ResNet Symposium 2009
Keynote Speaker, Paul Glen
Saturday, June 27th, 9:00am - 10:30am, Stewart Hall, Ritchie Auditorium
Paul Glen is an award-winning author, management columnist and professional speaker.
He is the author of "Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology" (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, 2003, Warren Bennis Signature Series) and "Healing Client Relationships: A Professional's Guide to Managing Client Conflict" (Professional Service Publishing, 2001). "Leading Geeks" has won several book awards including the 2003 Financial Times Germany International Book Prize naming it the best new book published worldwide on the subject of leadership.
He is also writes a monthly management column for Computerworld.
In 1999, he founded C2 Consulting to help advance the management and leadership of information technology (IT) organizations and projects.
Mr. Glen received his MBA from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with majors in marketing, organizational behavior, and strategy. He received a BA from Cornell University with majors in computer science and mathematics.
Mr. Glen has taught as a part-time faculty member in the MBA programs at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University. AT USC he developed and taught an e-Business Strategy course. At Loyola he taught a second year MBA course that he authored entitled "Marketing of High Technology Products and Services."
Mr. Glen has more than a fifteen years experience delivering and managing IT related products and services. For four years, he was western regional manager for SEI Information Technology, a national IT consultancy. In that role he had full profit and loss responsibility for a $13 million consulting practice including supervision of sales, service delivery, recruiting, human resource management and administration. Prior to serving as the western regional manager, he served as regional manager for SEI's Oak Brook region in the Chicago area.
Mr. Glen has served in many roles including: project manager, product manager, account manager, and programmer. He has been involved in dozens of software development and deployment projects. He has led two startup product teams, launching both hardware and software products to the quick service restaurant industry.
Mr. Glen is one of three people worldwide outside of Microsoft to be certified as a master trainer for delivering and adapting Microsoft's project management curriculum, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). He has also consulted with clients on the implementation of MSF.
Mr. Glen is a past president of the Southern California chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. He has received the Institute's Certified Management Consultant designation and subscribes to the Institute's Code of Ethics.
He is also a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association meeting the stringent qualifications for membership and subscribes to the NSA Code of Ethics.
A self-proclaimed geek, during his off-hours, he studies writing, photography, and improvisational comedy.