Rich Maltzman, PMP, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, to the 2006 integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations. As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at local and national colleges including Boston University and the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.Rich has also professionally developed PMP-exam prep courseware, including exams and books. Rich was selected for the Modeling Team for the 4th Edition PMBOK Guide to be published by PMI in 2008, and contributed to the chapters on Quality and Risk. He was recently elected Vice President of Professional Development for the 2,200-member Mass Bay PMI Chapter.Rich has presented at several international conferences - the PMO Symposium in San Antonio, TX, a Conference Board session on Project Management Quality in Mexico City, Mexico, and the PMO Summit in Coconut Grove, FL, the subject being the development framework for Project Managers.Currently, Rich is Leader, Learning and Professional Advancement for PM at major telecom concern.Rich's educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MSIE from Purdue University. Rich received his PMP in 2000. In addition to Green Project Management, co-authored with Dave Shirley, Rich is currently co-authoring a book with Ranjit Biswas, PMP, entitled The Fiddler on the Project, a portion of which is being collaboratively written on the web via a wiki, http://fiddlerontheproject.wikidot.com. Rich posts on general PM topics via his blog, Scope Crêpe, http://scopecrepe.blogspot.com , and on green topics on http://earthpm.com.