Project Management Consultant/Coach/Mentor/Assessor with around 20 years of experience in the IT, ITES and Consulting industry, spanning from Project/Program Management and training, consulting and assessments. He has trained more than 18000 project management professionals from various sectors. Conducted PM Competency Assessment of 500 + Project Management Professionals.
Training Experience
Debashis Jena (DJ) has been a Trainer of choice for every corporate he has ever served. He has delivered a wide range of training in Project/Program Management with exceptional feedback. He specializes in designing customized/tailor made programs to address specific learning objectives. DJ has conducted more than 200 PMP exam preparatory training. Besides this has conducted customized PMP training ranging from 3 – 8 days for various corporates to impart PMBOK knowledge from a practical perspective to help candidates learn and apply the learning in real projects. Trained around 800 professionals for CAPM certification.
DJ is an Accredited PRINCE2 Trainer, has helped more than 2000 candidates earn the PRINCE2 qualification. He has also conducted customized non- certification oriented workshops for different levels of management within organizations such as the leadership level, managing level and the Team Manager levels.
DJ is also an Accredited MSP (Managing Successful Programs) Trainer. He also specializes in SPM (Standard for Program Management) from PMI. Has delivered customized Program Management training for various clients. Many other non-certification oriented training conducted by him include MS Project, Fundamentals of PM, Quantitative Project Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management etc.
Assessment/Consulting Experience
DJ has developed a Project Management Competency Assessment Solution to help organizations assess their current competency level of Project Management professionals. The assessment covers knowledge & skill through Case Studies, Interviews and objective online questions. Has assessed around 500 Project Management professionals from various organizations. Other than this DJ has helped organizations in Project Management Gap assessment and Process Improvements.
Professional Experience
Practice Head, Project Management – QAI
Senior Consultant – Astrowix Solutions. Responsible for delivering Training and consulting assignments, launching of new training programs
He has over 10 years of Project Management experience, having successfully led multiple software development projects – wholesale pricing tool for NTL, U.K, Choice based Letting System for Home Connections, U.K. He has also played a key role in ISO 9000 and CMMI implementations