Blair Alan Knapp, Jr., MSPM, PMP

Senior Consulting Manager with Robbins Gioia, LLC.

Blair Alan Knapp, Jr. holds a Master of Science in Project Management from Boston University, a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from The George Washington University, a Masters Certificate in Project Management from Boston University, and a Masters Certificate in Unix System Administration from The George Washington University. He also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).  Mr. Knapp lectures frequently to PMI audiences on program management-related subjects such as Earned Value, Communications Planning, and program control aspects of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).  He also teaches a seminar on Earned Value at Northern Virginia Community College (NoVa).

Mr. Knapp has consulted in program and project management for the past seventeen years, concentrating on acquisition management including Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC), for the past ten.  He specializes in strategic planning and portfolio governance, Earned Value and Operational Analysis, program control, and facilitation.

Mr. Knapp joined Robbins Gioia in 2004, where he initially supported the US-VISIT Program Office as a program control analyst. Here, he developed and maintained the program's Earned Value Plan, Policy and Procedures. He also developed and maintained the Program's Program Management Review Plan, Process and Procedures. Currently, Mr. Knapp supports the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Here, he drafted the TSA EVMS Policy, MD 300.11, and supports the Office of Security Operations staff in their outreach to the program managers.

Prior to this, Mr. Knapp worked for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace and, subsequently, The Boeing Company installing and supporting systems at such US commands as EUCOM, JAC, SHAPE, and JICPAC. While at Boeing, he also served as an IT program Configuration Manager. He followed these efforts as a consulting manager with Verity, Inc., a Sunnyvale California-based software company, managing its projects in its Federal market space.  Mr. Knapp is a veteran of the US Navy, where he served first as the aviation squadron Intelligence Officer, then on staff in the Pentagon's Desert Shield/Desert Storm Joint Intelligence Center.