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Friday, August 11, 2006
Ana Maria Rodriguez in Argentina Becomes First International Correspondent for pmforum.org
Ms. Ana Maria Rodriguez has become the first International Correspondent for www.pmforum.org. Based in Rosario, Argentina, Ms. Rodriguez manages CDS Project a division of NETCDS, a leading IT project and business services company, and is an adjunct professor of project management at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, the largest university in Argentina outside of Buenos Aires.
Colombian by birth, Ms. Rodriguez graduated with a Civil Engineering Degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), the oldest University in South America founded by Jesuit priests in 1604 and located in Bogota.
After obtaining her Civil Engineer Degree, she entered the Construction Engineering and Project Management Program at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States from which she received a master’s degree in 1998. While pursing her Masters Degree, Ana Maria was granted a research scholarship from the Center for Construction Industry Studies with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She was also a member of the Workforce Thrust Team at the Construction Industry Institute (CII).
After finishing at UT she returned to Colombia to work for PUJ, during which she completed an evaluation and assessment for their post-graduate programs in Project Management and in Construction Management. She maintains close ties to both PUJ and the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia
In 2000, Ana María moved to Rosario, Argentina, were she has been actively involved with implementing Project Management Best Practices. She currently teaches Project Management postgraduate courses at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and in the Real Estate Developers Program at the Fundacion Libertad, a private economics research foundation. From 2003 to 2005 she ran the Rosario Habitat Program PM office, funded by the Inter American Develoment Bank (IADB). In early 2006 Ana María joined NETCDS as Manager of the CDS Project, offering Project Management services to the Automobile, Petrochemical and Paper Industry.
Rosario, the second largest city in Argentina with a population of 1.3 million people, is located in the Pampa region of Argentina, three hours north of Buenos Aires, the capital. Rosario is a central point of the Mercosur Agreement for commerce ( between Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and now Venezuela) because it is located approximately in the center of the Mercosur trading area. Although Argentina’s main economic center is Buenos Aires, Rosario is surrounded by such important industries as automobiles, paper, petrochemicals and steel works. The Rosario region is also where a majority of Argentina’s cereal exports (soy, rice and wheat) are grown, processed and exported. Argentina exports cereals and beef to much of the world.
The Port of Rosario on the Parana River is a major shipping point for oil, cereals, automobiles and other leading exports from Argentina.
She lives in Argentina with her husband, a medical doctor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Ms. Rodriguez can be reached at arodriguez@netcds.com.ar. For more information about NETCDS, visit their website at www.netcds.com.ar. We at pmforum.org welcome Ms. Rodrigues into this important new program and look forward to interesting and useful news regarding the development of the project management profession in Argentina.
On August 7, 2006, PMForum.org announced the formation of a global network of International Correspondents to provide more timely and varied project management-related news and information from around the world for www.pmforum.org and to provide pmforum.org with local representation. Other experienced and well-connected PM professional leaders located in major cities around the world who may be interested in becoming an international correspondent for pmforum.org are encouraged to contact editor@pmforum.org.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. Pmforum.org is the world’s leading source of project management news and information and the home of the monthly online PM World Today where viewpoints, articles, case studies and papers by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmforum.org/subscribe.
After obtaining her Civil Engineer Degree, she entered the Construction Engineering and Project Management Program at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States from which she received a master’s degree in 1998. While pursing her Masters Degree, Ana Maria was granted a research scholarship from the Center for Construction Industry Studies with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She was also a member of the Workforce Thrust Team at the Construction Industry Institute (CII).
After finishing at UT she returned to Colombia to work for PUJ, during which she completed an evaluation and assessment for their post-graduate programs in Project Management and in Construction Management. She maintains close ties to both PUJ and the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia
In 2000, Ana María moved to Rosario, Argentina, were she has been actively involved with implementing Project Management Best Practices. She currently teaches Project Management postgraduate courses at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and in the Real Estate Developers Program at the Fundacion Libertad, a private economics research foundation. From 2003 to 2005 she ran the Rosario Habitat Program PM office, funded by the Inter American Develoment Bank (IADB). In early 2006 Ana María joined NETCDS as Manager of the CDS Project, offering Project Management services to the Automobile, Petrochemical and Paper Industry.
Rosario, the second largest city in Argentina with a population of 1.3 million people, is located in the Pampa region of Argentina, three hours north of Buenos Aires, the capital. Rosario is a central point of the Mercosur Agreement for commerce ( between Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and now Venezuela) because it is located approximately in the center of the Mercosur trading area. Although Argentina’s main economic center is Buenos Aires, Rosario is surrounded by such important industries as automobiles, paper, petrochemicals and steel works. The Rosario region is also where a majority of Argentina’s cereal exports (soy, rice and wheat) are grown, processed and exported. Argentina exports cereals and beef to much of the world.
The Port of Rosario on the Parana River is a major shipping point for oil, cereals, automobiles and other leading exports from Argentina.
She lives in Argentina with her husband, a medical doctor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. Ms. Rodriguez can be reached at arodriguez@netcds.com.ar. For more information about NETCDS, visit their website at www.netcds.com.ar. We at pmforum.org welcome Ms. Rodrigues into this important new program and look forward to interesting and useful news regarding the development of the project management profession in Argentina.
On August 7, 2006, PMForum.org announced the formation of a global network of International Correspondents to provide more timely and varied project management-related news and information from around the world for www.pmforum.org and to provide pmforum.org with local representation. Other experienced and well-connected PM professional leaders located in major cities around the world who may be interested in becoming an international correspondent for pmforum.org are encouraged to contact editor@pmforum.org.
Established in 1995 by the late David Curling, PMI Fellow and globally recognized professional leader based in Canada, www.pmforum.org is one of the most popular and widely known websites in the world of project management. Pmforum.org is the world’s leading source of project management news and information and the home of the monthly online PM World Today where viewpoints, articles, case studies and papers by leading PM authorities and experts from around the world can be found. Free subscriptions are available at www.pmforum.org/subscribe.
