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Cinda Voegtli, BSEE, is Founder and President of ProjectConnections.com. She has over 20 years industry experience, including hardware and software development, technical and project management,
product development process improvement, and creation of PM knowledge-sharing systems and programs. Her project experience spans a variety of industries and applications including data and telecommunications systems, image processing,
IT applications, networking software, medical device systems, data warehouses, robotics, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and PC database applications and game products.
Cinda has held senior management positions at technology companies in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley and has experienced first-hand the radically different project environments and issues that can exist in start-up, high-growth, and large corporate environments. She has consulted, led workshops, and delivered conference presentations in the U.S. and abroad. Cinda also served as President of the worldwide IEEE Engineering Management Society for 2 years. She is the societies' guest editor for project management issues of the IEEE Engineering Management Review, and created a project management and leadership program for use around the world by IEEE volunteers and members.
Cinda's professional focus is equipping individuals and organizations to take on challenging, business-critical projects, in the face of resource constraints, aggressive delivery dates, newly-minted project managers, and high levels of risk and complexity. She consults to corporations on implementing practical project and portfolio management techniques and rapidly enhancing the skills and experience of their critical project personnel, and through ProjectConnections.com provides online resources to educate and support project managers just-in-time as they do their jobs.
Cinda has held senior management positions at technology companies in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley and has experienced first-hand the radically different project environments and issues that can exist in start-up, high-growth, and large corporate environments. She has consulted, led workshops, and delivered conference presentations in the U.S. and abroad. Cinda also served as President of the worldwide IEEE Engineering Management Society for 2 years. She is the societies' guest editor for project management issues of the IEEE Engineering Management Review, and created a project management and leadership program for use around the world by IEEE volunteers and members.
Cinda's professional focus is equipping individuals and organizations to take on challenging, business-critical projects, in the face of resource constraints, aggressive delivery dates, newly-minted project managers, and high levels of risk and complexity. She consults to corporations on implementing practical project and portfolio management techniques and rapidly enhancing the skills and experience of their critical project personnel, and through ProjectConnections.com provides online resources to educate and support project managers just-in-time as they do their jobs.
Critical Roles of Cross-functional Teams on Software Development Projects ProjectWorld 1994
Rescuing and Revitalizing the Problem Project ProjectWorld West 1996
Quality Rapid Product Development Workshop ProjectWorld East 1997, ProjectWorld West 1997
Powerful Project Visions for Developing Products in Half the Time ProjectWorld West 1997
Project Management Workshop to IEEE ProCon Conference, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1998.
Overcoming Obstacles to Rapid Product Development ProjectWorld East 1998
Getting Relevant to Get Results: Making Project Management Work for Technical Teams ProjectWorld Atlanta 1998
Successfully Managing Virtual Teams, International Engineering Management Conference, 1998.
Lessons in Career Management from Silicon Valley: Key Factors for Continuous "Employment": IEEE Professional Development Conference 1998.
Project Management Workshop: delivered to IEEE Northeast Region 1999; IEEE Hamilton, Canada Section 1999
Special Engineering and Project Management Workshop for IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, and Middle East), Larnaca, Cyprus, 1999.
Career Management as Personal Marketing and Business Development: IEEE Consultant's Network chapters, 1999, and IEEE Professional Development Conference, 1999.
Realizing the Promise of Development Partnerships: What it Really Takes to Make Virtual Teams Work, Wescon 1999
Managing Virtual Teams: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Technical Interest Group 1999
A Wealth of Possibilities: Strategies for Transitioning to Your Next Great Opportunity: IEEE IRPS Conference 1999
High Impact Techniques for Any Project: Dayton Ohio EMS chapter 1999; IEEE Professional Development Conference, 2000; IEEE Pikes Peak (Colorado) EMS chapter 2000
The Power of Communities of Practice for Project Management, PMI San Francisco Chapter , 2000
Engineering Management: New Participants, New Horizons, New Learning Keynote Speaker, International Conference on the Management of Innovation and Technology, Singapore 2000
Leveraging the Web for Project Management Knowledge: Communities of Practice Online and in your Company: IIR Conference of Web-Enabled Project Management 2001, 2002
Paths to Practical Know-How: Crucial Learning Beyond Training ProjectWorld East 2001
Tales from the Entrepreneurial Front Lines: Delivered to Professional and Technical Consultant's Association, Silicon Valley Chapter 2001; delivered to IEEE Engineering Management Society Silicon Valley chapter 2001.
Fast Insights - Critical Decisions - Achievable Plans: Jump-start Your Firms' Portfolio Planning for Immediate Results IIR Portfolio Management Conference 2001
Rapidly Implementing High-Impact Project Management Techniques in Your Organization IIR ProjectIMPACT conference 2002
Session Chair: Critical Management Issues and Key Techniques for Executing a Portfolio of Projects; Speaker: Techniques for Predicting How Your Organization will Perform across a Portfolio of Projects Drug Information Association Annual Meeting 2002
"0 to 60" in Project Management: Fast, Practical PM for Teams that Just Need to Get it Done ProjectWorld West 2002
Enabling Your Aggressive Portfolio: Using Outside Partners Effectively Management Roundtable Conference of Pipeline and Portfolio Management, 2003
Rescuing and Revitalizing the Problem Project ProjectWorld West 1996
Quality Rapid Product Development Workshop ProjectWorld East 1997, ProjectWorld West 1997
Powerful Project Visions for Developing Products in Half the Time ProjectWorld West 1997
Project Management Workshop to IEEE ProCon Conference, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1998.
Overcoming Obstacles to Rapid Product Development ProjectWorld East 1998
Getting Relevant to Get Results: Making Project Management Work for Technical Teams ProjectWorld Atlanta 1998
Successfully Managing Virtual Teams, International Engineering Management Conference, 1998.
Lessons in Career Management from Silicon Valley: Key Factors for Continuous "Employment": IEEE Professional Development Conference 1998.
Project Management Workshop: delivered to IEEE Northeast Region 1999; IEEE Hamilton, Canada Section 1999
Special Engineering and Project Management Workshop for IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, and Middle East), Larnaca, Cyprus, 1999.
Career Management as Personal Marketing and Business Development: IEEE Consultant's Network chapters, 1999, and IEEE Professional Development Conference, 1999.
Realizing the Promise of Development Partnerships: What it Really Takes to Make Virtual Teams Work, Wescon 1999
Managing Virtual Teams: San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Technical Interest Group 1999
A Wealth of Possibilities: Strategies for Transitioning to Your Next Great Opportunity: IEEE IRPS Conference 1999
High Impact Techniques for Any Project: Dayton Ohio EMS chapter 1999; IEEE Professional Development Conference, 2000; IEEE Pikes Peak (Colorado) EMS chapter 2000
The Power of Communities of Practice for Project Management, PMI San Francisco Chapter , 2000
Engineering Management: New Participants, New Horizons, New Learning Keynote Speaker, International Conference on the Management of Innovation and Technology, Singapore 2000
Leveraging the Web for Project Management Knowledge: Communities of Practice Online and in your Company: IIR Conference of Web-Enabled Project Management 2001, 2002
Paths to Practical Know-How: Crucial Learning Beyond Training ProjectWorld East 2001
Tales from the Entrepreneurial Front Lines: Delivered to Professional and Technical Consultant's Association, Silicon Valley Chapter 2001; delivered to IEEE Engineering Management Society Silicon Valley chapter 2001.
Fast Insights - Critical Decisions - Achievable Plans: Jump-start Your Firms' Portfolio Planning for Immediate Results IIR Portfolio Management Conference 2001
Rapidly Implementing High-Impact Project Management Techniques in Your Organization IIR ProjectIMPACT conference 2002
Session Chair: Critical Management Issues and Key Techniques for Executing a Portfolio of Projects; Speaker: Techniques for Predicting How Your Organization will Perform across a Portfolio of Projects Drug Information Association Annual Meeting 2002
"0 to 60" in Project Management: Fast, Practical PM for Teams that Just Need to Get it Done ProjectWorld West 2002
Enabling Your Aggressive Portfolio: Using Outside Partners Effectively Management Roundtable Conference of Pipeline and Portfolio Management, 2003
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 1998-present. Special Distinguished Lecturer, High-Impact Project Management Techniques, a CDROM distributed around the world to IEEE volunteers and members, 2001-present
ProjectWorld Conferences Advisory Board member, 1998-2000. Leader of Senior Project Manager Program.
Guest Editor for issues on Project Management, IEEE Engineering Management Review, 1996 and 1999.
Speaker at ProjectWorld and IIR management conferences, 1996 - 2002
Editorial Board of IEEE's The Institute, 2000-2001; Editorial Board of Projects@Work magazine, 2001 to present
Chair of IIR Conference on Web-Enabled Project Management, 2001-2002.
Member and project chair, IEEE Electronic Services Steering Committee, 1999. President, Eta Kappa Nu EE honor society, LSU chapter, 1980-1981. Member Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society.
Dow Chemical (Capital construction, processes)
Symantec (Desktop software)
Mobil Oil (IT departments)
Hewlett-Packard (Computer platform development)
Schlumberger (hardware, software, and firmware development projects for power industry)
NASA (Aerospace projects, aeronautics simulation software development)
Tyco Healthcare/ Nellcor Mallinckrodt Oximetry Division (Medical device hardware and software)
Lam Research (Semiconductor manufacturing equipment)
Qantel (Accounting software systems for manufacturing companies)
Document Imaging Systems Corp (Optical storage systems - hardware, firmware, and software development)
Runzheimer International (Corporate Travel and Relocation research, services, and systems - IT projects)
Niles Audio (manufacturer of high-end home audio control systems)
Timeplex Inc. (Data and telecommunications systems - hardware, firmware, software development)
CellNet Data Systems (Wireless Networking Systems - hardware, firmware, software development)
Gravity Inc. (PC software game products)
IET (Consulting company to government agencies, Baysian Network software development)
ePM (International consulting for energy, pharmaceutical, and product development companies, with internal web and simulation software development for proprietary tools)
Prestwick Partners (Banking and advisory services to emerging growth companies - internal product development)
Aviron Corp. (Biotechnology company with drug development, process, and capital construction projects)
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