Dr. Ireland has been an active member of PMI since 1980, serving as Vice President and President of the PMI Washington, D.C. Chapter. He was selected as Delegation Leader of a 30-person team to study productivity in the People's Republic of China in September 1983. Dr. Ireland was the PMI Person of the Year in 1984. He is the author or co-author of more than 40 major project documents and is the author of the new PMI Quality Handbook.