Frank Parth
California, USA
Frank Parth, MS, MSSM, MBA, PMP is the President of Project Auditors LLC and a past member of PMI’s Board of Directors. Mr. Parth brings 35 years’ experience in project and program management to his teaching and consulting work.
He had a first career designing satellite systems for the US government and in 1993 he set up a consultancy and began consulting in program management and systems engineering. He has created PMOs for several Fortune 1000 companies and for companies internationally. He consults to clients in multiple industry sectors, including telecom, construction, high tech, chemical processing, utilities, government, healthcare, mining, financial services, and aerospace. He is currently supporting Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation in improving their project management processes and in developing a PMO.
Mr. Parth teaches project management courses throughout the world. He is a guest lecturer at USC’s Marshall School of Business, the University of California, Irvine, and at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the UAE. He is an accomplished international speaker and does pro bono teaching in Vietnam.
He has co-authored or contributed to multiple books on project management and has published numerous papers in project management and systems engineering. He is actively involved with PMI, serving on local and national committees and was PMI’s Project Manager for the Standard for Program Management, 2nd edition published in 2008. Frank can be contacted at fparth@projectauditors.com
Created November 2014
Articles and Papers
- Successful Program Delivery Starts Long Before the Program Does – Part 3 - Featured Papers - Parth - September 2016
- Successful Program Delivery Starts Long Before the Program Does – Part 2 - Featured Papers - Parth - August 2016
- Successful Program Delivery Starts Long Before the Program Does – Part 1 - Featured Papers - Parth - July 2016
- Failures in Construction due to Ineffective PMIS - Featured Papers - Lotffy, Parth - February 2015
- Effect of Organizational Unwritten Rules on PMO Success - Featured Papers - Lotffy, Parth - November 2014