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John Fredericksen, MBA
General Manager, Microsoft Services

With a degree in Electrical Engineering, Fredericksen combines technical and business skills to drive the development and operations of the Microsoft Web site, the fifth largest Web site in the world. He is skilled in developing product plans and go-to-market strategies for business infrastructure products and online services. He is also involved with developing high performing teams.

Gordon Gray
Project Manager, Factory System Integration The Boeing Commercial Airplane Company

Gray has led corporate initiatives related to management development, MRP application training, and manufacturing re-engineering as part of an end to end program of improvement of the Commercial Airplane programs at The Boeing Company. At Safeco Insurance he assisted IT application development groups with the delivery of their products and services from a network infrastructure perspective as a Technical Coordinator. At Getty Images in the Project Management Office, Gray managed the interaction between development, QA, and technical services in order to assure on-time delivery of products and services. Now back at Boeing, Gray is leading efforts to implement improved factory systems to support BCA manufacturing requirements. He has a B.A. in education from Central Washington University, a fifth-year education degree from University of Washington, and an M.S. in Project Management from City University.

Steve Markgraf
Program Manager, Business and Strategic Planning, Procurement Quality Assurance, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Markgraf has more than 16 years of experience in project, program and business plan management. Prior to working for The Boeing Company, Markgraf spent 13 years traveling to more than 50 countries while working as a freelance supervisor and project manager on sub-sea diving operations in the North Sea, South China Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

Markgraf has a master's certificate in project management from George Washington University and is currently completing a master's in technical management from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Co-founder of the Northwest Learning Forum in Puget Sound, he also teaches Microsoft applications classes.

Instructors are subject to change.