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AWARDS |
Eagle and Gold Award of AchievementWe will acknowledge the boys that have acheived the rank of Eagle Scout and the girls that have acheived the Gold Award. These are the highest ranks to which a Scout can aspire, requiring the development of skills, the exercise of the highest qualities of leadership, character and citizenship. Also, to fulfill the requirements for these ranks, they must complete a demanding project which demonstrates the characteristics of a Project Manager in initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing the project.New Jersey Eagle and Gold Awards
Chapter Awards:
Charter Renewal:
- 1997 - 15 Year
- 1992 - 10 Year
- 1987 - 5 Year
- 1982 - Original
Chapter of the Year
(5+ years Region II):
- 1999
- 1996
- 1995
- 1991
Sustained Superior Performance:
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
- 1995
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1989
- 1982-1992
Professional Development Award
for Exceptional Activities
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
First 1000 member Chapter 1996
President Award:
Again, the Outstanding President of the Year was awarded to Mary Devon O'Brien at PMI's Seminar/Symposium on September 7, 2000, in Houston. The Outstanding President of the Year was awarded to Mary Devon O'Brien at PMI's Seminar/Symposium on October 8, 1999, in Philadelphia.
The Outstanding President of the Year was awarded to F. Nelson Woomer (NJ's Past President) at PMI's Seminar/Symposium on October 4, 1996 in Boston. PMI VP David Pells, PMP, acknowledged Nelson's leadership, organizational and management initiatives while leading the NJ Chapter.
Pathfinder Award:
Mary Devon O'Brien was recently appointed into Pathfinder Inc.'s 1998 "Pathfinder Wall of Fame" in recognition of her significant long-term contributions to the project management profession. A wall plaque will be displayed in the main lobby of Pathfinder and will read "Pathfinder Inc. Proudly Recognizes the Following Exemplary Career Professionals for Their Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Project Management Technology."
Outstanding Service:
The New Jersey Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) presented two awards for Outstanding Service to PMI and to the New Jersey Chapter on June 11, 1996.The Awards were given to two engineers associated with Schering-Plough that have been involved with PMI since 1982: Anthony Accatatta, PE, Director of Technical Operation's Engineering, and Herb Kaplan, PE, who has been retired since 1985, and was formerly Director of Corporate Engineering.
The association of both Engineers goes back to 1970 when Mr. Accatatta was hired by Mr. Kaplan as a Packaging Project Engineer. Both became involved with PMI in 1982, when the organization was initially established and had a few dozen members in the New Jersey Chapter. Since that time, the local Chapter has grown to over 1000 members, and is the largest chapter of the Institute which has an international membership of 23,000. The local chapter provides monthly technical meetings on all aspects of Project Management, along with an annual symposium and related field trips.
The Outstanding Service awards were the first ever bestowed at the Chapter level, and were a result of the proactive leadership and personal involvement that they both exhibited as members of the Board of Directors and in recognition of outstanding services and contributions to the New Jersey Chapter PMI.
Mr. Accatatta has served as Vice President, Administration, Vice President Programs, was the founding editor of the chapters quarterly newsletter "Projections," and has been an advisor for the past six years.
Mr. Kaplan has served as an advisor for fourteen years, and has been heavily involved in the annual symposium for the past ten years.
The awards were presented by William Ruggles, the International Ex-Officio of Technical Development, who noted that it was a distinct honor for Schering-Plough to have both a current employee and a retiree from the corporation recognized for the outstanding contributions made to PMI.
Projects of the Year:
2004 --- Virtual CorporationKaiser Permanente Business Continuity Program Implementation
Virtual Corporation teamed with Kaiser to implement over 6,000 departmental recovery plans within an 18 month period. There were 50 individual projects implemented. It was the largest BC program launch ever undertaken. The projects success was due to the extraordinary teaming effort and constant communication between the two corporations.
Scott Ream founded Virtual Corporation in 1994 specifically to assist large, geographically dispersed organizations with implementation of appropriately scaled, sustainable business continuity programs. Mr. Ream is currently serving as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Contingency Planning & Management Magazine.
Project Leaders for the project (Key Contributors):
Scott W. Ream - President, Virtual Corporation
Skip I. Skivington - Director, Healthcare Continuity Management, Kaiser Permanente
Larry Fischer - Project Executive, Virtual Corporation
Aaron Diskin - Senior Consultant, Virtual Corporation
Bob Farkas - Senior Consultant, Virtual Corporation2003 --- MerkMedco's Managed Care, L. L. C.
OMEGA AUTOMATED PHARMACY PROJECT
of Willingboro New JerseyMerck-Medco's Engineering Department resides in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The project was managed by Wayne Rice, the overall Project Manager. The Project Team consisted of the following individuals.
Project Objective : build an automated pharmacy in Willingboro, NJ, which will be the world's largest pharmacy by 2003 dispensing 780,000 perscriptions a week. The project was implemented and successfully closed, ahead of schedule on October 5, 2001. The operation is in full swing today.Mike Brosie, Vice President Engineering Chris Hess, Senior Director-Project Planning John McGivern, Executive Director, Automated Pharmacy Systems Wayne Rice, Vice President- Pharmacy Operations George Smith, Aggregate Planner Mike Szesko, Director-Process Development 2000 --- Home & Garden Television 1999 Broadcast Center Rebuild
In order to accommodate growth, Home & Garden Television (HGTV) expanded their Knoxville, Tn. facility. This expansion included an increase in active networks from one to four (including an increase in transmission capacity.) This project also included the expansion of HGTVs Master Control facility; an increase in on-line storage capacity and construction of new building linking the original site to the parking garage. The additional space allowed the construction of an Internet/Web command center; which became the showplace for the Internet presence of HGTV and its sister companies.
Project Manager - Tom Michales - Senior Project Manager, AF Associates, Inc.
1999 --- Aurora Data Center Conversion
The Aurora Data Center Conversion was a complex project to replace outdated data warehouse hardware platforms and related software with the latest hardware and software at Lucent Technologies' principal data center. The project's mandate was to accomplish the data center conversion without interrupting critical business systems, which included general ledger, financial code conversion, product sales, and human resource applications. The affected data bases range from 100GB to more than a terabyte and user communities from 100 to 1000 users.
Project Manager - Stephen P. Kruger - Manager-IBM Global Services
1997 --- Chase/Chemical Bank Merger Team
1996 --- PSE&G Bergan Repowering Project
Project Manager Robert W. Dunn led the Bergen Repowering Project . This project also won the Regional Project of the Year.
The Bergen Repowering Project encompassed the conversion of a thirty year old conventional fossil fueled generating station to a facility that incorporated the latest in engineering technology with the existing assets of the station. The project team exceeded their goals and achieved the main objective of providing PSE&G customers an efficient, environmentally friendly power generation station.
1995 --- PSE&G Mercer Generating Plant Rehab
1994 --- Port Authority of NY/NJ World Trade Center Bombing Recovery
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