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AN
EVENING OF EXCELLENCE
Project Excellence Award 2005
Join us
for an Evening of Excellence to acknowledge, honor,
and recognize project teams for superior performance
and execution of exemplary project management for projects
completed during the past year.
We are pleased to present the FINALISTS for the 2005
Project Excellence Award. These individuals, teams and
projects have met the qualifications for application
submission, and a proceeding forward in a rigorous judging
process. The winner will be announced at the December
Chapter Meeting.
Come hear about each of these projects - and the presentation
of the Project Excellence Award 2005. It's an Evening
of Excellence!
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Hurricane
Relief Fundraiser Project
Submitted by: Rotary Club of Wilsonville
Legacy
Salmon Creek Hospital Project
Submitted by: Skanska
Meter
Management System Project
Submitted by: Portland General Electric Company
Pi
to Pi Interface Project
Submitted by: PacifiCorp
The PMI-Portland
Chapter would like to thank each of these finalists
for their submissions and support of project management
excellence, and to thank our expert panel of judges
for contributing their time and expertise in the project
management field.
Hurricane
Relief Fundraiser Project
Submitted by: Rotary Club of Wilsonville
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional
leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages
high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build
goodwill and peace in the world. The 35-member Rotary
Club of Wilsonville is involved in many worthwhile local,
national and international projects, fulfilling the
Rotary motto, "Service above Self." The project,
Hurricane Relief Fundraiser, was initiated and managed
by the Wilsonville Rotary Club as a city-wide effort
to quickly raise funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The project was initiated on 1 September and concluded
on 22 September with the offering of over $13,000 in
donations to Mercy Corps, Portland. The Award Lead Nominator
is John C. "Jake" McMichael, PMP.
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital Project
Submitted by: Skanska
With a budget of $166 million and spanning more than
660,00 square feet, Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital in
Vancouver, Washington stands as one of the largest and
most complex healthcare facilities in the region. The
facility incorporates a wide range of services and facilities,
each of which required it own considerations and expertise.
The complete hospital features an emergency room, pediatrics
unit, state of the art operating rooms, intensive care
& step down units, inpatient med/surg units, a cafeteria,
and more. This is the first new hospital complex in
the metro area in over twenty-five years to serve the
community's health needs. The project was successfully
completed in August 2005. The Award Lead Nominator is
James "JB" Hall.
Meter
Management System Project
Submitted by: Portland General Electric Company
In 2003, Portland General Electric Company chartered
a project to replace the legacy Meter Management System.
The business need for the project was three-fold: to
comply with new Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC)
requirements for electric meter Sampling, Testing, Statistical
Analysis and Reporting, to meet a corporate mandate
to move off the mainframe by December, 2005 and to improve
meter asset management capability. The Meter Management
project implemented a software system to track and manage
the life cycle of PGE's 800,000 electric meters in a
service territory of 4,000 square miles. The Meter Management
project was successfully and formally accepted by the
Meter Services organization on June 27, 2005. The Award
Lead Nominator is Geri Northey, PMP.
Pi
to Pi Interface Project
Submitted by: PacifiCorp
PacifiCorp is one of the West's leading investor-owned
utilities, serving more than 1.6 million customers with
safe, reliable, efficient electrical energy in six Western
states. Based in Portland, Oregon, PacifiCorp has 8,426
megawatts (mw) of generation capacity. PacifiCorp
operates as Pacific Power in Oregon, Washington, California
and Wyoming and as Utah Power in Utah and Idaho. In
a major project recently completed at PacifiCorp a primary
data historian was decommissioned and transitioned to
a new product. Because the process would have broken
the existing connectivity to a mission critical system,
the company
launched the Plant Information to Plant Information
project (dubbed the "Pi to Pi Project") in
March 2004. Its purpose was to design and implement
a technical interface to maintain the uninterrupted
stream of critical data for system planning, operational
planning and dispatch support necessary to keep electricity
flowing to its customers. The project was successfully
completed in July 2005. The Award Lead Nominator is
Shelaindra Bhardwaj.
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