About callenb.org
callenb.org is the personal site of Barrie Callender. I have worked in and around Project Management since joining Artemis way back in November 1987. I stayed there for 13 years before leaving to join Pinnacle Management Systems. Now I am working in partnership with Kinley Consulting.
Over the years I have learnt a lot about Project and Programme Management and after spending 13 months working at Bell Helicopter am well versed on what proper Earned Value Management is as opposed to what passes as Earned Value here in the UK.
From November 2007 up to the end of October 2008, I was working through Primavera as an Engagement Manager, including working with Primavera Contract Manager on a rather large construction site near Stratford in East London. It’s been a good experience, and the people I was working with, both clients and Primavera are a great bunch. I’m still in regular contact and things are looking good.
I have also added Deltek to my list of major PM vendors, and enjoy a good professional relationship with them.
Over the years I have found myself involved in some development work, including the Primavera to Oracle Projects interface at Network Rail, which continues to work some two years after it was released. That was written in Java and had to work on IBM WebSphere for no good reason. It involved all sorts of technology including JMS, XSLT, XML, J2EE and even some Oracle PL\SQL. Apart from Java I have also dabbled in Ruby and Ruby on Rails as well as Erlang. The last out of curiosity.
This site uses Textpattern which is a lovely CMS. At the time of writing I have just loaded the new version 4.2.0 with the default style. I intend to add my own style and blog about it as I go along. I am not a web designer – in case that wasn’t obvious so feedback is most welcome.
I hope to write about other topics that interest me, and will hopefully be of interest to others.