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Hi, I'm Jerry Reed. It's Nice to Meet You!
Project Management Institute Authorized Training Partner Instructor for the PMP Exam
CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, INSTRUCTOR PMplicity
Jerry Reed
PMP, MCP, CSM, EQi 2.0,
PMI Authorized Training Partner Instructor for the PMP Exam
Jerry Reed is an award-winning leadership, project management and agile instructor, speaker, author and co-founder of PMplicity. He has trained managers, senior leaders and technology workers from AT&T, Optum Rx, Netflix, SpaceX, Google, Boeing, the United Nations, Blizzard, Disney, and several PMI chapters, including the Puget Sound, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego chapters. His international training includes virtual speaking engagements at PMI chapter events in North India, Bangladesh, and UAE (Dubai). Jerry’s original, content-rich, high-energy programs are well-researched and presented in a professional and engaging style.
With over 25 years of project management experience, Jerry has successfully delivered over 100 enterprise level projects, using both predictive and agile approaches. As a senior technical project manager with AT&T, he played a pivotal role in AT&T’s strategic initiative to virtualize its network. Using hybrid agile and predictive methodologies, he virtualized network elements that monetize traffic between AT&T and other carriers. By successfully managing this multi-year, beachhead program, he delivered AT&Ts first successful instance of end-to-end connectivity for a virtualized network function and built a template for future network virtualization projects.
Mr. Reed has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign. He is a PMI Authorized Training Partner Instructor for the PMP exam, a Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Scrum Master, a Microsoft-Certified Professional, a certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and a marathon runner.
Jerry has taught leadership, project management and agile courses for over 15 years at UCLA Extension, PMplicity, and currently at AMA. He has earned the UCLA Distinguished Instructor designation, a distinction awarded to their top 2% of instructors. He has served on the UCLA Project Management Advisory Board, co-founded PMplicity, and authored the Microsoft Project B.A.S.I.C.S. book series and REMOTEtional Intelligence.
"Clearly you have provided your students with an outstanding learning experience and you have provided UCLA Extension with the quality of instruction that we seek
in our programs."
"Jerry Reed has a strong and excellent command of the PMP foundation, concepts and provided a great deal of practical topics. I would give him an excellent rating."
"Professor Reed is a world-class professor of high caliber.
He delivered and facilitated training that is some of the best
I've
ever had."
“One of the best, most applicable courses I've ever taken. Can't say enough good things about my professor. Not only is he knowledgeable and experienced, but also very engaging as a professor”
"Professor Reed's teaching style is engaging, challenging, and approachable.
I greatly enjoyed the class!”
“Jerry Reed is a very knowledgeable practitioner who can organize and present the material in a clear and understandable manner. I would not hesitate to recommend his course to anyone looking to gain a good understanding of how to use Microsoft Project”."
"I feel I now have all the basic tools needed to successfully run projects using Microsoft Project.
Thank you, Instructor Reed!”
“This class is a great reinforcement that for sure will help me be a better leader and open many more opportunities to improve my performance and more importantly the performance of the whole team.”
“Definitely, I think this is a must take course not only for colleagues following the path of Project Management but for everyone in general.”
“Incredible - the instructor, his course text and his altogether engaging, effective teaching/learning platform. A great online model that would be good to emulate across other university venues... It all made for a really unique, profound learning experience. Thank you, Professor Reed!”
“I noticed there aren't that many online resources that teach Project to your level of detail".
“Thank you, Jerry. I loved the class! It’s highly applicable to my day-to-day work and I’ve already found myself putting your negotiation strategies into action.”
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