Rocky Rosacker

Years with PSI:   21

Years in PM:   31

What were you doing prior to PSI?   US Marine Corps Infantry Officer

What about your prior experience uniquely qualified you for work at PSI?   Faculty in the Computer Science Department at the US Naval Academy, Project Manager at Headquarters, US Marine Corps, and educational background.

How did you end up coming to PSI?   Dennis Young and I were Lieutenants in the Marine Corps together and stayed in touch over the years.   When I retired from the Marine Corps he thought my experience as a Marine Corps officer, teaching at the Naval Academy, and my project management background would be value added to the company.

What do you like best about working with clients?   Helping overcoming the challenges project teams face in the course of a project and assisting them in successfully completing a difficult project.

What types of projects have you worked on?   Construction, IT – application development and rollout, New Product Introduction, Logistics, Marketing and Sales, Electric Utilities (Power Delivery, Power Generation, and Power Transmission), Quality Assurance, Strategy Development, and Finance in the US, Foreign Developed Markets and Emerging Markets (China, India, Brazil, and Russia)

What industries have you worked with?  Construction, Public Utilities, Manufacturing, IT, Military, Pharmaceuticals, Cable, Movie, and Chicken Reprocessing

What do you think makes the Project Success Method unique?  The method allows teams to clearly define, plan, execute and track projects.  It is a clean and clear a process as there is.   If used properly and no short-cuts taken it greatly enhances the project team’s chances for success,

Particular to project management, what would you consider to be your “specialties”?  Specialties would be: Developing professional relationships with project customers, sponsors, and team members; Bringing the disparate or cross-functional parts of a team together to focus their efforts in accomplishing the project objective and deliverables;   Writing charters, clearly identifying quantifiable objectives and the project deliverables; Developing an activity based project plan and implementing a measured approach to the control of the project.

What do you think is the biggest mistake companies make regarding project management?   They think that project management is the software; They do not want to train their employees in project management, Management fails to properly support project teams

Any other things you want to share?  BA in Economics at the University of Kansas, MBA the University of Texas at Austin, PMP