Influencers for Aerospace and Defense

Mark Bowman has over 35 years of experience in hardware development, systems engineering, project engineering, project management, international project management, and operations in support of U.S. human space flight programs. He has touched, designed, developed, or managed hardware on every orbital space flight involving U.S. astronauts since 1983, including the Space Shuttle, Spacelab, Space Hab, the Mir Space Station, and the International Space Station.

Mark Waldof spent 44 years in industry in management and development roles including corporate positions at Lockheed Martin. He teaches project management and systems engineering and provides consulting services to Fortune 50 corporations, Federal and State Govt agencies and academia including the University of Minnesota. Mark is a speaker for PMI and other associations. Mark works with international government and commercial clients and provides pro bono services for charitable organizations.

Senior-Level Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Product Development Manager with 25 years of experience. Specific expertise with providing business need, technical vision, and product architecture for developing new products or new automated capabilities at organizations, including gathering and documenting requirements from internal customers as well as experience with formal RFP/RFQ/SOW. Additional expertise with process and quality improvement projects and analysis.

Jerry Manas is a best-selling business author and recognized thoughtleader in organizational project and resource management. His latestbook is The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook, toutedas “the first book dedicated to what is essentially the drivetrain oforganizations—the effective use of its people toward its most importantactivities.” He is also the author of Napoleon on Project Management,Managing the Gray Areas, and more.

The first Brazilian PMP, was approved in Dec, 1996 (PMP# 9229). Aloysio is engineer (IME), M.Eng. (McGill) and D.Eng (UFF), now he is quite involved with PM in complex environment, Strategy to deal with emergence and Leadership in XXIst century .

VP, Program Planning and Controls for commerical, government, aerospace and defense. Specializing in Integrated Master Plan / Integrated Master Schedule development and deployment connected with Programmatic Risk Management and Earned Value Management to form a Performance Based Master Plan.

Visionary leader, mentor and coach with a PhD, an MBA, and over 25 yearsof experience and successful track record leading cross-functionalsecurity & systems engineering teams known to exceed defined plansand objectives. Bolster corporate performance and income by influencingkey decision-makers, obtain stakeholder buy-in, and align personnel withcorporate objectives.