Management Approach

The management structure above has been in place since August 2002. The General Manager oversees the entire project from inception to production.

The Project Manager helps the individual managers with their responsibilities, works to keep the project on schedule, and addresses any problems that may arise. The individual managers listed below all have primary tasks, but can also be found accomplishing tasks not related to their formal title. 

The Funding Manager handles most budget issues, including personnel costs, resource requirements, and allocation of received funding to include lobbying for grants.

The Design manager is responsible for the design of our product, procurement of design personal if needed, testing of the design, and will design and develop the product prototype for phase II. The design manager will also work closely with the research manager in procuring the proper marketing personal.

The Research Manager is responsible for ensuring all departments have cutting edge information to accomplish all tasks. The research manager will continue throughout all phases to investigate all issues pertinent to the project and will work closely with the design manager in procuring marketing.

The Technical Writing Manager is responsible for developing a Work Breakdown Structure containing a Gantt chart detailing our objectives, tasks, and risks. The technical writing manager will also develop a Project Implementation Plan with the help of the group that will guide us through each of the three project phases. The Technical writing manager is, and has been, instrumental in ensuring all documents and documentation is compiled professionally.

The Technical Expert is responsible for drafting documentation such as features of our product.  The technical expert will also oversee the technical and critical design of our product and be responsible for personal directly involved in the creation of our product such as (but not limited to) software and electrical engineers. The technical expert will work closely with the design manager.

The Webmaster/Presentations manager is responsible for creating and maintaining the company website. As the presentations manager responsibilities will be to task each department to produce documents showing their progress and accomplishments to present to funding agencies, marketing companies, retailers, and other interested parties.

Below is an expanded management structure that will evolve more definitively during phase II of the project.