The Cassell Team is sad to announce the retirement of our Senior P6 Consultant, Ken Wagner. He has been our Senior Oracle Primavera Technical Consultant and Oracle certified Enterprise Portfolio Implementation Specialist for the implementation of P6 Project Management. Ken has over thirty plus years of executive level experience in program and project management, working in state and federal government, defense and commercial industries. He brought that experience to Cassell Consulting for our clients, implementing and utilizing Oracle Primavera, and Project Management Best Practices and Standards.
During Ken’s varied career he has served as Assistant Environmental Program Director for a four state region including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. He has been an interim project controls manager for Washington State Ferries Terminal Engineering, implementing Primavera Enterprise Project Management software, and improving project scheduling standards to support resource loading, earned value management and reporting for a program budget of over $200,000,000 for all the Ferry terminals in Puget Sound. Ken additionally has served as the Enterprise Project Management consultant to the fortune five hundred HP to Compaq merger team, which included developing the training and support, best practices and standards for the management of day-to-day operations in the companies’ largest division (World Wide Operations division) covering over 25,000 employees in 27 countries. Through the implementation of an Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management methodology the HP – Compaq merger was deemed as the most successful IT merger to date.
Additionally, he is a fourteen year member of the teaching faculty for City University of Seattle, teaching eight of the 14 courses in the Masters of Science in Project Management program and other courses supporting the MBA and undergraduate degrees in business management. He received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2011.
As you have read, Ken has been very successful in his career and was an immense asset to the Cassell Team. His hard work, dedication and incredible P6 knowledge will be greatly missed. Ken is off to get started on his next endeavor. He will be building a home with his son on property he purchased in Washington D.C. This project has been a long time dream of his and now it’s coming to life. Ken will be using his woodworking skills to do custom millwork and finish carpentry. Ken, good luck in your retirement! We wish you and your family all the best as you enter into a new phase of your life. May you enjoy the extra time that you’ll be spending with them.
Sincerely,
The Cassell Team
