09 May 2008

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Colombian Company Becomes 1,000th PMI Registered Education Provider

Gomez Project and Training Ltd. staff. (Standing, left to right:) Andres Felipe Gomez, general manager, and Sandra Mercado, project manager. (Seated, left to right) Carolina Rojas, commercial manager and Martha Fierro, management assistant.

Gomez Project and Training Ltd., of Bogotá, Colombia, is the 1,000th Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) for PMI.

R.E.P.s are authorized by PMI to offer Professional Development Units (PDUs) to individuals seeking to maintain a PMI credential through continuing education. A PDU is the measuring unit used by PMI to quantify approved learning and service activities.

“Registered Education Providers are PMI's key partners in the growth of the project management profession,” said Michael A. Price, Ph. D., manager of PMI’s Accreditation Programs.  “By being very careful who we approve to become R.E.P.s, we help PMI credential holders as well as the public identify effective project management training providers.  We congratulate Gomez Project and Training on becoming PMI’s thousandth R.E.P.”

To qualify to become an approved R.E.P., a training organization must provide PMI with evidence of quality instructional design, delivery and content of their courses, conferences and/or training products. Each R.E.P. program is reviewed every three years by PMI.

R.E.P.s are located in 56 countries and include universities, training consultants, government agencies and corporate universities. Over the past three years, R.E.P.s have provided training to more than one million project management professionals worldwide.

Gomez Project and Training Ltd. provides project management consulting and training services. It also provides outsourcing for project managers.

“As a Registered Education Provider for the PMI, we assist project managers who are working to earn and then maintain PMI credentials,” said Andres Felipe Gómez, founder of Gomez Project and Training. “The most widely recognized of the PMI credentials is the Project Management Professional or PMP^®.  Candidates for the PMP are required to earn a minimum of 35 hours of training in project management. Once certified, PMPs must earn at least 60 PDUs every three years.”

Of the approximately 500 people trained at Gomez Project and Training since the firm was founded in 2006, Gómez said most have been information technology managers and personnel of multinational and large national companies. His company also has provided training for Colombian government project managers.