Dale Skiba

THREE PDW TIPS FROM A SEASONED VET Operating in a Citrix Environment, Developing a Support Guide, and Report Writing with PDW

Dale Skiba manages the support for 3,554 PDW users at Medtronic. He has tales from the “front” that have helped make his life easier, and promise to add significant value to your implementation of PDWare. Skiba will warm up with a short instruction on how to put PDW on steroids in a Citrix environment, where reading and writing to remote databases normally slows down tools. After that, he will demonstrate how you can reverse engineer PDW for a report writing application that assists employees and management in the Resource Planning process. Here are three “teasers”: (1) For Project Managers: Efforts Report for all their projects, (2) For Resource Managers: Efforts Report across all projects and (3) For Employees: All work assignments by project, name, hours/month, skill needed and project manager. And, lastly, Dale will outline his 25 page Support Guide for PDW, and how it has contributed to maximum uptime with the application. He may conclude with his views on the “Dark Side” of Resource Planning, but you have to stay to the end for that!

Dale Skiba is a Principle Technologist from Medtronic. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. At Medtronic his responsibilities include Unix administration, intranet software development and application support. He's the technical lead for PDW Portfolio back-office support for some 4000 resources. Eclectic hobbies include propagating aquatic plants and breeding fish with the Minnesota Aquarium Society; Federally licensed amateur radio operator, Extra class; juggling and Toastmasters International.

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