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Speaker: Edward M. Dunlap, Jr., ME, PMP, Doctoral Candidate

Edward holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Computer and Electrical Engineering, both from the University of South Carolina – Columbia. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctorate of Executive Leadership from the University of Charleston, West Virginia with a focus in international business. His dissertation is titled “An Evaluation of the High Failure Rate of Software Projects”, in which members of the Metrolina Chapter of PMI have been participants.

A published author, he has written articles in scholarly journals and trade publications. His experience in technology, business, and project management has been shared through presentations he has given throughout the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Charlotte at the downtown meeting of Metrolina PMI. His resume includes two years in Western Europe where he spent a year in Edinburgh, Scotland with Scottish Widows. He made numerous trips to London to deliver training at Apple UK prior to moving to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he was based while traveling the continent during the week. He holds four patents from his exceptional work with Bank of America.

Edward started his career in manufacturing at NCR in Columbia, South Carolina, where he designed a computer chip. After moving to Atlanta, he was responsible for the software department at a modem manufacturing company. At another company he designed and implemented an operating system for remote meter reading of water and gas meters. He wrote the code for the first digital music on cable system in the United States after starting his consulting firm. Afterward, Edward continued private consulting for many years.

From 2004 to 2018, Edward worked in the financial services industry at many of the institutions in Charlotte. Most recently, he took a position at Ingersoll Rand where he works in the Finance section of Enterprise Applications covering ERP. In this role, Edward mentors support managers and PMs regarding project management practices as well as running projects himself. His most recent projects are located in Italy, Colombia (South America), Argentina, Brazil, Republic of Ireland, and, The United State

This is a working meeting designed for PMI Chapter members south of the city including Ballantyne.

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POC: ballantyne@pmi-metrolina.com

Community Chapter Meeting 

As a means of helping chapter and local community members who are certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) satisfy the continuing education requirements for re-certification, PMI Metrolina Chapter arranges its monthly meeting schedule to allow a 1 hour PDU training session to be incorporated into its normal meeting.

Topics presented during these sessions are designed to not only satisfy the PDU requirement for re-certifying as a PMP, but to also provide wide appeal to people involved in project management regardless of whether or not they are certified PMPs. The 1-hour sessions meet the educational requirements to qualify for 1 PDU credits for maintaining PMP® certification or to meet the requirement for attending 35 hours of formal project management education prior to applying to sit for the PMP® exam.

The sessions are open to all.