Walt Lipke retired from federal service with over 35 years of experience in the development, maintenance, and management of software for automated testing of avionics. As a manager, a career highlight was his organization's winning of the Software Engineering Institute / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award for Software Process Achievement. Mr. Lipke is a graduate of the USA DoD course for Program Managers. He is a professional engineer with a master's degree in physics, and is a member of the physics honor society, Sigma Pi Sigma. Lipke achieved distinguished academic honors with the selection to Phi Kappa Phi. He is the creator of Earned Schedule (ES). Mr. Lipke has published over ninety articles on the method, as well as the Earned Schedule book. Additionally, he has presented research on ES and its schedule performance analysis methods at several conferences in the United States, and internationally. For his contribution to project control, the practice of EVM, and the creation of ES, Mr. Lipke has received several awards: - 2007 Project Management Institute Metrics Specific Interest Group Scholar Award - 2007 Project Management Institute Eric Jenett Award for Project Management Excellence - 2013 Earned Value Management Europe Award - 2014 College of Performance Management Driessnack Distinguished Service Award In 2017, the Australian Project Governance and Control Symposium honored Mr. Lipke by establishing the annual Walt Lipke Project Governance and Control Excellence Award. The award is made for excellence in research, expanding knowledge of the management and governance of projects, programs, and portfolios in Australasia.