Name: Walt Lipke
Organization: N/A (retired)
Email: waltlipke@cox.net
Telephone: 405-364-1594 / cell 405-570-0772
ES Experience: Creator of Earned Schedule (reference paper, “Schedule is Different”) / Author of several papers on ES and other EVM topics / Co-authored ES course / Several presentations made at IPMC and CPM conferences / Presentations made in Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia / Application to multi-year defense software projects

Name: Kym Henderson
Organization: PMI – Sydney, Director of Education
Email: kym.henderson@froggy.com.au
Telephone: +61 2 8394 9192 / Mobile: +61 414 428 537 (preferred)
ES Experience: Independent verifier of Earned Schedule (reference paper, “Earned Schedule: A Breakthrough Extension to Earned Value Theory? A Retrospective Analysis of Real Project Data”) / Author of 3 papers / Co-authored ES course / Instructed ES as part of EVM course / Several presentations made at IPMC / Presentations made in US, United Kingdom and Australia / Application to small IT projects

Name: Ray W. Stratton, PMP, EVP
Organization: Management Technologies (www.mgmt-technologies.com)
Email: raystratton@mgmt-technologies.com
Telephone: 714-318-2231
ES Experience: Trainer in earned schedule application, published “Not Your Father’s Earned Value” in Projects@tWork (2/05) (http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/articles/222917.cfm) / published “Earned Value Management” in ICFAI University Press (1/06), conducted webcast on Earned Schedule for the PMI IT and Communications SIG (http://www.pmi-ittelecom.org/kb/webinars/062305_Stratton.asp) / published book The Earned Value Management Maturity Model®, the first book to treat ES in detail.

Name: Harry Sparrow
Organization: Performance Management Associates, Inc.
Email: hsparrow@pmassoc.com
Telephone: 707-967-0420
ES Experience: Consultant and instructor of Earned Value Management, including Earned Schedule / 2004 SCEA Conference presentation / recognized scheduling expert

Name: Dr. John Singley
Organization: College of Performance Management, President
Email: President@pmi-cpm.org
Telephone: 703-428-6219
ES Experience: Prepared Earned Schedule “emerging practice” input to the PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management, published 2004 (available through PMI Bookstore)

Name: Stephan Vandevoorde
Organization: Fabricom GTI (Logan Teleflex Belgium)
Email: stephan.vandevoorde@fabricom-gti.com
Telephone: +32 2 370 3627 / Mobile: +32 478 254761 (preferred)
ES Experience: Instructed ES as part of EVM course / Several presentations made on duration forecasting methods / Application to short duration IT and construction projects / Empirical verification of duration forecasting methods using EV/ES metrics /Academical research on duration forecasting methods / EV Research Website: http://www.projectmanagement.ugent.be/evms.php

Name: Dr. Mario Vanhoucke
Organization: Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
Email: mario.vanhoucke@ugent.be
Telephone: +32 9 210 9781
ES Experience: Instructed ES as part of EVM course / Several presentations made on duration forecasting methods / Empirical verification of duration forecasting methods using EV/ES metrics / Academical research on duration forecasting methods / EV Research Website: http://www.projectmanagement.ugent.be/evms.php

Name: Dr. Frank T. Anbari
Organization: The George Washington University
Email: anbarif@gwu.edu
Telephone: (202) 994 - 0404 / Mobile (202) 468 - 3700
ES Experience: Interest in time forecasting of projects / Published paper “Earned Value Project Management Method and Extensions, Project Management Journal, 2003 / Several presentations on the subject at various US and international conferences, including PMI® Congresses (Nashville, TN and Anaheim, CA), PMI® Chapters (Florida, Illinois, and New Jersey), IPMC (Tysons Corner, VA), PMI-CPM (Long Beach, CA), ProjectWorld (Chicago, IL), S.A.M.E. (Philadelphia and New York), PICMET (Portland, OR), IPMA (Russia), Caribbean and Latin American Conference (Trinidad), and NORDNET (Finland) / time forecasting taught as part of a course on EVM

Name: Robert M. Handshuh
Organization: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Email: Robert.m.handshuh@lmco.com
Telephone: (770) 494 - 5713
ES Experience: Author / Presenter of "New Concept in Earned Value - Earned Schedule" PMI® S/E Regional Conference 2005, Lockheed Martin Corporate EVMS Council, 2005, Integrated Program Management Conference, 2005 / Applied ES for independent evaluation of schedule risk on large projects.  ES as alternate method of evaluating schedule performance in EVM / Note - Presentations are the personal opinions and observations of Mr. Handshuh and may not reflect the policy or opinions of the Lockheed Martin Corporation or its management.

Name: Mick Higgins
Organization: Thales Land & Joint Systems Division
Email: mick.higgins@uk.thalesgroup.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 1293 518855 ext. 5526
ES Experience: Previous roles have included consulting to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence Nimrod MRA4 programme for the application of EVM including Earned Schedule.  Currently Thales Land & Joint Systems Division Project Control Manager acting as an internal consultant for Earned Value
Management and preparing the organisation for Earned Schedule.

Name: Dr. Diego Navarro
Organization: Armell PM Solutions
Email: dnavarro@armell.com
Telephone: cell +34 651389916
ES Experience: Consultant and instructor of Earned Value Management, including Earned Schedule, in Spain.  Implementation of Earned Value and Earned Schedule Systems and creator of software integrations to be applied to small and medium IT projects.  Author of a weblog on Project Management (Spanish language), which includes his research results and insights into the Earned Schedule Technique (English and Spanish languages).

Name: Lew Hecht
Organization: L C Hecht Consulting
Email: lew@lchechtconsulting.com
Telephone: 607-765-2731 (cell)
ES Experience: Consultant for earned value management and earned schedule.  Performed study of how earned schedule techniques were used by the US Navy and the Defense Contract Management Agency to track a major contractor’s schedule performance on a maintenance trainer for US Navy helicopters (see presentation, “A Case Study of Earned Schedule to do Predictions“).  Experience includes: helicopters, radar systems, acoustic systems, maintenance trainers, communications, six sigma, statistical process control, and contamination control.  Other works of note: 4 US patents, 8 public domain inventions, and 11 published technical papers.