Dr Taryn Bond-Barnard has been appointed as a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Technology Management with effect 1 June 2015. 

Taryn obtained a B.Eng Industrial Engineering degree and an M.Eng degree in Project Management, both with distinction, from the University of Pretoria. She went on to complete her PhD in Engineering at the same University in February 2015. Taryn is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a professional engineer.

Taryn has worked as engineer, operations manager and project manager from 2008 to 2015.  She has extensive experience in process engineering and business analysis in the information and communications technology industry. Taryn has been involved in project management for a number of years and has managed a variety of software development and business process improvement projects both in the public and private sector. 
Her current area of research is computer-mediated communication in projects, agile project management and project procurement.