 Kay Wais is the President and founder of Successful Projects and she also is a very experienced project management instructor. She is known for her passion for the effectiveness of project management education and her innovative ways of teaching project management. She has 21 years of project management experience, a Master's degree in Project Management, a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). She has helped many students become PMP certified.
Kay has presented numerous project management workshops and classes and has trained many other project management instructors. She has taught project management for many years at Viterbo University, UW-La Crosse, UW-Green Bay, UW-Superior and Western Technical College. She assists with project management curriculum design for many colleges, corporate training programs, and publishers (such as McGraw-Hill). She started the Certificate of Project Management program initially with the University of Wisconsin SBCD offices.
Innovation of has invented numerous training products including the Project Risk board game, scheduling game, earned value simulation, estimating game, and the success cards. She also facilitates our weekly PMP exam prep study group. She founded the La Crosse PMI chapter, became its first president, and serves on the board. She is also active in the PMI Risk Special Interest Group, Counsultant's Community of Interest, and PMI's Education Special Interest Group.
Kay and her husband, Ed Wais, founded The AVS Group in 1989, AVS Properties in 1998, and Successful Projects in 2001, all of which still operate under their ownership today. They live in Dresbach, Minnesota. 
Amanda Symonds, Director of Successful Projects Asia Pacific, is Prince2, ITIL and MSP certified and is a project management instructor. She is located in Melbourne, Australia. The Prince2 certification is popular in Europe and Australia. And through Amanda, Successful Projects is better able to provide their students with knowledge on both certification approaches and this is a big benefit for larger businesses that manage projects across various regions of the world. Ms. Symonds also works as a project manager for the Australian Department of Justice. She worked in project management in the UK and in a project management capacity for Hewlett Packard for over 6 years.  Sean earned his BS and MS in Mechanical engineering in the early 1990’s from top ranked schools and he is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Indiana. Sean is a certified Project Management Professional. In addition, he has completed several continuing educational programs such as the Project Management Certificate, Black Belt in Six Sigma, and Top Teams.
Most of Sean's 19 year career has been dedicated to projects. About 2 years of this experience was in manufacturing plants where he has worked on process improvement and capital projects. The remainder of the career has been in New Product Development, where he has held a variety of design, leadership and project management roles. Most recently, Sean lead an international team of more than 100 people who completed a very complex 3 year new product development project. Beyond this, Sean's work experience provides students with practical insights that allow him to make adjustments to accommodate New Product Development projects which inherently have a lot of uncertainty and rework. Sean is also a licensed professional engineer in the state of Wisconsin. 
Paul is the owner of both Dynamic Consulting and Mustang Technologies. Dynamic Consulting provides IT project management, virtual CIO, and software development services to businesses. Mustang Technologies designs and develops “off-the-shelf” software products for businesses. Paul is a PMP with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He is currently working on his MBA. Before starting Dynamic Consulting and Mustang Technologies, he ran a software development and IT consulting firm for 18 years before selling it in 2004. Paul has managed over 60 IT projects – and designed and developed over 100 IT systems (both web-based and desktop) in a variety of industries and disciplines including retail, banking, paper, food processing, manufacturing, healthcare, utilities, waste, automation/process control, and systems integration. Paul was an instructor at NWTC teaching software development in C, C++, and Visual Basic. He is a member of the Preble Optimists Club in Green Bay and he holds a Certificate of Project Management from the UW-GB. Paul lives in Green Bay with his wife and two children.  Pam Starcher is a Customer Project/Program Manager for Hewlett-Packard. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 25 years of experience in the Information Technology industry with a strong emphasis on project management and implementation, business management, and people development.
In her role at H-P, she is responsible for managing the software development teams for two of the company’s service offerings in the insurance industry. She’s been with the company for 10 years. Prior to H-P, Pam was employed for 15 years at Trane Company as a software engineer and project manager. Project industry experience includes order processing, warranty services, pricing, inventory management, property and casualty insurance, flood insurance and Department of Defense audits. Pam holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Services from Viterbo University, and an Associate of Applied Science in Data Processing from Western Wisconsin Technical College. She served on the board of the La Crosse PMI chapter for 5 years, 2 years as president, and remains an active member of the chapter.  Debbie Roch is an experienced coach, teacher and leader. She has been employed by EDS, an HP company for 18 years. She is a results oriented leader with strong business, project management, and client relationship skills. She is experienced at driving account and business transformation. In her current role, as an Applications Services Leader, she is focused on Project and Program Delivery Excellence for a large Banking and Insurance client. Debbie has a strong technical background with significant applications development experience focused on project implementations. Her global experience ranges from client interface to requirements gathering in Turkey, system installations in Argentina and program management for a global client server deployment.
Debbie is a PMI certified Project Manager Professional (PMP) with a Bachelor’s degree in English from the College of William and Mary, a Masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. She has designed and delivered a variety of seminars to allow individuals to reach their highest potential both in the public and private sectors. She works with Program and Project Managers to help them enhance their leadership and delivery skills. She taught a PMP Exam Prep workshop to assist PMs in her organization prepare for and pass their exam. She is a natural change coach who seeks to blend her counseling, training and leadership experience to assist leaders and peers embrace positive change to direct their own personal and professional growth.  Rich Maltzman, PMP, who has developed PMP®-exam preparation courseware, including practice exams, books, and audio programs and consults, also develops, and delivers courseware for commercial and academic enterprises. Mr. Maltzman has an engineering background with a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, an MSIE from Purdue University, a mini-MBA from Wharton and a Master's Certificate in international business management granted jointly from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and INSEAD of France.
Mr. Maltzman received his Project Management Professional certification (PMP) in 2000 after earning the Stevens Institute's Master's Certificate in 1999. Exclaim!'s mission is to assist and inform organizations and individuals about Project Management, using the framework provided by the Project Management Institute yet based on the hands-on experience of running real projects, managing real project managers, and training of thousands of real people on real PM. Maltzman has presented papers on project management at conferences in The Netherlands, Mexico City and many US locations. Mr. Maltzman is a distributor for Successful Projects and the owner of Exclaim!, a Project Management Training and Consulting firm |