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Meet Your Project Manager Instructors

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David R. Helps, Jr.

David Helps is the Vice President of Education for the South Carolina PMI Midlands Chapter. He has over 18 years of IT experience in the state government sector. He is currently serving as a project manager in the Project Management Office at the SC Department of Education where he is assisting with the further growth and expansion of the PMO and has overseen several projects in infrastructure modernization and program area workflow management. Prior to SC Department of Education, he was an I.T. business analyst/project manager for the SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, and I.T. manager for the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, and an applications analyst for the University Technology Services at University of South Carolina. He began his career as a mainframe programmer and shortly moved to web application development at the University of South Carolina. While at the University of South Carolina, he tuned his skills on requirements gathering and design. His career then took him to the SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs as a business analyst, where he was able to work on his project management skills. Now, at the SC Department of Education, he is working to build up a PMO and expand the use of project management in multiple areas of the agency. He is a graduate of the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina. He holds a PMP certification with the Project Management Institute which he earned in 2010.

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Malcolm Wilson

Malcolm Wilson is a project manager at a legal software company. He is a member of the Project Management Institute by the way of the Midlands chapter. He has professional experience as a project manager, business analyst, and scrum master for the private and public sector. Malcolm has experience in organizations that transitioned methodologies from traditional waterfall, to agile, as well as hybrid approaches. He is someone that is passionate about helping others and the profession of project management as well as the opportunity it brings.Malcolm is from Sumter, SC. There he graduated from Crestwood High School. He earned his bachelor's degree at Florida Memorial University in Miami, FL. He is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated by the way of the Kappa Gamma chapter. He earned his MBA at Webster University in Columbia, SC, and currently is certified as a project manager, scrum master, and business analyst.

Doug Bixby

William "Doug" Bixby

Doug Bixby currently serves as the Assistant Director of Operations and Information Systems for the University of South Carolina housing department. Prior to this role, Doug served as a project management team leader in the project management office at the South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS). Before that, Doug retired from the US Army in June 2022, after 20 years of experience in leadership, project management, risk management, and military intelligence. He has two combat deployments to Afghanistan and one operational deployment to N’djamena, Chad, supporting French forces in counter-terrorism operations. While serving, he was a career Military Intelligence Analyst, earning an Associate of Applied Science in Military Intelligence from Cochise Community College, AZ. He went on to study business and project management at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, completing his bachelor of science in business administration with a focus on project panagement in August 2021. Doug has obtained his Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute and is a Certified Scrum Master with Scrum Alliance. Presently, Doug is finishing his master’s in project management from Liberty University.

 


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