Ensemble Management Consulting uses an affiliation strategy that gives us flexibility to take on large jobs without maintaining a large payroll. It also allows us to keep prices very competitive.
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Timm J. Esque |
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Partner
 Timm is a co-founder of Ensemble Management Consulting. Since 1994, Timm has been helping complex project teams do what they say they are going to do, leading to faster delivery of higher quality products at lower cost. Many if not most technical projects at Intel Corporation (where Timm worked for 15 years) still begin with a project planning technique Timm helped develop called “Map Day”.
Timm’s work with project teams has been featured in Product Development Best Practices Report and Training Magazine. He has been cited as an expert on performance under pressure in the Wall Street Journal and quoted in many other publications. He was lead developer of the Masters of Technology Management curriculum for the University of Phoenix.
Timm’s book No Surprises Project Management: A Proven Early Warning System for Staying on Track (ACT Publishing, 1999) describes in detail the commitment-based approach to product development. He has authored an award winning book on management in general called Making an Impact: Building a Top Performing Organization from the Bottom Up (CEP Press, 2001). He has edited a third book called Getting Results (HRD Press, 1998) and published over 40 articles in a variety of publications. His most recent book chapter is “Performance Improvement: Enabling Performance to Changing Performance Requirements” in the new Handbook of Human Performance Technology (J. Pershing, Ed., Pfeiffer, 2006).
Timm received his B.S. in Psychology from Arizona State University in 1981 and his MEd in Educational Technology from Arizona State University in 1985. He is Master Trainer of the Chain Gang Simulation for improving individual and team productivity. He is currently a Director on the Board of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) where he has been an active member for over 15 years.
Timm frequently publishes and presents his work. He has presented or consulted in 12 different countries. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 July 2007 )
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Terrance M. "Mike" Porter |
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Partner  For the past 5 years, Mike has worked as an organizational performance consultant to industrial owners and construction contractors to create high performing project delivery teams and zero incident safety cultures. His work has taken him to Korea, Japan, the Middle East, South America and all across the United States.
During his 20 yrs at Intel Corporation, Mike acted as Project and Program Manager for over $2B of capital construction project work, accounting for more than 4 million sq. feet of factory and office space at 4 major corporate sites, overseas and domestic. Project budgets ranged from $500M to $750M. In this environment, multicultural project teams from 25 to 100 people of were his direct responsibility. His last capital project set new records for fastest factory ramp from groundbreaking to first production output. As Program Manager, Mike owned all design, construction and manufacturing tool installation from initial phase of capital funding to factory handover for manufacturing.
As during his Intel career, Mike integrated “breakthrough systems” (one of the foundations for No Surprises Project Management™) into construction project teams. This methodology created a number of best known methods which enabled Intel to achieve world class “time to money” factory ramp performance during the company’s rapid expansion in the 1990’s. Further, Mike worked as an "inhouse consultant" in successful interventions of major construction programs.
Mike also served as Manager of the Corporate Facilities Engineering Group (60 people); a world wide, multicultural organization supporting Intel manufacturing that developed and set the design criteria for the performance all of Intel’s factories and support facilities.
Co-developed and instructed an in-house project manager training course. Taught Instructor Workshop, Program Management, “Managing at Intel” & others; 20 years of teaching for management and leadership skills training courses for executives and front line supervisors. Received corporate recognition for training excellence.
As an active participant in professional associations, Mike served as Past President of Columbia Pacific Chapter, International Society of Performance and Instruction, and presented at the 1994 Conference in Chicago. In 2003 he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Chevron Corporate Project Construction Conference on how to create high performing safety cultures. In June of 2006 he co-delivered a session paper, “Risk Factors for Construction Injuries” to the American Society of Safety Engineers at their annual conference.
As a retired Captain, US Navy officer and aviator, his 26 yrs of service provided Mike with command experience in the US and the Republic of Korea in joint military exercises. He holds the license of a Registered Professional Engineer, retired, for the State of Oregon.
Mike received his Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, from Oregon State University in 1968. In 1992 he earned a Masters Degree in Adult Education (Training/Organizational Development) also from Oregon State University.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 September 2009 )
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