About Us
Tom O'Rourke
Tom O’Rourke is certified by Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP®), a Schedule Professional (PMI-SP®), and a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP®). He is the owner of Total Quality Organization (TQO), a VA certified service disabled veteran owned small business, which was started in 1991. TQO is a PMI Registered Educational Provider (PMI-REP® # 2668). Tom has written and instructs multiple Project Management, Project Schedule, and Project Risk courses. Tom also wrote and instructed “Introduction to the Acquisition Management System,” and “AMS for the Procurement Professional.”
Tom is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland University College, instructing project management and business analysis courses. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Rutgers University instructing project management courses. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Trinity University instructing graduate courses in Systems Design and Analysis, Quantitative Analysis and Federal Acquisition Management. He has also been a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, working with Public Safety Executive Leadership Program (PELP), creating and instructing graduate level courses in " Information and Telecommunications Systems” and “Managerial Strategic Planning and Decision-Making,” "Management Power and Influence,” “Project and Team Management,” “Management Decisions: Judgment and Tools” and “Quality Management.”
Art Casabianca
Art has more than 30 years experience in facilitation and consulting, providing organizations with analytical and project management support. Art’s clients have included the Administration for Native Americans, U. S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, the FAA, the SSA, and the Port Authority of N.Y. & NJ. Art works with leaders to assist in the design and development of high performance organizations, to provide instruction on leadership of high performance knowledge workers and on how to effectively lead/manage knowledge organizations. His work has included the design and development of tools, techniques and methodologies to help agencies to effective elicit, document, analyze and reconcile requirements to IT and other systems to enable to effective and efficient requirements analysis of function between clients and vendors. His has functioned as facilitator during product development, and delivery, and as coordinator during product testing. Art designs and facilitates classroom training in Business Analysis, statistics, data collection, conducting business studies, cost benefit analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, program evaluation, project management, group decision making, organizational development, facilitation and strategic/environmental scanning.
Mike Kushner
A certified by Project Management Institute (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP®), Mike has more than 30 years of management experience in the commercial and public sectors. Previously a Division Director at Westinghouse, Mike has had the responsibility for adapting Defense technologies to commercial applications. As a consultant, Mike has focused on the practical implementation of hardware and software systems into organizations. In addition to technical consulting, Mike has provided curriculum planning, development, and designed for a distance based education delivery system for training professionals and technicians in the implementation, use and maintenance of systems.
Mike is an Appointed Professor, Engineering Department at the Catholic University of America., instructing graduate level courses in Project Management, and Planning and Control. He is also an Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College providing classroom instruction, course development, peer review, and serving as curriculum chairperson. He has developed and instructed courses in Project Management, Strategic Management, Transportation Management, Financial Management, Planning and Analysis, and Production and Operations Management.
Dr. Trivedi
Dr. Trivedi ("AT") is an accomplished design and process management expert with wide ranging expertise from product lifecycle management to design for six-sigma. “AT” has successfully trained hundreds of project managers to achieve their PMP certification. "AT" was invited by Motorola to implement six sigma at one of their flag ship plants in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. He has also led major project management and cost reduction assignments for several Fortune 500 companies including AMD, Siemens, BP, ABB, BMW/MG Rover, Xerox and Robert Bosch. "AT" is a former NASA Summer Research Fellow and a former senior consultant with Solving International, France. He is certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) both as a Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP©) and as a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP©) certified by PMI. "AT" is Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) certified and holds a Professional Logistics/Supply Chain Certification from The Logistics Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Ken Wessel
Ken is a facilitator and consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the implementation of new systems within organizations, including training and orientation of management. Ken specialize in providing high-impact, cost effective training to business and industry. He facilitates seminars in Project Management, Performance Appraisal, Organizational Change, and Team Building, to name the more popular seminars.
Robert Wise, Ph. D.
As a consultant on organizational performance management and measurement since 1995, Dr. Wise consults on the use of measurement in strategic and operational management to improve organizational performance. He works with executive leadership to assess current organizational performance and identify management expectations and measures to manage future performance. He uses the balanced scorecard method when facilitating strategic planning sessions and has facilitated the developm ent of over 40 strategic plans using this method for corporations, federal and state government agencies, and non-profit organizations. In addition to developing performance measurement systems, Dr. Wise designs and conducts employee and customer surveys through questionnaires and interviews, develops plans for evaluating large and small program interventions, and analyzes data on program effectiveness. He also does statistical analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of employee training. Dr. Wise writes a blog on performance measurement at www.managingwithmeasures.com.