The Snake River Chapter of the International Council of Systems Engineering invites you to a Presentation and Discussion at the Red Lion Inn on Wednesday, June 8th at 6:30 PM.

Portions of the presentation by Donna Rhoades (MIT faculty and INCOSE Director for Strategic Planning) will be combined with a panel discussion that will leave you with a better understanding of the PM/SE partnership needed to meet the challenges of increasing complexity of engineered systems.

This topic should be of interest to anybody who works with, manages, or creates complex systems such as a new organization or a new type of power plant. Complimentary Hors D’oeuvres will be served at 6:30 with the program beginning at 7 PM. Panel members will include Dean Groetzinger, PMP, and Charles Park, PE.

Dean Groetzinger, PMP

Dean has over 24 years of experience in research and development, information technology, environmental restoration, and coal preparation and chemical plant design and construction. His work experience has includes government, industry and consulting. Past positions have included program and project management, baseline management, performance measurement, human resource management, quality management, and communications, with concurrent experience in project engineering, field construction, cost estimating, and contract management.  Dean has worked on both sides of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for the past thirteen years; his background covers a variety of areas at the Laboratory, from Environmental Restoration to providing staff assistance to the Laboratory Director.  Dean is leading the Project Controls Process Improvement team for the Idaho Cleanup Project contractor CH2M-Hill/WGI.  Prior to that, Dean was responsible for Advanced Computing Strategy and Planning, as well as managing the costs for the INL’s High Performance Computing portfolio and the CIO office.

Charles Park, PE

Charles has worked at the INL for the past 23 years, with an emphasis in Systems Engineering and Project Management. He currently supports the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative and GenIV Programs. Previous assignments include Calciner Closure, Long-Term Stewardship, Enterprise Modeling for Nuclear Weapons Production Facilities, the Plutonium Isotope Laser Separation Project, and WINCO’s Total Quality Program. Prior to the INL, Charles helped oversee construction of the Columbia Generating Station (a General Electric 1100 MWe Boiling Water Reactor) near Richland, Washington, and was a project engineer for 5 years with a regional consulting engineering company designing and building municipal infrastructure.  He graduated from the University of Idaho in Civil Engineering in 1979. His essential skill is coaxing order out of chaos.

For more information please contact, Harold Heydt, at 526-7802 or Harold.Heydt@inl.gov