Kim Heldman, PMP, is the chief information officer for the Colorado Department of Transportation and is responsible for managing projects with IT components ranging from small in scope and budget to multi-million dollar, multi-year, multi-vendor projects. She has over 17 years experience in Information Technology project management. Kim has served in a senior leadership role for the past 9 years and is regarded as a strategic visionary with an innate ability to collaborate with diverse groups and organizations, instill hope and improve morale, and lead her teams in achieving goals they never thought possible.
Kim has extensive experience in the government sector, managing projects of various size and scope. Prior to her work at the Department of Transportation, Kim was the CIO for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources where they successfully underwent a long and extensive project to consolidate five disparate networks into one. In addition to her project management work, Kim also has experience managing application development teams, web development teams, network operations teams, and customer service teams. Kim worked for the Department of Revenue as the director of the Project Management Office. She built the PMO from the ground up, establishing policies, procedures, and best-practice approaches for managing the Department of Revenue’s multitude of projects. She was also responsible for the ongoing support of Colorado’s income tax, sales tax, and delinquency tax system, and a host of smaller taxation systems.
Kim wrote the first edition of the PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide in 2002. Since then, thousands of people worldwide have used the Study Guide in preparation for the PMP® Exam. Kim is also the author of Project Management JumpStart, 2nd Edition, Project Manager’s Spotlight on Risk Management, and co-author of Excel 2007 for Project Managers.
Kim continues to write new material based on project management best-practices and speaks frequently at conferences and events.
PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide 4th Ed.