President
Sean Robbins PMP, PSP

Sean Robbins’ career has taken a definitely unconventional path until ending up in project controls. In his previous incarnations; he has worked as a nuclear submarine officer, a management consultant leading manufacturing process improvement projects, a stint in the Federal government leading operations and projects, and even as an entrepreneur starting up an import business, before moving to Alaska five years ago. His formal training includes a BS in industrial engineering and an MBA from the University of Michigan, and an MS in project management from the University of Maryland.

He presently works for NANA WorleyParsons, performing cost and schedule work for a wide-variety of projects. He has a particular interest in uncovering ways to use common tools, such as Microsoft Excel, to not only automate and simplify his workload, but also improve the timeliness and relevance of information available to his project managers and discipline leads.

His goals for the chapter this year is to continue on the progress from last year, and to help facilitate information-sharing between members, so that we can all learn from each others’ successes and mistakes. He would also like to foster increasing the number of members and certifications, as well as attracting even more people to our meetings.

When not tied to a computer, he enjoys ATVing with his five-year old son, and camping with his family. He is also the project manager for Trick or Treat in the Heat; which raises funds for Hospice of Anchorage, the Make A Wish Foundation, and the Ronald McDonald House. Back to Top

President Elect
Position Open






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Immediate Past President
Tom Sheffrey PMP, CCC, PSP, PMI-SP, CSSBB

Tom has been a scheduler for many years and is currently working at BP in the Technical Directorate. He loves to teach and is an adjunct instructor at UAA as well teaching scheduling classes in Primavera a couple of times a year. He believes in staying current in the field and sharpens his skills and knowledge by taking certification exams in the project management area.    Back to Top

Director of Education
Thad Phillips

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Treasurer
Heidi Swanson, CCT

Heidi Swanson is working in project scheduling, project control, and commercial analysis for BP under Hawk Consultants. She graduated from University of Alaska Anchorage with a Bachelor's in Accounting in May of 2008. She has lived in Alaska for thirteen years and held a position in accounts receivable at a small family medical practice here in Anchorage while attending college. Playing Ultimate Frisbee, traveling, and exploring Alaska with family and friends are among her favorite activities. She was highly involved in Search and Rescue and Wilderness Survival training in high school, and became Emergency Trauma Technician (ETT) certified. While her degree is in Accounting, she has found the field of Project Management to be fascinating and is working toward receiving an MBA at UAA.     Back to Top

Secretary
Tom Foster, PSP

Tom has worked in the Project Control profession for over 30 years; mainly in Alaska. He has been associated with both the AACEi and PMI professional organizations since the late 1980’s. He says he is very passionate about the profession; and gets the greatest enjoyment from mentoring “up-and-comers”; specifically in the “artistic” areas of the business - things that aren’t learned from a book.     Back to Top

Webmaster
Mike Ballard

Our new Webmaster is Michael Ballard. For the last 25 years he has been working in Consulting, Implementation, Development, Training, and Application of Project Controls systems and processes from Estimating to Job Status to Scheduling. Michael has worked 14 years of his professional career in the Alaskan Oil & Gas industry.

Mike was elected during our May meeting to fill this officer position at AACEi, Alaska Section, for the remainder of 2009.

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Events Coordinator
Laura Lahrson, PSP, CCT

Laura Sharpe Lahrson is a graduate of University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas and has worked most of her professional career in Alaska. She worked 18 years in the oil industry working projects, operations and engineering. For the last seven years she has been employed as a Construction Planner for Matanuska Telephone Association in Palmer. Last Summer, Laura earned her Planning and Scheduling Professional certification, (PSP) from AACEi and plans to study for the Certified Cost Technician certification, (CCT) this Fall.    Back to Top

Attendance/CEU
Keith Guyer

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Nicholas Kellar, CCC EVP PSP

Nick Kellar has worked in the Project Controls Industry for over 30 years and has been a member of AACEI since 1993. He has written numerous articles about expanding the certification program and in 2003 presented a road map proposal, paving the way to the current Specialty Certification program. Nick worked with the task force to create the PSP exam and served as chairman for the creation of the EVP certification. He has been published often in the cost engineering magazine and has taught numerous courses to help students in the US, Europe, and the Middle East obtain their certification goals. Currently he is a liaison between the certification board and specialty exam taskforces including the CEP and CFCC. He remains active in the advancement of cost engineering and is credited most recently with bringing the first CCC/E and PSP exams to Alaska.    Back to Top

Ronn Rasmussen

Ronn Rasmussen is the owner and president of Alaska Construction Management, Inc., an Anchorage-based construction consulting firm that has been in continuous operation for more than 35 years providing comprehensive cost estimating services to engineers, architects, contractors and agencies for commercial, military and institutional projects throughout Alaska. Ronn is a graduate of the University of Washington, where he studied engineering and physics, and he is a long-standing member of AACE International, the Associated General Contractors of Alaska, and Rotary Club. Ronn lives in Anchorage with his wife Mary; they have two adult daughters, Karen and Ingrid.      Back to Top

Mike Cimino PMP, PSP

Mike Cimino is a senior project manager currently working for Science Applications International (SAIC) in Alaska. He and his wife, Marian, and their 3 daughters moved to Alaska in 1991. He completed a 21 years career as a pilot in the Air Force and retired at Elmendorf AFB in the early 90’s. He joined SAIC immediately and has worked as a project manager both the public and private sectors. His experience includes work in a variety of fields from major space based R&D programs to school district cable plant design and installations. He also has experience in large scale exercise and contingency planning and execution as well as real world crisis management. For the past 5 years his focus has been on IT related projects supporting BP and Alyeska. He has MSEE degree and is a certified PMP and PSP.    Back to Top