About Bloggers

Lynda Bourne
Lynda Bourne, DPM, PMP, is an active PMI member focused on key aspects of organizational management including Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3^®) and stakeholder management. Professionally, she has authored books on stakeholder management and is a PMI SeminarsWorld^® presenter. Read Lynda's recent posts




Dan Goldfischer
As editor in chief, Dan Goldfischer is responsible for two of the publications received by members each month--PMI Today and PM Network. He helped launch the PMport news service and the expansion of the Virtual Library white papers page as major online information resources. Dan is a graduate Leadership Institute Masters Class of 2005. Read Dan's recent posts.




Michael Hatfield
Michael Hatfield, MBA, PMP, CCC, EVP, has written over 130 articles on project and portfolio management, appearing in Project Management Journal, PM Network, Cost Engineering, People in Projects, Gantthead, and The Measurable News.  He is also the author of Things Your PMO Is Doing Wrong, available through the PMI bookstore on this site.  Michael lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, sons, collie, barn cat, and goldfish, and can be reached at varthold@aol.com. Read Michael's recent posts.

Kelley Hunsberger
Kelley Hunsberger is an editor for PMI.org. She has also served as a managing editor for PMI's PM Network magazine. Read Kelley's recent posts.


Dmitri Ivanenko
Dmitri Ivanenko, PMP, is a project management consultant and founder of PM in Practice.Net, an online portal for practical tools and ideas for project management. His research focuses on practical side of project management, organizational behavior and the design of process driven structured approaches to project management within organizations. Dmitri hosts workshops and webinars that focus on sharing of practical ideas on project management among participants from various fields and experience levels. Read Dmitri's recent posts.

Cyndee Miller
Cyndee Miller has been an editor with PMI's PM Network for nearly four years. Prior to that, she worked for several business magazines including Marketing News and Targeting Market News. Read Cyndee's recent posts.

Sanjay Saini
Sanjay Saini, PMP, has nearly 13 years of project management experience. He started his career with Siemens and currently works with Nagarro as a project manager. He recently earned his Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential and plans to apply for the Program Management Professional (PgMP)® credential very soon. Read Sanjay's recent posts. 



Neal Shen
Neal Shen, CAPM, is a deputy manager at Raytheon. He is responsible for delivering and managing multiple IT projects in database driven enterprise applications. He received his Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® certification in September 2008 and has transitioned from the role of product development lead to project manager. Read Neal's recent posts.





Michel Thiry
Michel Thiry, MSC, PMP, MSP Advanced Practitioner, Fellow APM and PMI Fellow, is managing partner of Valense Ltd. an International Organizational Management Consultancy and PMI Global Registered Education Provider. He has more than 35 years experience in projects, programs and organizational change. In recent years he has started applying his expertise to project-based organizations, helping them set up the right systems and structures and integrate all their components: project, program, value and portfolio management and the PMO, to create value. Michel is also the author of a book on Value Management published by PMI. He regularly speaks in International events and is a Seminar Leader for PMI SeminarsWorld® since 2001. Read Michel's recent posts.
 

Judy Umlas
Judith W. Umlas is senior vice president of Learning Innovations at International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL), a global corporate training company. She is the publisher of IIL Publishing, New York and the author of The Power of Acknowledgment. She has delivered keynotes at many PMI chapter meetings and Professional Development Days, and has done webinars for numerous PMI specific interest groups. She speaks on The Power of Acknowledgment all over the world, and leads webinars and virtual sessions on the topic. She has worked in television production, marketing and corporate business development for over 30 years--at CBS, PBS, cable television and IIL. Her writing credits include articles published in Working Woman magazine, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and many other newspapers and magazines. Read Judy's recent posts.



Past PMI Voices Bloggers

Alfonso Bucero
Alfonso Bucero, PMP, is an independent consultant who manages and consults on projects throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. He is the author of Project Management--A New Vision, contributor to Creating the Project Office, and coauthor of Project Sponsorship -Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success. Read Alfonso's past posts.



Mike Sanders
Mike Sanders, PMP,  is a project manager at Southern California Edison and has more than 15 years experience in project management. He serves on the board of directors for both the PMI Inland Empire Chapter and the Society for Technical Communication Inland Empire Chapter. He has taught and trained at universities and is a regular speaker at PMI, STC and University of California, Irvine events. Read Mike's past posts.  


Rose M. Tyler
Rose M. Tyler, PMP,  has more than 20 years experience in IT/IS industry, and is a graduate of the PMI Leadership Masters Class 2008. She currently serves as a PMI volunteer leader, participating in PMI Virtual Communities Advisory Group and Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group.  Rose has also presented learning and sharing sessions at PMI Institute Leadership Meetings, and also has been a presenter on women and leadership at various professional and corporate networking events. Read Mary's past posts.
 

Brantlee Underhill
Brantlee Underhill, CAE, is PMI's director of practitioner markets. In her role, she has leadership and oversight responsibility for the programs and services offered to PMI's volunteers, volunteer leaders, members, certified professionals, components and communities. Her attention is currently focused on the Virtual Communities Project, for which she is the managing sponsor. Brantlee holds the designation of Certified Association Executive (CAE) from the American Society for Association Executives (ASAE). Read Brantlee's past posts.