PM Scene: Faces and Places
May - June 2004
David Curling PM Internationalist
David
H. Curling
Certificated Project Manager
B.Mech. P.Eng., p.t.s.c.,CPM, Fellow APM, Fellow PMI, CD
David has had 30 years of "hands-on" project management experience in international project management practice, Canadian Industry and Public Service of Canada with post-graduate teaching experience. David is active in the Project Management Institute (North America) and the International Project Management Association (Europe).
David graduated from Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada with a Bachelor of Engineering and attended a number of Staff Colleges notably the Royal Military College of Science. He was awarded a Canadian Forces (CD) decoration. He received the Outstanding Performance Award of the Performance Management Association of Canada. He is a Certificated Project Manager, Fellow of the Association for Project Management and Fellow of the Project Management Institute.
David has extensive knowledge and experience in the formal management of projects in a variety of industrial and government settings. He has been both a manager and consultant to projects involving multi-disciplinary teams from a variety of companies working in a number of different countries. David has been active in all phases of a number of complex, high technology programs. These range from technical equipment, public infrastructure to information technology and acquisition projects.
He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Project Management. He has written extensively on the field of project management and is a lecturer in systems management, leading project management workshops on a private and public basis for the past twenty years.
David has developed and maintains the World Wide Web Project Management Forum Web Site dedicated to the advancement of international project management. He is a Member of the Steering Committee for the Global Project Management Forum and Coordinator of the National Capital Region Internet Special Interest Group.
David Curling is a Professional Engineer. He has been a professional soldier, systems engineer, test and validation engineer, logistics management engineer, Project Manager and senior public servant. He now provides project management services as a Principal Consultant of LODAY Systems Ltd.
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