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Browse the professional papers and the training sessions that will be presented at the 2014 ICEAA Professional Development & Training Workshop.

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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

Track	Title	Author	Date	Time
Cost Management	Achieving Affordable Programs NRO Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG) Support of Cost Driver Identification	Linda Williams	8:45-9:30	Friday, June 13
Cost Management	A New Cost Management Policy for Your Organization: An Integrated Approach?	Tom Dauber	10:30-11:15	Friday, June 13
Cost Management	A Balanced Approach to Meeting Fiscal Constraints	Steve Green	1:00-1:45	Wednesday, June 11
Cost Management	Gödel’s Impact on Hilbert’s Problems Or Cost Consistency and Completeness as an Impossible Exercise	David Peeler	9:45-10:30	Friday, June 13
Cost Management	Cost Overruns and Cost Growth: A Three-Decades-Old Cost Performance Issue Within DoD's Acquisition Environment	Leone Young	3:00-3:45	Wednesday, June 11
Cost Management	Innovative Business Agreements and Related Cost & Pricing Methods at NASA in Support of New Commercial Programs	James Roberts	3:00-3:45	Thursday, June 12
Cost Management	Intelligence Mission Data Cost Methodology Guidebook	Eugene Cullen III	8:00-8:45	Friday, June 13
Cost Management	The Other RCA: Restaurant Cost Analysis	Peter Braxton	3:45-4:30	Wednesday, June 11
Cost Management	Supplier Cost/Price Analyses – Best Practices for evaluating supplier proposals and quotes	David Eck	3:45-4:30	Thursday, June 12
Earned Value Management	Design to Cost: Misunderstood and Misapplied	Erin Barkel	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Earned Value Management	Don't Let EVM Data Mislead You	Steve Sheamer	10:45-11:30	Thursday, June 12
Earned Value Management	A Cure For Unanticipated Cost and Schedule Growth	Thomas Coonce	8:45-9:30	Friday, June 13
Earned Value Management	Unleashing the Power of MS Excel as an EVM Analysis Tool	Allen Gaudelli	9:45-10:30	Friday, June 13
Earned Value Management	Trust but Verify – An Improved Estimating Technique Using the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)	Eric Lofgren	8:00-8:45	Friday, June 13
Earned Value Management	Big Data Meets Earned Value Management	Glen Alleman	10:30-11:15	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	An Update to the Use of Function Points in Earned Value Management for Software Development	Michael Thompson	3:00-3:45	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	Estimating Cloud Computing Costs: Practical Questions for Programs	Kathryn Connor	3:45-4:30	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	The Agile PM Tool: The Trifecta for Managing Cost, Schedule, and Scope	Blaze Smallwood	1:00-1:45	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	Estimating Hardware Storage Costs	Jenny Woolley	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Information Technology	Mobile Applications, Functional Analysis and Cost Estimation	Tammy Preuss	1:45-2:30	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	Optimizing Total Cost of Ownership for Best Value IT Solutions: A Case Study using Parametric Models for Estimates of Alternative IT Architectures and Operational Approaches	Denton Tarbet	3:45-4:30	Thursday, June 12
Information Technology	Software Maintenance: Recommendations for Estimating and Data Collection	Shelley Dickson	9:45-10:30	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	Lessons Learned from the ISBSG Database	Arlene Minkiewicz	1:00-1:45	Thursday, June 12
Information Technology	Relating Cost to Performance: The Performance-Based Cost Model	Michael Jeffers	10:45-11:30	Thursday, June 12
Information Technology	Testing Benford's Law with Software Code Counts	Chuck Knight	10:00-10:45	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	How I Continued to Stop Worrying and Love Software Resource Data Reports	Nicholas Lanham	8:00-8:45	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	In Pursuit of the One True Software Resource Data Reporting (SRDR) Database	Zachary McGregor-Dorsey	10:30-11:15	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	Costs of Migration and Operation in the Cloud	Arlene Minkiewicz	8:45-9:30	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	Improved Method for Estimating Software Effort and Schedule	Wilson Rosa	10:45-11:30	Wednesday, June 11
Information Technology	The Federal IT Dashboard: Potential Application for IT Cost & Schedule Analysis	Daniel Harper	3:00-3:45	Thursday, June 12
Life Cycle Costing	Integrating Sustainability into Weapon System Acquisition within the Department of Defense (DoD)	Walt Cooper	1:00-1:45	Thursday, June 12
Life Cycle Costing	Ground Vehicle Reliability Analysis Using the Mean Cumulative Function	Caleb Fleming	10:45-11:30	Wednesday, June 11
Life Cycle Costing	Cost Analysis & Optimization of Repair Concepts Using Marginal Analysis	Justin Woulfe	1:45-2:30	Thursday, June 12
Life Cycle Costing	System Utilization: An Indepth Method of Modeling and Measuring Military Manpower Costs	Omar Mahmoud	10:45-11:30	Thursday, June 12
Life Cycle Costing	Which Escalation Rate Should I Use?	Nathan Honsowetz	10:00-10:45	Wednesday, June 11
Life Cycle Costing	Cost Overruns and Their Precursors: An Empirical Examination of Major Department of Defense Acquisition Programs	Alan Gideon	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	Weibull Analysis Method	Erik Burgess	1:45-2:30	Wednesday, June 11
Methods & Models	Cost and Performance Trades and Cost-Benefits Analysis	Steven Ikeler	10:45-11:30	Wednesday, June 11
Methods & Models	Meet the Overlapping Coefficient: A Measure for Elevator Speeches	Brent Larson	3:00-3:45	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	The Role of Cost Estimating in Source Selection	Annette Barlia	9:45-10:30	Friday, June 13
Methods & Models	Excel Based Cost Roll Up Method	Matthew Leezer	3:45-4:30	Thursday, June 12
Cost Management	Right Sizing Earned Value Management for Your Project	Gordon Kranz	1:45-2:30	Wednesday, June 11
Methods & Models	Lessons Learned from Estimating Non-Standard Equipment Returning from Overseas Operations	Michael Metcalf	1:00-1:45	Wednesday, June 11
Methods & Models	Validation and Improvement of the Rayleigh Curve Method	Michael Mender	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	Study of Cost Estimating Methodology of Engineering Development	Myung-Yul Lee	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	Kill Vehicle Work Breakdown Structure	Jennifer Tarin	1:45-2:30	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	Rotorcraft Cost Model Enhancements For Future Concepts	F. Gurney Thompson III	1:00-1:45	Thursday, June 12
Methods & Models	Military Construction Cost Estimating	Nicole Barmettler	10:00-10:45	Wednesday, June 11
Parametrics	Improving the Accuracy of Cost Estimating Relationship (CER) for Software Systems	David Wang	10:30-11:15	Friday, June 13
Parametrics	ESA Project Office Cost Model	Herve Joumier	3:00-3:45	Thursday, June 12
Parametrics	Moving Beyond Technical Parameters in our CERs	Eric Druker	1:00-1:45	Wednesday, June 11
Parametrics	Tactical Vehicle Cons & Reps Cost Estimating Relationship (CER) Tool	Cassandra Capots	3:45-4:30	Wednesday, June 11
Parametrics	Building a Complex Hardware Cost Model for Antennas	David Bloom	1:45-2:30	Thursday, June 12
Parametrics	Linking Parametric Estimates to Program Management Artifacts (LPEPM)	Mike Smith	8:45-9:30	Friday, June 13
Parametrics	Using Dummy Variables in CER Development	Shu-Ping Hu	1:45-2:30	Wednesday, June 11
Parametrics	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Database and Parametric Model Research	Bruce Parker	3:00-3:45	Wednesday, June 11
Parametrics	Hybrid Parametric Estimation for Greater Accuracy	William Roetzheim	8:00-8:45	Friday, June 13
Parametrics	Bayesian Parametrics: Developing a CER with Limited Data and Even Without Data	Christian Smart	1:00-1:45	Thursday, June 12
Parametrics	Impact of Full Funding on Cost Improvement Rate: A Parametric Assessment	Brianne Wong	9:45-10:30	Friday, June 13
Parametrics	Developing R&D and Mass Production Cost Estimating Methodologies for Korean Maneuver Weapon System	Doo Hyun Lee	3:45-4:30	Thursday, June 12
Risk	Quantifying the Necessity of Risk Mitigation Strategies	James Northington	1:45-2:30	Wednesday, June 11
Risk	Affordability Engineering for Better Alternative Selection and Risk Reduction	Marlena McWilliams	8:00-8:45	Friday, June 13
Risk	Risk Adjusted Inflation Indices	James Black	3:45-4:30	Wednesday, June 11
Risk	Improved Decision Making with Sensitivity Analysis	Blake Boswell	8:45-9:30	Friday, June 13
Risk	Using Bayesian Belief Networks with Monte Carlo Simulation Modeling	Marina Dombrovskaya	10:45-11:30	Wednesday, June 11
Risk	Critique of Cost-Risk Analysis and Frankenstein Spacecraft Designs: A Proposed Solution	Mohamed Elghefari	3:00-3:45	Wednesday, June 11
Risk	Excel Based Schedule Risk and Cost Estimates	William Evans	1:00-1:45	Wednesday, June 11
Risk	Expert Elicitation of a Maximum Duration Using Risk Scenarios	Marc Greenberg	10:00-10:45	Wednesday, June 11
Space	NASA’s Phasing Estimating Relationships	Chad Krause	10:45-11:30	Wednesday, June 11
Space	NASA JCL: Process and Lessons	Steve Wilson	1:45-2:30	Thursday, June 12
Space	Developing Space Vehicle Hardware Nonrecurring Cost Estimating Relationships at the NRO CAAG	Ryan Timm	1:00-1:45	Thursday, June 12
Space	NASA Instrument Cost Model (NICM)	Hamid Habib-Agahi	10:00-10:45	Thursday, June 12
Space	A Next Generation Software Cost Model	Jairus Hihn	10:00-10:45	Wednesday, June 11
Space	The NASA Project Cost Estimating Capability	Andy Prince	10:45-11:30	Thursday, June 12
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	NPS and AFIT Masters Degree in Cost Estimating and Analysis	Daniel Nussbaum	9:15-10:00	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	BOE Development: Scope Evaluation and Criteria	Michael Butterworth	11:45-12:30	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	A Comprehensive CES and BCA Approach for Lifelong Learning	Kevin Cincotta	10:00-10:45	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	Long Term Affordability through Knowledge Based Bid & Proposal	Zachary Jasnoff	11:00-11:45	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	What Happens to a Cost Estimate When It’s Done?	William Barfield	2:45-3:00	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	Update On The Cost FACTS (Factors, Analogies, CER’s & Tools/Studies) Group – Enhancing KM By Leveraging Enterprise Social Networking	Daniel Harper	4:30-5:15	Tuesday, June 10
The Business and Art of Cost Estimating	Space Shuttle Cost Analysis: A Success Story?	Humboldt Mandell	3:45-4:30	Tuesday, June 10
Methods & Models	Automated Costing to Identify Opportunities to Reduce Direct Material Spend	Julie Driscoll	10:30 - 11:15	Friday, June 13
Information Technology	Trends in Enterprise Software Pricing from 2002 to 2011	Ian Anderson	3:45 - 4:30	Wednesday, June 11

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
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