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Mr. Peter Mello, PMP is an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Brazil. Mr. Mello is also a Portfolio/Project Management consultant within public and private sectors, providing project management training and consulting services to governmental and industrial organizations, presently working with a portfolio of 22 on-going projects in the Petroleum & Gas industry. His professional experience also includes project and risk management for large projects in the IT Industry and Government, and specialized activities for scheduling optimization based on critical chain and Success Driven Project Management concepts. He is responsible for bringing Spider Management Technologies to Brazil (a Russian PM company responsible for the development of methods and tools for the active simulation of scenarios and scheduling optimization). Peter actively participates in many events and activities of the PM community, with papers published and presented at PMI-DF (Brasilia/Brazil), PMI-SP (Sao Paolo/Brazil), PMI-ES (ES/Brazil), PMI Global 2007 (Mexico), PMI Global 2008 (Australia). He has also participated in other PMI initiatives, such as the Portfolio Role Delineation Study Group and the preparation for the PMBOK extension guide to Risk Management. He is on the board of directors of X25 Training and Consulting and Spider Management Technologies Brazil. It is possible to find seminars, papers and articles of Peter Mello at http://www.gestaoeprojetos.com; additional information can be found at www.x25.com.br/peter/index_us.htm (English) or www.spiderproject.com.br (Portuguese). Peter Mello can be contacted at peter.mello@gestaoeprojetos.com.