1. Speaker Name: Chuck Millhollan
  2. Job Title: Director of Program Management
  3. Company: Churchill Downs Incorporated
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  6. Presentation Title:Leverage the PM Skill Set & Enhance Your Contribution to Your Organization
  7. Presentation Summary:

Ask not what your company can do for you; ask what you can do for your company. The savvy project manager can learn much from this spin on the words John F. Kennedy delivered during his inaugural address in 1961. In today’s competitive, economically challenging environment, we must identify opportunities to leverage our skills and increase our contribution to our organization. Too often, we allow our role descriptions to box us in and limit our ability to be substantively involvedoutside of managing our projects. In reality, our profession’s innate talents can be shared to not only enhance our contribution, but also market our unique skills.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand what employers seek in their top-notch project managers
  2. Outline the project manager’s skill set in terms of contributing to an organization
  3. Identify opportunities to share skills with your entire organization
  4. Evaluate practical examples and how sharing skills enhanced a PMO’s reputation and ability to contribute to their organization
  1. Speaker Biography:

Chuck Millhollan

Chuck is the Director of Program Management for Churchill Downs Incorporated and has over 25 years experience in personnel and project management. Recent initiatives include:

  1. Defining, documenting, and implementing the software development lifecycle and associated project management methodology controls for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for Humana Inc’s Application Engineering department.
  2. Chartering the Enterprise Project Management Office for Churchill Downs Incorporated. Churchill Downs Incorporated and Churchill Downs Race Track are the home of the Kentucky Derby, known worldwide as the “Greatest Two Minutes in Sports.”
  3. Author and program manager for the University of Louisville Delphi Center’s project and program management training and certificate program. A Registered Education Provider (REP) through the PMI.
  4. Defining the Project Portfolio Management processes for the University of Louisville Information Technology department.

Chuck earned his Bachelor of Science in Management in 1993 through Southern Illinois University, his Master of Business Administration from the University of Florida in 2000 and a Master of Science in Project Management from the University of Wisconsin in 2003.

Chuck’s certifications include:

  1. Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI)
  2. Program Management Professional (PgMP) through the PMI
  3. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt through the American Society for Quality (ASQ)
  4. Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) through ASQ
  5. Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) through ASQ
  6. Certified Managed Healthcare Professional (MHP) through the Health Insurance Association of America
  7. IT Service Management Foundations Certificate

In addition to his work as a project, portfolio, and quality management practitioner, Chuck has developed curriculum and taught for several accredited universities. Currently, he is teaching Project Management, Quality Management, Operations Management, and Critical Thinking courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level for SullivanUniversity, the University of Louisville, and the University of Phoenix. Additionally, Chuck is the Vice President of Education for the Kentuckiana chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Louisville section.

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