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Behind the Scenes: A Tale of Two Cities

A waterway scene showing Seattle skyline with skyscrapers under a clear blue sky on the left, and colorful, narrow canal houses in Amsterdam reflected in calm water on the right.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” —C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Seattle & Amsterdam in Sync! For Aponwao, this feels uncannily familiar, not in revolutionary France, but in the conditions under which work succeeds or […]

Planning the Future: How Young Students Are Applying Project Management to City Design

City of Wenatchi diorama on a bright yellow display featuring a grid of tiny painted buildings connected by sticks, green hills and brown mountains capped with snow rising in the background. A blue river, representing the Columbia River, along the front, and a tall blue building on the right, with a round Wenatchi logo showing mountains and a sun in the center.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.“ A. Einstein  City of Wenatchi Project On behalf of the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF), I had the pleasure of serving as judge for the Washington State region of Future City 2025–2026, the ultimate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics […]

Managing the Digital Closet of Communication Chaos

Scattered documentation within a Cloud

Are your project documents scattered across platforms? Is your inbox overflowing? Ever felt overwhelmed by this mess? Managing digital communication can feel like taming chaos. In this post, I share how disorganization affects communications, document accessibility, and time efficiency. I also share my strategies for organizing a project’s digital space. The Effects of Disorganization The […]