Dave Prior is the President of ProjectWizards, Inc., the U.S. arm of ProjectWizards, GmbH, maker of the award willing Macintosh-based project management application Merlin. He brings over 16 years of experience managing IT and Technology projects, programs and portfolios. While he has been working with Agile methodologies since 1999, and over the past 5 years he has turned his attention towards trying to establish a better bridge between Agile and the traditional project management worlds. In 2008, during his time as Chair of PMI’s IT & Telecom SIG, Dave began working with the Scrum Alliance to establish programming to help project managers become more aware of and educated about Scrum and Agile. He also participated in the founding of the Malaysian Scrum Chapter in 2010.

In addition to his work leading technology programs and projects, Dave also has extensive experience training Information Technology leaders and coaching organizations in managing projects using both an Agile and a traditional approach. His work as an educator and speaker has provided him with the opportunity to lecture and teach classes in the U.S., Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Central America. 

Dave is a CST, a PMP and an ACP. He received his MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. He lives and works in Oklahoma.

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