Austin MPUG

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Austin MPUG

• MPA Austin Texas Chapter
• 'the official industry association for Microsoft
  Office Project'
• Date May 24th , 2005

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Austin MPUG Officers

• Michael Bycura, President, State Government
  contact bycura_at_sbcglobel.net
• Richard Smith, Vice President
• Charles Knickerbocker, Secretary
• Sue Butler, Communications Web
• sbutler_at_kidasa.com

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Austin MPUG Officers

• Overview of Todays Goals transition to MY
• MPA is a dynamic professional association that
  serves as the preeminent resource for Microsoft
  Office Project. We help a worldwide community
  comprised of thousands of individual and
  corporate members better leverage their
  investment in Microsoft Project in their
  businesses and careers.

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Austin Chapter MPUG Previous Speakers

• Previous speakers are listed on the website
• Examples
• Dr. Tim Pyron, Managing multiple projects in a
  master project plan
• Brian Lacey and Lena Woods of MicroAssist on
  using MS Project Central

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Austin MPUG Previous Speakers (Contd)

• John Winchester, Winchester Group, Lessons
  learned in deploying MS Project 2002 in an
  Enterprise Resource Project
• Greg Bailey, Quantum PM, a MS partners template
  to assist with the deployment of MS Project 2002
• Dr. Tim Pyron, MS Project 101 and my favorite
  tips tricks

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Austin MPUG Previous Speakers (Contd)

• Andrew Weaver, instructor and project manager for
  MicroAssist.net, MS Project Tips and Tricks
• Kevin Gibson, Kidasa Software, Successfully
  Presenting your Microsoft Project Plans
• Dan Ross, Austin Energy, Lessons Learned during
  Project Server Implementation

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Austin MPUG Previous Speakers (Contd)

• Ingmar Sterzing, LCRA, Implementing a PMO with MS
  Project
• Debbie Wahrmund, PMP, State Government, Software
  Project Turn around Case Study using multiple
  tools

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Austin MPA Todays Sponsors

• Jerry Van Valkenburg , Microsoft Government
  Sector
• Joachim Strenk (MicroAssist.net) providing
  meeting support
• Sue Butler Kidasa Software (Chapter Sponsor)
• David Bentley - Austin Microsoft Office (Chapter
  Sponsor providing meeting place product)

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Austin MPA

• MPA membership provides many benefits visit
  http//www.mympa.org/default.aspx
• or www.mpug.org site for the details
• Accepting any and all volunteers if you know of
  a good speaker or a good topic for future
  meetings, please send them to our website
  www.mpugaustin.org or mbycura_at_sbcglobal.net

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Austin MPA

• Tonights Agenda
• Introduction of first time attendees (name and
  organization)
• Sign Up Lists (Be sure to check the yes and no
  blocks)
• Floor Announcements (Meetings, Announcements, and
  Job Opportunities,etc.)
• Focus of this Chapter is the User and their needs
  and requirements
• PDUs documentation for those needing credits and
  the drawing will be done after the presentation

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MPA

• MPA Job Board 
• Profile Update 
• Renew 
• Chapter Home
• Announcements
• Document Library
• Events
• Find a Job
• Post a Job
• Profile Update
• Renew

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Austin MPA

• Austin MPA guarantee three things,
  1 learn something you can use tomorrow, 2 meet
  someone who has the same problem,
  3 leave with a tool that you can apply tomorrow
• Tonight Presentations

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Austin MPA

• Tonight's Agenda  
• 530 Networking and snacks
•  600 Meeting starts chapter business
•  620 Scheduling and estimating with MS Project
  by David Brandon
• 750 Prizes
• 800 Adjourn

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Austin MPADavid Brandon

• David is a Project Manager at the Texas Health
  and Human Services Commission, Enterprise
  Information Technology Division in Austin, Texas.
  He has over 15 years experience directing and
  managing multiple, simultaneous information
  technology projects for the State of Texas. He is
  PMI certified and holds the PMO Certificate of
  Added Qualification.
• He currently serves the PMI GovSIG as Vice-Chair
  and is the GovSIG Magazine Senior Editor. Prior
  to joining the State of Texas, David was an
  information technology consultant to the public
  sector. 
• Graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington,
  BBA, Finance, 1990, cum laude, PMP, Certified
  Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
  Outlook and Office User Specialist (MOUS)
• Numerous written articles and presentations

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Austin MPA David Brandon

• Presentation Title Estimating and Scheduling
  using MS Project 2000

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Austin MPA Todays Sponsors

• Jerry Van Valkenberg ( Microsoft Government
  Sales)
• David Bentley (Austin Microsoft Representative
  providing meeting place) (Chapter Sponsor)
• Joachim Strenk (MicroAssist.net) providing snacks
• Sue Butler Kidasa Software (Chapter Sponsor)
• Please thank them for their support

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Austin MPUG

• Contact Information
• Web Sites
• MPUGAustin.org
• http//www.mympa.org/default.aspx
• Mike Bycura
• Next meeting
• Please fill out our speaker/presentation
  evaluation and future meeting requirements
  listing thanks for your involvement to make
  your chapter successful
• Three meetings in fall September 8, Oct 13 Nov 10