The
end of 2001 marked significant changes for our Master of Science in Project
Management program. We completed the gestation, birth, and early
childhood of the program -- a phase that was ably led and overseen by Donna
Perkins -- and then moved into the program's late adolescence with Tony
Munos providing new leadership.
Donna
Perkins' contributions to the Project Management program are immeasurable.
When she started working with the program, it was an undeveloped idea.
When she left the program in December to return to full-time teaching,
it had become UW-Platteville's largest master's degree program, serving
more than 100 students.
We
owe Donna Perkins and several other faculty and staff members at UW-Platteville
and UW-Learning Innovations a heartfelt thanks for a job very well done
in establishing the Project Management program.
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM MILESTONES
| 1996 |
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Planning to develop the
program began. |
| 1998 |
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Approval to offer an online
Master of Science in Project Management was received from the UW Board
of Regents. |
| 1999 |
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The program officially began
accepting enrollments. |
| 2001 |
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UW-Platteville became a
Project Management Institute Global Registered Education Provider. |
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I am
very pleased that we were able to hire Tony Munos to provide on-going leadership
for the Project Management program. During the three months he has
been in the position of program coordinator for the program, he has done
much to advance and further develop it.
Munos
has several years' experience in distance education as a class facilitator
with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has taught
both project management and information systems management courses.
He also has authored a study guide for a project management course and
the initial draft of a course facilitator's guide for the university.
Munos
also has more than 40 years' professional experience at various levels
in the information technology (IT) field. Before joining the UW-Platteville
faculty, he was employed for 24 years by Computer Sciences Corporation
(CSC), one of the top three IT companies in the United States. In
his last position as a transition executive, he managed teams of between
20 to 30 individuals to transition major U.S. companies IT operations and
employees to CSC's responsibility. He also was a member of the Corporation's
Year 2000 effort that successfully transitioned the corporation, with more
than 68,000 employees in more than 600 offices worldwide, into the Year
2000. He was a project manager with CSC for a majority of his years, several
of which were managing very large-scale projects with major American companies
and government organizations.
Munos
retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1977. He was initially in communications
but transitioned to data processing (or IT) in 1961. He had overseas tours
on Iwo Jima; Izmir, Turkey; and Bangkok, Thailand, as well as several bases
throughout the United States.
He
obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Troy State
University, Alabama, in 1976 and a Master of Science in Systems Management
from Capitol College, in 1997.
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