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Seattle, Washington, USA – Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading not-for-profit professional association for the project management profession, today announced the names of six newly-elected members to the PMI Board of Directors: Eugene Bounds, PMP; Mark Mathieson, MS, PE, PMP; Katherine Shawver, PMP; Bruce Rodrigues, MBL, PrEng, PMP; Ricardo Vargas, MS, PMP; and Al Zeitoun, PMP; will begin serving three-year terms on 1 January 2007.
The six accomplished project management practitioners, selected during PMI Global Congress 2006—North America, 21-24 October, in Seattle, Washington, USA, will join their colleagues on the PMI Board of Directors in mapping the strategic direction of the Institute for the next several years.
The six join sitting PMI Board of Directors members Iain Fraser, Fellow PMINZ, PMP; Philip Diab, MBA, PMP; Karen Tate, MBA, PMP; Frederick A. Arnold, PMI Fellow, CNSI; Yanping Chen, PhD, PMP; Kathleen P. Romero, PMP; Martin C. VanDerSchouw, PMP; Linda Vella, PMP; and Thomas Walenta, PMP.
New to the PMI Board, Eugene Bounds, PMP, has 30 years experience in program management and large-scale systems development gained over a career that has included U.S. Air Force officer, director at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and executive vice president and COO at Robbins-Gioia LLC. He currently serves as a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Bounds has been a PMI member since 1989, a Project Management Professional (PMP®) certificant since 1991, has been active in three PMI chapters, and was one of the initial PMI Denver Chapter members.
Mark Owen Mathieson, MS, PE, PMP, has 30 years experience as a PMP certificant and licensed professional engineer, and is currently serving as vice president of facilities management and vice president/program director for the Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) expansion program for Community Medical Centers in Central California, a $350 million (US) redevelopment program to create a state-of-the-art acute care medical campus. Mr. Mathieson has been a PMI member since 1982, has served as an officer for the PMI Puget Sound Chapter, is a founding member of the Design-Procurement-Construction Specific Interest Group, was on the PMI Board of Directors from 2002-2004, established seven student chapters, was selected to draft/vote on 1998 constitutional governance, has presented papers and has won several PMI awards.
Katherine Shawver, PMP, a PMI member for over 10 years, is a graduate of PMI's inaugural Leadership Institute class. She has actively pursued volunteer opportunities in governance-related initiatives of not-for-profit organizations, and participates in an informal exchange program she helped create with her PMI peers that shares valuable lessons learned from books, periodicals and seminars and workshops. Ms. Shawver has served as a chapter president, a project manager for two projects for the Chapter Leadership Development and Excellence Committee (LDEC), a regional mentor for the leaders of 25 chapters in five Northeast North American states, and a chapter member representative on the Component Services Member Advisory Group. She has also been as a member of the Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee (SPPA) since 2005.
Over the last 30 years, Bruce Rodrigues, MBL, PrEng, PMP, has visited, worked, presented, trained and consulted in project management in South Africa, the Middle East, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Africa, India, Japan and Australia. Since 1983, he has provided leadership and service to the PMI Board of Directors. He is currently director of the PMI South Africa Chapter. Bruce has attended PMI Leadership Meetings each year since 1990, and has served PMI as a member of the Certification Committee (1995-1998), Standards Committee (1998), Globalization Project Action Team (1998-1999) and director of Regional Advocacy-Africa (2001-2002). In addition, Bruce was a 2005 Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee (SPPA) member in 2005, and will serve as chair in 2006.
Ricardo Viana Vargas, MS, PMP, is a project management specialist who, over the last decade, has authored several books focusing on project management and incorporating Microsoft Project into a successful project management practice. Mr. Vargas has played diverse roles within PMI as a member and volunteer since 1997, helping revise A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), serving as a member of the PMBOK® Guide update project team in 2004, chair of the Translation Verification Committee for the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the PMBOK® Guide–Third Edition, and as the first Brazilian member of the College of Performance Management. Mr. Vargas has also served as president of the PMI Brazil Minas Gerais Chapter, as component mentor for PMI in Latin America since 2003, and as the PMI Educational Foundation sponsor in Brazil. He also received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award and the PMI Professional Development Product of the Year Award for his PMDome Workshop in 2005.
Rounding out the new slate of directors is Al Zeitoun, PhD, who has enjoyed a multinational career in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. He has provided strategic direction to many global corporations in addition to instructing and consulting on the cultural change needed in project management. Over the last 16 years, Dr. Zeitoun has contributed to the growth of PMI. He helped to start the PMI Wichita Chapter and later served as the PMI Central Indiana Chapter president. He received the charter for the PMI MENA Egypt Chapter on behalf of the chartering team and was also part of the chartering team of the International Development Specific Interest Group (IDSIG) and served as its chair. He was appointed by the PMI Board of Directors to revitalize PMI's accreditation program and served as committee chair. Together with PMI staff, he accomplished that mission and has since served on the Global Accreditation Center (GAC) Board.
In an ad hoc session, the 2007 PMI Board of Directors Officers and Board Standing Committee Chairs were also announced:
- Chair: Linda Vella
- Vice Chair: Philip R. Diab
- Secretary/Treasurer: Martin C. VanDerSchouw
- Chair, External Relations and Volunteer Involvement Committee: Thomas Walenta
- Chair, Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee: Bruce J. Rodrigues
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