Henry Yeh is the GPO Project Manager, in charge of day-to-day activities and overall project execution. Henry is a highly disciplined and successful manager, has strong skills in conflict resolution, and is often responsible for ensuring that engineers, academic researchers, and even senior corporate management resolve their issues quickly and diplomatically. He is a longtime member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Boston Chapter.

From 2001 to 2006, Henry was the project manager for Chip Elliott’s DARPA Quantum Network project. The project mixed research with engineering, building high-risk prototypes that were then installed into the testbed. Henry’s challenge was to create a management process that reflected the engineering requirements: the multi-organizational team had to build a testbed within two years. At the same time, the process needed to respect the research aspects of the program. Much of the necessary equipment did not exist, and it was not certain it could be fabricated! Accordingly, the project was managed to over-arching annual plans but each project member was invited to develop their own task list to meet the annual goals.

Henry’s project management experience started with IBM in 1978 when he first became an engineering manager. He first worked at BBN in the early 1990s, managing high performance networking hardware projects. In the late 1990s, Henry was the VP of Engineering at Quarry Technologies, a startup company. He oversaw the growth of an engineering team from 12 employees to over 150. He established the engineering organizational structure, hardware and software development processes, performance review process, and incentive plan.

Henry received his BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a MSEE from Syracuse. He holds 2 patents.