Walter H LipkeWalt Lipke retired from federal service with over thirty-five years of experience in the development, maintenance, and management of software for automated testing of avionics. Mr. Lipke is a graduate of the United States Department of Defense coursefor program managers, a professional engineer with a master's degree in physics, and a member of the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma.As the creator of Earned Schedule (ES), Mr. Lipke has published over ninety articles on the method, as well as the Earned Schedule and Earned Schedule Plus books. To further propagate the ES method, he offers the free Earned Schedule Master Class. Additionally, he has presented research on ES and its schedule performance analysis methods at conferences worldwide.For his contributions to project control, the practice of Earned Value Management (EVM), and the creation of ES, Mr. Lipke has received several awards: 2007 Project Management Institute Metrics Specific Interest Group Scholar Award 2007 Project Management Institute Eric Jenett Award for Project Management Excellence 2013 Earned Value Management Europe Award 2014 College of Performance Management Driessnack Distinguished Service AwardIn 2017, the Australian Project Governance and Control Symposium honored Mr. Lipke by establishing the annual Walt Lipke Project Governance and Control Excellence Award. The award honors excellence in research, expanding knowledge of the management and governance of projects, programs, and portfolios in Australasia. Read More Read Less