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Daniel L. Williams, PhD first began working with Primavera in 2001 as part of an integration project with JD Edwards World. Since then, he has helped clients integrate Primavera with many other systems, such as PeopleSoft, Timberline, and Oracle EBS. His work centers around helping people make best use of Primavera and other software investments. Sometimes this involves heavy integration; sometimes it involves customization and automation of business processes. Sometimes it simply involves listening to people talk through their business goals and helping them come up with workable solutions. Daniel's background includes a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, many years of programming in C, C++, C#, and Java, and for the past decade, leading numerous software development projects oriented around Primavera

I would first like to thank my wife Heather for being the cornerstone of our family and allowing me to pursue a career I enjoy. I would also like to thank Justin Cohen for his years as a friend and business partner, and Patrick Martin for his long-term friendship, advice, and support. This book would have not been possible without all of the clients I have worked for over the yearsWendy Kaszycki, David Myers, Sandy Kayser, Sally Rau, Beth Maclean, Cathy Rosczewski, and many others. Their guidance is what drives me to learn and improve every day, and their thanks is the greatest reward for my labors.

Elaine Britt Krazer, PMP began working with Primavera products as a project manager for a government contractor in a top secret environment in 2003. Having managed projects since 1986, she embraces Primavera as her tool of choice. She has written training materials and published materials that combine best practices (as defined by the Project Management Institute and from experience) and the appropriate use of Primavera within client organizations. Her philosophy is that understanding an organization's strategic goals for projects are the foundation for project management excellence and Primavera is the tool of choice. She has a master's certificate from George Washington University 2002, and Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL Foundations certifications. She is an Oracle Certified Primavera Implementation Specialist and is Primavera Training Authorized. Elaine has worked in most major industries implementing Primavera. Her past includes technical change management, business process redesign, data center management, and PMO creation.

I would like to thank Daniel, the team at Packt Publishing, and my family for their constant support during the writing of this book. I am blessed.

Denitsa Banova works as a Primavera implementation consultant. She has extensive experience in Portfolio/Program/Project Management gained in more than five years of work as a team leader, consultant, and trainer in Primavera implementation projects in various IT companies, construction and manufacturing sectors, and also as project manager in different software implementation projects. Her specialties are Primavera P6 EPPM and Primavera P6 Professional.

I would like to thank Joel Goveya for being such a cooperative and an understanding project coordinator.

Robert W. Self, PMP has over 20 years experience in training, implementation and use of Primavera products with expertise in Primavera Project Manager (P6), Contract Manager (Expedition), and Project Risk Manager (PertMaster).

He has written multiple training manuals to help students become power users of P3 and P6. These manuals range from basic concepts through advanced topics, such as reporting, resource management, and use of Risk in P6.

Currently, Robert is a part of the project controls team at the DFW International Airport, working directly with civil and facility project managers on a variety of projects ($1M $20M each project) throughout the entire project lifecycle. These projects include basic renovation to Greenfield projects, even the occasional LEED project. His daily duties include performing frontline evaluation of programmatic (internal), as well as contractor schedules. In addition to his regular duties, he provides mentoring to DFW colleges and contractors in terms of schedules and project controls.

I would like to thank my wife, Sharon, for her patience and understanding. She has been and remains my inspiration. She has long suffered as a road warrior's wife.

I would also like to thank Mike Stone for giving me the opportunity to get into the training and consulting business by working with the Houston Primavera dealer. The variety of industries and clientele proved an excellent crucible to focus my understanding and appreciation of quality project management tools and techniques.

Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun certified Java programmer and web component developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology and was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and a technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g, and EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.