. Sean has worked in the Information Technology arena for 8 years.

Highlights of Sean O’Hara’s qualifications include:
Implementing Project Management Offices and project management solutions, methodologies & training across corporations
Managing diverse projects of up to $6M, upgrading 20,000 PCs, deploying 1,000 PCs and designing and implementing various applications & websites
Instituting organizational business process management
Improving customer focus & support through Service Level Agreements & end user surveys
Developing & managing corporate training

Sean is also very involved in the Project Management Institute, both on a local level and global level. His dedication to PMI is evidenced below:
President, PMI Pittsburgh Chapter (679 members)
Graduate, inaugural PMI Leadership Institute �" 2002
Member, PMI IT Member Advisory Group
Nominee, PMI Board of Directors (election in October 2003)
Presenter, PMI Leadership Meetings




Maureen Bradley, Project Lead
Electronic Health Record-Surgical Services Applications
UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, PA

My experience over the last 25 years at UPMC Health System has involved many areas from Patient Unit activities to Operating Room Scheduling Management at our Presbyterian site to management of Utilization Review, Managed Care Services and Admissions at one of the other hospital sites.

Over the last 5 years, I have been a member of the Electronic Health Record project team working in conjunction with the vendor providing the suite of products to implement the on-line medical record. During this time, I have held positions from application systems analyst to team lead for design, build and implementation. I have also been Functional Manager, Security Lead and Testing/Code Management Coordinator during this timeframe prior to accepting the Project Lead position on the SurgiNet (Surgical Services Applications) team.

As Project Lead for the SurgiNet team, my responsibilities involve assisting in the planning, coordination and management of the design, build and implementation of the suite of applications related to Surgical Services for our multi-facility health system. Since October, 2003 we have implemented the suite of products to two of our hospitals and plans are in place to implement at another later this year.


Julie Cohen
Acquisition Improvement Team
Software Engineering Institute
Ms. Julie B. Cohen is a member of the Acquisition Improvement Team (AIT) of the Acquisition Support Program (ASP). She is currently involved in activities to improve acquisition practices throughout the Air Force. Prior to accepting this recent position, Julie was a Program Manager at Brashear LP where she led the development of the Fire Control System for the Army’s Objective Individual Combat Weapon program. Julie was previously employed with Marconi, where she worked as a program manger on several enterprise communication systems. Julie is a retired Air Force Officer. During her Air Force career, she worked in various acquisition positions including assignments in the F-16 program office, the Flight Training program office, the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She is a certified Program Manager Professional and attained a Level 3 Certification as a DoD Program Manager.