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Session One Presenters' Bios Barry G. MaciakExecutive Director Institute for Economic Transformation, Duquesne University Managing Partner World-Class Industrial Networks, LLC After working as a welder and machinist for six years in the early 1970's Mr. Maciak began his professional career as a community organizer for the regions' federal anti-poverty organization Community Action Pittsburgh. After a few years as a community organizer, Mr. Maciak joined the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh's Bureau for Social Programs and Community Action where he was at the forefront of the developing community and economic development initiatives for the growing numbers of unemployed industrial workers in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1987 he opened the Boyle Center in Homestead, Pennsylvania to house emerging businesses and economic development and training programs focusing on the needs of the regions unemployed. In 1988, Mr. Maciak joined the newly forming Southwestern Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Centers (SPIRC) program as Managing Director. In 1993, Mr. Maciak developed World-Class Industrial Network (WIN). WIN is a community oriented consulting firm founded to design, develop and manage projects and services for industrial, university and economic development organizations. WIN has been under contract with Duquesne University since 1993 to develop and manage the Institute for Economic Transformation (IET) at the Graduate School for Business Administration. Mr. Maciak serves as Executive Director of IET. Mr. Maciak has conducted workshops and presented at seminars throughout the U.S., Northern Ireland and Japan on the topics of manufacturing modernization, management training and industrial networking. Mr. Maciak holds a BA in political science from Point Park College.
William Freed Mr. Freed is President and CEO of the FREEdLANCE Group for Career and Workforce Innovation, which works to enhance a quality of life by applying technology, modern management principles, and best practices to career and workforce development systems and programs. Over the last decade, they have spearheaded a variety of workforce development initiatives that utilized technology to better collaborate between employers and learning providers. As the Project Managers for the southwestern Pennsylvania Information Technology Regional Skills Alliance, FREEdLANCE has used its IT technical insights and regional workforce perspectives to help validate and pilot an IT essential skills model, facilitate regional IT skill dialogues, and begin to engage stakeholders in discussion about what a regional IT Skills Alliance could do to support local industries and learning providers. For the past year and a half, the FREEdLANCE Group, on behalf of Workforce Connections and the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, has lead structured workforce development needs analysis for the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Cluster, as well as Call Centers - which are an integral part of the finance and insurance industry. Now, with the Duquesne University Institute for Economic Transformation (IET), the needs analysis results are being used as the basis of a Customer Services Supply Chain pilot project FREEdLANCE is planning with IET and regional firms in finance, insurance, and call centers. |
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