K S Mathew is a postgraduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) & PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) with 39 years of professional experience. He has 27 Years of experience in systems development and integration in various domains including process control & automation (steel plant, thermal power plant and oil refinery), banking and financial services, travel and transportation, healthcare, telecom billing and education, spanning a wide range of roles / activities from programming, testing, technical architecture/design, estimation, project management, delivery management, consultancy, training and pre-sales in various organizations in India and abroad. Later, he worked as a professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi for 12 years. He has been awarded honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) from University of South America through recommendation from Rajagiri and Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Research and Development Centre, Bangalore in recognition of his contributions in teaching/training and consultancy. He is currently involved as a guest faculty at Digital University Kerala and as a freelance trainer and consultant in project management and quality process in software industry