Biography

James Rivera, PMP

Is the President and founder of “J Rivera & Associates”, an organization established to help customers preserve their product investments while profiting from developing solutions to their most difficult Project Management and Software Development challenges.

James has of 16 years experience as a Business Analyst and Project Manager in the manufacturing and high-tech industries, and instructs users in the disciplines of Requirements Engineering, Requirements Management, Project Management and Use Case development.

Instructional design credits include: co-author of the “Business Analyst Certification" author of “Requirements Management with Use Cases” and “Optimizing Microsoft Project.”

James regularly teaches public classes in Requirements Engineering and Project Management at several universities including: University of Texas at Austin, University of South Carolina, Rutgers University, University of Delaware, and Austin Community.

James is a Project Management and Business Analyst advisor, customers include: Sematech – ADTF, AMD, Sage, Inc. Texas Workforce Commission.

James is a former member of the Austin PMI board of directors, where he held the position of Director of Education for 2 years, and is experienced with many software development methodologies including CMM, MSF, and Rational Unified Process.