Mike Oliver, Managing Principal

Mike Oliver (PMP, MCTS^{Project 2007}) is a program/project management (PPM) professional with over 25 years of experience, including 19 years in various global PPM senior consulting and lead technologist roles at EDS, an HP company. His most recent role with EDS was serving as the Lead Technologist for the EDS Global PPM Capability Group, which set the direction for PPM standards, professional development, methods, and tools for the company’s 4,000+ project management professionals.

Mike holds U.S. patents ( 5907490, plus pending applications 9/742,793, and 9/742,626) for developing EDS’ global earned value analysis application called EVAnalyzer for Microsoft Project, for which he received the EDS 2005 Distinguished Engineering Award. Mike also received the 2006 Distinguished Engineering Award for the EDS-specific version of his Schedule Quality Analyzer tool. He developed several of the PPM productivity, capability assessment, and quality management tools used globally at EDS. Mike authored many of EDS University's program/project schedule and risk management courses.

Mike has been a featured speaker at a number of PMI events and symposiums, including presentations at the 2007 PMI College of Scheduling Annual Conference (Vancouver, BC) and the ESI Project Portfolio Management Conference (Sydney, AU).

What People Say...

“Mike just plain does amazing work..."

- Brian Kennemer, Senior Enterprise Project Management Consultant, Microsoft

“His expertise in schedule management and integrity using all versions of Microsoft Project proved extremely valuable in his development of a specialized Microsoft Project 'toolkit' that allows our or web-based product to more tightly and seamlessly integrate with the Microsoft Project application."

- Bryan Morgan, VP, Development & Support  Project InVision International

“He has a fantastic knowledge of MS Project..."

- Rob Harding, Consultant, Oakton Ltd.

“His ability to take a complex problem statement and break it down into logical components and then articulate how we might solution the individual elements and thereby aspire to a fully integrated solution left me in awe..."

- Gail Niles, Program Manager,
  Global PPM Capability, EDS

“When it comes to ‘creating magic’ with Microsoft Project, Mike is a wizard…”

- Christine Arsenault, Senior Project Manager, IBM