Julie M. has over 30 years of business and project/program/portfolio leadership experience in industries within the financial services, manufacturing, distribution, industrial and communication sectors.

Steve Kaye helps leaders hold effective meetings. He has written three books on Effective Meetings, published over 200 articles on leadership issues, earned the Certified Professional Facilitator designation from the International Association of Facilitators, and appeared on radio and TV. His workshops and facilitation create success for everyone. Steve has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and 20 years of experience working for major corporations.

Warren S. Reid, founder and Managing Director of the WSR Consulting Group, has over 35 years of experience in planning, designing, testing, implementing, accepting and turning around large-scale systems and software projects. Since 1987, Mr. Reid has specialized as a consultant and an “expert witness” in litigation matters involving systems and software failures and IP disputes. He has consulted or testified as an expert witness in matters involving two U.S. Presidents, Her Royal Majesty the Queen of England, and many Fortune 2000 companies.

Michael Trimble is a Trainer and Consultant with Transformation Leadership. He has helped numerous organizations benefit from Project, Quality and Strategic Management methodologies. As Business Unit Program Manager at TRW, his team earned the TRW Champion’s Award for outstanding leadership and excellence in Project Management. As Vice President & General Manager for a global medical device company, he led the company’s organizational transformation from a negative net worth to becoming “the new industry leader,” while growing sales 300%. Mike has taught Project Management for UC Irvine Extension and on-site at Boeing, Southern California Edison, and 3M.

Thomas C. Staab, MS, CSQA, CSTE, CSPM, is President of Wind Ridge International LLC, an independent consulting firm, specializing in process improvement, outsourcing, quality assurance, testing, and meeting the challenges of globalization. He is listed in the International Who’s Who of Information Technology. He is the author of the e-book The Real “How-To” on TMM, more than 30 articles, and publications and is a popular speaker in the United States, Europe, and Canada.

Phil Quigley is a Senior Portfolio Manager with Computer Sciences Corporation. He has extensive experience in Material and Operations management, new product development and systems implementation. He has spoken at national conventions of APICS and IBF and local chapters of APICS and PMI. He writes a monthly column, “The Management Perspective” for the APICS Advantage Magazine and is a member of the editorial board. Mr. Quigley teaches at the University of California, Irvine and California State University, Fullerton. He is a certified Fellow (CFPIM) for APICS and a certified Project Manager (PMP) for PMI. He is an instructor in the Orange County exam preparation workshops. He is now attending Claremont Graduate University and working on a MS in Advanced Management.

Frank P. Reynolds is a principal of OuterCore Professional Development. Frank was a project management software product executive, management consulting firm operations executive and a senior engineering manager.
Frank develops and teaches project management courses and workshops throughout the United States as well as Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Madrid, Paris, Warsaw, and Sao Paolo.
Frank pioneered training for project participants. Upon the 2004 relaunch of PMI’s® Certified Associate in Project Management® Frank became an outspoken proponent of service to this underserved audience. He is a founder and 2006 Project Management Fellow of the PMI Orange County Chapter.

Kristine A. Hayes Munson, PMP, is a leader with seventeen years experience successfully completing IT projects in the finance, printing, and construction industries. She specializes in process improvement projects resulting in project management methodologies, standard operating procedures that improve repeatable organizational efficiencies, compliance programs balancing controls and entrepreneurialism, and knowledge sharing programs via the firm’s intranet.
Currently Ms. Hayes Munson leads a Quality Assurance/Configuration Management team that provides project portfolio tracking, project management methodology development, audit compliance oversight, software configuration management, standard operating procedure documentation, administrative tool application development, resource utilization reporting, outsourcing vendor management, and senior management reporting for a 125-member financial services IT department.
Ms. Hayes Munson gives back to the community by actively volunteering for the Project Management Institute – Orange County, CA Chapter (PMI-OC). She served on the PMI-OC Board of Directors for six years in various roles including two terms as Chair/President. Currently she chairs the PMI-OC Leadership Institute committee. PMI-OC recognized her efforts by naming her the 2006 Volunteer of the Year.

Ms. Ovanessian, Chief Information Officer at Golden State Foods (GSF) is responsible for an enterprise-wide IT organization that is the world’s largest integrated supplier to the McDonald’s Inc. restaurant system with both food processing and distribution capabilities.
Previously CIO at Alpha Therapeutic Corporation and JPL/NASA.
Ms. Ovanessian is a graduate in Business and Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She later earned a Master of Business Administration specializing in Information Systems from Pepperdine University.
She was published in Oracle’s Profit magazine in May, 1999 for her successful launch at JPL and also recognized in International Who’s Who of Information Technology.
Board member of Southern California CIO Executive Summit. Presenter at the UCLA School of Anderson, Claremont Graduate School, PMI-LA, and SCCTA.

Christine Fotheringham has the flexibility, skills and diverse background to connect with staff at any level and from any functional discipline. At World Wide Restaurants, Denny’s and PacifiCare Health Systems, she learned that trust and mutual respect are the foundation of effective teamwork. This was the genesis of The Sound of Team workshop, which uses the principles of Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team to give teams an experience of the power that comes from stretching beyond their individual capabilities and working together to achieve a common goal - in this case, write and perform a team theme song.

Lois Zells is an international author, lecturer, and business consultant in product engineering, specializing in project total quality management, project management, software engineering, and development methodologies and techniques. She has authored the best seller, Managing Software Projects, and contributed to "Total Quality Management for Software," published by Van Nostrand Reinhold and both editions of "The Program and Project Management Handbook," published by AMA. Her most popular courses are “Successful Project Management,” “Managing Emerging Technology Projects,” “Applying Quality Initiatives in Software Engineering,” “Effective Strategic Systems Planning” and “Using Business Value Deployment for High-tech Product Development.” She has served on the project management committee for the revision of ISO 9000-3; and was selected as a 1993 Woman of the Year by the Project Management Institute. She is also the co-honoree of PMI’s Wilson/Zells Scholarship for IS Studies. Because of her widely-recognized expertise in project management, Ms. Zells frequently serves as an expert witness in project failure litigations. Ms. Zells graduated Summa Cum Laude in Data Processing Management from the University of Baltimore and did her masters studies in Computer Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

Jen Skrabak, PMP, MBA, is a distinguished member of the project management community, serving her third year as President of the PMI Los Padres, serving Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and western Los Angeles counties. Ms. Skrabak brings over 15 years of professional experience in Project Management, IT and Marketing Communications across broad industries such as Biotechnology, Entertainment, and Financial Services. She is a currently a Principal at Amgen and her current assignments include establishing PMO methodologies for US and International expansion projects.
As an active member of the PMI, she was a significant contributor and edited the Project Manager Competency Development Framework – Second Edition, to be published in late 2007. Under her leadership, the PMI Los Padres Chapter membership tripled in size, becoming the fastest growing chapter in the region, and an established leader within PMI.
She holds a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, a M.B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, and is a graduate of PMI’s Leadership Institute – Master’s Class.

Rob Geier is an innovative business and IT leadership consultant with a focus on SOA strategy, governance and implementation as a vehicle for business transformation. As an SOA Monitor co-founder and former IT executive he has developed and implemented business, IT, SOA, and integration strategies; formed and developed IT leadership teams and governance models; designed and implemented complex new business processes; launched and marketed a groundbreaking multi-media product, and developed strategies for software and internet companies. Prior to launching the SOA Monitor, Rob held executive positions at Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios, and Qwest Communications where he designed and implemented systems that enabled new product, marketing, distribution, and operational strategies. He began his career at Accenture where he implemented enterprise systems at fortune 500 companies.
Rob received an MBA, Magna Cum Laude from the Stern School of Management at NYU.

Ed is a 20 year veteran of the IT industry who began his career deploying PC systems in local- and wide-area networks. For the past 10 years with Hitachi Consulting, he has been focused on IT Strategy and Governance to help his clients build leaner and more efficient IT organizations. Beyond IT Strategy, Ed has experience in customer relationship management, custom development, ITIL, and organizational change management. His industry experience covers automotive, financial, healthcare, consumer goods, retail, food and beverage.

Mr. Cuevas brings with him over 8 years of experience working in the space of Application Problem Resolution. Prior to joining BMC’s Identify Business Unit in June 1999, he held other positions as a software developer at companies such as St. Jude Medical and Tandem Computers / Compaq, where he was responsible for developing internal applications to be used within the enterprise. Currently, Mr. Cuevas runs a team of Business Consultants for BMC. His present responsibilities include public speaking appearances and educational forums for the BMC Problem Resolution technology. Mr. Cuevas holds a BS in Computer Science from Yale University.

With a thirty-plus year career Robert Perrine has seen the world of IT from the inside as a programmer, database administrator, manager, IT Director, teacher, project manager and head of a PMO. Robert is a Project Management Professional (PMP), an ITIL Service Master (ITIL-SM), a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Robert’s goal is to combine the role of visionary, strategist, change-agent and process-proponent while managing each initiative through metrics.

Cynthia is a sales and marketing executive with over 15 years of experience in the information technology industry. As a ‘serial entrepreneur, ‘she specializes in taking new divisions and start-ups from zero to $20 million in sales, putting in place the sales process and structure in place for new entities, determining the marketing emphasis and then executing the plan.
Cynthia has been with Metafuse, the makers of Project Insight, for six years. She worked in Silicon Valley for 10 years. There she was involved with 3 start ups, one which was acquired by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, another early stage iPod that went public, and the last which was backed by Ernst & Young.

Brenda Ingham has lived in Orange County for the past 19 years. She has provided many companies in Southern California with technology consulting solutions. Additionally she has coached and mentored many business professionals with planning their career strategies. She currently volunteers at PMI as an ambassador. She keeps abreast of the career trends in IT.
Through her networking contacts she has made countless introductions which have helped many people pursue their career goals.

Karina has over 17 years of experience in the software industry. She has worked as a quality management consultant for various clients in the financial, mortgaging, insurance, health care and pharmaceutical industries. She has held several leadership positions at both large established companies such as NCR and small start-up internet companies. She has led several initiatives such as deploying enterprise-wide software change and test management processes and tools; championed in-house development of test automation tools; strategic planning and deployment of a large division level Capability Maturity Model (CMM) based software process improvement initiative at NCR.
Karina is well known in the software quality community and is actively involved as board member of several professional associations such as the San Fernando chapter of the Southern California Quality Assurance Association (SCQAA). Karina has a Masters degree in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge, and an undergraduate degree in Psychobiology from UCLA.

Quentin W. Fleming is an independent management consultant and instructor at the University of California, Irvine. In 1995, he developed two new courses for UCI, both required components in their project management certificate series:
• “Earned Value Project Management”, Management X474.7
• “Project Procurement Management”, Management X478.7
These two courses have been offered by the university over 250 times to their UCI clients around the world. He also serves on the UCI Project Management Advisory Board.
He is the author of eight published textbooks which have sold over 100,000 copies around the world.
Quentin served on the eight person “core team” which updated and released the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ® (PMBOK), the 2nd edition, issued in 2000. He is performing that same role on PMBOK 4, to be released in 2008.
Earlier in his professional career he was given a United States Government appointment to serve as the Peace Corps Director for both Iran and Bahrain. He and his family (wife and 3 children) were sent to Tehran, Iran where they lived for two and one-half years before he closed out the Peace Corps mission in 1976.

Education
BS in Industrial Technology from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, 1988.
Experience
Wes Kliewer is a co-founder of Metafuse and is responsible for leading the training and customer support departments. Wes has over ten years of experience in technical sales and support in the software industry. The companies he has worked for in the software industry include UniDirect, a leading Unix software distributor and reseller, V-Systems, Inc, a business fax software developer. Prior to his tenure in the software business, Wes worked in the defense and aerospace industries. Companies that he worked for include Cinch Military/Aerospace, an aerospace electronics manufacturer; Schweber/Lex Electronics, an electronic components distributor; and Aeroflite Enterprises, a commercial passenger aircraft electronics distributor.
Expertise
Wes has a strong background in sales and customer services roles. His strength in relationship-building assures that Metafuse’s customers will be served with the highest levels of service and professionalism.

In his role as a Test Automation Manager for Leverage Point Corporation, Chris Petrov is responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of test automation solutions for a variety of clients. His almost 20 years of experience include roles as a software engineer, quality assurance engineer, test automation lead and quality assurance manager in a variety of systems development disciplines and experience with test automation tools from virtually every major vendor. His experience spans numerous software development methodologies and test automation approaches. Chris is an accomplished presenter, responsible for presenting his automation vision and solutions to clients and internal customers on a regular basis.

Tim Pelland is the Director of Technology and Education Services at the Quality Assurance Institute in Orlando, FL. He has over 28 years in the telecommunications and computer industry. Tim has also worked as a Web developer and tester of various Web based products.
Tim has worked closely with the development of Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) applications for various companies including Sprint and AT&T. Tim also has over 12 years of professional IT experience ranging from desktop support to network administration. Tim has worked in various capacities within the IT industry including being an certified as a Comp-TIA A-plus Certified PC Technician, Certified Software Tester (CSTE), Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), and a Certified Microsoft Office User Specialist.
Tim has been instrumental in setting up and conducting CSTE and CSQA Exam Prep Webinars and he teaches various QAI seminars and programs, acts as a consultant on quality and testing matters, and presents at QAI conferences. He also teaches testing courses for St. Petersburg College in Florida.
Tim has spoken at quality and testing conferences here in the United States but also in Canada, Korea, China and Russia.