SCQAA San Fernando Chapter and PMI Los Padres Chapter Joint Meeting

Project Management as a City Manage

Walter Joseph Bobkiewicz

IT Governance

Dan Hastings

Thursday, October 26, 2006

A delicious buffet dinner is served that includes salad, entree, dessert, and coffee.

Agenda:

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm Networking

6:15 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Project Management as a City Manager

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm IT Governance presentation

9:00 - Prize Raffle & Meeting adjourned

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First Presentation - Project Management as a City Manager

The title "city manager" is one of those white-collar monikers that can make people stop in their tracks and snore with gusto. It's a job that implies things like bar graphs and pie charts, lists of numbers, late-night calculations and way too many meetings. And, chances are, the implications are as dead center as the dull ties one probably has to wear to work as city manger. It's enough to make a person ... Zzzzzzzzz ...

And that's why it's so refreshing that Santa Paula City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz doesn't live up to his namesake as a pie-graph-wielding, number-crunching, boring work meeting enthusiast. Add that to your list of things to be thankful for next Thanksgiving.

Wally will share with us his experiences as a city manager.

Walter Joseph Bobkiewicz's interest in public service and government jelled while he was still a teenager growing up in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield . He was elected president of his ninth-grade class at Deerfield High, but when his Navy-pilot stepfather was transferred to Ventura County , Bobkiewicz moved to the area in the middle of the school year.

He entered Camarillo High School , where he was elected president of both his junior and senior classes. By the time he graduated from high school in 1984, Bobkiewicz was so convinced that government was his calling that he enrolled in the public administration program at the University of Southern California . He served as USC student body president in his junior year.

After an internship in Washington , D.C. , and graduation from USC, Bobkiewicz entered Syracuse University 's top-rated program in public administration and earned a master's degree. Then it was back to California , where he worked for the city of Long Beach for almost a decade, picking up experience as an analyst for the public works and police departments, telecommunications manager, and assistant to the city manager.

His parents and sister live in Ventura County , Santa Paula is a full-service city that runs its own police and fire departments, and there is a lot to do.

Council members say the city manager's only flaws are that he works too hard and that it's tough to keep up with his pace, as their almost-weekly rounds of meetings will attest. "I fear he's going to work himself into poor health, but we've gotten more done in the last year than in the last couple of years," Councilman Rick Cook said.

Second Presentation - IT Governance

In this era of stringent cost management and strict legislative requirements, IT governance has never been more critical. Dan Hastings will be presenting on an effective IT governance solution using new Microsoft© technologies that can provide organizations with a resilient platform. This platform drives towards greater efficiencies in management and promotes business innovation and growth. Information Technology becomes empowered and aligned with the overall business strategy and decision making structures by utilizing tools and best practices for the management and measurement of processes, resources, programs, and risks.

The solution Dan will be presenting on provides consulting and tools to help organizations accomplish the following tasks:

• Align IT with the business
• Implement IT Governance best practices frameworks
• Make decisions and set priorities based on current strategy, performance and risks
• Adopt best practices for service delivery and program management processes
• Optimize resource allocation and utilization
• Improve collaboration between stakeholders
• Establish controls that manage and enable compliance validation.

Dan Hastings is a Senior Principal Consultant with INS. Mr. Hastings has a 23-year career in Information Technology. Mr. Hastings background includes all aspects of IT infrastructure planning and deployment with specific experience in:

• IT Organizational Design
• IT Strategy and Planning
• Business case development
• Process development, implementation and improvement

Currently Dan is an INS global thought-leader on IT Governance. He has spoken on IT Governance before the senior management of a diverse number of organizations, including: Charles Schwab, the State of California , McKesson, Agilent Technologies, Expedia, Premera Blue Cross, and Barclays Global Investors. Mr. Hastings gave the highest rated and highest attended presentation during Microsoft's recent series of Executive Briefings.

Mr. Hastings has deep experience in:

• Enterprise telecommunications strategy
• Telecom Expense Management
• Sarbanes-Oxley IT compliance

Mr. Hastings has also presented to the global telecom community on how to control and reduce costs associated with information and telecommunications infrastructure. To this end, he has recently published White Paper titled "Lowering Network Costs with Telecom Expense Management."

His major clients include AT&T Wireless (now Cingular), Microsoft, Washington Mutual Bank, Unilever, Allergan, Worldspan, Expeditors International, and the Department of Defense.