Every organization has a history.  Every organization can draw upon that history to deal with the challenges it faces today. The hard-won lessons of an organization’s past can be of enormous value to its leaders and project managers. 

PMAL was started by John Baniszewski after his retirement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Mr. Baniszewski has a passion for history, as well as a unique ability to study the lessons of the past and apply them to the situations that we face every day.  Mr. Baniszewski combines these traits with his extensive NASA experience to create and deliver training programs that are interesting, innovative, and useful.

In his 33-year career, he served as a Deputy Project Manager of Resources and Financial Manager for a number of NASA space flight projects.  His responsibilities included project management, cost estimating, budget development and execution, proposal development, and formulation planning.  He also has extensive experience in procurement, having served as a Procurement Manager and Contracting Officer for hundreds of contracts, worth more than $6B.

Mr. Baniszewski also has extensive experience in developing and teaching training programs in Project Management, Procurement, and Leadership Development. He teaches courses for NASA’s Academy of Program, Project, and Engineering Leadership (APPEL), and was a faculty member of Goddard Space Flight Center’s Project Management Knowledge Works.  These organizations are responsible for training NASA’s project management workforce. 

Mr. Baniszewski also conducts leadership training programs based on the lessons of Gettysburg and Antietam.  He is a Licensed Battlefield Guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park. He has led over two thousand people on more than 400 tours of the battlefield.