Kurt Seifert

Kurt Seifert, I have flirted with project and process management all of my life. Starting out when I was young working on my families Porsche 914s, we campaigned in SCCA club racing. Although most would think it would be all mechanical, I gravitated to; preparation tasks, travel scheduling, and competition data gathering. Moving on, post college, I ended up in a role in the Windsurfing industry (not far from racing cars actually) doing Sales, Race Team and Trade show management for a global company. Again, complex management of 'stuff' race team, R&D, equipment, scheduling, and trade shows, was my passion although, I had a 'sales' title. I moved into technology in my next professional career. As a Director of Sales, for Hosting for one of the world most admired brands. I had a change meeting as part of a new data center with the Dir of Operations. He handed me his card which had a title of PMP, I had never heard of before. I discussion over dinner, finally put a 'name' to what I had been doing most of my life - Project Manager. The constraints of PMP strucure quickly showed their limitations and I found myself at Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor at a class on a new way to work..