Enabling Governance and Transparency to Stakeholders through Technology
Diane Jackier, Chief Strategic Initiatives, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation

NYC Department of Parks & Recreation is the steward of nearly 30,000 acres of land, 14% of New York City, including more than 5,000 individual properties ranging from Coney Island Beach and Central Park to community gardens, parks, athletic fields and Greenstreets. With a 5-year Capital Budget of $4.2B, and a portfolio of over 500 active projects, this session will discuss how the organization is utilizing Unifier to achieve visibility and transparency to stakeholders. Additionally, this session will give you an inside look at the NYC Department of Parks & Recreations Capital Tracker Site, which is a public facing website focused around Capital Project data, providing transparency to the Citizens of New York, as well as other key stakeholders.

Analytics Data Reporting–Can Your Projects Easily be Viewed from All Angles?
Justin Murphy, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle

Learn how to handle large projects with ease. In this session, you’ll learn how Primavera Analytics can be leveraged to understand performance and trends across all your projects and portfolios, gain greater insight into your schedule and cost metrics and how to leverage the power of BI (business intelligence) to transform your next project.

Oracle Textura Payment Management: Solutions for Owners for Cost Controls, Risk Mitigation, and Supply Chain Finance
Ben Penzick, Senior Manager, Sales Consulting, Oracle

Learn how Oracle Textura Payment Management (TPM) Cloud Service enables you to increase efficiency and control in construction payment management. This session will give you an inside look at how TPM streamlines and automates processes, mitigating risk, reducing cost, and improving cash flow.

How NYS OGS Design & Construction Executed a Decade-Long Project Management Shift in Record Time
Paul Krass, New York State Office of General Services

The Office of General Services (OGS) Design and Construction Group (D&C) provides a full range of high-quality architectural, engineering, contracting and construction management services to state agency clients. Through an interdependent model of public- and private-sector resources, D&C delivers services in a timely, efficient, responsive and cost-effective manner, thereby enabling client agencies to fulfill their own diverse missions on behalf of the people of New York State. In this session you will learn more about the transformational changes that have occurred in OGS project management business processes. You will gain insight into the before & after picture, along with the lessons learned through the implementation of a standardized approach for scheduling.

Mobility–Project Utilization Anywhere
Tyler Graham, Sales Consultant, Oracle

Did you know that mobile computing has already overtaken desktops as the main way to access the internet? Within the public sector community, projects are revolved around strict timelines in which tasks need to be completed quickly, efficiently all while in the field. This session revolves around the solution suite within Oracle Construction and Engineering which provides easy to use mobile technology to streamline communication and collaboration amongst teams remotely.

Joe Castner
Area Vice President – North America
Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit

Joe Castner is Area Vice President at Oracle's Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit for North America. Joe has over 23 years of experience in IT bringing game-changing technologies to market in North America and Europe in the areas of Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management, Data Security, Application High Availability and Application Workload Placement as well as Data Center design and build.

Joe has recently returned from Switzerland where he spent three years leading the European team at Oracle’s Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit and doubling revenue over that same period.

Tyler Graham
Sales Consultant, Oracle

Tyler is a Solutions Consultant with Oracle Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit. In his four years with Oracle, he has focused on the Public Sector, particularly State & Local government. Within State and Local, Tyler has specialized in targeting use cases for Airports and DOTs, encompassing a range of business processes from Capital Program Management to Facility Maintenance and Inspections. He current lives Columbus, Ohio and works to help support all of the Oracle State & Local Account Managers in the United States.

Diane Jackier
Chief of Capital Strategic Initiatives
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation

Diane Jackier is the Chief of Capital Strategic Initiatives in the Capital Projects division at NYC Parks. In this role, she oversees division-wide initiatives to improve the quality and efficiency of Parks’ capital process. She also supervises the staff in the quality assurance, data systems, and needs assessment units in the Capital Division. Diane has a Bachelor of Arts, a Master’s in City Planning, and a Master’s of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Krass
New York State Office of General Services

Paul Krass is a seasoned consultant, helping organizations with lean business processes improvement while mapping them to technology in a way that forces total transparency. Paul focuses on Executive Management priorities, and leverages solutions such as Primavera P6 as a vehicle to delivery extraordinary results.

Justin Murphy
Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle

Justin Murphy is a Principal Sales Consultant with the Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit. In his three years with Oracle, he has focused on helping capital asset intensive organizations in Utilities, O&G, E&C, and Industrial Manufacturing. Justin provides customers innovative and out-side-the-box solutions in multiple areas including business process automation, analytics, and data visualization. Justin’s specialty is leading customer-driven analytics workshops to help customers maximize their existing technology investments and gain critical & automated insights into their data. Justin currently resides in Miami, FL.

Ben Penzick
Senior Manager, Sales Consulting, Oracle

Ben is a Senior Manager on the Client Services team for Oracle Textura Payment Management. He is one of the original members of the Textura group and has played a key role in the cloud service becoming the industry standard for payment management. He currently runs the Northeast Client Services team and has led some of Textura’s largest implementations over his 11+ years with the team.

Ben holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology from Purdue University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago with his wife Torrie and 2 year old son Wesley.

Dave Wright
Value Program Director, Oracle

David Wright has over 15 years’ experience at Oracle developing strategic solutions and value based business analysis for clients globally, across multiple business sectors. Prior to Oracle, he worked in financial management and business/IT strategy development. As a Value Program Director, he engages with clients in collaboration that helps us help our customers create a strategic roadmap for capital project management and execution initiatives that help drive organizational value, providing an understanding of business issues and pain points, opportunities for improvement, risk factors, and anticipated return on technology investments.