Miley W. (Lee) Merkhofer, Ph.D., provides project portfolio management training and facilitates workshops for organizations interested in implementing project portfolio management. His training workshops, which have been delivered to dozens of organizations and to more than 1,000 attendees, are constantly refined and consistently receive outstanding evaluations. You will not find a more knowledgeable and experienced source for education and advice for implementing project portfolio management.

Aditya Chinni, PMP is a Sr Manager at CSC a leading consulting company providing Project Management services to client SCE in LA. Training is passion for Aditya and successfully running weekend batches online.

Tom Carlos is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and member of the Sacramento Valley PMI Chapter. He has over 25 years of cumulative experience in business, technical, consulting, and training environments in both the private and public sectors. He is currently working with another partner at the California Department of Transportation performing an Independent Project Oversight Consulting (IPOC) engagement. Tom’s experience also includes overseeing installations of accounting systems, the development of Knowledge Management Office, and he served as a Chief Operating Officer for a small web development company. Since 2003, Tom has been teaching Project Management curriculum. His courses meet the stringent demands of students; that courses are intuitive, logical, and created with understandable language. Courses also incorporate lecture, discussion, and exercises which allow students to begin using the principles and applying them to a real world case scenario.

Robert Prieto, Senior Vice President Robert Prieto is senior vice president for Fluor, where he leads strategy for Fluor’s Industrial and Infrastructure group. Mr. Prieto focuses on the development and delivery of large, complex projects worldwide. Prior to joining Fluor, Bob served as chairman of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. As head of PB’s board of directors, he was responsible for overseeing management performance, establishing top-level policies, and ensuring the firm’s continued long term success. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, a member of the board of directors of the Business Council on International Understanding, a member of the board of the Civil Engineering Forum for Innovation, and co-founder and member of the board of the Disaster Resource Network. He currently serves on the National Research Council’s committee framing the challenges on Critical Infrastructure Systems. Until 2006 he served as one of three U.S. presidential appointees to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and served as chairman of the Engineering and Construction Governors of The World Economic Forum and co-chair of the infrastructure task force formed after September 11th by the New York City Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Polytechnic University of New York, and was previously selected as alumni of the year by its New York Chapter. He has had an executive sponsorship role in the World Trade Center Transportation Hub; West Coast Rail Modernization; Train Protection and Warning System; Level 3 Communications Long Haul Network and Superconducting Super Collider. Prieto holds a master of science in nuclear engineering from Polytechnic University of New York and a bachelor of science in nuclear engineering from New York University.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where I excelled at football, basketball, math, and art. I went to college at Princeton and earned a BS in Engineering. I then entered a career in industry, working in mining, manufacturing, metal fabricating, environmental services, and other related industries. Along the way I earned my MBA from Carnegie Mellon. After about 12 years I made a switch into the information technology field, becoming a Lotus Notes developer. I gradually moved into project management in that field. Today, I am in the project management consulting field, and have several web sites, including Project Management Training Online (pmtrainingonline.com), Lean Six Sigma Training Online (leansixsigmatrainingonline.com), and a growing blog site (PMcrunch.com).

A project manager with 15 years experience in financial services and IT leadership. Known in the project management community through speeches at many PMI Congresses and other events. A leading author on the topic of project charters and the relationship between projects and organizational strategy.

Anand Sanwal has developed and led the corporate portfolio management effort at a Fortune 50 diversified financial services company for the last several years. Corporate portfolio management encapsulates project and IT portfolio management and indicates the application of portfolio management to the entire organization and all discretionary project & investment areas, e.g, IT, marketing, R&D/innovation, sales, etc. The portfolio management effort he has developed has been recognized by many third parties as the most progressive portfolio management practice amongst large organizations. Those citing it include Baseline Magazine who estimated it had a 2700% ROI, the Executive Board, Gartner, CFO Magazine and many others. Most recently, Anand published a book entitled "Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management" which features a foreword by Citigroup CFO Gary Crittenden. He also recently directed this Fortune 50 organization's Innovation Fund which aimed to identify and fund emerging and disruptive business opportunities.

I have over 20 years experience in delivering complex web/software application projects. I have a Certificate of Project Management from Steven's Institute, Hoboken, NJ and 15 years of intense hands on experience. I have adopted many Agile Development/Project Management processes and follow a Risk focused approach to project management.

I have been involved in project management for over 13 years and I am a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). I have served as a project manager on numerous product development teams – some successful, and some, well, not so successful. However, I have learned from every endeavor. Now as a Program Manager for a major company in the Chicago, Illinois area, I manage a group of very talented project managers and in the process, I learn from them, and I hope they also feel that they learn from me. My goal is to provide some of that same knowledge and insight to others through pm411.org, and I hope that you will do the same.

I've been managing projects and programs since 1983. In 2007, I managed to write it "all" down in "Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management." I teach Pragmatic Project Management, Iterative/Incremental Development with Scrum, as well as several one-day workshops about pieces of project management (lifecycles, estimation, more to come). All of my workshops are interactive and experiential--you will learn by doing.

Thomas Cutting is a Project Management Mentor with Cutting’s Edge. His experience spans the entertainment, retail, insurance, banking, healthcare and automotive verticals. Managing and mentoring in this diverse background enables him to bring that learning to you through his training, writing and conference appearances. From Programmer to Program Management Office, Business Analyst to Quality Assurance Analyst, he has experienced first hand the problems that teams face. As a consultant he led the Project Office / Quality Assurance team for a large outsourcing engagement, experience that has helped him train and mentor Project Managers. He knows that the key to an effective Program Management Office is to listen to the issues and work with the team to find practical resolutions, not impose strictly theory-based processes. His contributions to the Project Management world include articles for Computerworld and InformIT as well as presenting at conferences for the Project Management Institute, International Institute for Software Process and the Southern California Quality Assurance Association. He is a regular contributor to several Project Management web sites and various forums.

I have 15 years of experience in Software Engineering and Project Management with the emphasis on disciplined delivery techniques. I have taught both PMP Prep Courses as well as practical 5 and 6 day Project Management immersion sessions at the Fortune 500 level. I focus mainly on Project Management Training as a corporate culture change mechanism or as a tool to jump-start accelerated improvement situations.

I've had 30 years of industry experience, 20 of it as a project manager or supervisor of project managers. I've been PMP Certified since 2000.
Since 1985, as a "side job", I have been teaching adults, first in PC and internet applications, then in Project Management and PMP Certification. I've co-developed a 12-CD PMP Prep course, providing the voice for the audio tracks myself.
I have been developing and delivering PM Master's Certicate courses at a local college and for Boston University's Corporate Education Center for the past several years.
Here's a good part about this: I have fun. Here's a better part: I keep learning from teaching. Which leads to more fun...and more learning ...and more teaching...

I'm Sr. Project Manager at Covansys a CSC company. As a Consulting Project/Program Manager I deliver multiple projects for my client Socal Edison. I also manage PMO-Skills Management for my company Covansys. Lifecycle management of technical projects is my specialization and passion. To help Project Managers who are trying to get PMP certification, I’m hosting a Project Management knowledge sharing web site at Aditya369.com

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Michael Wood is the Subject Matter Expert on IT Strategy and Business Process Improvement for www.gantthead.com. His "Helix Factor" book series presents a comprehensive Business Process Improvement methodology that has been used successfully since the early 1980s to help organizations achieve breakthrough results. Michael is a CPA and has served as an adjunct professor for Pepperdine and Cal Lutheran universities in Southern California. In addition he has led workshops on Business Process Improvement, Strategic Planning and System Design on a national and international basis.