IEEE Huntsville Section Engineering Management Society


Speaker:

Phillip J. Brezovic - Hernandez Engineering, Inc.

Subject:

Continuous Risk Management (CRM) Overview

Date:

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Time:

11:15am - 1:00pm

Place:

UAH Engineering Building, Conference Room 258

Reservations:

Please contact Sonya Hutchinson at 544-3312, if you plan to attend. You may also email her at: Sonya.L.Hutchinson@nasa.gov.

Abstract:

Risk is characterized by the combination of a probability or likelihood that an enterprise or entity will experience an undesired event with associated adverse consequences. Continuous Risk Management (CRM) is an iterative process of identifying, analyzing, planning, tracking, controlling, documenting and communicating risks to reduce the likelihood and/or severity of the risks.

Project & program risk increases as NASA strives to develop new technologies to enhance life here on earth and to extend our reach to worlds beyond. Risks increase and more sophistication is required to manage those project and program risks. To ensure project & program success, NASA CRM must become an area of emphasis of everyday business within the agency. Risk management should be an ongoing and sustainable process. While there is no one set of special methods or tools that will work for every project, there are key principals to follow, adapt and apply to your project. These principals are embodied in the Continuous Risk Management paradigm. We will discuss in detail the CRM paradigm.

Biographical Sketch:

Philip J. Brezovic is employed at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) by Hernandez Engineering Inc. (HEI) as the Continuous Risk Management (CRM) Instructor & Facilitator Lead on the MSFC Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) support contract. Mr. Brezovic currently supports the Continuous Risk Management (CRM) effort for the Orbital Space Plane (OSP) Program at the MSFC. In this capacity, he is responsible for CRM instruction and facilitation as well as for implementation of the CRM process to OSP senior managers and OSP team leads. Prior to this, he worked in the Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) Directorate at as the Chief Risk Analyst for the International Space Station at Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, TX for the past 6 years and just recently joined the Marshal S&MA CRM team. Prior to his work with NASA, Mr. Brezovic served twenty years in the United States Air Force in various positions, most notably as a telecommunications engineer on the National Emergency Airborne Command Post. Mr. Brezovic holds a Masters in Aeronautical Sciences from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a Bachelors of Science in Electronic Management from Southern Illinois University.

NOTES:

You do not have to be an IEEE member to attend. All guests are welcome. We will eat from 11:15 - 11:45am and the talk will begin at 11:45am. We will be ordering Quizno’s to be delivered to the conference room. Please call Sonya by 9/13/05 to order your lunch. Cost subject to food selection. See menu at: http://www.quiznos.com/menu.asp

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