- M.A., Columbia University, NY, NY.

- B.S., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

 » Professional Achievements

- Project Management Institute – Chair (1998), President (1997), and Vice President for Technical Activities (1994-95), Ex-Officio and “Person of the Year” (1996).

- Project Management Institute/New Jersey Chapter – President (1990-92) and Vice President for Professional Affairs (1988-90).

Fernando Portes, MBA/MEng/MPS/PMP/CQE, Principal and Owner, is an experienced project/program manager, engineer, and educator, who has published more than ten managerial and technical publications, and who managed projects and programs for MTV Networks, Schering-Plough, Merck, Baxter, Actavis, Mayne Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, and Wyeth. He is listed in Who is Who in Science and Engineering, in Who is Who in the US, and in Who is Who in the World. He has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in three universities, and was rated as one of the best project management professors at the Howe School of Stevens Institute of Technology, where he developed and taught the pharmaceutical project management class to several Fortune 500 organizations since 2005. Portes is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and of the Cornell Engineering Alumni Association (CEAA). He has MEng and MPS degrees from Cornell University and an MBA from Catholic University (Santo Domingo). He speaks Spanish and French and can be reached at portes@bestpjm.com.

- MEng/MPS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

- MBA, Catholic University, Santo Domingo, DR.

- BEng (Chemical Engineering, "Magna Cum Laude"), first in his class, BS (Chemistry, "Magna Cum Laude"), Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, the oldest university in The New World.

 » Publications

- How to Schedule your Project to Dedicate the Most Amount of Time Managing and Prevent Project Tools from Managing You (article). Projects at Work. April 2010 (click here to download).

- How to Schedule your Project to Dedicate the Most Amount of Time Managing and Prevent Project Tools from Managing You (presentation). Interphex, April 2010. NY, NY. PMI Conference on Innovative Project Management to Succeed in a Dynamic Pharmaceutical Environment, Philadelphia, PA, March 2010 (click here to download).

- Understanding Variation Can Improve Your Supply Chain. Interphex. March 2009, New York, NY (click here to download).

- Manufacturing Efficiency is an Important Factor in the Growth of the Project Management Profession. September 2008. PMI Pharmaceutical SIG Newsletter (click here to download).

- Understanding Variability, its Sources, and its Impact on the Pharma Supply Chain. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. August 2006 (click here to download).

- No Quick Fixes in Pharma Project Management. Projects At Work, April 13, 2006 (click here to download).

- Project Management: Know When to Use SOPs, and When Not To. Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. March 2006 (click here to download).

- Design of a Two Stage Reactor System for Protein Production Using Plasmid-Encoded E. Coli and Whey Permeate as a Combination Substrate and Inducer. 1992. XII UPADI Congress. III Latin American Congress of Food Engineering. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (click here to download).

- Design of a Two Stage Reactor System for Protein Production Using Plasmid-Encoded E. Coli and Whey Permeate as a Combination Substrate and Inducer. 1991. Cornell University. Design Project for MEng and MPS degrees (click here to download).

- Thermodynamics Fundamentals for Chemical Engineers. 1988. Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Thesis for BEng degree (click here to download).

- Pilot Scale Aloe Juice Processing and Concentration. 1986. Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Thesis for BS degree. Awarded best Chemistry Thesis in the Dominican Republic in 1986 by the Dominican Chemical Society (click here to download).