Gary L. Richardson, Ph.D., PMP

Project Management Program Coordinator

As Program Coordinator, it is Dr. Richardson's goal to bring his extensive personal experience, as well as that of other project management professionals, to offer a results-oriented program in IT and high technology Project Management. Gary comes from a background rich in industry, consulting, and academic flavoring. He has worked in various types of organizations over his more than thirty-year professional career that covered manufacturing, oil, services, consulting, and governmental type organizations, as well as academia.

During the early part of his professional career Gary was a Registered Professional Engineer working at Texas Instruments as a Manufacturing Engineer. During the latter half of his career he worked for the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Communications Agency, Texaco and Service Corporation International in consulting and CIO level positions. Interspersed through his industrial experience he served as a full time faculty member at the University of South Florida, Texas A&M, and the University of Houston, plus other adjunct professor stints at three other universities.

Gary has published four computer related textbooks and numerous technical articles related to the IT and manufacturing arenas. Through all of these stages he has survived his involvement in approximately 100 significant sized IT projects and has been a keen observer of the management evolution that has occurred in the IT industry over this time.

During his early post-college era Captain Richardson served in the Air Force as a weather officer outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. He claims that this "opportunity" taught him what a stressful job environment really looked like. After that, the project world seemed pretty easy.