Chapter April Los Alamos Lunch Meeting
Speaker: John Buksa
Free to PMI-Otowi Bridge members; $5 for non-members
Bring your own lunch
For the past 28 years, John has supported the national security mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory in a variety of roles; including researcher, manager, and executive staff. He is currently the Office Director for the Program Support Office of LANL’s Global Security Directorate. In this capacity, he is responsible for providing management support to the Directorate including project, program and portfolio management. John teaches project management, both as a volunteer trainer and, up until 2016, as an Assistant Professor at Northern New Mexico College. He has over 15 years’ experience as a senior Baldrige examiner with Quality New Mexico and is on the Panel of Judges for the New Mexico Performance Excellence Awards program. John is on the Board of Directors of the Otowi Bridge Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has held numerous Chapter leadership positions. John holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering, as well as an MBA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and is preparing. John enjoys spending time in the mountains and rivers of northern New Mexico and Colorado with his family and dogs. Contact John at jjbuksa@msn.com
Program management as a discipline has recently seen an increased interest by organizations trying to achieve their organizational strategies through projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), organizations are far more successful in achieving project objectives if they have a mature program management system in place. In 2017, PMI released its 4th edition of The Standard for Program Management. This standard, like PMI’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and Standard for Project Management, is a compilation of generally recognized good practices for Program Management.
Throughout the presentation, John will relate the principles of the Standard to his experiences at LANL and as a Baldrige examiner.
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