Working at the frontiers of managing projects, programs and portfolios and making sure the resources are available to accomplish them.Eric is one of the foremost trainers, consultants and authors on the use of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) applications from Microsoft. He authored the books ‘Forecast Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010/2013/2018’ and 'Forecasting Programs'.Eric is President of ProjectPro (www.ProjectProCorp.com), a company specializing in training and consulting in Microsoft Project, Project Server and Project Online. ProjectPro provides a certification curriculum in Microsoft Project.Formerly, he was Executive Director at the International Institute for Learning (IIL) in New York. At IIL, he developed and managed the White, Orange, Blue and Black Belt certification curriculum in Microsoft Project and Project Server.Eric has managed many organizational change and management development projects. He has been involved in many projects and some programs of up to $200 million.Eric has presented in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Caribbean, China and South-Korea. In 1997, he was President of the Ottawa Chapter of PMI. In 2009/2010 he was president of the MPUG-Ottawa chapter (Microsoft Project Users Group).Eric received an award from MPUG in 2012 ('Community Leader') and from Microsoft (‘MVP Project’ - Most Valuable Professional) from 2010 – 2017. In May of 2009, Eric received an award from PMI for his ‘Significant Contributions to the Scheduling Profession’.These contributions are books, articles, certifications and new concepts like: ‘Principle of Dynamic Scheduling’ (When one thing changes in your project, you should have to update only one cell in your schedule), the ‘Resource-Critical Path’ (see his books), Earlier-Than dependencies (see article ‘Scheduling is not about chronology; it is about logic’) and the 1%-10% rule to establish a proper level of detail in project schedules (see his books).