About the Author

Paul Royer, PMP, is the founder of Proactive Risk Management, an information technology and management consulting firm in Olympia, Washington, specializing in project management, risk management, and quality assurance. He has more than 30 years of experience in the information systems industry, specifically in health care, government, and consulting. His background includes project management, risk management, quality assurance, systems development, data and process modeling, data warehousing, data administration, training and coaching, methodology development and implementation, business requirement definition, and process improvement. He has a BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

For more than five years, Paul has concentrated on the risk aspects of project management. He has published several articles with the Project Management Institute on this topic and has presented them at PMI® national symposiums.