WHO IS ORGANISING THIS CONFERENCE?
The EVA Europe initiative was launched by a group of independent members of the PMI and APM associations and more specifically of the Specific Interest Groups devoted to EVA (EVM).
The EVA Europe 2009 conference to be held in Geneva at CERN is being jointly organised by the Geneva School of Business Administration and CERN with academic contributions by Ghent University and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
Who is behind the EVA Europe initiative?
PIERRE BONNAL
Prof. Pierre Bonnal holds engineering degrees in mechanical engineering from the l’École nationale d’ingénieurs de Tarbes, France, and in industrial engineering from the École centrale of Marseille, France, a M.Sc. in project management from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières in Canada and a Ph.D. in industrial management from the Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse, France.
Above all an academic, Prof. Bonnal nonetheless claims a solid industrial background including work with Airbus Industrie (F); Fatigue Technology Inc. (USA); Doris Engineering (F), Areva-SGN (F) as well as more than twelve years with CERN (CH) involved with the LHC project. He recently joined the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland-Geneva as a professor and Dean of the Department of Business Administration.
JOHN FERGUSON
John Ferguson has a BSc and MSc in physics from the University of Glasgow (UK) and a Phd and DSc in information systems from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. In his career at CERN he has managed the operations of the laboratory’s scientific computer centre and been responsible for a division whose activities included internet software development, corporate information systems, systems infrastructure support, electronic document management, scientific information services, desktop publishing, printing, personal computing services and a variety of general services. He was project leader of CERN’s earned value management (EVM) project, which provided EVM project management software for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. Having completed his mandate as Deputy Head of the Accelerators and Beams Department he is currently in the Beams department of CERN.
KYM HENDERSON
Kym Henderson is an IT project manager with extensive experience in project turnarounds utilizing simplified EVM techniques. He has a Master of Science (Computing) and Bachelor of Business degrees.
Kym has presented at many conferences and published in various journals and proceedings of PMI Global Congresses. He teaches an “Applying Earned Value Concepts” course which included PMI Seminars World® (2005-2007).
Kym is a Past Education Director (2003-2007) of the PMI Sydney, Australia Chapter and the first non-US national elected to the Governing Board of the PMI College of Performance Management as Vice President of Research and Standards.
JURGEN DE JONGHE
Jurgen De Jonghe holds a MSc in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
At CERN, he was in charge of all business processes and administrative workflow from 1992. Since 1999, he has been in charge of providing project management tools for internal use. These tools have been used in a variety of projects ranging from the ATLAS detector (the largest particle physics collaboration ever), the LHC accelerator, EGEE (the European grid project) and now for planning all strategic activities at CERN.
Jurgen has over 15 years of experience leading a software development team for medium to large software development projects.
STEPHAN VANDEVOORDE
Stephan Vandevoorde is currently division manager of Logan Teleflex Belgium, a division of Fabricom-Gti Suez. He has diploma in industrial engineering and has been working on a number of large-scale international projects across many industries including construction, retail, automotive industry, airport baggage handling systems. He has extensive experience in «project recovery», where the use of Earned Value techniques to assist in evaluating and predicting project performance have proven invaluable.
Stephan has presented on several conferences nationally and internationally, and has published several papers on the subject. He is actively involved in ongoing EV/ES research conducted at the Ghent University Belgium. In collaboration with IFBD, Boston University, Ehsal, Vlerick he is docent for several courses including earned value and earned schedule management.
Stephan is director of programs and events of PMI Belgium Chapter and member of the PMI College of Performance Management.
stephan.vandevoorde@eva-europe.eu
MARIO VANHOUCKE
Prof. Dr. Mario Vanhoucke is a full professor at the Ghent University and the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (Belgium). He is the programme director of the Commercial Engineers programme and partner of OR-AS (www.or-as.be).
Mario Vanhoucke is actively involved in a large EVA research project, receiving support from the Research collaboration fund of PMI Belgium (2007) and the IPMA Research award (2008). He is author of the upcoming book “Measuring Time: Improving Project Performance using Earned Value Management”.
He is advisor of various PhD projects and has articles published in various international journals.
STEVE WAKE
Steve is founder and Chairman of the APM Earned Value Specific Interest Group which issues guidance and tools on the subject. He established reciprocity between the US ANSI EV guideline and the UK APM Guideline. Steve is an Independent Management Consultant specialising in Earned Value Project Management. He provides advice, guidance and training. Additionally he chairs, speaks, writes and is an accomplished event organiser. He is seen as a UK expert and champion of Earned Value.
