MICHAEL D. TAYLOR, M.S., MPM, FAAPM, is a master project manager and has over 30 years of engineering and project management experience. He is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Project Management. During this time, he managed projects ranging in value from $2 million to $20 million by successfully directing multifunctional, multicultural project teams. Mr. Taylor managed outsourced projects with other major companies including:
n
Honeywell Satellite
Systems, Phoenix, Arizona 
n Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida
n Scientific Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
n LNR Incorporated, Long Island, New York
n AEC-Able Engineering, Santa Barbara, California
n LTV Incorporated, Dallas, Texas
n RACAL Communications Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland
n Electrospace Systems Incorporated, Garland, Texas
Mr. Taylor is principal of Systems Management Services, a management training and consulting company specializing in project and program management. In addition to conducting project management courses, he is also the UCSC Extension Business and Management Coordinator for the Project and Program Management (PPM) Certificate Program. He has conducted project management training at companies such as GTE, Siemens, TRW, Sun Microsystems, Loral, Minolta, Santa Clara Valley Water District, and Inprise (Borland). He has conducted classes in the UCSC Extension Leadership & Management Program (LAMP) and was a guest speaker at the Santa Cruz Technology Symposium.
In addition to teaching project management courses at UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley, he regularly contributes relevant articles to the International Community for Project Managers (ICPM), and the Project Manager's HUT, considered to be the largest database of categorized Project Management articles.
Major Awards
n Space Station Freedom Superior Performance Award
n Lockheed Project P285 Subcontracts Management Award
n Lockheed President's Award (Dr. F. Oder)
n Lockheed Project P377 Proposal Team Award
UCSC Extension Involvement
Mr. Taylor has been teaching
in the UCSC Extension Business and Management Department’s Project and
Program Management Certificate program since 1995, and is also the
Project and Program Management Certificate Coordinator.