</noinclude> Jason Westland is a software entrepreneur from New Zealand.He is currently Chairman of a suite of online Project Management Companies including Method123 and ProjectManager.com Professional history Jason spear-headed the implementation of the British Rail IT Strategy from 1998 to 2000 The project was the largest in UK history, to the value of 1 billion pounds. In the year 2000, he returned to New Zealand and became the General Manager for Designer Technology. In 2001 he helped the Company gain Microsoft Gold status and then in 2002, the Company was awarded the prestigious “Microsoft Gold Status Award” in 5 specialist competencies, the highest ranking of any Microsoft Partner in the world. In Westland's tenure, Designer Technology also founded “Marshal Software” which was acquired by NetIQ in Dec 2002 for $23 million USD. He left Designer Technology in 2003 to create the Startup Method123® which initially offered free project management tools. Using the growth of the Company, he reinvested profits to fund the separate Companies; MPMM®, Project Manager and Project Plan. Westland also wrote the published best seller book “The Project Management Life Cycle”. Jason Westland is a Computerworld Author on the specialist topic of Project Management and he is also the author of the Method123 Newsletter which is distributed to 550,000 Project Managers and teams around the world
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