Tom Kendrick

Tom Kendrick recently retired as Program Director for the project management curriculum at UC Berkeley Extension, and lives in the Bay area near San Francisco, California. He was awarded the 2010 Project Management Institute (PMI) David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award in October 2010 for "Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project" (now in it's third edition).

Tom regularly teaches classes and and given presentations on program, project, and risk management for conferences, associations, and universities. Tom spent 20 years with Hewlett Packard in its Project Management Initiative and in a variety of other project management roles. He has over 40 years of worldwide PM experience, including work for Visa, DuPont, General Electric, and as an independent consultant.

Tom has a BSEE from Princeton University, an MSEE from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a certified PMP and serves as a volunteer for both the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter and PMI.org.