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Project Management Bootcamp

Join ACEC WI and PSMJ for an important Project Management Bootcamp

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 to Thursday, December 12, 2024
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Event Details

For over 20 years, sending key staff through PSMJ's A/E/C Project Management Bootcamp has been standard practice for firms committed to superior financial results, ecstatic clients, and a winning culture. Shrewd executives know their most valuable contributors will return with new confidence and new skills to deliver eye-popping profit and project performance.

Learn how to:

  • Master the 11 must-use parts of an ironclad project schedule
  • Avoid 5 budget busters that put projects in a financial hole
  • Keep projects and teams on schedule and budget when working remotely
  • Negotiate win-win subcontractor agreements
  • Seize new revenue opportunities through upselling and cross-selling
  • Apply “wow!” factors that help turn clients into champions
  • Spot and fix profit killers before they become major problems

And 47 additional use-them-now skills for transforming your career and your professional value. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Increase Productivity AND Develop New Business: Keys to a  Becoming a Super-Valued PM
  2. Planning Projects For Success: Timelines that Meet Milestones
  3. Lead the Project Team While Managing Scope Creep and Project Changes
  4. Managing Clients and Yourself: Keys to Keeping Projects Profitable
  5. Budget and Schedule with Earned Value Management: Stay in Control of Projects and Out of Trouble

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About the Presenter

Chris Martersteck, AIA, LEED AP, DBIA, AECPM, has been a progressive and proactive leader in the A/E/C industry for most of his nearly 40 years in the profession. With PSMJ, Chris leads A/E/C bootcamps and seminars and lectures internationally on topics such as project management, Integrated Project Delivery. He also develops seminars, articles, presentations and manuals with customized tools for project management and integrated project delivery for the complete A/E/C process, utilizing lessons learned from leading highly-collaborative project teams. 

Chris’ A/E/C experience includes leading fully- integrated teams and provided project management training and process and tool development as Director of Integrated Services and Project Management for a number of top international A/E/C firms. His extensive experience as an A/E/C project and program manager and as an owner’s representative and seminar leader, informs his knowledge and abilities to serve the needs of all the project participants to better connect to the goals of clients – and all team members – and maximize success for all. 

Chris holds BS and Master’s degrees in Architecture and an MBA, all from the University of Illinois in Urbana. He has been a registered professional architect since 1978. A member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional, he chaired the AIA Chicago Design-Build Knowledge Community and contributes to the AIA’s National Design-Build Knowledge Community. He leads national seminars on project management and integrated project delivery. He is a past Board Member of the Great Lakes Chapter of the Design-Build Institute of America and a DBIA Designated Design-Build Professional as well as a DBIA Instructor, leading design-build courses toward DBIA designation.