Text Box: Ralph L. Kliem

Text Box: Project Management Consulting and Training

Text Box: Ralph presenting before the Puget Sound PMI chapter.

Text Box: About Ralph

Text Box: Ralph has over 25 years of combined experience with Fortune 500, public service, and small firms in business management and information systems. Positions held in financial and manufacturing environments involve project management in many different capacities. He has managed both information technology and business management projects, ranging from a few hundred thousand to millions of dollars.
As an employee with a Fortune 500 firm, he was its Employee of the Year for its Education and Training Division. He received this award for outstanding development and delivery of seminars and workshops for external clients in the public and private sectors. He is a former adjunct faculty member with Seattle Pacific University, a guest lecturer at City University, and currently teaches project management at Bellevue Community College, and has been a panel discussion member at the Puget Sound PMI® Chapter.
He is also founding Editor-in-Chief of the Northwest Artificial Intelligence Forum (NAIF) Journal, a former editor of the Puget Sound PMI® Chapter newsletter, and an IEEE Software Magazine referee. Ralph was a participant on the PMP Cut Score Session and a speaker before the Puget Sound PMI® Chapter, speaking on organizational engineering, scheduling software deployment, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Ralph has published over 200 articles on business, communications, and information systems topics. His articles have appeared in over 50 different publications, including Computerworld, Data Communications, and Software Development. He is also the author or co-author of 15 books that are distributed internationally and translated in several languages.