Consulting
AEW Services specializes in project management consulting to corporate executives
and project staff from the perspective of owners, consultants and contractors.
Fields of capital project management experience include hydroelectric,
river, marine, transportation, industrial, institutional, commercial and residential
projects. Fields of corporate project management include project information
systems, software development, productivity and expropriation claims, project
management reviews and audits.
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Biography
Who am I to tell you all about this? Well, I have spent a lot of years in the
'biz' as they say, and I've learned a lot of things the hard way. I've been involved
in a lot of projects, from big ones running many years to little ones lasting
only days; in many different types from heavy engineering to building construction,
to social and environmental impact studies, to information systems and software.
I've had hands-on experience as a corporate executive, project director and project
manager for a range of clients. I've seen it from the perspective of owner, developer,
engineer, contractor and government agent, as well as project management reviewer
and auditor. I've been right around the world in a lot of different countries
to talk to other people about it and, as you can see, I've studied it and researched
and written books and papers about it.
Okay, so just for the record, I am a registered professional engineer specializing
in project management consulting. I am a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
(UK), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian
Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Project Management Institute and
a long-time member of the Institute of Management (UK). I believe that I am recognized
internationally as a speaker and workshop leader having presented seminars and
papers on a variety of project management topics in eleven different countries.
I have been active in the US-based Project Management Institute ("PMI") for
many years and was elected to the PMI Board as Vice President Member Services
(1984), then as President (1987) and Chairman of the Board (1988). In the mid-1980's,
I led a team of some eighty PMI volunteers from across North America to document
the Project Management Body of Knowledge for the Institute. It was approved
and published by PMI in 1987, but since superseded by A Guide to the Project
Management Body
of
Knowledge in 1996 and 2000. These publications have provided the
basis for PMI's Project Management Professional certification program. PMI recognition
has included
Distinguished
Contribution and Person of the Year (1985, 1986)
In addition to writing two books for PMI, A Framework
for Project and Program Integration (1991) and Project
and Program Risk Management: A guide to Managing Project
Risk and Opportunities (1992), I have also contributed
chapters to a number of other books. These
include
Project
Risk Management
in Project
Management Handbook
(PMI/Jossey-Bass, 1998); How to Motivate All Stakeholders
to Work Together in Field Guide to Project Management
(Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998, 2004) and Professional and
Personal Development Management: A Practical Approach to
Education
and Training in Project Management for the Business Professional
- A Comprehensive Guide (Wiley, 2001).
My latest book is A Management Framework for Project,
Program and Portfolio Integration. (Trafford Publishing,
Victoria, BC, Canada, 2004)
So there you have it!
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