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In the summer of 2003, bids were received on a unique project designed to provide New York with "state-of-the-art" technology for homeland security and emergency response. When the bids were opened, the prices were substantially over the budget. With time running out on the funding, the project team analyzed the project from top to bottom and re-packaged it to lower risks, reduce costs, and insure success. Bruce will talk about the issues encountered and the decisions made to achieve project success, and how you, as a project manager, can be better prepared to escape from disaster.

Bruce currently serves as Assistant Director and Chief Information Officer of the NYS Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination. He is responsible for the implementation of New York's cyber security and statewide geographic information system programs as well as its critical infrastructure coordination efforts in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Bruce also serves as the Chair of NYS GIS Coordinating Body and was recently appointed to the National Academies' National Research Council Committee on "Planning for Catastrophe: A Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure".

Prior to working on information technology projects, Bruce spent 23 years in the design and construction arena where he served as the program manager for the $1.75 billion correctional expansion program. Bruce has had the opportunity to bring many of the lessons learned in project and contract management from that arena to assist him and others in the management of information technology projects.

Bruce is certified as a Project Management Professional. He is also licensed as a Landscape Architect. He has holds bachelor degrees in Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.