P Seenivasan, Director, Proventures Education and Consulting Services Private limited, Hyderabad, India, (e-mail: [email protected]) has over 37 years of Industry experience in the domains of Chemicals, IT, Training and consulting. Project, Program and Portfolio Management is his area of passion. He holds his B.Tech degree in Chemical engineering from University of Madras and a Master degree in Business Administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. He is one among the selected professionals across the world who holds Project, Program and Portfolio Management Professional (PMP, PgMP, and PfMP) from PMI, USA. His 37+ years of experience includes organizations like SPIC, Manali Petrochemicals Limited, Baan, PMI Pearl City Chapter (Volunteer) and Proventures Education and Consulting. He is an authorized trainer for delivering Project Management Professional Workshops and is certified by Project Management Institute, USA.

P Seenivasan is a member in good standing of PMI since 1999 and he was one of the founder directors of PMI Pearl City Chapter, Hyderabad and served the chapter during 2001 – 2006. As part of this chapter he handled extensive development activities within the Project Management community. This includes two national/International conferences, a student competency development program, a number of PM workshops and Professional development seminars.

He has handled many Project Program and Portfolio management workshops within multiple industry domains that include Pharmaceutical (Novartis, Dr Reddys Laboratories), Oil and Gas (ONGC, OIL India Limited) , Manufacturing( Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited ), Infrastructure ( GMR Airports), and Government(NISG) etc. He was part of the Portfolio/Project Management system study at a major Iranian foundation (BONYAD) that comprises of more than 160-member companies. PS is an empaneled speaker and trainer for NISG and has handled Project Management Management workshops for more than 300 government officers across India.

Over the last 30+ years he has trained more than 15,000+ professionals on various areas of Project, Program and Portfolio Management. He consults companies on Process maturity, Portfolio and Program Management, PMO, Risk Management and Agile practices. He also specializes in Project Management for development professionals among NGOs using Project DPro and Program DPro. He has completed PMD Pro level1&2 certifications. PS is also proficient in Critical Chain Project Management and its application using Prochain

P Seenivasan has completed Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner with Scrum Alliance. He actively advocates agile practices within Proventures training and consulting and among the clients they work with on implementing enterprise Project management using Microsoft Project Online.