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NEW FACES Kim Shelley and Laurie DeLeo were hired by Tilson Technology Management, an information technology project management company in Portland. Shelley joined the company as a senior developer and DeLeo as a senior consultant.
The Global Positioning System GPS, while originally a military project, has significant applications for the civilian industry. Civilian applications benefit from GPS signals by utilizing one or more of three basic components of the GPS location, relative movement, and time. Muslims around the world perform five prayers a day. The five prayers are based on astronomical position of the sun. Many systems have been developed to serve as prayer time providers but none of these systems provide the time for users that are traveling onboard an aircraft from one country to another, where (depending on the speed and directions of the aircraft) prayer time can change significantly.
GREENBELT, Md., May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SGT, Inc., a leading provider of Engineering, Science, Project Management, and Information Technology services, today announced that Dr. James French joined SGT as Vice President for Launch Systems. Dr. French joins SGT with a focus on bolstering our engineering work in the Huntsville region. Jim has been influential in aircraft and Space Shuttle programs and has made many contributions throughout his dynamic career," stated CEO and President, Kam Ghaffarian. "We are thrilled to have him join SGT, as he continues to be a leader in the aerospace community, contributing to the vision for space exploration both through his current work and his support developing the next generation.
When organizations focus on empowering employees and encouraging them to act as enterprising professionals, they remove the barriers to success that traditional organizational hierarchies create and establish environments conducive to customer-centric innovation. This article - authored by an assistant vice president at Bell Canada (Toronto, Ontario) - explains how this information communications technology (ICT) leader developed and implemented a formalized project management approach to drive forward an organizational shift from products to people, from corporate processes to customer solutions. It explains the impact of this shift in relation to Bell Canada's organizational culture and corporate performance.
The city's $29 million first-year contract with a private company was established to provide all general government services, including planning and zoning, public works, facilities, information technology, human resources, administrative support, revenue collection, financial management services, procurement, purchasing, communications, transportation planning, capital project planning and management, parks and recreation, code enforcement, plans review, permitting, and municipal court services.
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 14, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Office Remedies, Inc. (ORI) has announced the strategic hires of several people as well as promotions for current key employees. The positions support new federal government contracts and ORI's commitment to outstanding service. Justin Navarro, Project Manager, oversees a U.S. Department of State research project. With significant experience in project management and information technology, he successfully led the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor's CareerVoyages.gov site, which received a Secretarial Award.
Janet Wilson learned about the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential in the late 1990s while attending an employer's project management course. Years later, she joined SI International in Rockville, MD -- an information technology and network solutions firm that supported her decision to earn a PMP credential. While some project managers go back to school to get master's degrees or university certificates, and others take classes from private providers, 288,838 project managers in more than 164 countries have achieved the PMP credential, according to the Project Management Institute (PMI). Many project managers benefit from the lessons they learn while preparing for the PMP credential exam. If you've thought about earning a PMP credential, you can find information on how to a...
GREENBELT, Md., Jan. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SGT, Inc., a leading provider of Engineering, Science, Project Management, and Information Technology services, today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) has awarded SGT the Volpe Transportation Information Project Support (V-TRIPS) Task Order One. An innovative Federal fee-for-service organization, the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), part of the U.S. DOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), is an internationally recognized center of transportation and logistics expertise. The Center has eight Centers of Innovation which focus on cross-cutting transportation, research, education, innovation, and o...
The excitement of a furniture purchase can quickly turn to bewilderment when hundreds of seemingly incongruous pieces pour out of the box in need of "some assembly." Fortunately, the box also includes an instruction manual to spell out each step necessary to finish the job. Developing an information technology project is similar, with project management operating as the instruction manual that gets the project from initiation to completion with no extra pieces left over. Three 2006 A.M. Best Co E-Fusion Award finalists know that firsthand. Here are five project management phases: 1. assessing the need, 2. planning, 3. executing, 4. controlling, and 5. closing.
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