Dr. Joe Spigai - April 8, 2009

Please join us on Wednesday evening, April 8, 2009 at the Blair Mansion Inn in Silver Spring, MD, to welcome our guest speaker for the month of April, Dr. Joe Spigai, who will be speaking on "OPM3 Redux: PMI's Newest Assessment Model".

The OPM3 model has been around for a long time.  Now PMI has taken the old model and done a significant update for the 21st Century. Dr. Joe Spigai, a PMI-certified OPM3 Assessor/Consultant (one of only 96 worldwide), has been heavily involved with the update. In his presentation, Dr. Spigai will present what's new with OPM3.

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Since 2006, Dr. Joe Spigai has been Director of the Program Management Office (PMO) for WOOD Consulting Services, Inc. of Fulton, MD, where he has performance oversight of programs and projects and directs their project management training/mentoring. Prior to his current position, Dr. Spigai was President of Spigai Associates, Inc., a project management and systems engineering consulting/training company, which he founded in 1995 and sold in 2005. Previously, he has held positions as Adjunct Professor and Director of the Engineering Management Program at UMUC Graduate School, and as Program Manager and Technical Director in the Naval Systems Division of the (then) Martin Marietta Corporation. Dr. Spigai’s early career was spent in the U.S. Navy, as both a line officer and as a Naval Oceanographer specializing in antisubmarine warfare and underwater acoustics; he retired as a Commander in 1983. Joe holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography from Oregon State University and has been a PMI member since 1995, the year he received his PMP certification.