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.
2010 --- Connect by Hertz
Terri Ciccodicola, PMP, Senior Director,
Global Program Management
Jackie Vander Ploeg, General Manager
Car Sharing, while popular throughout
Europe, has been growing in the US. Hertz Corporation saw an opportunity
to be the first rental car company to launch a global car sharing program.
Connect by Hertz car sharing enables members to drive in and out of town
on a pay-as-you-go basis; it is a solution that provides customers with
an economical, convenient and socially-conscious alternative to car ownership.
Bringing Connect by Hertz to life involved
the due diligence and steadfast adherence to critical project management
tactics. The project as a whole centered on the design, implementation
and support of this new business. To meet their goals, the Connect
by Hertz team was able to leverage Hertz’s resources and infrastructure,
such as fleet purchasing power, customer service center and a renowned,
trusted and established global brand, to create a new value proposition
within the car sharing arena.
2009 --- Major League Baseball Network
Launch of the Back Office/Broadcast Backbone
LAN and Network Deployment
Presented by Cindy Cortell, Major League
Baseball Network
Members of the team included:
Mark Haden - VP of Engineering
& Information Technology
Peter Surhoff - VP of Operations
Tab Butler - Director of Media Management
Mark Henry - Director of Broadcasting
Jeffrey Vee - Senior Manager of Network
Infrastructure
Simon Tse - Senior Manager of Network
Infrastructure
Marc Jellinek - SQL Manager
Luke Bodenstein - Information Technology
Engineer
Adam Hakanjin - Information Technology
Engineer
Mike Carstens - Manager of Operations
Juan Londono - Service Desk Analyst
Paul Pimenta - Service Desk Analyst
Brian Kabus - Service Desk Analyst
Daniel Gainey - Network Architect
Anthony Tesoriero - Manager of Service
Desk and Support
Cindy Cortell is representing the Major League
Baseball Network IT Department. Through this project, the team was
able to successfully launch the Major League Baseball Network on January
1, 2009 in about 50 million homes, making it the largest single network
deployment in cable/satellite televison history. The project team
was given the exciting challenge of building a network infrastructure from
the ground up following the acquisition of MSNBC’s former studio in Secaucus.
The former MSNBC building required a complete overhaul to replace the antiquated
broadcast equipment and cabling with state of the art, high definition
broadcast systems and a fiber optic cable infrastructure utilizing a 10
gigabit fiber backbone. In addition, there were no existing studios
to retrofit or IT infrastructure.
The team had a very aggressive and definitive
timeline for setting up the broadcast and back office backbone. Design,
build, and implementation were accelerated. Work that normally would
take two months was completed over two weekends. As you may imagine,
this presented various challenges which are addressed in the presentation.
2004 --- Virtual Corporation
Kaiser 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 Corporation
2003 --- MerkMedco's Managed Care, L.
L. C.
OMEGA AUTOMATED PHARMACY PROJECT
of Willingboro New Jersey
Merck-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.
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
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.
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 --- PSEG 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 --- PSEG Mercer Generating Plant
Rehab
1994 --- Port Authority of NY/NJ World
Trade Center Bombing Recovery
Eagle and Gold Award of Achievement
