Kim Heldman, PMP is the Chief Information Officer for the Colorado Department of Transportation. She has more than 17 years of project management experience working on projects ranging from day-to-day in scope to large multi-million-dollar projects. Kim assisted the State of Colorado’s Governor’s Office of Information Technology with establishing best practice methodologies for state conducted projects. Kim is the best-selling author of the PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide now in its 4th Edition, Excel 2007 for Project Managers, Project Management JumpStart, and other books on project management. Kim also speaks on leadership and project management topics as her schedule allows.
Kim is a certified Project Management Professional through the Project Management Institute.
Kim Heldman, PMP has over 17 years experience in Information Technology project management. She is the Chief Information Officer for the Colorado Department of Transportation and is responsible for managing projects ranging from small in scope and budget to multi-million dollar, multi-year, multi-vendor projects. 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 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.