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Friday, July 10, 2009
Alexandre Rodrigues in Lisbon joins PM Ambassadors(TM) Speakers Bureau
PMForum is pleased to announce that Alexandre Rodrigues, PhD, PMP, founder and past president of the PMI Portugal Chapter, has joined the PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau. Based in Lisbon, Portugal and with over 20 years of professional experience, Alexandre is an advisor to NATO and other organizations in Western and Central Europe. He has now announced his availability to speak at project management events worldwide.
Alexander Rodrigues, CEng PhD Prof. PMP, is Executive Partner of PMO Consulting, an international consulting firm based in Lisbon specialized in Project Management (PM) and delivering advanced PM training and consulting services to clients across Europe and other parts of the world. Alexandre has delivered services for a wide range of international organizations, like Volkswagen, Motorola, Microsoft, BHP Billiton in Africa and Australia, NATO, C3 in Brussels and Holland, Vodafone in Germany, and BAE and GEC-Marconi in the UK.
He is also a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium, belonging to the Business-IT Alignment and Agile PM Practices, and to the Risk Management Intelligence Network. He has over a decade of teaching experience, having lectured on Project Management and System Dynamics modeling related topics at several universities in Europe.
Dr. Rodrigues worked for several years in Project Management for the military and consulting industries in the UK and the US. He has several years of industry experience as a software engineer and publishes regularly articles in business and refereed scientific journals, having presented as a guest speaker at several international conferences. In 1996 he co-organized a NATO Advanced Research Workshop dedicated to the theme "Managing and Modeling Complex Projects", which took place in Kiev (Ukraine) having gathered a wide range of international experts from the US, Europe and the Eastern block.
He was guest Editor of the April 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal (Chaired by Edward Yourdon), dedicated to the theme "Multicultural Project Management". He was also invited to publish an article on the 2003/04 Year Book of the Association for Project Management (UK), dedicated to the theme "Earned Value Management in the International Scene.
Alexandre Rodrigues holds a five-year "licenciate" degree in Systems and Informatics Engineering and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences specialized in Project Management and System Dynamics. Dr. Rodrigues is an International Correspondent for PMForum in Portugal (www.pmforum.org). He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), and a Chartered Member of the Portuguese Association of Engineering.
Alexandre was founding president of the PMI Portugal Chapter and was a PMI Component Mentor for Southern, Central and Northern Europe during 2004-2007. He was an active member of the PMI teams that developed the 3rd edition of the PMBoK® and the OPM3® model for organizational maturity assessment. He served for two consecutive years in the Congress Project Action Teams (CoPAT) for the EMEA PMI Global Congresses that took place in Prague (2004) and Edinburgh (2005).
Potential Presentation Subjects (others available)
• Managing and Modeling Complex Projects
• Earned Value Management on NATO Programs & Projects
• Earned Value Management as a tool for Business Strategy
• Advanced Dynamic Risk Management for Projects and Programs
• Integrating Earned Value with Risk Management
• Earned Value Management for Balanced Scorecards
• Organizational Project Management Maturity Assessment
• Agile Project Management Models
• Organizational Career Path Models for Project Managers
• Advanced scheduling and resource management techniques for matrix environments
• Integrating Business Analysis and Project Management Processes
• Implementation of Advanced Training Programs for Career Path Models
• Implementation of Project Management Offices
Alexandre is fluent in English and Portuguese and is available to speak worldwide on the above topics. For information on his availability, please contact editor@pmforum.org.
The PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau was introduced by PMForum in 2007 as a service for project management leaders and meeting planners worldwide.
The program offers leading project management authorities, experts and leaders who are available to speak at PM events worldwide with 60 days advance notice. PM AmbassadorsTM include globally-recognized project management professional experts; authors of PM textbooks; former presidents and chairs of PM professional societies; experienced project managers and PM professionals; and retired executives of project and program-oriented organizations.
PM AmbassadorsTM are available to speak at project management conferences, meetings, seminars and workshops, and at corporate events. Interested meeting organizers and planners can contact editor@pmforum.org for more information. Background information about individual speakers, availability and potential presentation topics can be found at
http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world's first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world's most popular sources of project management news and information. 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.
He is also a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium, belonging to the Business-IT Alignment and Agile PM Practices, and to the Risk Management Intelligence Network. He has over a decade of teaching experience, having lectured on Project Management and System Dynamics modeling related topics at several universities in Europe.
Dr. Rodrigues worked for several years in Project Management for the military and consulting industries in the UK and the US. He has several years of industry experience as a software engineer and publishes regularly articles in business and refereed scientific journals, having presented as a guest speaker at several international conferences. In 1996 he co-organized a NATO Advanced Research Workshop dedicated to the theme "Managing and Modeling Complex Projects", which took place in Kiev (Ukraine) having gathered a wide range of international experts from the US, Europe and the Eastern block.
He was guest Editor of the April 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal (Chaired by Edward Yourdon), dedicated to the theme "Multicultural Project Management". He was also invited to publish an article on the 2003/04 Year Book of the Association for Project Management (UK), dedicated to the theme "Earned Value Management in the International Scene.
Alexandre was founding president of the PMI Portugal Chapter and was a PMI Component Mentor for Southern, Central and Northern Europe during 2004-2007. He was an active member of the PMI teams that developed the 3rd edition of the PMBoK® and the OPM3® model for organizational maturity assessment. He served for two consecutive years in the Congress Project Action Teams (CoPAT) for the EMEA PMI Global Congresses that took place in Prague (2004) and Edinburgh (2005).
Potential Presentation Subjects (others available)
• Managing and Modeling Complex Projects
• Earned Value Management on NATO Programs & Projects
• Earned Value Management as a tool for Business Strategy
• Advanced Dynamic Risk Management for Projects and Programs
• Integrating Earned Value with Risk Management
• Earned Value Management for Balanced Scorecards
• Organizational Project Management Maturity Assessment
• Agile Project Management Models
• Organizational Career Path Models for Project Managers
• Advanced scheduling and resource management techniques for matrix environments
• Integrating Business Analysis and Project Management Processes
• Implementation of Advanced Training Programs for Career Path Models
• Implementation of Project Management Offices
Alexandre is fluent in English and Portuguese and is available to speak worldwide on the above topics. For information on his availability, please contact editor@pmforum.org.
The PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau was introduced by PMForum in 2007 as a service for project management leaders and meeting planners worldwide.
PM AmbassadorsTM are available to speak at project management conferences, meetings, seminars and workshops, and at corporate events. Interested meeting organizers and planners can contact editor@pmforum.org for more information. Background information about individual speakers, availability and potential presentation topics can be found at
http://www.pmforum.org/ambassadors/ambassadors.htm.