Tom Block Appointed to UMT Faculty Corps

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 27, 1999 - UMT Academic Dean J. Davidson Frame announces the appointment of Tom Block to the university's Faculty Corps.

Mr. Block's areas of expertise include: project management, project office, "just-in-time" training, project intervention and recovery, and project start-ups. He is an executive scholar at the University of Management & Technology and a visiting corporate fellow at The George Washington University's International Center for Project Management.

Mr. Block has held high-level project office positions at EDS, Perot Systems, and PM Solutions. He has supervised the implementation of project offices for Xerox, Moore, Bechtel, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Ameritech and Dow Jones.

He has presented numerous papers on project management at the Project Management Institute (PMI) Seminar/Symposiums, Project World, and Project Leadership Conferences. Mr. Block and Dr. Frame co-authored the 1998 book titled, The Project Office-A Key to Managing Projects Effectively.

Mr. Block has an MBA from Syracuse University and a bachelor of business administration in accounting from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).