Curriculum Vitae

Dragan Milosevic

Education

Ph.D. 1987      Project Management, University of Belgrade, College of Chemical Engineering, Yugoslavia

M.Sc.1981       Marketing, University of Belgrade, College of Economics, Yugoslavia

B.Sc. 1974       Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade, College of Chemical Engineering, Yugoslavia

Employment

Associate Professor (1.0 FTE)                          Portland State University           2000-to date     Portland, OR

Associate Professor (0.5 FTE)                          Portland State University           1995-2000        Portland, OR

Adjunct Associate Professor                             Portland State University           1994-1995        Portland, OR

Senior Consultant and Director of Training         Pinnell/Busch, Inc.                    1992-2000        Portland, OR

Assistant Professor (Adjunct position)               Oregon State University            1992-1994        Corvallis, OR

Corporate Development Manager                     Energoproject Holding              1990-1991        Yugoslavia

Executive Vice-president for Operations            FDSP                                       1990                 Yugoslavia

Project Manager                                               FDSP                                       1978-90            Yugoslavia

Assistant Production Manager                           M. Zakic                                  1976-78             Yugoslavia

Manufacturing Engineer                                     M. Zakic                                  1974-76             Yugoslavia

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships

a) Awards

Project Management Institute; research project: Linking project management to business strategy; 2003; principal investigators include: Dragan Milosevic¹, Aaron J. Shenhar², Hans Thamhain³, Dov Dvir⁴, Michael Poli²,  ¹Portland State University, ²Stevens Institute of Technology, ³ Bentley College, ⁴ Ben Gurion University (Israel).

Project Management Institute; research project: A model for assigning projects to project managers in multiple project management environments; 2004; principal investigator.

Faculty enhancement, PSU; research project: Aligning project operations with business strategy; 2003; principal investigator.

Project Management Institute; research project: The impact of standardized project management:  new product development projects vs. software development projects; August 1, 2001 – July 31, 2002; principal investigator.

Rapid Innovation; research project: Project assignment in the multiple-project environment; 2001; principal investigator.

Portland General Electric; research project: Project assignment in the multiple-project environment;  2001; principal investigator.

United States Information Agency, The Fulbright Program; research project: Designing project organizations; 1989; principal investigator.

b) Invited Speeches

3^rd Project Management Institute Research Conference. London, England. July 2004. Title of the speech: “Assigning Projects in the Multiple-Project Environment.”

2^nd Project Management Institute Research Conference. Seattle, WA. July 2002. Title of the speech: “The Impact of Standardized Project Management: New Product Development Projects vs. Software Development Projects.”

Teaching

a) Teaching Classes

Project Management in Engineering and Technology (EMGT 545)

Project Management Framework (510 PMF)

Team Building and Communications (EMGT 522)

Project Management Tools (510 PMT)

Strategic Planning in Engineering Management (EMGT 525)

Total Quality Management (EMGT 560)

Reengineering the Technical Enterprise (EMGT 563), and

Engineering Management Synthesis (EMGT 590).

b) Teaching awards

Outstanding Teacher Award in the Engineering and Technology Management Department, year 2001/2002.

Outstanding Teacher Award in the Engineering and Technology Management Department, year 2000/2001.

Other Community Outreach  Achievements

a) Program Management Forum (PMF)

Co-founded Program Management Forum in 2000, a group for exchange of the knowledge of program management in high technology in new product development; served on its first Board of Directors.

b) The Round Table

Co-founded the Round Table of program management in 2002; includes directors, senior managers and managers of program management in new product development of the largest high technology companies in the Portland metro area.

Professionally-Related Service

a) Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology  (PICMET)

Director of External Activities, Member of the Organizing Committee, 2001, 2003

Fund Raising

Workshops

Public Relations

Industrial Relations

b) Editorial board and peer-reviewer

Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Eng. Mgmt.

Peer reviewer for International Journal of Project Management.

Peer reviewer for Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Science.

Reviewer for Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology.

Reviewer of Grant Proposals for National Science Foundations.

c) Member of the Advisory Group

Member of Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Research Management Advisory Group

Memberships in Professional Societies

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Product Development and Management Association (PDMA)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)

Membership in Honor Societies

Omega Rho