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Romeo Mitchell named International Correspondent for PMForum in Canada
Mr. Romeo Mitchell has been named an International Correspondent for PMForum in Ontario, Canada. Romeo is also a Senior Program Manager with HP (Canada) Co., with over 20 years’ experience managing engineering and information technology (IT) projects and programs. During his career, Romeo has held the titles and duties of project manager, program manager, project portfolio manager, project executive, and senior project and program management consultant.
Romeo Mitchell, B.Sc., M.Sc., PMP, PQS, has an extensive background in all aspects of IT Project Management. This includes the management of single or multiple projects within a program or portfolio. He has delivered complex leading-edge projects and programs on-time, on-budget, with quality deliverables in complex distributed computing environments involving multiple solution providers. He has successfully led and completed assignments involving complex recovery and turnaround programs.
His experience spans several industries including Telecom, Manufacturing, Banking and Retail Sectors of industry. As a Senior Program Manager at HP, Romeo has managing multiple projects at multiple customer locations concurrently. He has experience in all aspects of IT project management and has led medium sized projects as well as very large service agreement based programs, in various industry sectors. Project integration experience includes IT service management, imaging, system consolidation, date migration, Network implementation, mission critical IT infrastructure, date warehousing, application development, applications integration, SAP basis and messaging. He has led project teams ranging from 20 to 100+ team members. Customers have included universities, steel plants, large banks and other types of organizations.
Prior to joining HP in 1995, Romeo experienced the following opportunities to advance his project management career:
Romeo has been an active member in the Project Management Institute (PMI®) for many years and has served in various capacities including President of the PMI Southern Ontario Chapter in the late 90’s. He has also serverd as Vice President of the Ontario Institute Of Quantity Surveyors. With more than 12 years experience teaching project management, Romeo is also a part-time senior instructor in the Humber Project Management Center at Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. He developed the curriculum for 10 project management courses currently offered at the college, is lead instructor for the “Managing Project Risks” course, and has coordinated 8 other instructors. He has published several papers and presented at both national and international seminars and symposia. His most recent publication co-orthored “From Ratholes to Rainbows, Managing Project Recovery”.
Romeo holds a Master of Science Degree in Project Management from Henley Management College/Brunel University, England, Graduate certificate in Operations Management and Operations Research Techniques, Industrial Society of Great Britain, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantity Surveying (cost engineering) with Commendations from the University of Westminster, England. Romeo received his Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from PMI in 1994.
The city of Mississauga was incorporated in 1974, has over 704,000 residents, and is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality. Located in the Greater Toronto Area, Mississauga has one of the fastest growing populations in Canada. With seven major highways passing through the city, Mississauga offers access to major destinations in Canada and the United States. In addition, most of Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport, is located in the city.
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario, making it the seat of the provincial Crown. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario and with over 2.5 million residents, Toronto is the fifth-most populous municipality in North America., and the 46th most populous in the world. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is part of a densely-populated region in south-central Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe which is home to over eight million residents.
As Canada's economic capital, Toronto is a global city. Toronto's leading economic sectors include finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television production, publishing, software production, medical research, education, tourism and sports industries. The Toronto Stock Exchange, the world's sixth largest, is headquartered in the city, along with a majority of Canada's corporations.
Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, which reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities, as about 49 percent of the population was born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime rates, clean environment and generally high standard of living, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities.
Ontario is Canada’s second largest province by population and second largest in total area. Ontario is bordered by the provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east, and the American states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Most of Ontario's borders with the United States are natural, and include the Lake of the Woods; the four Great Lakes (Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario); and the Saint Lawrence River.
The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. The 2006 Census counted 12,160,282 residents in Ontario, which accounted for 38.5% of the national population. The province takes its name from Lake Ontario, Along with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec, Ontario is one of the four original provinces of Canada when the nation was formed on July 1, 1867 by the British North America Act.
An abundance of natural resources, excellent transportation links to the American heartland and the inland Great Lakes making ocean access possible via ship containers, have all contributed to making Ontario Canada's leading manufacturing province, accounting for 52 per cent of the total national manufacturing shipments in 2004.
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest. The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored and settled the country. France ceded its North American colonies in 1763 and inn 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada became a federal dominion. Canadian independence from the UK was finally culminated in the Canada Act of 1982.
A federation now comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages. Technologically advanced and industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade.
Canada is one of the world's wealthiest nations with a high per capita income, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of Eight (G8). Canada is a free market economy with slightly more government intervention than the United States, but less than most European nations. Since the early 1990's, the Canadian economy has been growing rapidly with low unemployment and large government surpluses on the federal level. Today Canada closely resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and high living standards. As of October 2007, Canada's national unemployment rate of 5.9% is its lowest in 33 years.
As with other first world nations, the Canadian economy is now dominated by the service industry, which employs about three quarters of Canadians. However, Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of its natural resources sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important. Canada is one of the few developed nations that is a net exporter of energy. Canada is one of the world's most important suppliers of agricultural products, with the Canadian Prairies one of the most important suppliers of wheat, canola and other grains. Canada is also a world leader in many natural resources.
Canada is highly dependent on international trade, especially trade with the United States. The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which included Mexico) touched off a dramatic increase in trade and economic integration with the USA. Since 2001, Canada has successfully avoided economic recession and has maintained the best overall economic performance in the G8. Since the mid 1990s, Canada's federal government has posted annual budgetary surpluses and has steadily paid down the national debt. Additional information about Toronto, Ontario and Canada can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/, the source of the above information.
Romeo Mitchell is based in Mississauga, Toronto area, Ontario, Canada and can be contacted at romeo.mitchell@hp.com. We at PMForum welcome Romeo to our Global Correspondents Network in support of PMForum, PM World Today and the world of professional project management.
Established prior to 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and continues to be one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is a company formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. PMForum has established a global network of international correspondents in over 20 countries to provide news and information from around the world of project management. More information about this program and other correspondents can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.
His experience spans several industries including Telecom, Manufacturing, Banking and Retail Sectors of industry. As a Senior Program Manager at HP, Romeo has managing multiple projects at multiple customer locations concurrently. He has experience in all aspects of IT project management and has led medium sized projects as well as very large service agreement based programs, in various industry sectors. Project integration experience includes IT service management, imaging, system consolidation, date migration, Network implementation, mission critical IT infrastructure, date warehousing, application development, applications integration, SAP basis and messaging. He has led project teams ranging from 20 to 100+ team members. Customers have included universities, steel plants, large banks and other types of organizations.
Prior to joining HP in 1995, Romeo experienced the following opportunities to advance his project management career:
- Cost engineering and project management consultant, developing PM methodology and training workshops (1992-1994)
- Senior Qualtity Surveyor (Cost Engineering)/ Project Manager for the Government of St. Lucia, managing project portfolios, international procurements and large scale infrastructure projects (1989-1991)
- Project Management Specialist with Johnson Matthey in the UK, helping facilitate an organization’s transition from traditional (functional) to project-driven orientation (1988)
- Quantity Surveyor and project manager for the Government of St. Lucia, managing multiple locally and internationally funded engineering projects (1982-1984)
Romeo has been an active member in the Project Management Institute (PMI®) for many years and has served in various capacities including President of the PMI Southern Ontario Chapter in the late 90’s. He has also serverd as Vice President of the Ontario Institute Of Quantity Surveyors. With more than 12 years experience teaching project management, Romeo is also a part-time senior instructor in the Humber Project Management Center at Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning. He developed the curriculum for 10 project management courses currently offered at the college, is lead instructor for the “Managing Project Risks” course, and has coordinated 8 other instructors. He has published several papers and presented at both national and international seminars and symposia. His most recent publication co-orthored “From Ratholes to Rainbows, Managing Project Recovery”.
Romeo holds a Master of Science Degree in Project Management from Henley Management College/Brunel University, England, Graduate certificate in Operations Management and Operations Research Techniques, Industrial Society of Great Britain, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantity Surveying (cost engineering) with Commendations from the University of Westminster, England. Romeo received his Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification from PMI in 1994.
The city of Mississauga was incorporated in 1974, has over 704,000 residents, and is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality. Located in the Greater Toronto Area, Mississauga has one of the fastest growing populations in Canada. With seven major highways passing through the city, Mississauga offers access to major destinations in Canada and the United States. In addition, most of Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport, is located in the city.
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario, making it the seat of the provincial Crown. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario and with over 2.5 million residents, Toronto is the fifth-most populous municipality in North America., and the 46th most populous in the world. The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is part of a densely-populated region in south-central Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe which is home to over eight million residents.
Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, which reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities, as about 49 percent of the population was born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime rates, clean environment and generally high standard of living, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities.
Ontario is Canada’s second largest province by population and second largest in total area. Ontario is bordered by the provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east, and the American states of Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Most of Ontario's borders with the United States are natural, and include the Lake of the Woods; the four Great Lakes (Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario); and the Saint Lawrence River.
An abundance of natural resources, excellent transportation links to the American heartland and the inland Great Lakes making ocean access possible via ship containers, have all contributed to making Ontario Canada's leading manufacturing province, accounting for 52 per cent of the total national manufacturing shipments in 2004.
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest. The lands have been inhabited for millennia by aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored and settled the country. France ceded its North American colonies in 1763 and inn 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada became a federal dominion. Canadian independence from the UK was finally culminated in the Canada Act of 1982.
A federation now comprising ten provinces and three territories, Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state. It is a bilingual and multicultural country, with both English and French as official languages. Technologically advanced and industrialized, Canada maintains a diversified economy that is heavily reliant upon its abundant natural resources and upon trade.
As with other first world nations, the Canadian economy is now dominated by the service industry, which employs about three quarters of Canadians. However, Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of its natural resources sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important. Canada is one of the few developed nations that is a net exporter of energy. Canada is one of the world's most important suppliers of agricultural products, with the Canadian Prairies one of the most important suppliers of wheat, canola and other grains. Canada is also a world leader in many natural resources.
Canada is highly dependent on international trade, especially trade with the United States. The 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which included Mexico) touched off a dramatic increase in trade and economic integration with the USA. Since 2001, Canada has successfully avoided economic recession and has maintained the best overall economic performance in the G8. Since the mid 1990s, Canada's federal government has posted annual budgetary surpluses and has steadily paid down the national debt. Additional information about Toronto, Ontario and Canada can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/, the source of the above information.
Romeo Mitchell is based in Mississauga, Toronto area, Ontario, Canada and can be contacted at romeo.mitchell@hp.com. We at PMForum welcome Romeo to our Global Correspondents Network in support of PMForum, PM World Today and the world of professional project management.
Established prior to 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and continues to be one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is a company formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. PMForum has established a global network of international correspondents in over 20 countries to provide news and information from around the world of project management. More information about this program and other correspondents can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.
