IAPM Facilitators & Ambassadors

Schmidt, Udo

Schmidt, Udo

Ambassador and Senior Official for the Metropolitan Area Hamburg (Germany)

Udo Schmidt is a Certified Senior, Agile and International Project Manager (IAPM) who has been working in the areas of quality and project management for more than 30 years. He has held diverse management positions at corporations such as Krupp and Körber, including Project Manager and Head of Project Management for large equipment and machinery construction in turnkey projects, and Quality Officer. In 2000 he founded his own company, us4quality, which specialises in equipment, machine, rail vehicle and ship construction as well as automotive projects, and he performs consultant and interim management functions in these projects. Udo is a voluntary assessor and also trains assessors for the EFQM and GPM excellence models. As IAPM Senior Official for the Metropolitan Area of Hamburg, he is responsible for IAPM events in Hamburg and the surrounding region of northern Germany.
As IAPM Ambassador he promotes the IAPM in his work environments and cultivates special relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
Lampert Ph.D., Thomas

Lampert Ph.D., Thomas

Ambassador

Dr Thomas Lampert is a consultant specialising in the development of marketing and business strategies. He works both on a freelance basis and in collaboration with leading management consultancy firms. In a career spanning over 20 years as an employee of leading IT outsourcing services providers he gained marketing experience and held various management positions.
Another focal area of Dr Lampert’s work is knowledge transfer between universities and companies. He is also a university lecturer with an international orientation whose lectures regularly include projects with companies in different sectors of industry.
In his role as IAPM ambassador, he is especially committed to setting up cooperations with universities.
Ottmann, Linda

Ottmann, Linda

Chief Communication Officer

Linda Ottmann M.Sc., is Certified Project Manager and Certified Agile Project Manager. As CCO, she represents the IAPM and is responsible for IAPM's public relations. She ensures that the reputation of the IAPM is built up and maintained. As CCO she is the contact person for the IAPM Network Officials, IAPM partners, certificate holders and all interested parties.
Steinmüller, Harald

Steinmüller, Harald

Ambassador

Harald Steinmüller is Chairman of the IAPM’s “International Project Management“ Council of Experts. In this function, he was a key contributor to the PM Guide for International Project Management and the associated certification system. After almost 25 years in management and project management functions in the household appliance industry, including many years spent abroad in Australia, Asia and Eastern Europe, he founded “Harald Steinmüller Projekt Partner” in 2011. In addition to being an IAPM training partner, HSPP provides project management services to companies requiring external project managers. He works freelance on international projects, either providing advice and support to project teams or actually managing the project. For three years now he has been collaborating with the global company RavenTech GmbH, which gives him access to an experienced and long-established team of specialists.
As IAPM Ambassador he promotes the IAPM in his work environments and cultivates special relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

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For better readability, we usually only use the generic masculine form in our texts. Nevertheless, the expressions refer to members of all genders.