About Dr. Edmund H. Conrow
Awards and Honors (Partial List)
Edmund H. Conrow is the
founder and owner of Management and Technology Associates. Dr. Conrow has a
proven track record in the application of risk management, project management,
systems engineering, and technical skills to moderate to high complexity
projects. His achievements have been
recognized by peers in a number of industries and disciplines, such as systems
engineering (Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering, recognizing
his work as a risk management practitioner and researcher), aerospace
(Associate Fellow and Life Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics), and others. Dr. Conrow
has extensive experience on hardware-intensive, software-intensive, and mixed
projects, with life cycle dollar ranges from less than $1 million to more than
$100 billion. He has successfully
served a broad range of clients, including: industry, federally funded research
centers, national laboratories and government. He was also a special government
employee and consultant to the U.S. government for 10 years on technical and
policy issues. His work has been recognized in several disciplines with letters
of commendation from numerous government agencies and awards at national
conferences, including: management strategy, CAIV, cost analysis, engineering
design analysis, manufacturing, project risk management, and systems
engineering. Dr. Conrow has trained hundreds of personnel in project risk management in a wide
variety of settings, including on actual projects and proposals.
Dr. Conrow helped
to develop risk management policy that is in widespread use across industry,
government, and professional organizations, and has received numerous letters
of commendation for his work. Dr.
Conrow has served more than 40 times as a risk manager and one-on-one mentor to
risk managers covering all facets of project risk management and related fields
where he was responsible for implementing and making risk management work daily
on a wide variety of programs and proposals.
He has also been responsible for risk management and project management-related
proposals for multiple clients that translated to billions of contract
dollars. He has also served numerous
times as a project manager and a project management consultant to project,
program, and proposal managers in the areas of cost, integration, quality,
schedule, and scope. In addition, he
has served as a high-level advisor to industry and government, frequently
served as a short-term mentor and advisor, and received numerous letters of
commendation for his work. He has
directly saved millions of dollars on several programs. He is also credited by one government
organization with “saving” a high visibility, high technology program that
subsequently was delivered ahead of schedule, on budget, and met or exceeded
all performance requirements despite a more than 4 year development effort
compressed into 1.0 years and an initially faltering risk management position.
Dr. Conrow has also
developed and performed hundreds of Monte Carlo simulations since the 1970s
including cost and schedule risk analyses, and technical performance
models. These simulations have led to
more realistic project cost, schedule, and technical estimates, and been used
to support a wide variety of decisions, risk analyses, and trade studies
associated with projects, programs, and proposals for industry and government
through multi-billion dollar efforts.
Dr. Conrow is the
author of the highly regarded book, Effective
Risk Management: Some Keys to Success,
Second Edition, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
(2003), 542 pp. (A full-page review of
this book was included in the January 2004 issue of the International Council
on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) journal INSIGHT.) He is also the author of the project risk
management chapter in Harold Kerzner's best selling book, Project Management: A Systems
Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, Tenth Edition (2009),
Ninth Edition (2006), Eighth Edition (2003), and Seventh Edition, (2000),
Wiley; and the lead author of the project risk management chapter in Harold
Kerzner's Advanced Project
Management: Best Practices on
Implementation, Wiley, Second Edition, (2003). He is widely published in journals and conferences, with more
than 160 professional presentations, papers, book, and related publications in
risk management, project management, systems engineering, and related fields,
including papers that have won awards at national conferences.
Dr. Conrow was cited as reviewer of the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Project Management Institute
(PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK®) Guide, and cited as a significant contributor to the 2004 PMI PMBOK®
Guide (both adding new material and correcting errors in the previous, 2000,
PMBOK ® Guide). This covers project
contracting, communications, cost, human resources, integration, quality, risk
management, scope, and schedule. He was
also cited as a contributor and reviewer to the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) software
risk management process. He is
the primary author of the risk management section of the Air Force Systems
Engineering Primer and Handbook, Third Edition, 2005; Air Force Risk
Management Critical Process Assessment Tool, Second Edition 1998; and the
project risk management chapter in the U.
S. Department of Defense Extension to:
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), 2003, a PMI Standard, and the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge
(Stevens Institute of Technology and the Naval Postgraduate School). Dr. Conrow is also a contributing author of
the Department of Defense Risk Management Guide for DoD Acquisition
(Editions 1-5, 1998-2003).
Dr. Conrow is a
Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (cited for research and practice
associated with risk management, and cost,
performance, and schedule trade methods), an Associate Fellow and Life Member of the AIAA,
Senior Member of the IEEE, member of the International Council on Systems
Engineering (INCOSE), member of PMI, Certified Management Consultant (Institute
of Management Consultants), Certified in Risk Management (International Institute of
Professional Education and Research), and a certified Project Management Professional
(PMI).
Awards and Honors (Partial List)
- Fellow,
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), cited for “research and practice
associated with risk management,
and cost, performance, and schedule trade methods.”
- Associate
Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
- Life
Member, AIAA.
- Emeritus
(Life) Member, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Senior
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Certified
Management Consultant (CMC, Institute of Management Consultants).
- Certified
Professional Consultant to Management [National Bureau of Certified
Consultants (NBCC)]. [Note: this appellation ceased to exist when
the NBCC dissolved.]
- Certified
in Risk Management (International Institute of Professional Education and Research).
- Certified
Project Management Professional (PMP, Project Management Institute).
- Listed
in Who's Who (multiple editions).
- Winner,
David D. Acker Award for "Skill in Communication," 1995 DoD Acquisition
Research Symposium (co-winner, best paper of the symposium).
- Winner,
best contractor paper of the symposium, 1996 DoD Cost Analysis Symposium.
- Ph.D.
research fellowships held at The Aerospace Corporation and The Rand
Corporation.
- Ph.D.
research and teaching fellowships held at Oklahoma State University.
- Instructor
(part time), College of Engineering, Oklahoma State University.
- Eagle
Scout
- Life
Member, National Eagle Scout Association.
Some Current and Prior Activities
- Member,
AIAA Missile Systems Technical Committee.
- Member,
AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee.
- Member,
AIAA Systems Engineering Technical Committee (SETC).
- AIAA
SETC Conferences Subcommittee Chair.
- Secretary,
Los Angeles Area Consultants Network (IEEE).
- Member,
Project Management Institute (PMI).
- Professional
Society Interface, Los Angeles Chapter INCOSE and Los Angeles Chapter PMI.
- Director
at Large, Region II Director, and an initial member, Project Management
Institute Risk Management Specific Interest Group (SIG).
- Member, Steering Committee, PMI Risk Management
Virtual Community of Practice.
- Member, Institute of Management Consultants
(IMC).
- Program Chair, IMC, Southern California Chapter.
- Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor),
Wiley (journal of) Systems Engineering
- Invited reviewer for
AIAA Journal of Aircraft.
- Invited reviewer for
AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
- Invited reviewer for
IBM Journal of Research and Development.
- Invited reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management.
- Invited reviewer for
INCOSE/Wiley Systems Engineering.
- Invited reviewer for
Society of Risk Analysis Journal of Risk Analysis.
- Technology Applications Editor, Journal of
Management Consulting.
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