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.
2011 --- Workers
Compensation Claims Solution by NJM
As recipients of PMINJ’s
Project of the Year, several individuals from New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance
Company (NJM) will provide a presentation on the Workers Compensation Claims
Solution. This project is the largest business/technology initiative
in the company’s history. This program successfully implemented five
major technology solutions and involved over 200 people across 11 departments.
It also allowed NJM to move away from its legacy systems to more flexible
solutions and streamline its claims process to better serve its policy holders.
The team members attributed the success of this project to the outstanding
teamwork and dedication of NJM’s employees.
The focus of this presentation
will be the use of project management tools, successes and challenges, and
most importantly the impact the Workers Compensation Claims Solution has had
on NJM.
The team members (Poonam
Bhargava, Harold Fink, Kathleen Flaherty, Larry Fore, Margaret Inman, Loretta
Kreutzberg, Jack Parra and Carol Voorhees) joined NJM between 1985 and 2005.
They have a broad range of experience. The head of the Project Management
Office is Harold Fink and the Director of this office is Carol Voorhees.
The other individuals deal with administration of Business Solution Delivery,
implementation of enterprise-wide Document Management and Integration solutions
with business applications, Policy Administration and Financial Systems,
Workers Compensation medical bill review system, Workers Compensation Claim
Center, cash management, general accounting, actuarial, and statistics.
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
