Name:
Oliver Franz Lehmann
Year of birth:
1957
Marital status:
Married, 4 children (1979, 1982, 2007, 2009), 1 grandchild (2008)
Professional trainer:
since 1995
| Project experience: |
| Until 1994: 14 years in engineering, organizational and IT projects,
at Ultraseal International Limited, KID Imprägnier + Polymertechnik
and other companies |
| Since 1995: Staff development and qualification projects, web
projects |
Curriculum:
School, University (German language and literature, history), sales
and project career in German and Anglo-American corporations, branch
manager, sales manager, general manager

A participant presents the outcomes of a
break-out group exercise in the seminar
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IT and PM milestones and activities: |
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1976
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Internship in the data center
of engineering company Werner & Pfleiderer, Stuttgart |
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1985 |
First
Internet experience: Queries on DIMDI databases (University Tübingen) |
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1993 |
SW-based visualization of production
processes und quality parameters at KID Imprägnier +
Polymertechnik GmbH, Parsdorf (now: Loctite-KID, taken over by
Henkel) |
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1994 |
First
use of Microsoft Project (Version 3.0) |
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Development
of a QM-System acc. to ISO 9000
series |
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1995 |
First
seminars on project management (for Labor Offices Munich and
Frankfurt, Munich Chamber of Commerce, see
feedback
) |
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1996 |
First
trainings for Web developers at Informix, Motorola, and Pro7 |
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MCP certification for Microsoft Project |

Coaching session on the job
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1998 |
PMI®
membership |
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Microsoft Certified Trainer |
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2000 |
Bi-monthly author for
Redmond's Inside
Project magazine (until 2001) |
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2001 |
PMP®
Certification |
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First
PMP exam preparation seminars (see
feedback) |
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Component
Officer at PMI®: Vice President
Members for PMI
Munich Chapter (until early 2005) |
| 2002 |
First provider of
free PMP sample questions on the web |
| 2003 |
Subject Matter Expert at
CompTIA for
their revised certification
IT Project+ |
| Certification CompTIA IT
Project+ |
| 2004 |
Qualification project
for SAP IT project managers (until end of 2005, 80 project managers) |
| VP Professional
Development at
PMI Troubled Projects Specific Interest Group (TPSIG) (until end
of 2005) |
Monthly contributor for PMI Magazin
Project Network
(until May 2006, free download for PMI members) |
| 2005 |
Second PMP cycle (see
Transcript, 2,2 MB) |
| Membership at
Transparency
International |
| 2006 |
Director at Large (Case
Analyses) for
PMI Troubled Projects Specific Interest Group (TPSIG) |
| Vice President Members
for PMI Munich
Chapter |
| 2008 |
Certification as PPM.APMP
(Professional level in Proposal Management) and certified
APMP trainer |
| Third PMP cycle (see
Transcript) |
| 2009 |
Re-election as Component Officer (VP
Members) of the PMI
Munich Chapter with 98.5% yes votes |
| 2010 |
Certified Connective Leadership
Practitioner by the
Connective Leadership Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA |
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| Training focus: |
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Project management |
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Methodology training |
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Software training |
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Preparation for certification |
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- Leadership training |
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- Coaching and
personal mentoring |
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| Further training experience: |
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IT |
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Internet, intranets, extranets |
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Web server administration |
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- Web programming |
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- XML and derivates |
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-
SQL Databases |
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Management |
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- 36 Chinese stratagems |
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- Project portfolio management |
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- PMO strategies
(Project Management Office) |
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Participants solving sample questions
during a PMP prep seminar
Seminar languages:
German and English
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Certifications attained: |
| PPM.APMP |
Professional level APMP certificate |
2008 |
| APM.APMP |
Practicioner level APMP certificate |
2008 |
| AM.APMP |
Foundation level APMP certificate |
2007 |
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CompTIA IT Project+ |
2003 |
| PMP |
Project Management Professional |
2001 |
| MCT |
Microsoft Certified
Trainer |
1998* |
| MCP |
Microsoft Certified Professional |
1996* |
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*:
These certifications for Microsoft Project have been discontinued by
Microsoft in
2002. |
Training locations:
see list of references
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Methodological basis: |
| • |
Methods of PMI and other organizations
in the areas of project and quality management |
| • |
Literature by
- Frederic Vester
- W. Edwards Deming
- Eliyahu
Goldratt
- Jean Lipman-Blumen
- Harold Kerzner
- Elton Mayo
- David McClelland
- Chris Argyris
- Roy Baumeister
- N. Kano |
| • |
Studies by John Nash, Wolfgang Wickler, John v. Neumann
and others on game theory |
| • |
Extensive
experience and reflection |

Participants learn during a group exercise on
their own the application of tools and techniques of project management
Handouts:
I perform trainings with own material as well as classes with
handouts developed by the customer.
| Further
activities: |
| • |
Component Officer im PMI - Project
Management Institute (since 2001) |
| • |
Consulting, articles,
lectures (during events of PMI, Computerwoche, Vienna University, Microsoft;
a German
example) |

Serving as a Component Officer for the PMI Munich Chapter (on
the right,
at the 2nd congress on project management at the University of Augsburg
in 2003)
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