Project Management Essentials

Dr Martin Sharry is an experienced technology change agent, project manager and education consultant. He has experience working in the welfare, transport, education and defence areas across both the private and public sectors.

Martin has managed education and organisational change projects, focusing on technology implementation and change. He has worked across the complete project management lifecycle - initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close - using PMBOK, PRINCE2 and Agile methodologies.

Martin believes training is a partnership between the individual, the organisation and the trainer. He uses a wide variety of training techniques to enable individual learning and development and, through this, organisational change.

Ross holds Chartered Project Professional status and is a Certified Practicing Project Director with the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), with whom he works closely in areas of research, publications and member skill development.

He has broad, cross-sector experience in the engineering, mining, higher education, health care and not-for-profit sectors, and works closely with engineers across a range of fields as an educator and assessor of competence. He is also a project management commentator who supports graduates and project practitioners develop their project management skills towards achieving their career objectives.

Ross holds a Master's degree, postgraduate teaching degrees, as well as Advanced Diplomas and Diplomas in program and project management, procurement and contracting, business, leadership, management and vocational education.