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Rich Maltzman, PMP*, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, to the 2006 integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at Boston University’s Corporate Education Center, Merrimack College, Northern Essex Community College and University of Massachusetts – Lowell.

Rich has just co-written a book entitled Green Project Management with his colleague Dave Shirley. Offering the latest in green techniques and methods, the book is designed to help project managers maximize limited project resources and get the most out of a finite budget. It provides proven techniques and best practices in green project management, including risk and advantage assessments and the procurement of incentives such as grants, rebates, and tax credits. With illustrative case studies and insights from acknowledged leaders in green project management, Green Project Management is a crucial addition to any project manager’s library in this age of ecological awareness. 

Rich has also professionally developed PMP-exam prep courseware, including exams and books. He edited and was ‘the voice’ for a set of 8 Audio CDs – a major part of a PMP prep course for an international company, for whom he has also facilitated PMP exam study groups. Rich was selected for the Modeling Team for the 4th Edition PMBOK** Guide to be published by PMI in 2008, and contributed to the chapters on Quality and Risk. Recently, Rich presented at two international conferences – the PMO Symposium in San Antonio, TX, and the PMO Summit in Coconut Grove, FL, the subject being the development framework for Project Managers.

Currently, Rich is Senior Manager, Learning and Professional Advancement, at the Global Program Management Office of a major telecom concern.

Rich’s educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MSIE from Purdue University. In addition, Rich has a mini-MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Master’s Certificate in international business management granted jointly from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and INSEAD of France. From a Project Management standpoint, Rich received his PMP in 2000 after earning the Stevens Institute’s Master’s Certificate in 1999. He has presented papers on Project Management at conferences in Huizen, The Netherlands, Mexico City and Long Beach, California. Rich is currently co-authoring a book with Ranjit Biswas, PMP, entitled “The Fiddler on the Project”, a portion of which is being collaboratively written on the web via a wiki, http://fiddlerontheproject.wikidot.com, and posts regularly on his blog, Scope Crêpe, http://scopecrepe.blogspot.com.

Dave Shirley, PMP*, has been an instructor and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in management and project management, in the corporate, public, and small business arenas. With his colleague Rich Maltzman, he is co-founder of EarthPM.

As a member of the graduate faculty at New England College, Dave developed and taught Managing Projects in Healthcare. As part of the Masters of Management (MoM) in Healthcare Administration and the MoM in Project Management and Organizational Leadership, he taught project management at hospitals and businesses as well as online and on campus for the past seven years. He also developed, directed, and taught a project management certification program at Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, MA. He is a senior instructor and consultant for Action For Results, and a senior instructor for ESI International, both leading project management education and training companies. He is also an adjunct professor for Southern New Hampshire University.

Dave has just co-written a book entitled Green Project Management with his colleague Rich Maltzman. Offering the latest in green techniques and methods, the book is designed to help project managers maximize limited project resources and get the most out of a finite budget. It provides proven techniques and best practices in green project management, including risk and advantage assessments and the procurement of incentives such as grants, rebates, and tax credits. With illustrative case studies and insights from acknowledged leaders in green project management, Green Project Management is a crucial addition to any project manager’s library in this age of ecological awareness.

As a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with AT&T and Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Dave was responsible for managing the first light-wave transmission products as well as several quality efforts. He was AT&T’s project manager for the first fiber-to-to-the-home effort in Connecticut and was the Lucent Technologies program management director managing several large telecommunications companies’ equipment deployment. He has many years of experience in developing, leading, and managing teams.

Dave holds a BA degree in geology, from Windham College in Putney, VT, and an honors MBA degree from Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey. He also hold Masters Certificates in Project Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ and American University in Washington, DC., and is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP©) by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

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** -- Project Management Body of Knowledge