Architectural, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) Forum 170215

The PMI Atlanta AEC Forum is a focus group that hosts regular events with ranging topics in the architectural, engineering, and construction fields. We will show the importance of solid project management in these related fields of study.

Presentation: “Agile Meets Entrepreneurship” presented by Jonathan Goldman

Light refreshments and beverages will be provided.

Earn one PDU for attending this event.

When:
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Where:
Experis Engineering
7000 Central Pkwy NE, Suite 200 Conference Room
Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Fees:
PMI Atlanta Member:  $12.00, early bird rate $10.00 before February 7th
Non-Member: $15.00, early bird rate $13.00 before February 7th

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Presentation Details:

The relatively recent emergence of the Lean Start-Up Methodology, as popularized by Eric Reis, has had a significant impact on our ability to manage risk during the earliest stages of business development. In sharp contrast to the ‘Build It and They Will Come’ mentality, Lean Start-Up Principles provide a way to fully vet a new innovation through Customer Discovery, Minimum Viable Product and Customer Validation, long before significant capital has to be raised or expended. We will look at how these principals, when applied iteratively, can help you determine if a new venture idea is worth leaving your day-job, and be better prepared to raise capital and scale up.

Talent Triangle Category: Strategic and Business Management

Jonathan Goldman has been active in the Atlanta entrepreneurial community for over seventeen years and has served on the management teams of start-ups, and has more than 25 years in technical sales/business development.

He currently serves as CTO & VP of Engineering, for Hydro Phi Technologies, a hydrogen-on-demand technology, targeting logistics & bus fleets, heavy equipment and generators with a solution to dramatically reduce fuel consumption and emission.

In 2007, he helped co-found Suniva, a photovoltaic manufacturing firm, out of Georgia Tech, where he served as Director of Business Development, and was instrumental in achieving a backlog in long-term purchase agreements in excess of $1B. Prior to this, he served as Associate Director for VentureLab, Georgia Tech’s faculty commercialization mechanism, where he helped the program achieve international recognition. During his 5-year tenure, he helped start more than 10 companies that, collectively, have raised more than $90M in venture and grant funding, including Nuventix, Verco Materials, and LumoFlex.

Prior to VentureLab, Mr. Goldman served in senior management positions at several start-up companies including: Nexidia Communications, a venture-backed Georgia Tech spinout, and the leading provider of scalable audio mining and speech analytics; smallbizplanet.com, a provider of small business search engines for web portals, Genuity, a provider of IP messaging and related services to F1000 clients, and Telinet Communications, an early pioneer in the web-based unified messaging market.

Earlier in his career, he sold epitaxial crystal growth reactors as Eastern Regional Sales Manager for Riber to corporate, government and university customers; then performed a similar role at BOC Coatings’ Plasma Science unit, delivering environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes into both research and production environments. Mr. Goldman began his career as an engineer on NASA’s Space Shuttle & Space Station programs for Rockwell International. Mr. Goldman is a co-founder and former Chairman of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta.

He is a member of the Materials Research Society and regularly serves as a reviewer for NSF’s SBIR Program. He received his B.S. Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 1983, and an M.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the School of Material Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1989.

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