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Feature Story
Helping Government
and Private Companies
Become Profitable
and Successful
By April Wennergren
April Wennergren
Business Owner April J. Wennerberg has built Project Masters
Inc by helping Government and Private companies become
Efficient, Effective, and Accountable through project management
principles. She said, “Our first step” is to assess an organization for
project management capabilities. “Our Second step” is to create
an action plan to get a Client back on track. To assure the Client’s
project managers are more efficient and effective we provide
mentoring and training. By implementing a Project Management
Office “PMO” that uses Earned Value Management, tools like
MS Project Server, and by establishing consistent procedures,
traceability and accountability is established. April says they
perform Independent Verification and Validation for private &
Public agencies which keeps contractors accountable.
The idea to start her own project management business
came to Wennerberg while she was working as a senior
project manager employee. She wanted to create a
company where she could use project management to
help organizations increase profit, run more efficiently, and
maintain contractor / subcontractor accountability.
April shared how Project Masters helped
three of her Customers.
Project Masters was asked by one Government agency to
intercede and rescue their failing Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) project. The PKI project required an “enterprise-wide”
subsystem, integrated into the network infrastructure to:
register new subscribers, Generate new, renewed or rekeyed
certificates, Process revocation requests, Generate
Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), Provide certificate status
checking, and respond to key recovery requests. In other
words, maintain stringent control of info, while keeping it
accessible to authorized users.
Project Masters procedures helped to determine system
settings; determine product configurations, and Identify
patches needed to improve system performance.
Project Masters challenges:
• No project management plan, schedule, budget, or risk
plan was in place
• PKI had complex product and system requirements
• The existing PKI team was not performing efficiently
• PKI security requirements were not being followed
• Departments within the Govt agency resisted change,
which challenged success.
• Incumbent contractors were failing in this effort
• Seamlessly integrate a PKI solution with biometric
authentication
• Deploy a system that ensured data integrity with required
authentication.
• Enforce access control to agency databases
• Achieve cross-certification for: authentication, validation,
and confidentiality with other Federal and State department
PKI systems.
• Complete the GAO sanctioning process to enable PKI to
support financial operations.
Project Masters consultants applied a variety of strategies
to develop and receive “buy-in” of new “standardized
business practices”.
Although incumbent contractors had failed in this effort,
Project Masters rescued the project and delivered a
functioning system ahead of schedule.
All work was completed, on time, within budget, and
according to customer specifications.
After assessment, analysis, and generation of a project
management plan, the Project Masters team was able to
8 Minority Enterprise Advocate • November – December 2011