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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Ed Naughton named International Correspondent for PMForum in Ireland
Mr. Ed Naughton, BE, C. Eng., F.I.E.I, IPMA-a, PMP, has become an International Correspondent for PMForum in Dublin, Ireland. Ed Naughton is also the founder and current Director General of the Institute of Project Management of Ireland. The organization was set up in 1989 to develop and further the discipline of project management in Ireland. It is now the leading authority on the profession in Ireland.
Ed is a former Vice President, Marketing for the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and is currently the Co-chair of IPMA’s “Nation to Nation” Project Management Forum. The IPMA is a global federation of 43 national project management societies and a worldwide professional association with more than 70,000 certified professionals in almost 40 countries. Its outputs include a globally recognized certification program, global standards and the active promotion of the project management profession in both the business and government sectors.
Ed has researched, published and presented many articles and papers on the continuously evolving state of project management. He is the author of the Irish Project Management Competence Baseline and is responsible for the design of all of the Institute’s academic programmes. During his thirty year career, Ed has worked as a project manager and/or project management consultant on a large variety of high profile domestic and international assignments.
Ed Naughton is a graduate of University College Dublin where he read for a BE (civil). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland; a Chartered Engineer (Ireland); a Professional Engineer in Canada (Province of British Columbia); holds IPMA Level A certification; and is former editor of the quarterly international publication “Project Management Practice”.
Ed Naughton lives in Dublin, Ireland and can be contacted at info@projectmanagement.ie. We at PMForum, Inc. want to welcome Ed to the PMF Global Correspondents Network.
According to Wikipedia, Dublin is the capital and largest city in Ireland, near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Founded as a centre of Viking settlement, the city has been Ireland's capital since mediæval times. The population of the the Dublin Region population is 1,186,159, and the Greater Dublin Area 1,661,185. Dublin is the primary centre of education in Ireland, with three universities and several other higher education institutions. There are 20 third-level institutes in the city. The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the 16th Century. Its sole constituent college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter under Elizabeth I.
The national parliament of the Republic of Ireland, the Oireachtas, consists of the President of Ireland and two houses, Dáil Éireann (Chamber of Deputies) and Seanad Éireann (Senate). All three are based in Dublin. Dublin is the centre of both media and communications in Ireland, with many newspapers, radio stations, television stations and telephone companies having their headquarters there. Dublin is at the centre of Ireland's transport system. Dublin Port is the country's most important sea port. Dublin Airport is the busiest airport by far on the island, registering over 21 million passengers in 2006, making it the 14th busiest airport in Europe. The Irish Government has launched a national transport plan, which is expected to cost €34.4 billion over the next 10 years.
Dublin is at the centre of Ireland's economy, and in 2004 the Greater Dublin Area contributed over €69.6 billion (US$92 billion) to the total Irish GDP, or around 45%. Banking, finance and commerce are also important in the city. In 2005, around 800,000 people were employed in the Greater Dublin Area, of whom around 600,000 were employed in the services sector and 200,000 in the industrial sector. Probably the most famous industry in Dublin is brewing: Guinness has been brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery since 1759.
Many international firms have established major headquarters in the city. During the Celtic Tiger years of the mid to late nineties a large number of pharmaceutical and information technology companies have located in Dublin and its suburbs and there are many Information and Communications Technology companies operating in and around the city. Microsoft's EMEA Operations Centre is located in Sandyford Industrial Estate to the south of the city and Google and Amazon have established operational bases in the city. Intel and Hewlett-Packard have large manufacturing plants in Leixlip, County Kildare, a suburb to the west of Dublin. Google, Yahoo! and PayPal (among others) also have their European headquarters in Dublin. Dublin is internationally recognised for its large amount of high-tech industrial estates, business centres and financial centres — which have led it to be known as the "Silicon Valley of Europe".
The Republic of Ireland (more commonly known as “Ireland”) is a country in north-western Europe and occupies five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned in 1921. Ireland is bordered by Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) to the north, by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and by the Irish Sea to the east. It is a member of the European Union, has a developed economy and a population of slightly more than 4.2 million. The economy of Ireland has transformed in recent years from an agricultural focus to one dependent on trade, industry and investment. Economic growth in Ireland averaged an exceptional 10% from 1995–2000, and 7% from 2001–2004. Industry, which accounts for 46% of GDP, about 80% of exports, and 29% of the labour force, now takes the place of agriculture as the country's leading sector.
Exports play a fundamental role in the state's robust growth, but the economy also benefits from the accompanying rise in consumer spending, construction, and business investment. On paper, the country is the largest exporter of software-related goods and services in the world. In fact, a lot of foreign software, and sometimes music, is filtered through the country to avail of the state's non-taxing of royalties from copyrighted goods.
The state joined in launching the euro currency system in January 1999 (leaving behind the Irish pound) along with ten other EU nations. The 1995 to 2000 period of high economic growth led many to call the country the Celtic Tiger. Ireland has the fourth-highest GDP (based on PPP) per capita in the world after Luxembourg, Norway and the United States, and lies fourth in the 2006 UN Human Development Index, which counts GDP per capita as a factor. The Economist Intelligence Unit's Quality of Life Index placed Ireland first in its "World in Review 2005" survey. More information about Dublin and Ireland can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin.
Ed has researched, published and presented many articles and papers on the continuously evolving state of project management. He is the author of the Irish Project Management Competence Baseline and is responsible for the design of all of the Institute’s academic programmes. During his thirty year career, Ed has worked as a project manager and/or project management consultant on a large variety of high profile domestic and international assignments.
Ed Naughton is a graduate of University College Dublin where he read for a BE (civil). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers of Ireland; a Chartered Engineer (Ireland); a Professional Engineer in Canada (Province of British Columbia); holds IPMA Level A certification; and is former editor of the quarterly international publication “Project Management Practice”.
Ed Naughton lives in Dublin, Ireland and can be contacted at info@projectmanagement.ie. We at PMForum, Inc. want to welcome Ed to the PMF Global Correspondents Network.
According to Wikipedia, Dublin is the capital and largest city in Ireland, near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Founded as a centre of Viking settlement, the city has been Ireland's capital since mediæval times. The population of the the Dublin Region population is 1,186,159, and the Greater Dublin Area 1,661,185. Dublin is the primary centre of education in Ireland, with three universities and several other higher education institutions. There are 20 third-level institutes in the city. The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the 16th Century. Its sole constituent college, Trinity College, was established by Royal Charter under Elizabeth I.
Many international firms have established major headquarters in the city. During the Celtic Tiger years of the mid to late nineties a large number of pharmaceutical and information technology companies have located in Dublin and its suburbs and there are many Information and Communications Technology companies operating in and around the city. Microsoft's EMEA Operations Centre is located in Sandyford Industrial Estate to the south of the city and Google and Amazon have established operational bases in the city. Intel and Hewlett-Packard have large manufacturing plants in Leixlip, County Kildare, a suburb to the west of Dublin. Google, Yahoo! and PayPal (among others) also have their European headquarters in Dublin. Dublin is internationally recognised for its large amount of high-tech industrial estates, business centres and financial centres — which have led it to be known as the "Silicon Valley of Europe".
Exports play a fundamental role in the state's robust growth, but the economy also benefits from the accompanying rise in consumer spending, construction, and business investment. On paper, the country is the largest exporter of software-related goods and services in the world. In fact, a lot of foreign software, and sometimes music, is filtered through the country to avail of the state's non-taxing of royalties from copyrighted goods.
