Project Management Essentials, Fourth Edition: A Quick and Easy Guide to the Most Important Concepts and Best Practices for Managing Your Projects Right

WILLIAM P. ATHAYDE, J.D., PMP, Senior Instructor, PM College. As a senior faculty member of the PM College, Bill’s responsibilities include classroom and virtual training, course development, and consulting on training issues as well as project management. Bill gained his project management experience working in oil spill and hazardous materials remediation projects, construction, systems development and integration, and as the program manager of a team composed of 120 representatives of fourteen federal agencies, six state governments, and industry. He also served as COO of a 165-person environmental services company in Virginia. Bill has authored various papers and spoken on disaster recovery planning and operations, project and program team dynamics, CAMEO (Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations), and emergency response. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

RUTH ELSWICK, PMP, Senior Instructor, PM College. In addition to teaching the PM College curriculum, Ruth contributes her extensive project management experience in curriculum development and instructor mentoring. Ruth gained her project management experience working in FDA-regulated industries. She has held various project management positions for major pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device organizations. These positions included managing a multi-million-dollar global biotech start-up as well as establishing a project office and the implementation of a project selection process. Ruth also currently serves as an adjunct professor in project management at Florida International University.

PAUL LOMBARD, PMP, a Library of Congress registered expert in Project Management, has over 25 years’ experience in the project management space and is the owner of Global Training Group, LLC, a strategic program and project training and consulting company in Virginia Beach Virginia. Paul’s responsibilities include classroom facilitation, course development, and project and quality management consulting and instructor mentorship. Paul gained his project management experience as a project and program manager for the U.S. government. He has also worked with many for profit and non-governmental not-for-profit organizations around the world since leaving government. He is a certified master trainer and curriculum developer and has developed numerous on-site and distance-learning training courses in project management, leadership, team skills, core facilitation, quality management, program management, complex project management, and strategic management. Paul was awarded a Distinguished Civil Service Medal for his project work while assigned as an internal consultant to the Department of the Navy.

DEBORAH BIGELOW CRAWFORD, PMP, President, PM College. Debbie is responsible for the fiscal management and quality assurance of the PM College program. Her previous experience as Executive Director of the Project Management Institute (PMI) has given her the expertise to manage and develop new initiatives and programs for this fast-paced and innovative project management training company. Debbie also serves as Executive Vice President of Project Management Solutions, Inc. (PM Solutions). She has served as a contributing editor to PM Network, Chief Project Officer, and Optimize magazines and has published numerous papers in PMI’s Congress Proceedings and presented internationally on a wide range of project management issues.