Mark Kozak-Holland

Project Lessons from the Great Escape is from the "Lessons from History" series. As the author behind the series, Mark Kozak-Holland brings years of experience as a consultant who helps Fortune-500 companies formulate projects that leverage emerging technologies. Since 1985 he has been straddling the business and IT worlds making these projects happen. He is a certified business consultant, the author of several books, and a noted speaker.

Mark has always been interested in tracing the evolution of technology and the 3 industrial revolutions of the last 300 years. Whilst recovering a failed Financial Services project he first used the Titanic analogy to explain to project executives why the project had failed. The project recovery was going to take 2 years and $8m cost versus the original $2m cost and 1 year duration.

As a historian, Kozak-Holland seeks out the wisdom of the past to help others avoid repeating mistakes and to capture time-proven techniques. His lectures on Lessons from History projects have been very popular at gatherings of project managers and CIOs.

Presenter Authorship: The books from the http://www.lessons-from-history.com series have been written for organizations applying today's business and technology techniques to common business problems. Lessons from the past assist projects of today in shaping the world of tomorrow. The series uses relevant historical case studies to examine how historical projects and emerging technologies of the past solved complex problems. It then draws comparisons to challenges encountered in today's projects.

Presenter Education: B.Sc. with Joint Honours degree in Computer Science and Statistics 1980-1983 (University of Salford, UK).

Presenter Current Employment: HP Services, Consulting and Integration