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Browse the professional papers and the training sessions that will be presented at the 2014 ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop.
To view the entire schedule, download here (PDF).
Information on and bios for all of our presenters is available on the speaker page.
Keynote Speakers
Craig Gravelle
Senior Director of Business Development
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems
Tuesday, June 10 – 8:30am
Craig Gravelle is Senior Director, Advanced Development for Sierra Nevada Space Systems and is responsible for identifying and developing new markets and applications for the Dream Chaser commercial crew space system. Prior to this assignment, he led SNC’s Space Exploration Systems and Spacecraft business development activities. Craig has worked in the aerospace industry for over 30 years almost entirely supporting advanced spacecraft development activities. He has held executive and senior leadership positions with General Dynamics, Spectrum Astro, and Lockheed Martin. He also founded and sold a successful small business focused on developing special airborne and space-based RF sensor systems. Craig graduated from the University of Michigan’s Aerospace Engineering program.
Michael Gass
President and CEO
United Launch Alliance
Wednesday, June 11 – 8:30am
Michael Gass, president and chief executive officer for United Launch Alliance, leads the nation’s premier launch service provider of the Delta and Atlas products. During his 37-year career, he was involved with satellite, missile, aircraft and launch vehicle aerospace programs. He has held leadership positions in program management and production operations, and previously served as vice president and general manager of Space Transportation for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, responsible for the Atlas, Titan and Advanced Space Transportation product lines.
Bill Seeman
Division Chief, Space Programs
Air Force Cost Analysis Agency
Thursday, June 12 – 8:30am
Bill Seeman is the Division Chief for space program cost estimating at the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency. He has also worked as a cost chief or analyst at the Missile Defense Agency and NAVAIR. In total, Mr. Seeman has 28 years of cost experience. Mr. Seeman has a BS in Mathematics from the Virginia Tech and a MBA from the University of Tennessee. He is also certified by ICEAA as a Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst.
Professional Papers
Professional papers enable attendees to gather valuable insights into cost estimating with topics covering innovations, tools, contemporary issues and solutions. Also, attendees will be able to meet the presenters and ask questions from authors that are chronicling some of the hottest topics in the cost community. Professional papers cover a wide variety of topics that are organized into the following tracks:
- The Business and Art of Cost Estimating
- Earned Value Management
- Information Technology
- Life Cycle Costing
- Methods and Models
- Cost Management
- Parametrics
- Risk
- Space
Training Sessions
The training sessions provide instruction and application for those new to the profession, and for those who want to refresh their skills at both the basic and advanced levels. The sessions provide a firm basis for more advanced study and prepares the individual to readily benefit from on-the-job training. The training sessions are divided into the following tracks:
- Cost Estimating Basics (CEB) – Covers most of the Core Knowledge sections of 12 of the 16 modules of CEBoK (Cost Estimating Body of Knowledge training software) and is taught in many cases by those who helped create and review the materials, and is intended to help prepare attendees for the CCEA exam and certification.
- Cost Estimating Advanced (CEA) – Builds on the fundamental skills of the CEB track. CEA uses advanced material from CEBoK, the Parametric Estimating Handbook (PEH), and industry experts
- Parametric Training (PT) – Features many luminaries in the field, and goes into more depth on many essential topics and focuses on practitioners who are doing estimates and implementing cost and risk analysis on a day-to-day basis. Six of the primary chapters of the PEH are covered in this track.
- Integration (INT) – Encompasses related fields such as Risk Analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM), Schedule Analysis, and Software and appeals to a wide range of attendees on a topic-by-topic basis.
Track | Title | Instructor | Time | Date |
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Cost Estimating Basics | Cost Estimating Overview / Basics | Chris Dalton, MITRE David Bach, Quantech Services, Inc. | 9:15-10:45 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic Probability and Statistics | Timothy Anderson, Aerospace | 11:00-12:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Cost Estimating Techniques | Sam Toas, TASC Christina Snyder, MCR, Inc. | 2:00-3:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Data Collection and Normalization | Jeffrey Locke, Lockheed Martin Company Joseph Sarage, Booz Allen Hamilton | 3:45-5:15 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic Cost Risk | Eric Druker, Booz Allen Hamilton Greg Hogan, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency | 10:00-11:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic Data Analysis Principles | Melissa Winter, PRICE Systems Joe Bauer, PRICE Systems | 1:00-2:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Learning Curve Analysis | Remmie Arnold, Technomics, Inc. Michael Gonzales, Lockheed Martin Company | 3:00-4:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Inflation and Index Numbers | Neil Chakrabarti, Booz Allen Hamilton Blaze Smallwood, Booz Allen Hamilton | 10:00-11:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic Economic Analysis | Tucker Moore, TASC Blaze Smallwood, Booz Allen Hamilton | 1:00-2:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic Software Cost Estimating | Michael Metcalf, Technomics, Inc. Harold Van Heeringen, Sogeti | 3:00-4:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Basic EVM | Michael Nosbisch, PT&C Emily Foglia, Technomics, Inc. | 8:00-9:30 | Friday, June 13 |
Cost Estimating Basics | Contract Pricing | Marie Colitti, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division | 9:45-11:15 | Friday, June 13 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | AIS: Cost Estimating Methods and Metrics | Wilson Rosa, DHS | 9:15-10:45 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Development of Work Breakdown Structures | Neil Albert, MCR, Inc. | 11:00-12:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Monte Carlo Simulation | Eric Druker, Booz Allen Hamilton Blake Boswell, Booz Allen Hamilton | 2:00-3:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Manufacturing Cost Estimating | John Deem, Lockheed Martin Chuck Kurtz, BAE | 3:45-5:15 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Cost and Software Data Reports | James Parnham, Technomics, Inc. | 10:00-11:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Probability Distributions for Risk | Peter Braxton, Technomics, Inc. | 1:00-2:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Technical Baselines | Jason Dechoretz, MCR, Inc. Greg Hogan, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency Sam Toas, TASC | 3:00-4:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Advanced Cost Risk | Greg Hogan, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency Linda Nichols, Noblis | 10:00-11:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Advanced Probability and Statistics | Zachary Strider McGregor-Dorsey, Technomics, Inc. Carolyn Smith, QuantiTech | 1:00-2:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Advanced Economic Analysis | Joe Hamaker, The Millennium Group Virginia Stouffer, LMI | 3:00-4:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Cost Estimating Advanced | Advanced SW Cost Estimating | Harold Van Heeringen, Sogeti Bob Hunt, Galorath | 8:00-9:30 | Friday, June 13 |
Parametric Training | Parametric Analysis Overview | Jason Dechoretz, MCR, Inc. Rick Garcia, MCR, Inc. | 9:15-10:45 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Parametric Training | Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) | Cassie Capots, Technomics, Inc. Kyle Thomas, TASC | 11:00-12:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Parametric Training | Linear Regression | Peter Braxton, Technomics, Inc. Stacy Dean, Boeing Company | 2:00-3:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Parametric Training | Other Uses of Parametrics | David Eck, Dixon Hughes Goodman | 3:45-5:15 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Parametric Training | Multivariate Regression | Kevin Cincotta, ICF International David Harris, Booz Allen Hamilton | 10:00-11:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Parametric Training | Multiplicative-Error Regression | Hervé Joumier, ESA | 1:00-2:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Parametric Training | CER Risk and S-Curves | Christian Smart, Missile Defense Agency Marc Greenberg, NASA | 3:00-4:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Parametric Training | Complex Hardware Models | Greg Kiviat, Sikorsky David Bloom, Raytheon | 8:00-9:30 | Friday, June 13 |
Parametric Training | Government Compliance | Joyce Friedland, Defense Contract Audit Agency | 9:45-11:15 | Friday, June 13 |
Integration | Basic Schedule Analysis | Justin Hornback, Reed Integration, Inc. Jim Peoples, Booz Allen Hamilton | 9:15-10:45 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Integration | Advanced Schedule Analysis | David Hulett, Hulett and Associates | 11:00-12:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Integration | Cost Management | Tom Dauber, Booz Allen Hamilton John Deem, Lockheed Martin Company | 2:00-3:30 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Integration | Cost Estimating in PMBoK vs. CEBoK | Kevin Cincotta, ICF International Ashlin Smith, Technomics, Inc. | 3:45-5:15 | Tuesday, June 10 |
Integration | Target Costing Implementation | John Deem, Lockheed Martin Company Tom Dauber, Booz Allen Hamilton | 10:00-11:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Integration | Source Selection | Marie Colitti, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Christina Brims, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency | 1:00-2:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Integration | Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) | Tim Fritz, AzTech International, LLC Luis Contreras, AzTech International, LLC | 3:00-4:30 | Wednesday, June 11 |
Integration | Schedule Risk Analysis | David Hulett, Hulett and Associates | 10:00-11:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Integration | Integrated Cost/Schedule Risk Analysis | Eric Druker, Booz Allen Hamilton David Hulett, Hulett and Associates | 1:00-2:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Integration | Contracts Risk | Peter Braxton, Technomics, Inc. James Linick, BCF Solutions, Inc. | 3:00-4:30 | Thursday, June 12 |
Integration | Advanced EVM | Luis Contreras, AzTech International, LLC Tim Fritz, AzTech International, LLC | 9:45-11:15 | Friday, June 13 |