Course Registration and Invoicing
Mary Ann Nixon
Mary Ann joined the Institute of Configuration Management in 1998 after accumulating over 20 years of experience in the health care industry. She handles all registration and invoice activity at ICM and continues to be the first point of contact for inquiries from across the U.S. and around the world. She also organizes the venues and arrangements for all CMII training courses. Mary Ann is CMII certified and was the Emcee for the 2004 and 2005 annual CMII conferences.
info@icmhq.com
CFO, CIO and Office Manager
Bill Guess
Bill joined the Institute of Configuration Management when the business was relocated from San Diego, California to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1991. He previously had over 20 years of experience managing the engineering budgets and financials within Honeywell and General Electric. Since joining ICM, Bill has been the CFO and CIO. He also filled in as CEO during 2006. As of 2007, he has resumed his role as CFO and CIO. Bill holds a business degree from Arizona State University.
bill@icmhq.com
ICM Webmaster, Event Planner and CMII User Group Coordinator
Kathy Easterbrook
Kathy attended the University of Rhode Island and later worked in CM at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. She completed her CMII certification in 1997 and has coordinated the CMII User Groups since they were initiated in the same year. She has been the event planner for the annual CMII conference since 1999 and is currently the webmaster for the ICM website and the new CMII Research Institute website. Kathy also coordinates the CMII Professional certification program and is editor of the News & Views.
kathy@icmhq.com
ICM Instructors
Ken Black
Ken has over 20 years of experience in management positions in aerospace and computer-oriented firms with an extensive blend of commercial, military, hardware and software programs. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in configuration management. Ken has been a CMII instructor since 1985.
ken@icmhq.com
Carol Cotty
Carol started her working career as a librarian and has a masters degree in librarianship. She has been working in the configuration management field for over 25 years, gaining her experience in configuration management over these years as a practitioner, consultant and trainer. She formed the company ConfigOnline, more than four years ago and has developed several documentation and configuration management training programmes. She was CMII Certified in 2003 and started teaching the CMII Courses in South Africa in 2004.
carol@configonline.co.za
Hans-Georg Dueck
Hans-Georg has a degree in information technology and joined GfKM in 1998. He was working as consultant for configuration management for many customers especially in the automotive industries. Most of the projects were focused on software process improvement. He has significant experience with various software configuration management and change management tools and supports the customers in the implementation phase of the tools. He has written different articles and was co-author of the GfKM study regarding Configuration Management Tools. Since 1999 he is CMII certified and is working as CMII Trainer in Europe.
hans-georg.dueck@gfkm.de
Eric Hales
Eric has over 20 years in product data management, engineering systems design and implementation. He developed CM applications and implemented Metaphase at Honeywell. He did product demonstrations and proposal development at MatrixOne and was project lead for CMII certification of eMatrix. Eric has a B.A. from Arizona State. He graduated with honors in computer programming at Arizona Tech and is CMII certified.
eric@icmhq.com
Kevin Milford
Kevin was a senior business process specialist fo a systems engineering services company in the UK before it was sold to Hedra, also a UK-based consultancy company. Kevin continues to specialize in the delivery of CM and ILS consultancy to large and complex projects. His previous 13 years of industrial management experience included 8 years as a configuration manager and consultant in the aerospace and defense environment. All consultants on Kevin's staff are CMII certified.
Rick St Germain
Rick has over 30 years of experience in strategic planning and CM process implementation. He is a senior consultant for a major consulting firm in Canada with emphasis on implementation of software CMII-based solutions for the information technology sector. Rick holds a B.Eng. in chemical engineering and several military degrees. He received CMII certification in April 1998 and is a certified CMII lead assessor.
Guido Weischedel
Guido worked for a major automotive supplier before forming a company to provide education and consulting in software CM in 1985. He has written several articles on software CM. He has a degree in information technology and is CMII certified. Guido began teaching CMII courses in the German language in 1998. His company was renamed GfKM in 1999. GfKM began offering public courses in most of Europe in 2004.
guido.weischedel@gfkm.de
Ray Wozny
Ray has over 23 years of experience in high tech firms with 19 in management. He has held various management positions and has been instrumental in implementing three PDM/PLM solutions. Ray has extensive experience in configuration management, technical publications and design support. He received CMII certification in 1989 and was on the ACDM's founding Board of Governors.
ray@icmhq.com
Legal Advisor
Bill Deringer
Bill is an attorney and systems engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the commercial and military electronics industries. He is the Director of Weather Radar Programs at RS Information Systems; his experience includes production management, facility management, systems engineering and configuration management. Bill is an active CM practitioner, ICM instructor and is CMII Certified.
Founder of ICM and CMII
Vince Guess
Vince founded the Institute of Configuration Management in 1984 and, except for 2006, continues to serve as President. He formed the CMII Research Institute in January, 2006 and devoted most of the year to its startup. Vince continues to direct the university-sponsored CMII certification program. He holds the B.S.M.E. and M.B.A. degrees and is the author of Engineering: The Missing Link In MRP (1979), CMII for Business Process Infrastructure (2002) and a 2nd Edition (2006).
vince@cmiiresearch.com
