Educational Track Sessions

Customer Profiles: Achieving Continual Process and Training Improvements with Proliance

Pamela Paul, Chief Executive Officer, Kilan Solutions, Peter Claypool, Quality Manager, HNTB Corporation and Kevin Frankland, Vice President Construction Administration & CAD Technologies, Simon Property Group

NoteVault & EnMail Solution at the San Diego Country Regional Airport Authority
Learn how the usability of Prolog Manager was extended to San Diego International Airport field inspectors using NoteVault and EnMail.

Keith Vibbard, Sr. Project Management Systems Analyst, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority; Dan Waters, Project Management Systems Analyst, AECOM; Peter Lasensky, CEO, NoteVault, Inc.; Nesrin Elsawi, Sr. System Engineer, Dimension 5 Solutions

Prolog Tips & Tricks

Watch and learn Prolog tips and tricks from everyday Prolog users. Six presenters will share their ideas and compete for the “Top Tip.” You decide the winner. Share you ideas and submit your favorite Prolog product tip today!

Moderated by Philip Greer, Account Executive, Meridian Systems

Prolog Converge Deep Dive Demonstration and Discussion
Learn how Prolog Converge improves team visibility and collaboration through this deep dive demonstration and discussion.

Bruno Berti, Sr. Director Product Line Management, Meridian Systems and Scott Wielt, Product Marketing Manager, Meridian Systems

Deployment Options for Prolog Applications
Session will cover best practices for deploying Prolog Manager and Prolog Converge for large and small organizations. Deployment options for self-hosting, ProjectTalk and managed hosting services will be covered.

Steve Montgomery, Vice President of Professional Services & Troy Clark, Director of Information Technology, Project Team Solutions

Integration and Adoption: Keys to Value from IT
ROI, Return on Technology, value, call it what you will, today construction organizations are looking for more payback from their IT investment. This session will examine two significant strategies for getting greater ROI from technology: Integration and Adoption. Without use, no system can provide value or return. Find out what today’s best contractors are doing to improve adoption rates from within their organization.

Equally compelling is the drive to integration. Companies are no longer satisfied with highly functional stand-alone systems. To be truly effective, systems need to share data and integrate processes. The technology to tie systems together, share data and provide a more streamlined process has vastly improved. Learn what the various strategies are that contractors are using to finally integrate their primary systems.

Christian Burger, President, Burger Consulting Group

Extending Prolog Manager for Forecasting
Learn how New South Construction plans to use Forecasting to drive the usage of the Prolog Manager Budget and Cost system throughout the organization. Faced with an aging, unsupported forecasting application, New South decides to invest in the extendibility of Prolog Manager with a custom application from Hardhat Technologies, linking Prolog Manager with the internal accounting system. This new tool will be a requirement of all projects and help to encourage standardized usage of Prolog’s Budget and Cost features.

Rob Schulten, LEED AP, PMP, Senior Preconstruction Manager, New South Construction; Chuck Cason, VIP & Director of Professional Services, HardHat Technologies

Proliance Office Business Applications (OBAs)

Learn how Proliance OBAs help Walt Disney Imagineering gain efficiencies on project activities. This session will explain how OBAs leverage Microsoft Excel, Outlook and other Office applications to interact and manage project data. Various business scenarios will be shown to illustrate how Disney is leveraging this Proliance technology today.

Kathleen Jornlin, Implementation Manager, Walt Disney Imagineering and Brant Carter, Technical Services Director, Meridian Systems

Value Added Solutions Showcase
This fast paced session showcases some of the value added solutions available in the Meridian ecosystem.

Construction Imaging
Robert A. Lear, Director, Strategic Alliances, Morpheus Technology Group

User Applications on the Proliance Platform
This session will discuss different techniques for building User Applications to solve business problems. We will discuss the use of Office Business Applications, Meridian Message Bus, custom Web Applications, SSO and Password Policies.

Michael Shelnutt, Senior Technical Consultant, Technical Services, Meridian Systems

Advanced Reporting: Extending Prolog with Crystal Reports
This session takes a deep dive into the capabilities of Crystal Reports to extract and present Prolog project data in mission critical reports and dashboard.

Ken Hodgson, Technical Services Consultant, PCI Group

Stanford University Medical Center – Proliance Implementation & Cognos Reporting
This session will discuss Stanford’s company environment, business issues, and management initiatives in conjunction with how they developed an innovative approach for their Proliance On Demand implementation. Included in this approach, Stanford addressed performance issues, cost and resource constraints, and data quality through a self hosted Proliance environment to improve their management reporting. They also modified many of their internal business processes, Proliance procedures, and user training methods. Integral to delivering their solution was the customization of their Proliance tools and implementing additional reporting options. Business intelligence and analytics are now delivered more timely to Stanford’s project managers and other stakeholders through enhanced SQL and Cognos technologies.

Bruce Kawabata, Solution Manager and Nathan Johnson, Solution Manager, Business Management Solutions

Prolog in the Public Sector
Learn how to overcome the unique (and not so unique) challenges of capital project management in the public sector. Presented by Prolog user, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, issues such as controlling access to project data, security, collaboration with outside agencies and reporting, including a look at the Prolog Oversight Pack, will be discussed.

Craig DiGiorgi, PMAS Systems Manager, DCAM

Estimating, Asset Management and Workflow with Prolog
This session highlights PSSGroup’s value added products for Prolog including estimating, asset management, scheduling, claims management and visual workflow.

Marc Jaude, President, PSSGroup

Proliance Reporting Strategies
An overview of various Proliance Reporting Strategies and the use of a Proliance Data Warehouse to solve common reporting needs.

Szeying Tan, Senior Technical Consultant, Technical Services, Meridian Systems

Best Practices - Prolog Cost Control
This session takes an in-depth look at the cost control capabilities of Prolog Manager and discusses HDR’s best practice around budgets, contract management, and change control.

Christy Eddington, Project Controls Manager, HDR, Inc.

Dualing Cloud Solutions: Hensel Phelps & Torcon discuss Prolog Centric deployments using ProjectXnet
This session will showcase two long term, successful cloud hosting deployments that took different approaches from very different types of companies. Covering multiple products from multiple vendors. Discussing pros and cons and parallels between the application selection process and more.

Moderator: Wes Smith, President, The Cram Group

Brian Makowski, Director of Engineering, Torcon
Jeremy Sibert, Project Manager, Hensel Phelps

Using Prolog Queries, Prolog Today and Prolog Converge Notifications to Create Workflow & Gain Efficiency
Get the most out of Prolog by learning how to configure Queries, Prolog Today, Security, Record Activity and Prolog Converge Notifications to create workflow and build personalized in-boxes. Learn which workflow strategy best meets the needs of your organization.

Konstantine “Kon” Tonas, VP Professional Services, PCI Group – A Hill International Company

Web-based BIM Management Solution

Jordan Brandt, CEO and Co-Founder, Horizontal Systems, Inc

Prolog WebSite to Prolog Converge

This session will discuss the differences between Prolog WebSite and Prolog Converge and why Converge represents a compelling solution. Learn what’s involved to migrate, deploy and configure your very own new Prolog Converge.

Jeff Harrison, Product Line Management, Meridian Systems and Jesse Lavine, Dimension 5 Solutions

Best Practices: Upgrading to Proliance 4.0
This session will cover best practices around the planning and preparation for upgrading to Proliance 4.0.

Joe Poskie, Director - Professional Services, Meridian Systems

Utilizing Prolog and ProjectWise Document management

Michael Watry, PE, HDR

Prolog Converge Administration Tips
Presented by ENR Ranked Top 400 Contractor, Austin Commercial, this session will provide insight into the Prolog Converge administration features. During the session we will review setting up notifications, security, reports and mail, and adding databases and projects.

Marc Ramirez, Prolog Administrator, Austin Commercial; Rob Kemp
Technical Services Consultant, Meridian Systems

BIM, Product Information and Prolog
Learn how Tekla and BuildSite have come together to accelerate the design and construction process through the interoperability of Tekla Structures, BuildSite’s product database and Prolog.

Andy Dickey, Business Manager, Contractor Segment, Tekla, Inc. and

Integrating Meridian Products: Proliance to Prolog
This session will discuss integration strategies for Meridian Products; specifically integrating Prolog with Proliance.This topic will include a technology demonstration of a set of integration scenarios including integrating with the GSA ePM solution.

Brian Rothery, Sr. Business Consultant Meridian Systems and Scott Wielt, Prolog Product Marketing Meridian Systems

Controls Strategies for Large Multi-Party Programs
This session will provide an analysis of management considerations for Owners, Program Managers and Construction Managers faced with selection and configuration of program controls systems. Discussion will use examples from two current Texas programs: Houston Independent School District and Parkland Hospital.

Trent Hogan, President & Dan Knudson, VP Professional Services, Project 3 Technologies

AECOM’s Global Utilization of Proliance
Learn how AECOM has leveraged the Proliance platform to manage programs and projects in the US, Middle East, and Australia.

Kim McAvoy, AVP, ePM Solutions Team

Integrating Best-of-Breed Technologies
Managing capital projects requires broad visibility and control of every business aspect from funding and cost control, to schedule, design, daily communications and coordination. The technology market offers sophisticated applications for each, allowing organizations to benefit from best-of-breed application integration. Join this session to learn how both Proliance data and user interface integration to other solutions, such as estimating & financials, design & BIM, scheduling and other typical corporate systems, results in effective decision making that reduces project costs and schedules across the plan-build-operate project lifecycle.

Joe Poskie, Director Solutions Consulting, Meridian Systems

Prolog Converge – There’s an App for That

Lance Tressler, President, Dimension 5 Solutions, Inc.; Justin Murphy, Business Solution Specialist, The Cram Group

Managing the Cost of Implementing Prolog Applications
This session will cover a typical implementation plan for implementing Prolog Manager and Prolog Converge and will address the issues relating to managing the costs and associated risks of the implementation. Implementation methodologies and tools will be discussed. A cost/benefit analysis will be presented as well as contracting options such as the Unlimited Professional Services Agreement (UPSA).

Ty Witmer, President & Steve Montgomery, Vice President of Professional Services, Project Team Solutions

Proliance Deployed to Support Abu Dhabi’s Multi-Billion Dollar Tourism Asset Development Efforts

John Sinift, President, Darrell Ivers, Solution Architect and Jay Noonan, Manager, Runding Corporation

Maximizing Prolog Budget & Cost Control
During this session we will discuss how mastering Prolog cost management features, including financial fundamentals such as budget setup, commitments, uncommitted costs, change management, forecasting, and customization techniques produces maximum budget and cost control results.

Andres Mendoza, Vice President, Condotte America and Christian Calderon, Professional Services Manager, Intuitive Systems

GSA’s ePMxpress Portal Solution
ePMxpress is the GSA’s innovative web portal interface for employees and contractors providing an easy and intuitive system for navigating their branded Proliance systems called ePM. With access to core features, Cognos for reporting and Office Business Applications (OBA’s), interacting with the GSA’s system is easier than ever.

This interactive session will provide an overview of the ePMxpress solution and a live demonstration of its functionality.

Brian Rothery, Consultant, Meridian Systems