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Our expert staff of professionals have assisted organizations around the world. We pride ourselves on our reputation and results reflecting our commitment to excellence.

"I would like to thank the AMS team for the high caliber performance in support of implementing our new Program Management Office. The quality of deliverables and knowledge provided by AMS while assisting with the PMO implementation was top notch, and consistently demonstrated that AMS has deep roots in complex, real-world program management."

Dave Hobson

Director of Program Controls and Information Systems

DRS Technologies

"The team at AMS was very professional to work with. Their subject matter expertise, ability to quickly ramp up in our environment and obvious depth in the Information Technology space was a core contributor to the success of our Dashboard Development project. I would highly recommend AMS to support any strategic technology project."

Jim Griesing

VP National Sales Systems

The Hartford Insurance Group

"As you know AMS is nearing completion of the contracted work with Mercury. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you what an absolutely wonderful experience it has been working with your entire team, particularly Tom Flynn. All aspects of the project, from assessment through deployment, have been handled in a highly professional manner. It is clear that Tom wholeheartedly believes in the philosophies, practices and tools he teaches and utilizes them in his own dealings with your clients. After working extensively with Tom, Mercury now has a flexible Life Cycle Process with ISO documentation to back up the Project Management best practices recommended by AMS. In addition we have implemented a Project Support Office to champion these new practices. I would also like to thank Tom for all the support he provided to us in preparation for our ISO audit. When the scope of our original engagement with AMS increased Tom did everything he could to make sure we were prepared even though the timeline was very tight. Along with developing a best practice process that would work at Mercury and creating the documentation to support it, Tom provided several key training classes for our associates. Tom's dynamic teaching style and his obvious practical experience created truly value added classes.............training attendance and feedback has never been better! I would not hesitate to recommend AMS to any potential client. It has been a pleasure working with your entire team."

Jennifer Brochu

Manager, Project Support Office

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

"The Training and consulting we received from AMS helped us to drive the performance of the divisions New Product Development lifecycle. The level of your consultants and their ability to draw on real world experience helped our teams to recognize immediate and sustainable skills. I would highly recommend your firm for any size organization seeking to produce new products in a timely, cost effective way."

Brian Tucker

Director of Controls

John Hancock

"AMS has been instrumental in helping to create our business strategy, corporate succession plan and customer delivery process. I operate the largest dealer in the network for Brunswick Marine and feel that our organizations performance and ability to serve our customer base has been significantly improved by the Business and Project Management processes designed and implemented by the AMS team.

Gary Dobrindt

Founder/CEO

Marine Ventures

"The team at AMS helped our organization to build solid sales processes and service best practices. Our regional teams became more aligned with corporate goals and surprisingly I felt we had started to function as one company. I would recommend AMS to assist any organization feeling the impact of silos and seeking to develop a more cross functional way of doing business and promoting sales growth."

Drew Boyd

V.P. of Sales Development

Merisel Corporation

"On behalf of the Women In AAviation Board and Planning Committee, I would like to thank you for helping to make our 2008 Women in AAviation Conference a success on Monday, March 3. We are delighted to report feedback from the talented women who attended has been overwhelmingly positive. With your contribution, the conference is truly helping women at the AMR companies "Rise Up" to develop the leader within. After its thrilling success, we hope Monday's conference will be the first in a long line of inspiring annual events. We truly appreciate the time, care and effort you put into your presentation. Thank you for supporting our women employees."

Barbara Patterson

President

Women in AAviation, HDQ Chapter

"Your company's ability to draw upon industry knowledge and transfer it to the Government sector is impressive. The Army 5th Signal Corp will realize long term benefit from the skills training, assessments and mentoring that AMS provided in Germany."

Gina Eckles

Training Manager

Army 5th Signal Corp

“As a direct result of the training provided by AMS we have seen significant improvements in the sales team and managers. The most impressive outcome was the way our sales managers have risen to the task of better communication and follow through. One regional manger mentioned stated that initially the added attention to coaching and weekly follow through sessions seemed cumbersome, but after about two months of practicing the increased attention to development of the team results were clearly obvious.”

Dave Bailey

Sr. Vice President of Sales

Kraft Foodservice

"The strategic management session the AMS team facilitated was a great success in helping our management team define their objectives to work against our newly launched international initiatives. Our division was tasked to prepare the organization for outsourcing and the AMS team was very capable and experienced; thus helping us to better prepare and understand the complexities associated with this strategy. I credit the interaction with AMS as a key success factor in accomplishing the international roll out."

William D. Taylor

Vice President IT Services

Fidelity Investments

“The program we completed with the AMS team called , Maximizing Time and Energy, went far beyond meeting my expectations. The effectiveness of the delivery model was a complete surprise to me having taken several on-line programs in the past. The instructor was a senior member of the AMS team and the platform allowed us to participate and interact almost as though we were in the same room. I would highly recommend anyone seeking a cost effective way to train off site associates try the AMS Interactive programs.”

Wendy Dobrindt

Assistant Controller

Hartford Financial Products

“The University and learning organization model that the team from AMS built has proven to be very effective and well received within our organization. We have attempted to initiate a more structured approach to the learning process many times with limited results. The structure that AMS provided and the flexibility within the overall curriculum has allowed us to realize an increase in productivity, reduced turnover and acquire a more positive feel about the training environment in our company. Additionally, the facilitators that AMS assigns are true senior level practitioners who can assist in customization, and then provide accurate delivery against our exact corporate needs."

Ralph Carlson

Vice President of Training

3Com Corporate University

"The AMS PMBOK Skills Assessment is the most robust assessment I could find at such a high value point. It is a true benefit to the learning and improvement process, aligns with the PMBOK (but also goes further) and legitimately helped us to see a path forward. Our organization saw immediate value from the process and I would estimate we saved thousands of dollars in training costs by focusing on areas we needed to improve on the most. Students were also more involved in the learning process as they were not just going through a rehash of what they already knew. Whether you are an individual trying to identify a personal development track, a project manager trying to baseline a project team or a training manager trying to target a curriculum I would highly recommend starting with this tool."

Carol Parmer

Director of Training and Development

NetVersant Solutions

"The Team at AMS was flexible and very adaptive to the dynamic needs of our company and to helping us overcome logistical challenges while providing superb technical solutions. Our need to provide both performance and regulatory compliance data was easily met via the business process and stage-gated methodology AMS designed for us."

Larry Sims

Performance Management Team Leader

Halliburton Energy

"I’m sure that the rest of the class will agree with me when I say that Tom Flynn is an excellent teacher. Out of all the Project Management Boot Camps that are available, this was the one to take."

Robert Castaneda

Project Manager

IPC Information Systems

“The team at AMS was impressive from the first time we met them. I have personally interviewed many large training companies, but the folks at AMS were heads and tails above the rest because of their flexibility, desire to be true partners and level of subject mater expertise. I would recommend AMS to any organization seeking a results driven team of professionals.”

William Rice

V.P. Training and Development

Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club

"Our entire organization benefited from the use of the Project Management Readiness Assessment from AMS not just my department. The results were detailed enough and the recommendations strategic enough to draw conclusions for the entire company. It was obvious that the team at AMS leverages their internal expertise to create the content that makes up the reports. I had used other similar tools in the past and found they were boilerplate forms. This product is comprehensive and most importantly driven by a truly experienced firm. We plan on using this assessment again once our PMO development effort is complete."

Paul Cosovan

Director of Strategy

SONY

"I couldn't believe my eyes! One of our busiest project managers actually turned in a useful Initial Risk Assessment document for his project...voluntarily. And within five minutes of my meeting to review his thinking it became apparent that the PMOS training you provided was paying off. Utilizing the AMS Project Management Quick Start Suite of tools added a great deal of value to the process resulting in a substantial cost savings over the life cycle of the project."

Bill Hayden, P.E., F.ASCE

Chief Operating Officer

WENDEL DUCHSCHERER

“The AMS approach to BA solutions is refreshing. The organization understands from a strategic perspective that in order to accomplish enterprise-wide projects both your team members and the organization need to be in alignment with open communication channels. I have had an opportunity to work with other firms who rely on technology as the core aspect of BA functions. The AMS approach embraces people, process and technology allowing for a complete solution. I would recommend AMS for any BA related solution development as we were very satisfied with their competence, creativity and flexibility."

Kathy Lewis

Sr. Project Manager

ING

The AMS team is interested in more than developing courses. They are highly committed to results. Our facilitator Drew developed tools to assist us in transferring the learning content to our everyday activities and making a difference. We conducted preliminary external customer surveys prior to developing the training program and received mixed results. We are now tabulating the results for Q1 2004 and are seeing a marked improvement. Our internal processes are improving as well, as our internal customers become introduced to CRM. AMS is responsive to our needs. We are confident that any member of their team is available when we need them. With AMS we don’t just get a trainer, we get a professional resource."

Susan Cunningham

Corporate HR Director

Munters Corporation

"The experience was a positive one, from the initial meetings, through the need assessment and contracting process, through the final day of the engagement. Bob Wysocki, your senior consultant who worked directly with us, is a top-notch management consultant. He led our team through the CMMI planning and initiation phases with great success. We are delighted with the results and are well on our way to full implementation."

L. Diane Juhas

QA Manager

BCBS of MA

"The Leadership Skill Survey Tool helped me to align my employees development plans with our internal training curriculum. The simplicity of the tool was surprising, yet the output was quite robust. I will continue to use this tool within our employee development activities."

Drew Boyd

Training Manager

ADP Solutions

"AT&T would like to thank the team at AMS for their dedicated service and commitment to excellence. AMS consultants have been working with two divisions in our Global Services division and since they became involved we have reduced turnover, increased productivity and overall moral of the staff. The objective of this engagement was to produce "quality" based tools and methods for decision making and risk analysis, the outcome has resulted in better management practices in general and our ability to apply the new skill sets to multiple activities in the business unit. I would highly recommend AMS as they have proven to be one of our best professional services providers."

W. Pearl Maxwell, Ph.D

Global Services Training Manager

AT&T Global Services

"The AMS team helped us focus our corporate service effort, enhance our overall service strategy and most importantly drive the service team to accomplish new goals within the CRM effort."

Susan Cunningham

Corporate HR Director

Munters Corporation

"The technology infrastructure project that AMS helped us manage against an Indus implementation initiative would not have completed without the team's expertise. The AMS team was able to respond to cross-functional issues related to document management and archived data retrieval with high levels of understanding. Each consultant on the team was vertically aligned and expert in specific areas of the implementation. I would highly recommend the AMS team for any strategic technology project."

David Samuals

CIO

Boston Edison/NSTAR

"Drew conducted the Team Building seminar which was outstanding.. In fact, most team members felt it was long overdue, and thought Drew “made” the class fun and exciting. For me, Drew has been a thrill to work with. He is fair, honest and a “stand up” person."

Tim Kennedy

Western Region Director of Operations

IPC Information Systems LLC

"The team at AMS provided some of the best corporate training we ever received . The consultants ability to fully understand our industry and how the PM space was impacted and complimented by the Business Analyst function was outstanding. I would recommend the AMS team to anyone seeking a knowledgeable and insightful relationship with a consulting firm."

Mary Stephani

Manager of Training

Liberty Mutual Insurance

"Pharmacia Corporation would like to thank the team at AMS in particular Mr. Tom Flynn for assisting us with the world wide implementation of project management best practices within our capital project management function. AMS and Tom have been responsible for helping us shift to a project based entity, creating a global PMO and writing all of the supporting processes. Additionally they trained over 1000 employees world wide. I believe that the capital project management process was one of the core value points that led to multi million dollar savings on multiple capital projects within our portfolio. The advice we received from AMS was truly world class."

Rodney C. Henry

Pharmacia Corporation

Engineering Manager

Global Engineering PMO

“The team at AMS not only helped us to design and roll out a training curriculum to 15 plants in 5 countries they stood behind the programs and made sure we could mobilize the global learning department. Their instructors are experienced and most importantly practitioners who know the real-world issues associated with globalization, (no pun intended).”

Susan Cunningham

Corporate HR Director

Munters Corporation

"Since we are in our infancy stage of the Project Management Office, your team’s guidance and philosophies contributed to how we moved forward. Tom Flynn was instrumental in helping the Project Managers pass the PMP exam the first time. Through Tom’s training classes, Hannaford has started creating methodologies within IT that are being used on most projects. We would highly recommend Advanced Management Services for any project management consulting, methodology build out or training project. You were a pleasure to deal with and very experienced in helping guide us through this process."

Kathy McGuire

PMO Leadership Team Lead

Hannaford Brothers

"The AMS team was able to effectively coordinate our offshore efforts while producing a comprehensive measurement system for our vendors performance. The AMS consultant was diverse in his understanding of the offshore marketplace and quite able to offer experience from both sides of the relationship equation."

Eso Gacanin

Business Development Officer

The World Bank, Southeast Europe Enterprise Development

“The efforts that AMS and their team set forth were most valuable to the university. Without the professional project planning and assistance with process development I am quite certain we would have failed with our efforts to create a true customer facing event. All of our vendors, exhibitors and presenters were quite satisfied and have agreed to return next year. I would highly recommend the AMS staff to anyone seeking advise on conference or event management.”

Mark Gould

Director of Corporate Education

Boston University

"I would highly recommend your firm to anyone seeking a customer focused management consultancy. I have had the opportunity to work with many consulting firms in my position and have never seen one so truly focused on customer satisfaction. Your company's willingness to be flexible and creative is overshadowed only by the firm's ability to deliver quality."

Wendy Dobrindt

Assistant Controller

Hartford Financial Products

"My group thoroughly enjoyed the training, as did I. I think the introspection that resulted from our discussions will be as valuable as any scheduling tool will ever be because if people can have a clear perspective of the situations that project management present, they can be far better in human interaction. Human interaction is what creates results in what we do."

Gregory Sundberg

Operations Manager

JJ Wild, Inc.

"My expectations for the course were that we would leave with a plan to study for the test as well as an understanding of what would be on it. As I am sure you know, Tom did an excellent job on both those areas. As a bonus Tom was able to shed some "real project management skills" not just test knowledge. What impressed me was his presence, clarity of subject matter, ability to keep students engaged, and overall professionalism. It was unexpected gift. I hope we are able to engage Tom again for more practical learning's for our particular business."

JoAnn Martin

Senior Project Manager

Pitney Bowes

"Phil Ventresca, Dick Kropp and Tom Flynn have played an integral role in helping us achieve our organizational development goals. I am confident that the long term results will prove to be beneficial and critical for this company’s continued success. I would be happy to recommend Advanced Management Services, Inc. to anyone wishing to partner with a conscientious results-driven team of professionals."

Joseph Alen

President & CEO

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

"The training has been delivered effectively, comprehensively and with interest to one of the toughest audiences, hard nosed project managers. A measure of this success is reflected in the fact that all students (over 50) who have taken the PMP certifying exam have passed with flying colors. And, now we are embarking on a BA track to meet the future needs of our IT department."

Richard Humphrey

Chairman, PM Steering Committee
Westinghouse Government Services Group

"Your staff came on board to provide a project intervention and risk analysis associated with critical path deliverables. Each initiative your team was assigned to represented mission critical items and were necessary to complete merger activity. All of the AMS staff were competent in specific areas and worked seamlessly with our transition teams. Your organizations ability to identify risk, calculate impact and provide us with mitigation strategies made it possible to execute a much more effective revised implementation plan. I believe that we could not have effectively accomplished our goals without the AMS efforts."

Susan Cervassi

Manager Performance/Risk Management

NSTAR

"The ability that Victor has to fully understand the dynamics of Human Capital Management from both an organizational and behavioral perspective is impressive. The depth of the AMS team is vast and the firms ability to grasp and understand sensitive issues was the key to our project success.

Steve Patrick

VP Human Resources

GPO

"Their presentation is sophisticated, thought provoking and humorous. They have the ability to entertain while providing key messages...the combination of Tom and Phil offers a vast and unique set of real-life experiences, a key to effective teaching."

Lucy Davis

Director, Project Management

CIGNA Technology Group

"The tireless effort that you and your organization provided was invaluable to our team. You proposed clear deliverables and you accomplished each one in a timely, complete and customer-focused manner. Your organization met and exceeded our expectations. After working with AMS, we have learned that 'synergy' is more than a buzzword. It's achievable! We are now more capable to select vendors and manage their contracts as well as reducing cost over run on projects. Additionally, we have improved the relationships with suppliers and have been able to more effectively negotiate long term engagements ultimately reducing the costs associated with bidding and RFP development.”

Jim Galloway

GBU Project Management Team Leader

Allegheny Power

"As you know, I was anxious that we would be addressing more theoretical issues in our workshop and not incorporating them into daily practical issues. You clearly bridged the gap and opened up the thought process on many of the ideas presented."

Richard Grassis

Vice President of Marketing

RISO, Inc.

"Mr. Ventresca and Mr. Flynn were dynamic and powerful facilitators, capable of presenting material and new philosophies to our management team."

Bryan Elliott

Human Resources Manager

LMI

"I feel your group needs assessment, discussion of priority issues and use of the Pareto Analysis really made the staff feel bought into the training process... We have implemented several of the steps you recommended, and am pleased we were able to work together to develop such a concrete action plan."

Tracey Armstrong

Customer Service Manager

Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

"AMS exceeded the expectations of our employees, keeping the audience interested and providing useful information for implementation in their everyday work."

Edward Libbey

President

Whatman Inc.

"The employees attending Mr. Ventresca and Mr. Flynn's class showed a post-assessment group average increase of 15 standard score points which would reflect an average 22% change. We are very pleased with the results of the seminar, and expect continued growth as time goes on. The presentation you gave was not canned, but fluid, vibrant and effective."

Tony Cannistraci

Chief, Education Branch

Internal Revenue Service

"Thank you for your outstanding presentation. I am confident that with your ability to service your clients as well as you did with NHD, your business will continue to move forward."

Kate Costedio

Director of Human Resources

NHD Stores

"Based on feedback from the attendees, your course was the favorite of the certificate program. It was well run, the concepts/techniques were applicable to real life, and administratively well organized."

Beth Cennami

Learning & Development

NYNEX (Bell Atlantic)

"Everyone that took the class had nothing but praise and awe for Tom’s teaching and his knowledge of Project Management. I would (and in fact have) recommend Tom to any person or organization that is looking for an energetic, fun, professional and extremely knowledgeable Project Management instructor."

Greg Brown

Project Director

Westinghouse

"The AMS team was instrumental in assisting us to manage and improve the off shore development projects required of our group. We were able to work more effectively with our partners and ultimately provide our customers with a better quality product."

Marty Holmes

Manager of AARCO

State Street Bank

"Our associates have shown great enthusiasm toward the new systems and procedures. Corporately, we have experienced measurable sales growth which I feel is directly related to the systems, procedures and training that your company is providing."

Fred Hilton

President

Pinnacle Brokers

"The "Transaction Factory" platform, technology and process design project that AMS assisted with was a great success. Because of the external team's expertise we were able to create a proprietary platform that interacted with our publishers document management programs. This allowed us to share and access archived rights information timely and accurately while maintaining both financial and regulatory compliance. The implementation was SOX aligned and proved to be a best in class application for two predominant publishers who ended up embracing our technology. We could not have done this well without the AMS team."

Dan Castengay

IT Project Manager

Copyright Clearance Center

"The training we received from the AMS team was insightful, current and tailored to our environment/industry. Because of the training we have been able to improve and sustain performance within the IT PM department.

Bill McGuire

Director of Training

Abbott Laboratories