Jim J. Park, PMP, is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, teaching project management for the business and management department. He has taught public courses in project management for UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley since 1998. Over the past 10+ years, Jim has trained hundreds of Silicon Valley’s technical professionals and managers. He has helped make project management the most successful program at Extension and his courses have consistently been in high demand. His success in the classroom has also created strong demand for on-site corporate training. Jim has provided project management mentoring for companies such as Oracle, Hitachi, PG&E, Lockheed, Kaiser Permanente, Applied Materials, SRI International, Ingersoll-Rand, Symantec, LucasArts, and the U.S. Air Force.
Jim has over 15 years of experience in the software development, IT, pharmaceutical and medical-device industries, with well over a decade of experience focused on managing projects and developing better project management organizations, processes, and tools. He received his Bachelors degree in Materials Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and resides in Redwood City, California.
