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Bryan Bates
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC-07:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since March 10, 2021
Bryan is a tenacious people leader and coach with experience in energy, technology, construction, and professional services. He is skilled in simplifying technical topics to build understanding and influence stakeholders. A straightforward, calm, and concise communicator, Bryan uses facts and frameworks to tie concepts together. He's intensely curious about innovatively applying technology to solve internal and external customer pain points, while reducing the cost of execution.
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Avalon Swain
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since May 23, 2017
Avalon is recognized for his successful business, digital, agile, and AI transformations, leveraging his considerable product, program, and project management experience. He is a certified MIT Artificial Intelligence Strategist, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (DAVSC), Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC), and Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM). He has outstanding power skills and the ability to align with all levels of an organization.
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Ryan McNamara
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since September 4, 2020
Ryan is a senior technical program manager with experience as an Air Force officer in the Department of Defense, the space industry, and the autonomous vehicle industry. He is a cybersecurity and project management expert, holding an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and many industry standard certifications, including PMP and CISSP. Ryan excels at leading diverse, distributed teams on technically challenging projects, ensuring deliverables meet high standards and all requirements are met.
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Robert Hammock
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since September 4, 2020
Robert is an experienced agile practitioner with over 20 years of experience helping teams deliver maximum business value to their customers. He has led organizations with 80+ team members through agile transformations, improving predictability and quality while reducing employee attrition. Robert is a certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), and Six Sigma Green Belt.
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Ahmed El Cherbini
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC-05:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since April 19, 2020
Ahmed is a PMP and CSPO certified project manager specializing in fintech projects. He is passionate about helping clients enhance their digital offerings and see results by simplifying complex requirements and translating them into a strategic vision through transformative and value-adding projects.
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Tahir Çakmak, PMP
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+03:00
Turkey
Toptal Member Since December 7, 2021
Tahir is a PMP-certified project manager with deep software engineering expertise and experience at Ericcson, Trilogy, and Ford. From setting up an educational startup to delivering bulletproof software products with $40 million in ARR, he empowers teams to achieve excellence. In addition to managing technical projects, he helps companies leverage AWS and Google Cloud. Tahir promotes best practices, such as CI/CD and unit and integration testing to drive business agility and fast change.
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Mohamed Zouaghi
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+03:00
Saudi Arabia
Toptal Member Since June 12, 2020
An ex-Googler and PMP-certified, Mohamed is a skilled technical project manager and agile coach with 18 years of experience in Digital Transformation. He's worked as a full-timer with three Fortune 500 companies: Google, ADP, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mohamed's successfully managed projects in 10+ different countries related to multiple areas such as digital transformation strategy, Smart City, ERP implementation, ITSM, eCommerce, app performance monitoring, and QA automated framework.
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Tarun Suneja
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+05:00
India
Toptal Member Since February 7, 2025
Tarun is an accomplished PMP-certified engineering leader with over 15 years of experience crafting customer-centric products. He has demonstrated expertise in assembling high-performing engineering teams from inception, shaping product roadmaps, and delivering highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed software solutions with stringent SLAs. Proficient in leveraging a broad spectrum of technologies and tools, Tarun easily addresses complex business challenges across various industry domains.
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Pieter Coenen
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+07:00
Thailand
Toptal Member Since February 28, 2019
Pieter is a business-driven manager with over 20 years of experience driving growth and innovation in multinational companies and startups. He's passionate about learning and utilizing new technologies and management practices to achieve project goals. Pieter also has various certifications (Scrum Master, Prince II Foundation) and an MBA.
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David Nimmo
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+10:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since October 30, 2019
David has been a practitioner in business and systems consulting for over 23 years, including nearly 15 years with IBM. David applies his experience, skills and insight to help business leaders, business analysis and business architect consultants, and small business owners, to raise their expectations and achieve results beyond what they previously thought was possible.
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Terry Speer
Freelance PMP Project Manager
Verified Expert in Project Management
UTC+10:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since August 7, 2019
Terry has over 20 years of proven project delivery expertise, leading successful outcomes across a range of geographies and industries. He's led small and large agile programs in enterprise and startups, including scrum coaching and education. He has a customer-centric work ethic and focuses on value from 15 years with top-tier consulting firms, servicing new businesses through to global companies. He's SAFe, scrum and PMP certified.
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Of the thousands of applications Toptal sees each month, typically fewer than 3% are accepted.
Capabilities of PMP Project Managers
PMP project managers are certified professionals who are able to lead complex projects with structured delivery for any industry, across traditional, agile, and hybrid approaches. They apply PMBOK standards and risk management techniques to ensure stakeholder alignment and control scope, schedule, and budget adherence, resulting in consistent, measurable project success.
Project Scope and Objectives
Defining a clear project scope and objectives establishes success from the outset. PMP project managers develop detailed project charters and scope statements at the inception of a project to align stakeholders on goals, deliverables, and other success criteria.
Comprehensive Project Planning
Detailed planning considerations maintain control and set the proper expectations. Our PMP project managers craft detailed plans that consider scope, schedule, cost, quality, and resource management to guide execution and manage performance throughout the project.
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Multidisciplinary teams require effective, cross-functional leadership to keep efforts moving forward. A PMP project manager coordinates diverse teams by assigning roles, fostering collaboration, and resolving conflicts in order to maintain momentum and achieve goals.
Schedule and Critical Path Management
Well-managed timelines are essential to keeping projects on track. Using tools like Gantt charts and network diagrams, Toptal PMP project managers monitor schedules and adjust task dependencies to ensure delivery deadlines are met.
Budget and Cost Control
Strong financial controls help protect project outcomes. Toptal PMP project managers track expenditures, manage baselines, and apply earned value management techniques to ensure spending aligns with plans and approved budgets.
Risk Identification and Management
Proactively assessing potential risks reduces costly surprises. PMP project managers conduct risk assessments, maintain risk registers, and develop mitigation strategies to address issues before they impact the project.
Stakeholder Communication
Clear communication builds trust and improves engagement. When taking the lead on regular updates, our PMP project managers will develop communications plans that keep all stakeholders informed and aligned on project progress and expectations.
Quality Assurance Oversight
Quality planning ensures that deliverables consistently meet required standards and expectations. PMP project managers establish control measures and continuous improvement practices to maintain consistency and compliance with project output.
Change Requests and Scope Management
Properly evaluating project changes protects timelines and manages scope creep. A Toptal PMP project manager will apply formal change control processes to evaluate, approve, and document adjustments in project scope, schedule, or budget.
Formal Project Closure
Structured project closure captures the lessons learned to inform future project performance. PMP project managers conduct formal closeout activities, finalize documentation, and lead retrospectives that capture insights to refine and improve subsequent project executions.
FAQs
Typically, you can hire PMP project managers with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or full end-to-end project delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.
Once you select your PMP project manager, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.
To hire the right PMP project manager, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect PMP project managers for your project.
At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our PMP project managers to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.
In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.
When you hire PMP project managers with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched PMP project managers ready to help you achieve your goals.
You can hire PMP project managers on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the project end-to-end based on your specific requirements as part of our Consulting and Services offerings. Whether you hire a PMP project manager for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our PMP project managers can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.
We make sure that each engagement between you and your PMP project manager begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another PMP project manager who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.
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