Overview

MURAD KARIMI is regarded as a subject matter expert in the Organizational Project Management Continuum, which comprises of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management disciplines. He is a certified Project Management Maturity Assessor by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) for Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®). He has conducted numerous organizational project management assessments and improvements on a global scale. He has over 15 years of global Project Management Office (PMO) experience in building PMO Centers of Excellence (CoE) and raising the maturity bar through best practices, governance, compliance, consistency of methodologies and work ethics. He has worked in various capacities with world leading Fortune 500 companies. He has transformed project, program, and portfolio management practices, and implemented technology-driven tools to automate PMO operations. He specializes in the strategic and tactical development of PMOs from ground zero and has successfully built multiple enterprise PMOs with PMO hubs in the United States, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. As more businesses are focusing on becoming agile, the interconnecting management arms need to embrace agility in their management practices. Therefore, having the knowledge to build a PMO is no longer sufficient. The experience and expertise to build an Agile PMO with an interconnected Organizational Project Management Continuum are an asset and a necessity. MURAD has the experience and the expertise to integrate Agility into Project, Program, and Portfolio Management domains and transform a traditional PMO into an Agile PMO. Besides being PMI® PMP®, PfMP® & OPM3® certified, he is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lean Sigma certified, Kaizen certified, Total Quality Management (TQM) certified, Certified Process Professional, Certified Scrum Master, and a Certified Sarbanes-Oxley Expert. He is a recipient of several Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Awards; these include J&J’s Global IT Strategy Award and J&J’s Platinum and Gold Encore Awards highlighting best in quality leadership skills.