#164 Jon M Quigley, The Risky Guy (Part 1)

This week we have the return of Jon M Quigley, The Risky Guy. About Jon Jon M. Quigley PMP (204278) CTFL is a principal and founding member of Value Transformation, a product development (from idea to product retirement) and cost improvement organization established in 2009. Jon has an Engineering Degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, two master's Degrees from the City University of Seattle, and two globally recognized certifications. In addition, Jon has more than thirty years of product development and manufacturing experience, ranging from embedded hardware and software to verification and process and project management and managing systems and verification groups at a multinational organization.Jon won the Volvo-3P Technical Award in 2005, going on to win the 2006 Volvo Technology Award. Jon has secured seven US patents and several international patents. These patents range from multiplexing systems and human-machine interfaces to telemetry systems and driver's aides.Jon has been on the Western Carolina University Master of Project Management Advisory Board and Forsyth Technical Community College Advisory Board. He has also been a guest lecturer at Wake Forest University's Charlotte, NC campus and Eindhoven Technical University (Holland). He has taught at Technical Schools and Universities and at SimpliLearn and B2B. He is an experienced direct and distance learning teacher with Moodle and Blackboard. These classes include Agile, TQM, APQP, Risk management and PMP and CTFL certification classes. He has more than 26K contacts on LinkedIn.Jon has authored more than 15 product development and project management books. The books he writes are used in bachelor and master-level classes at universities across the globe, including the Eindhoven Technical University, Manchester Metropolitan University, San Beda College Manila in the Philippines, and Tecnológico de Monterrey.In addition to more than 70 different magazines, e-zines, and other outlets. He writes three recurring columns:1. PMTips Quigley and Lauck's Expert Column2. Assembly Magazine, P's and Q's on project management and quality,3. Automotive Industries, Quigley's Corner on automotive product development4. Microsoft Project User GroupJon has given numerous presentations at technical conferences on a variety of domains of product development, including product testing, learning, agile, and project management. He has also frequently been interviewed by numerous business and project magazines, podcasts, and webinars.Jon is the co-author or contributed to over 20 books on project management.