Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s largest not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, celebrated the recipients of its 2016 Professional Awards this past weekend at its annual gala preceding PMI® Global Congress 2016—North America.
Since 1974, the PMI Professional Awards Program has honored practitioners who achieve the highest standards of performance in project management and make a lasting impact in their field. “Every year, PMI leads the project management profession in recognizing the industry’s most outstanding accomplishments,” said Mark A. Langley, president and CEO of PMI. “The recipients inspire the profession through their significant contributions and we commend them on their achievements.”
The 2016 PMI Professional Award recipients are:
PMI Project of the Year Award- Winner: National Synchrotron Light Source II Project
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA - Finalist: Guaiba 2 Project CPMC Celulose
Riograndense, Guaiba, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Finalist: Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital
Aurecon, Norman Park, Queensland, Australia
- Walter Ginevri, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, PMP, PgMP, PfMP
- Ralf Müller, DBA, MBA, PMP
- Beth A. Partleton, MPM, PMP
- Desjardins New Online Banking Services
- Scripps Health ICD-10 Program
- Business, Inc. by Octigo
- Projectcoach®
- Connie Plowman, PMP
- Dr. Prasad Kodukula, PMP, PgMP
- Corporate/Government Agency Category
- Caterpillar, Inc. – Global Project Management Team
- The Children’s Home Association of Illinois
- PMI Chapter Category
- PMI Northern Italy Chapter
- PMI Chapter Category—Nonprofit Partner
- Mazao Onlus
- Individual Project Manager Category
- Tracy McKinney
- John Breismeister
- Dr. Saadi Adra
- Trenese McNealy
- Stewart Clegg, PhD, University of Technology Sydney
- Erling S. Andersen, Masters Candidate. Oecon BI Norwegian Business School
- “Breakthrough R and D Stakeholders: The Challenges of Legitimacy in Highly Uncertain Projects” by Sophie Hooge PhD, and Cédric Dalmasso
- First Place: “Odisha’s Disaster Risk Reduction: Coping with the Challenges of Cyclone Phailin” presented by Hadiya Faheem and GV Muralidhara
- Second Place: Raphael O. Boyd, J.D., MBA; Lila L. Carden, PhD. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP; Jamison V. Kovach, PhD., Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma Professional Training Program Director; Calixo Mejia II, Master of Technology Project Management; Alix Valenti, PhD, JD, LLM
- “Managing and Working in Project Society: Institutional Challenges of Temporary Organizations”
Authors: Rolf A. Lundin, Jönköping International Business School; Niklas Arvidsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Tim Brady, University of Brighton Eskil Ekstedt, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden; Christophe Midler, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Jörg Sydow, Freie Universitat Berlin