Advanced Project Management and Leadership

Johns Hopkins University Instructor

Amy has spent 25+ years working at Texas Instruments, with her current role as Director of Program Management and Product Engineering for the MSP Business in Embedded Processors. Amy has 20+ years’ experience in New Product Development , and is one of the few PMs elected as Senior Members of the Technical Staff. As a Project Management Professional (PMP), she has a passion for mentoring other PMs to enable their success, which is why she is a key member of the PM Council for TI. Additionally, Amy is a an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University in Whiting School of Engineering: Engineering Management(EM) program, as well as serving as an EM academic advisor and the EM track advisor for the Master of Science in Global Innovation and Leadership through Engineering (MSIL) program.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration in Project Management from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Johns Hopkins University Instructor

Buck Buchanan is a native of New Hampshire and now resides in The Villages, Florida. Buck enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from college in 1972 and received his commission in 1976. He then retired as a Colonel after 29+ years serving in various stateside and overseas operational, staff, and command positions. He joined The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) as a Project Area Manager. In 2008, he joined Raytheon Solipsys as the Director of Business Development and held that position until 2012. Buck is currently a lecturer, course leader, and student advisor for the JHU Whiting School’s Engineering for Professionals Program. He has been teaching for JHU EP since 2002.

Buck has a Bachelor of Science degree from Bryant University, and Masters degrees from Southern Illinois University, the University of Oklahoma, and Air University. He is also a published author with articles in East Asia – an International Quarterly; the book Can America Remain Committed–US Security Horizons in the 1990s; the first edition of Air University’s Airpower Journal; and in JHU/APL’s Technical Digest.