Eddie is a Senior Project Manager, Coach, and Trainer with over 25 years of hands-on Project Management experience.  He has implemented project management programs for multiple organizations and in multiple industries. His project management experiences include North America, Europe, the Middle East, South America and Asia.  He has assisted clients with the implementation of project management strategies and best practices.  He has also implemented organizational structures to support large projects and organizations to improve delivery of project and program results. He is also experienced in implementing Agile project management techniques, including “SCRUM,” to help clients improve their product development cycle time.

As a trainer and coach, Eddie Merla has trained several thousand project management professionals throughout the world on project management, leadership and soft skills topics.  He has been a frequent speaker at the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Global Congresses including the Latin America Congress, the EMEA Congress, the Asia Pacific Congress and the North America Congress. Eddie has delivered seminars in ten different countries. 

Eddie has written for the PMI Asia Pacific elink and has also authored the following papers for the Project Management Institute:

• A Project is a Series of Presentations: 7 Strategies for Enhancing Your Presentation Power

• Beginning at the Ending

• Confessions of an Ex-PMO Hater

• From Tech Talk to Top Talk! (Engineered Conversations for Project Managers)

• How Healthy is Your Project?

• Just Say It! (Presentation Skills for Project Managers)

• Soft Skills for Hard Heads

• Storytelling is for Kids...and Project Managers

• The Art of the Project Start

• Unleashing the Project Genie (Creativity for Project Managers)

• Zero to PMO in Thirty Days