December 2000: S&R presents at the Primavera User Conference
S&R is proud to
be selected once again to be a guest speaker at the Annual Primavera User
Conference. We invite you to join our President, Ms. Deborah Lazicki, at 10:20
am on Tuesday, December 5, 2000 for "Managing your Small Business with
SureTrak 3.0".
In
this presentation, the author will share how she successfully negotiates a
myriad of administrative and project requirements by "projectizing"
her work and using traditional project management skills and tools!
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November 2000: S&R conducts seminar for the American Consulting Engineers Council of Georgia
S&R will present
Project Management: Old dog, new tricks for the American Consulting
Engineers Council of Georgia (ACEC/G) on November 11, 2000. The seminar
will be part of PDH Saturday, a continuing education event that allows
members to attend technical and managerial courses while earning up to
8 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).
Project
Management has been around for decades, and while the basic principles
remain the same, the profession has moved in striking new directions in
recent years. This seminar will:
- review the elements and phases of project management, as described in
the Project Management Body Knowledge of Knowledge (PMBOK)
- discuss the latest tools and techniques
- take a look at project management at work in a variety of projects
- provide a wealth of references and resources for continuing project management
education
We invite you to join our President, Ms. Deborah Lazicki, at 1:00 pm at the
Mercer University School of Engineering in Macon, GA. Please visit the
(ACEC/G) website at http://www.acecga.org for registration information.
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September 2000: S&R donates computer to Booker
T. Washington High School Vocational Construction Training Program
Less than a mile from the high-profile Georgia World
Congress Center Phase IV Expansion project in downtown Atlanta is a high school
construction program that just might have some young people who will help build
the city in the years to come. Thats
what the team of Hardin Russell Mitchell (HRM) and the Construction Education
Foundation of Georgia (CEFGA) are thinking as they forge a new partnership with the construction program at Booker T.
Washington High School.
The collaboration between HRM, CEFGA and Booker T.
Washington High School will provide a first hand opportunity to expose students
to a large construction project in their community (Vine City and English
Avenue). The partnership is
expected to include guest speakers/educators, job-site tours of the Georgia
World Congress Center and other downtown projects, and job placement for
graduates of Booker T. Washington High School.
S&R is proud
to have donated a laptop computer to the program and is looking forward to
participating in the guest speakers/educators forum.
If you would
like more information about the program, please contact:
Mrs. Velma
Cooper
Supervisor
Booker T. Washington High School
Technology / Career Education Department
45 White House Drive
Atlanta, GA 30314
Phone: 404/752-0724
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September 2000: S&R assists Jetaire
Aerospace and Technology, Inc. with Project Management Office implementation
S&R
is assisting Jetaire Aerospace & Technology, Inc. with the implementation of
a Project Management Office that will meet the CEOs requirements to:
- Better manage Programs (focus on high priority items and convey this information to clients, staff and
consultants)
- Measure and improve performance (use resource loaded project plans and time reporting)
- Improve profitability (implement job cost and link progress payments to the project plans)
- Collaborate on company knowledge (improve business planning and decision making)
Jetaire
Aerospace & Technology, Inc. (originally Jetaire Services), founded in 1984,
is a full service aircraft systems integration firm.
Jetaire has served the market for commercial, commuter, corporate and
military aircraft and systems by offering a wide array of products and services
for aircraft and aircraft systems modifications, smoke detection/fire
suppression systems integration and systems certification.
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August 2000: S&R assists Beers
Telecommunications Group with Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
Beers
Construction Company has retained S&R to develop and implement program
planning standards for its newly formed Telecommunications Group.
With widely distributed project teams and high profile clients such as
Level (3) Telecommunications and Worldcom, Beers needs to coordinate and
communicate consistent information quickly and effectively.
S&R is working with Beers to develop standards and processes, and
implement them across the enterprise.
Beers is known
as the premier builder in Atlanta and throughout the South.
With a historic beginning of using reinforced concrete as an
innovative method to build fireproof structures, Beers
teams today continue to develop expertise in laboratory and high tech
construction, as well as heavy/civil, industrial, communication and
transportation specialty niches to meet client needs in the next millennium. The
Beers family is part of a growing team, both nationally and internationally. In
the mid-1990s, Skanska USA, Inc., an international construction and real
estate firm, acquired Beers. The Beers family of companies has grown as well to
include offices in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee, as well as project sites in 17 states, stretching as far west as
California and as far north as Virginia.
Level 3
Communications, Inc., is a communications and information services company that
is building the first international network optimized for Internet Protocol
technology. The Level 3 Network will combine both local and long distance
networks, connecting customers end-to-end across the U.S. and in Europe and
Asia. The company expects to complete the U.S. inter-city portion of the network
during the first quarter of 2001. In the interim, Level 3 has leased a national
network over which it began to offer services in the third quarter of 1998.
Level 3 will provide a full range of communications services (including local,
long distance, international and Internet services).
Operating in more than 65 countries, WorldCom is a
premier provider of facilities-based and fully integrated local, long distance,
international and Internet services. WorldCom serves millions of U.S. business
and residential customers over a 48,000-mile, all-fiber high capacity nationwide
network, a quantity that represents enough fiber to stretch from San Francisco
to Washington, D.C.16 times! UUNET supplements WorldCom's Internet and
technology operations, allowing businesses and consumers the ability to harness
the full power of the Internet as well as leading networking and hosting
solutions.
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March 2000:
S&R has a new address in Los Alamos, NM
S&R
has a new address in Los Alamos:
107 Central Park
Square, #107
Los Alamos, NM 87544
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February 2000: S&R facilitates Project Management
Office for OpenLink Financial, Inc.
S&R
facilitated the development and implementation of a Project Management Office at
this rapidly growing software company. After
reviewing existing processes and procedures, and conducting a series of
interviews and meetings with key personnel, S&R developed a phased
implementation plan that would bring standardized project management processes
and tools to the entire organization, from in-house projects to external
projects to customer support.
Since
its founding in 1992, OpenLink has pioneered the development of complete and
integrated commercial software solutions and services geared toward the world's
most sophisticated financial and energy/commodity markets.
OpenLink has grown steadily since its inception and is staffed today by
more than 150 professionals, dedicated to serving its increasingly diverse
customer base of financial institutions, banks, energy marketers, and corporate
treasury departments. OpenLink is
headquartered in New York, with offices in Houston and London.
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December 1999: S&R offers Project
Office Consulting
S&R is pleased to
announce that it has been accepted as a member of the Consulting Partner Program
at Pacific Edge Software Inc.
Pacific
Edge Software Inc. is a leading provider of project knowledge management
solutions for project-driven organizations. The company's flagship product,
Project Office, offers an easy, top-down planning approach, enabling
organizations to effectively manage their business by integrating the critical
processes of project initiation, knowledge management, resource management, time
reporting, project collaboration and decision support. Project Office eXpress, a
thin client application, allows all those who interact with project information
to collaborate on and update plans on the Web in both Project Office and
Microsoft Project. Pacific Edge Software customers include Bank of America,
BellSouth, Costco, Microsoft and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
A Microsoft Solutions Provider, Pacific Edge Software was founded in 1998
and is a private company based in Kirkland, Wash.
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November 1999: Ahlstrom
selects S&R for Project Management Support
After responding quickly and
effectively to Ahlstroms request for short term scheduling support, S&R
was asked in March, 2000 to provide long term project management support for
this strategic client. As an
integral member of the newly formed Andritz-Ahlstrom Corporation, S&R is now
providing financial and cost management services, in addition to planning and
scheduling support.
Ahlstrom
is a privately owned global paper, packaging and technology company that serves
its customers through independent business groups focusing on specialty papers
and advanced fiber webs; food packaging solutions; and industrial equipment. A
leader in selected markets, the Ahlstrom Group's net sales in 1998 were FIM 14.5
billion (EUR 2.4 billion).
The company employs over 10,000 people.
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October 1999:
Mary Beth Davis joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Ms. Mary Beth Davis has
joined the company as a Consultant in our Georgia Office. Our best wishes are with her as
she lends support to a variety of corporate, administrative, and technical initiatives.
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September 1999: S&R presents at
the Primavera User Conference
S&R is proud to be selected once again to be a guest speaker
at the Annual Primavera User Conference. We invite you to join Mr. Lee Bernstein on
Saturday, September 25, 1999 for "Lists! Lists! Everywhere a List! Tracking Issues at
Los Alamos National Laboratory".
In this presentation, the author will explain how S&R implemented a single system
for tracking issues and actions by using RemedyŽ to combine the multitude of independent
lists and Primavera project files. He will also discuss the details of the Web-based
system, the concerns that were addressed for transferring Primavera data, the process
being used today, and how this solution could be easily implemented across any
corporation.
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August 1999:
S&R establishes planning framework for
Builders / Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (FRBA)
S&R was retained by BTMI Builders to establish a planning framework for
the Construction Management of the new Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (FRBA)
complex in midtown Atlanta. The site will be home to a 700,000-square-foot facility that
will include a cash vault, office tower, operations center and parking.
S&R configured Primavera Project Planner and SureTrak Project Manager
to integrate the work scope and resources of over 30 trade contractors.
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May 1999: S&R provides Primavera consulting to
Beers Construction Company / DHL Worldwide Express
S&R is supporting Beers Construction Company in the
development and deployment of a program plan for the new DHL Worldwide Express hub at the
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The project contains the facilities
necessary to receive, unload, sort reload and deploy parcels, letters, small parcels, and
heavyweight material from the United States and most world locations.
Beers Construction Company is a subsidiary of Skanska. Skanska is one of the
worlds largest companies in construction-related services and project and property
development. Skanska has operations in some 50 countries, with "domestic"
markets in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the United States.
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February 1999: S&R provides
SureTrak consulting to Davis & Associates
S&R is supporting Davis & Associates, Inc. as they
implement SureTrak Project Manager for all of their corporate and project scheduling
needs. Beginning with the Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility & Tank
Replacement Project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Davis & Associates/S&R
will develop standards and templates for coding, reporting, resource definition, cost
management, and multi-project integration.
Davis & Associates, Inc. is a General Contractor based in
Santa Fe, NM.
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January 1999: S&R awarded contract with Los Alamos
National Laboratory/Lockwood Greene Technologies
S&R is a member of the Lockwood Greene Technologies team
tasked with developing the new technical, cost and schedule baselines for the upgrade of
the Chemistry, Metallurgical and Research (CMR) facility at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. The team will conduct walkdowns, develop the Programmatic Requirements
Document (PRD), and upgrade conceptual engineering data, schematics, estimates, and
schedules to reflect the revised mission of the facility.
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January 1999: Leela Woodfield joins
S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Ms. Leela Woodfield has joined
the company as a Consultant in our Georgia Office. Our best wishes are with her as
she lends support to a variety of corporate, administrative, and technical initiatives.
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December 1998: James Beatson joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. James Beatson has joined the
company as a Consultant in our Georgia Office. Our best wishes are with him as he
begins his assignment with MediaOne in southern Florida.
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December 1998: Orlando Gomez joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Orlando Gomez has joined the
company as a Consultant in our New Mexico Office. Our best wishes are with him as he
begins his assignment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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November 1998: S&R sponsors Rio Grande Minority
Purchasing Council
S&R is proud to be a member
of the Rio Grande Minority Purchasing Council and a corporate sponsor for the 1998 Awards
Banquet.
The mission of the RGMPC is to support minority/women owned businesses through
increased corporate and government purchasing and to provide Minority Business
Enterprises/Women Business Enterprises sources to corporate/government entities for their
procurement needs. For more information, please contact:
Ms. Elinor B. Ochoa
Executive Director
Rio Grande Minority Purchasing Council
8205 Spain Rd. NE, #203
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: 505/823-2213
Fax: 505/823-2242
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November 1998: S&R awarded contract with
MediaOne/CH2M Hill
S&R, as a member of the CH2M Hill team, is
providing program management services to MediaOne in support of the company's national
upgrade of its hybrid fiber optic/coaxial cable (HFC) network. This upgrade to Broadband
technology improves traditional cable service and enables next-generation products and
services.
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November 1998: Everett LePori joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce
that Mr. Everett LePori has joined the company as a Consultant in our Georgia Office. Our
best wishes are with him as he begins his assignment with MediaOne in southern Florida.
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September 1998: S&R presents at the Annual Primavera
User Conference
S&R is proud to be selected
once again to be a guest speaker at the Annual Primavera User Conference. We invite you to
join our President, Ms. Deborah Lazicki, at 1:30 PM on Thursday, September 17, 1998 for
"Managing your Small Business with SureTrak".
In this presentation, the author will share how she successfully negotiates a myriad of
administrative and project requirements by "projectizing" her work and using
traditional project management skills and tools!
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August 1998: S&R Web site is successfully launched
S & R invites you to take a
moment to browse our new web site:
- find out about our services, clients, and projects in About S&R
- learn about newest achievements and employees in News
- review our latest project management presentations in Publications
- check out other useful business and management sites in Links
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July 1998: S&R awarded contract with Nextel
S&R will provide management
consulting, project controls, financial management and system design/implementation for
the deployment of 1650 digital communications sites over the next three years. This $500
million fast track program will be managed from eight project offices and will require
daily communication of performance data to two corporate offices.
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May 1998: S&R develops Demonstration
Projects for Primavera
S&R has been retained by Primavera Systems,
Inc. to develop demonstration projects for the new release of their high end, high
performance software, Primavera Project Planner for the Enterprise (P3e). S&R's
Telecommunications Project and Capital Improvement Program demonstrate how new features,
such as project hierarchies, resource breakdown structures, portfolios, and increased
coding capabilities, would be implemented in the real world. Watch for them in the fall of
1998.
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April 1998: Terry Singell joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Terry Singell has joined the
company as a Consultant in our New Mexico Office.
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March 1998: DOE awards Training Contract to
the AMCI Team
The Atlantic Management Center,
Inc. (AMCI), located in Alexandria, VA has successfully won the re-bid of its training
contract with the Department of Energy. AMCI has offered education to federal managers in
acquisition/procurement, program/project management, and performance improvement for the
past 12 years.
S&R supports the Atlantic Management Center, Inc. in the delivery of classes and
with technical support to Zone C (Albuquerque, Rocky Flats, etc.)
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February 1998: S&R has a new address in
Los Alamos, NM
S&R has a new address in Los Alamos:
1362 Trinity Drive, Suite D-1222
Los Alamos, NM 87544
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January 1998: Mark Shattuck joins S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Mark Shattuck has joined the
company as a Consultant in our New Mexico Office.
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November 1997: Lorraine Buchan joins
S&R
S & R Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce that Ms. Lorraine Buchan has joined
the company as a Consultant in our New Mexico Office.
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October 1997: Primavera and SureTrak Training now available
Deborah J. Lazicki, President
of S&R Associates, has been certified as an Independent Authorized Trainer for
Primavera Project Planner and SureTrak Project Manager. With the addition of this new
capability, S&R now offers a complete and comprehensive training curriculum of project
management skills and tools.
Please contact Ms. Lazicki at our Atlanta office to discuss your
training needs:
1774 West Nancy Creek Drive
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone: (770) 454-6757
Fax: (770) 455-6762
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October 1997: Los Alamos awards Project
Controls contract to S&R
The Chemistry, Metallurgical and Research (CMR)
facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is an active operating facility that is
undergoing $174 million of upgrades to ensure continued safe operations. S&R is
providing a senior consultant to serve as a member of the new management team, and project
controls and financial management staff to provide ongoing project support services. In
addition, project management support is being provided to the facility management to
assist with ongoing operations.
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October 1997: McDevitt Street Bovis awards
Training Contract to S&R
S&R has been retained to develop and deliver a planning and scheduling course,
followed by Suretrak Project Manager 2.0 training, to this newly formed team of
construction professionals in the Raleigh, North Carolina office of McDevitt Street Bovis.
McDevitt Street Bovis, along with sister companies, Bovis Construction Corporation and
Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. have managed over $20 billion worth of construction in the
United States and around the world.
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October 1997: Lee S. Bernstein joins S&RS & R Associates, Inc. is pleased
to announce that Mr. Lee Bernstein has joined the firm as Director of New Mexico
Operations.
Mr. Bernstein has over thirty years of experience in program
and project management, management consulting, cost/schedule control services, and the
development and implementation of management information and control systems. Mr.
Bernstein has provided written and verbal expert testimony regarding management of over
$12 billion of engineering and construction. He is published and has lectured on program
management domestically and internationally.
Please feel free to contact Mr. Bernstein at our Santa Fe office:
2500 Sawmill Road, Suite 1121
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Phone: (505) 989-7105
Fax: (505) 995-8041
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