Walt Lipke has over 35 years of experience in the development, maintenance, and management of software for automated testing and industrial process control. During his tenure, the organization he managed achieved several software process improvement milestones, including the coveted SEI/IEEE award for Software Process Achievement. Mr. Lipke has published several articles and presented at conferences, internationally, on the application of Earned Value Management and Earned Schedule. He is the creator of the technique, Earned Schedule, which extracts schedule information from earned value data. Mr. Lipke is a graduate of the USA DoD course for Program Managers, a professional engineer with a master’s degree in physics, a member of the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma, and achieved distinguished academic honors with the selection to Phi Kappa Phi. He received the PMI Eric Jenett Award in 2007 for his contribution of the Earned Schedule method.