Lecturer :Jack Harpool
PhD, PMP
Author and Course Lecturer
A Practical Guide to Project Management Principles: Pass the PMP Exam
Author and Course Lecturer
A Practical Guide to Project Management Principles: Pass the PMP Exam
My Core Values: To Live, Learn, Love, Give, and Leave a Legacy
My Favorite Quote: “I will strive and get ready and perhaps one day my chance will come” -President Abraham Lincoln
Dr Jack D. Harpool, PMP, is the Founder and CEO of Global Project Management Information Systems Services, which has been in business for over a decade, and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Dr. Harpool has served as a consultant both to the Federal Government and to commercial businesses, Ashland University and worked as a Senior Plans and Operations Information Technology (IT) Consultant to the Pentagon with a Top Level Secret Security Clearance and for the Under – Secretary of the US Army, Department of Defense on numerous, special classified IT projects.A graduate of the University of Akron with an earned PhD and a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, Dr. Harpool retired as an Army Reserve Officer at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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Background : My brother Jerry (former Pastor of Grace Bible Church, New Franklin Ohio), and my Dad and I, would view the National Geographic Magazine films. These educational films were sponsored by my late father’s employer: The BFG Goodrich Co, now the Bridgestone-Firestone Company. My father was a factory worker in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He manually built tires, often working till midnight, in the hot and sweltering heat produced by the curing tire molds. This was a strong man’s job where the factory floor was rightly called the Pit.
Abraham Lincoln words left an indelible mark on my young mind, as I remember my Dad coming home late at night, bone tired and covered with the black carbon soot of his work.
“If only that statement were true, I would wonder?” My father had a 3rd grade education and my mother, a 9th grade education twice. Hungry for a formal education, she had “begged” her teacher to allow her to once again repeat her 9th grade, because there were no high schools in walking distance where she lived on a remote farm in the mountains of Tennessee.
My brother and I grew up on Home Avenue located in the North Hill (inner city) area and were taught and conditioned by both parents: “to study, to learn and to do”. My parents were extraordinary hard workers, who both wanted their boys to “amount to something”.
While in Junior High school, my Dad and brother Jerry and I would go to the Salvation Army, Goodwill and the Akron-City Dump to purchase used bikes to renovate and resell. As a young lad this was the beginning of my business career– Dad being the bike engineer and Mom being the motivator. Every Fall and Winter, we would rebuild some 20 to 25 bikes which were resold come Spring.
My 7th grade year, I remember that my Mom, while preparing supper, spoke to my Dad; if “Jack doesn’t settle down and become focused”, that she “doubted he would be able to “enter” college, let alone “graduate” from college”. I was alone studying in my bedroom becoming extremely depressed upon hearing this. I shortly afterwards, challenged her statement and she said that it was true. Days later, I decided not to live that scripted statement, but to the contrary, decided to disprove ‘her prediction”.
During North High School, I had my first “promotion”, encouraged by my mother, I took a job as a “custodial helper”. The pay was 90 cents an hour and my brother and I worked Monday through Friday every week from 3:30 to 7:30 PM. We cleaned everything that needed cleaned. After work, I studied late at night preparing for the next day of school. I was “studying, learning and doing” at the same time.
In the early 1960’s, I was a student at the University of Akron (U of A) majoring in Industrial Management and working some 30 hours per week at the A and P Grocery Store. During my Junior and Senior years, I received an ROTC Army scholarship and was later commissioned as a Reserve officer- 2nd Lt. in the US Army at 22 years old. The Viet Nam war was full tilt and I delayed entry into the military to achieve an MBA at U of A., after spending two (2) years on active duty (in California and Korea in Information Technology) and later was honorably discharged. Returning to UA as a professor of their Computer Systems Program and in addition completed a PhD. I was studying and learning and doing and Abraham Lincoln’s statement was becoming true for me, with God’s help. During my tenure at AU, I wrote numerous college level text books that would be used at well over 350 US and international universities. I would later be “called up in the 1970″s” as an Army Reservist and ultimately retire as a Lt Colonel assigned to special classified IT Pentagon ‘top secret” projects, while also being a full time Professor at UA. In addition to UA I was also a professor at Youngstown State University and Ashland University
I am happily married to Elaine, my dear wife of 45 years she is my best friend and help mate in life. She has been encouraging and faithful in so many endeavors. Without her and her equally hard work and support, any measure of success would not have been achieved….”two are better than one”. We have 2 very successful children and are the proud grandparents of 4 grandchildren. My wife is my partner in our business- Greensburg Park Self Storage, located in Green Ohio. My story includes so many others that have helped me in so many ways from financially, teaching, advise, encouragement and support.
This is my personal story. I have no idea what the future holds, but this I do know “GOD holds the Future” and that if you seek GOD in your life, your life’s journey can be exciting, certainly not always predictable and oftentimes extremely difficult, dangerous and possibly placed in harm’s way. Still … GOD promises to lead us as we acknowledge Him.
Remember: our former President Lincoln’s statement:
“I will strive and get ready and perhaps one day my chance will come.”
May GOD bless you in all that you do and…
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Reference or Source : https://globalproject.management/our-team/
Abraham Lincoln words left an indelible mark on my young mind, as I remember my Dad coming home late at night, bone tired and covered with the black carbon soot of his work.
“If only that statement were true, I would wonder?” My father had a 3rd grade education and my mother, a 9th grade education twice. Hungry for a formal education, she had “begged” her teacher to allow her to once again repeat her 9th grade, because there were no high schools in walking distance where she lived on a remote farm in the mountains of Tennessee.
My brother and I grew up on Home Avenue located in the North Hill (inner city) area and were taught and conditioned by both parents: “to study, to learn and to do”. My parents were extraordinary hard workers, who both wanted their boys to “amount to something”.
While in Junior High school, my Dad and brother Jerry and I would go to the Salvation Army, Goodwill and the Akron-City Dump to purchase used bikes to renovate and resell. As a young lad this was the beginning of my business career– Dad being the bike engineer and Mom being the motivator. Every Fall and Winter, we would rebuild some 20 to 25 bikes which were resold come Spring.
My 7th grade year, I remember that my Mom, while preparing supper, spoke to my Dad; if “Jack doesn’t settle down and become focused”, that she “doubted he would be able to “enter” college, let alone “graduate” from college”. I was alone studying in my bedroom becoming extremely depressed upon hearing this. I shortly afterwards, challenged her statement and she said that it was true. Days later, I decided not to live that scripted statement, but to the contrary, decided to disprove ‘her prediction”.
During North High School, I had my first “promotion”, encouraged by my mother, I took a job as a “custodial helper”. The pay was 90 cents an hour and my brother and I worked Monday through Friday every week from 3:30 to 7:30 PM. We cleaned everything that needed cleaned. After work, I studied late at night preparing for the next day of school. I was “studying, learning and doing” at the same time.
In the early 1960’s, I was a student at the University of Akron (U of A) majoring in Industrial Management and working some 30 hours per week at the A and P Grocery Store. During my Junior and Senior years, I received an ROTC Army scholarship and was later commissioned as a Reserve officer- 2nd Lt. in the US Army at 22 years old. The Viet Nam war was full tilt and I delayed entry into the military to achieve an MBA at U of A., after spending two (2) years on active duty (in California and Korea in Information Technology) and later was honorably discharged. Returning to UA as a professor of their Computer Systems Program and in addition completed a PhD. I was studying and learning and doing and Abraham Lincoln’s statement was becoming true for me, with God’s help. During my tenure at AU, I wrote numerous college level text books that would be used at well over 350 US and international universities. I would later be “called up in the 1970″s” as an Army Reservist and ultimately retire as a Lt Colonel assigned to special classified IT Pentagon ‘top secret” projects, while also being a full time Professor at UA. In addition to UA I was also a professor at Youngstown State University and Ashland University
I am happily married to Elaine, my dear wife of 45 years she is my best friend and help mate in life. She has been encouraging and faithful in so many endeavors. Without her and her equally hard work and support, any measure of success would not have been achieved….”two are better than one”. We have 2 very successful children and are the proud grandparents of 4 grandchildren. My wife is my partner in our business- Greensburg Park Self Storage, located in Green Ohio. My story includes so many others that have helped me in so many ways from financially, teaching, advise, encouragement and support.
This is my personal story. I have no idea what the future holds, but this I do know “GOD holds the Future” and that if you seek GOD in your life, your life’s journey can be exciting, certainly not always predictable and oftentimes extremely difficult, dangerous and possibly placed in harm’s way. Still … GOD promises to lead us as we acknowledge Him.
Remember: our former President Lincoln’s statement:
“I will strive and get ready and perhaps one day my chance will come.”
May GOD bless you in all that you do and…
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Reference or Source : https://globalproject.management/our-team/