GARY C. HUMPHREYS
President and CEO Humphreys & Associates, Inc.

Mr. Humphreys has over 30 years of program management experience in both government and commercial environments, specializing in performance measurement / earned value systems design, development and implementation. He was the first U.S. Army Team Director to conduct an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Tri-Service Demonstration at Litton Data Systems Division. EVMS was formerly called Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria (C/SCSC). As both a Team Member and Team Director, he assisted, evaluated and directed review teams in the successful system acceptances at: The Boeing Company, Aerospace Group, Boeing Vertol; Litton Systems, Inc., Data Systems Division; Northrop Grumman Corporation, Aircraft Division; and UNISYS.

He has developed a successful consulting practice operating out of Orange, California. As the premier consultant in this field he has provided assistance in all phases of project management to over 500 clients from aerospace firms to utility companies to England's Inland Revenue Service (IRS) and Shipbuilding companies in North America, Australia and Europe. Within the industry, no one has performed more on-site earned value cost/schedule performance work. Having worked in the "trenches", he has developed an unique insight and gained unparalleled experience forged from this vast exposure. His engagements have required the facilitation of many disciplines and opinions.

He supported industry's interest by being elected to both the Nine Man Committee for Increasing the Cost Effectiveness of earned value and the Fifteen Man Industry Committee to modify traditional documentation and interpretation of earned value to be more compatible with efficient, economical production management control techniques. As a member of the Integrated Program Management Initiative Joint Team, Mr. Humphreys received the Department of Defense's highest acquisition award, the 1998 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award.

He functioned as both the past Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Management Systems Subcommittee (MSS) and as a member of the NDIA Procurement Planning Committee. The most impressive results of his tenure as Chairman were that he took a fledgling committee consisting of only a few members and subsequently developed it into an influential, policy impacting committee with its membership growing to over one hundred people. He was also instrumental in opening the lines of communication between the Performance Measurement Joint Executive Group (PMJEG) and industry by establishing the first dialogue interchange meetings between the two groups.

It was through the NDIA-MSS that he orchestrated the first ever survey on earned value systems. As a direct result of this survey's findings, the U.S. Government conducted their own survey. These two independent surveys formed the genesis for subsequent revisions to numerous guides and reference material on this discipline.

Under his leadership, the Performance Management Association (PMA) achieved importance as a policy-influencing group. He initiated international Chapters in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia as well as establishing many new U.S. Chapters. He served as leader of the Total Quality Management (TQM) Process Action Team (PAT) for streamlining business system descriptions for performance measurement and management application. PMA became the first college within the Project Management Institute (PMI).

He has been a guest and keynote speaker on a variety of performance measurement related subjects at: Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT); American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE); Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Government Contracts Conference; Defense Systems Management College (DSMC); National Computer Conference (NCC) of American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS); PMI, PMA National and International Chapter meetings; as well as numerous Artemis Management, Primavera and WELCOM Software User Groups.

He is the author of "Measuring Project Performance", in the publication Systems Development Management published by Auerbach Publishers Inc., and a co-author of "Project and Production Scheduling" published by Probus Publishing Company 1987, as well as numerous articles for the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) linking MRPII and Earned Value.

In 1997, he received the PMI-CPM Driessnack Award for outstanding contributions to the industry, the application and advancement of performance management. General Whitey Driessnack (Ret) is widely regarded one of the pioneers of EVM, and was one of the visionaries who introduced earned value management to the Department of Defense.

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/AWARDS

Bachelor of Science, University of California at Berkeley

Master of Business Administration, University of Southern California

Member, National Defense Industrial Association, Project Management Institute

Recipient of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award

Recipient of the PMI-CPM Driessnack Award for outstanding contributions to the industry

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