Larry Richman Resume

P O Box 11307 Salt Lake City UT 84147-0307
Phone: (801) 455-8100
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Project management Experience

	Over twenty-five years experience as a project manager.
	Attended or taught scores of workshops, conferences, and seminars on project management.
	Taught project management to hundreds of employees of several corporations.

Education and Certifications

	Bachelor of Arts, Spanish/linguistics, April 1979 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
	Translation Certificate, April 1979 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
	Master of Science, Instructional Science, August 1981 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
	Ph.D. studies, Instructional Science, 1979 to 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
	Certificate for Project Management Proficiency, March 1987 American Management Association, NY
	PMP® (Project Management Professional®), Project Management Institute, Newton Square, PA, July 2001

Publications

	Authored 13 books, including five books on project management and an educational game.
	Published articles in professional journals.

Memberships in Professional Organizations

	American Management Association, member since 1981, certified instructor, authored 3 books for AMA
	Project Management Institute, member since 1996 and founding members of the Northern Utah Chapter

Employment

Director of Project Coordination, 1983 to present Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT

1983-present: Directs the project management office that handles over 10,000 projects (printed, audiovisual, information technology, Web sites, events, and worldwide satellite broadcasts) per year in up to 185 languages. Coordinates planning, approvals, prioritization, writing, creation, translation, production, printing, and international distribution in 105 offices worldwide. Develops and implements computer-assisted project management systems. Realigned printing worldwide, saving millions of dollars and increasing quality.

2004 to present: Directed the integration of processes for planning, producing, and implementing products and services (printed, audiovisual, Internet, IT systems, events) across seven departments (Audiovisual, Correlation, Curriculum, Information and Communications Systems, Materials Management [printing and distribution], Physical Facilities [events], and Translation.

Director of Internet Coordination, 2003 to 2008 Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT

Product manager for LDS.org and other Church Web properties (hundreds of domain names; tens of thousands of pages; over a million unique visitors each month with 5 million visits and 50 million page views per month. Establishes roles, processes, standards, and governance for the development and maintenance of a suite of corporate Web sites and services. Provides content synergy for dozens of Church Web sites. For more information, see LDSMediaTalk.com. Managed a complete redesign and rebuild of these properties in 2003-2005, including implementing XML, metadata standards, common taxonomy, a content management system, portal server technology, and new search tools.

Project Management Coach 1986 to present

Coaches vice-presidents and managers of various companies on leadership principles and project management. Teaches project management skills one-on-one and in classroom settings to hundreds of corporate employees. Trained as an instructor for the American Management Association.

Chief Executive Officer 1982 to present Century Publishing, Salt Lake City, UT

Publishes books, pamphlets, and educational games.

Language Skills and Foreign Experience

Speaks English, Spanish, Cakchiquel [Guatemala], and Esperanto.

Lived in El Salvador and Guatemala as a missionary for two years (1974-76), then returned to translate and record materials into Cakchiquel in the summer of 1977 and to compile the first modern English-Spanish-Cakchiquel dictionary in the summer of 1978.

Traveled extensively in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Canada, England, Italy, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tonga, Western Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.

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