Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP

Current

• Chair at Macrosolutions
• Chair at Project Management Institute
• Partner at PMDome.com

• Author at Auerbach
• Senior Instructor at ESI International
• MBA Professor at Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA/USP)
• MBA Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
• Author at Brasport Editora

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Past

• Component Mentor at PMI - Project Management Institute
• Owner at AeC
• Vice President for Project Management at Sucesu MG

• Chapter President at PMI Brasil Minas Gerais Chapter
• Professor at Unicentro Newton de Paiva
• Professor at Instituto de Educação Tecnológica (IETEC)
• Instrutor and Sales Manager at Prompt Informática Objetiva
• Student, Aspirant and 2nd Lieutenant at Military Service at Brazilian Army (CPOR)

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Education

• The George Washington University
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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Connections

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Industry

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Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Summary

Ricardo Vargas is a project, portfolio and risk management specialist. During the past 15 years, he has been responsible for over 80 major projects in various countries in the areas of petroleum, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, information technology and finances, comprising an investment portfolio of over 18 billion dollars.

He is the first Latin American volunteer to be elected Chairman of the Board for the Project Management Institute (PMI), the largest project management organization in the world with close to 500,000 members and certified professionals in 175 countries.

Ricardo Vargas has written ten books on project management, published in Portuguese and English, which have sold over 200,000 copies throughout the world. In 2005 he received the PMI Distinguished Award for his contribution to the development of project management.

He is a chemical engineer and holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais). Ricardo Vargas also holds a Master Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and is certified both as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI and as IPMA-B by the International Project Management Association. He attended the Program on Negotiation for Executives at Harvard Law School.

Over an eleven year timeframe, which began in 1995, Ricardo, in conjunction with two partners, established one of the most solid Brazilian businesses in the area of technology, project management and outsourcing, which had a staff of 4,000 collaborators and an annual income of 50 million dollars in 2006, when Ricardo Vargas sold his share of the company to dedicate himself to project management activities.

Phone: 55-31-3024-3003
ricardo.vargas@macrosolutions.com.br
Skype: ricardo.vargas
IM: rvvargas@hotmail.com

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Specialties:

Global Project Management
Portfolio Management
Risk Management
Project Negotiations
Crisis Management
Troubled Projects
Microsoft Enterprise Project Management
Microsoft Office Project 2007
Coaching and mentoring
Leadership in Project Management
Critical Chain
Linkedin [LION]

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Experience

• Chair

  Macrosolutions

  (Management Consulting industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  As owner at Macrosolutions, Ricardo manages the consulting and training services provided by the company. He developes tailored training for organizations in Project Management, Leadership, Negotiations among others.
  
  With more than 100 projects managed in different sizes and complexities, Ricardo Vargas provides diferent kind of services worldwide to organizations like Citibank, Siemens, AES Corporation, Petrobras, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), Asea Brown Boveri, Cognis, Convergys, Santander, OAS, Telemar, Banco of Brazil, Correios, among others.

• Chair

  Project Management Institute

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years )

  Ricardo Vargas was elected in 2006 by PMI membership to volunteer as a PMI Director at Large. The Project Management Institute is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of 15 Directors-at-Large, elected to serve a three-year term. The Board oversees the management, control and supervision of the business and is accountable to the worldwide membership. The PMI Board is also responsible and accountable for strategic planning and the establishment of policy with respect to activities of the Institute. Ricardo Vargas will serve from 2007 to 2009. Ricardo was elected in 2008 PMI Chair for 2009.

• Partner

  PMDome.com

  (Privately Held; Education Management industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  The PMDome® was designed to meet all challenges faced by project management and leadership students. The workshop were developed by José Finnocchio, Danubio Borba and Ricardo Vargas. The main objective is to prove that we can do complex projects making use of simple things and best practices.
  
  The PMDome® workshop is "hands on" training of Project Management where a group of participants (12 to 44 students) are divided in three teams that compete to each other to demonstrate superior performance in Project Management Skills in accordance with requirements stated in SOW provided by a fictitious customer.
  
  With more than 1,500 students, PMDome is the state-of-art in Project Management training, being honored with the PMI Award in 2005 as the best training solution worldwide for project management learning.
  
  Ricardo Vargas deliveries PMDome worhshop worldwide for diferent kind of customers and educational organizations. For more information about PMDome visit www.pmdome.com.

• Author

  Auerbach

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  During year 2006, Ricardo started to do contacts with international publishers to translate his books to english. In July of 2006, he signed an agreement to publish his book Practical Guide to Project Plan. This book sold more than 10,000 copies in Brazil and it's available at Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/2gosoa).

• Senior Instructor

  ESI International

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

  January 2002 — Present (8 years )

  As ESI Senior Instructor, Ricardo Vargas delivers traning for public classes and onsite training for ESI's local and international clients. Among the subjects he teaches are Project Management, Leadership and Communications Skills, Project Management Applications, Risk Management, Quality Management, Procurement Management and Negotiation Skills for Project Managers. He has more than 100 classes since 2002.

• MBA Professor

  Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA/USP)

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  January 2001 — Present (9 years )

  Ricardo Vargas created in 2003 the discipline Portfolio Management and was one of the first professors program and portfolio management in Brazil. He is also professor of Risk Management using PMBOK Approach with more than 10 classes for USP/FIA.

• MBA Professor

  Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  January 1999 — Present (11 years )

  Ricardo Vargas started working as professor of the MBA in project management in the first class of this course in Curitiba, Paraná. He is professor of Communications Management, Human Resources for Project Managers, Project Procurement Management, Risk and Scope Management, with more than 150 classes in 21 different cities all over Brazil since 1999.

• Author

  Brasport Editora

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  January 1998 — Present (12 years )

  Ricardo Vargas and Brasport are working together since 1998 when they made an agreement to publish Ricardo's first book: Project Management: Strategy, Planning and Control. After this book, Ricardo and Brasport published other 6 books in Project Management field. The other books are (in Portuguese)
  
  - Manual Prático do Plano de Projeto (published also in english by Auerbach)
  - Gerenciamento de Projetos: Estabelecendo Diferenciais Competitivos
  - Análise de Valor Agregado (partially published in english by Informa)
  - Microsoft Office Project 2003
  - Microsoft Project 2002
  - Microsoft Project 2000

• Component Mentor

  PMI - Project Management Institute

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 3 months)

  As Component Mentor of the PMI (Project Management Institute) in Latin America, Ricardo Vargas was responsible for support all chapters in the region, developing projects with all groups as the PMBOK 3rd Edition Translation to Brazilian Portugueses and the chapter’s unification and collaboration in Brazil.

• Owner

  AeC

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1995 — July 2006 (11 years 7 months)

  As partner-director of the A&C Group for 10 years, Ricardo Vargas managed the services provided by the company and coordinates the development of new products in the training, outsourcing, systems and consulting departments and also deals with attending and acquisition of new clients. Among the clients which are directly managed are: Fiat Group, Telemar, Petrobrás, Telemig Celular, Cemig, Copasa, Gerdau, Cobra (Banco do Brasil), Cia Siderurgica de Tubarão, Açominas, Anglo Gold, Andrade Gutierrez Construction Company, FiatAllis (New Holland), National Systems Operator (ONS), Furnas, Mannesmann, McDonald’s, ABC-Bull, Eletropaulo, CSN, HSBC, Microsoft, Oracle, Banco do Brasil, CVRD, TIM Brasil, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Usiminas, SAP AG, Algar Group, Prodemge, Esab, White Martins and Serpro, among others

• Vice President for Project Management

  Sucesu MG

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 1997 — December 2005 (9 years )

  As the Vice-President for Projects of Sucesu-MG (Telecommunication and Computer Users Society of Minas Gerais), for almos 8 years, Ricardo was responsible for organizing congresses, seminars, fairs and lectures about PM. Since 2001, has also been responsible for all project management and PMI initiatives in Sucesu - MG and also the PMI MG Chapter sponsorship with Sucesu.

• Chapter President

  PMI Brasil Minas Gerais Chapter

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 1998 — December 2002 (5 years )

  Ricardo fouded the PMI Brazil Minas Gerais Chapter in 1998 and was the first president-elected (from 1998 to 2002). During this time, the chapter consolidate as one of the most influent chapters in Brazil, with the publication of PMBOK Guide 1996 and 2000 in Brazilian Portuguese. This initiative is considered by the project management community one of the most important milestones to the project management development in Brazil.

• Professor

  Unicentro Newton de Paiva

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  January 1996 — December 1999 (4 years )

  Professor of Project Management, Information Systems and Operational Research for Business administration and Information management courses with more than 10 different classes. Ricardo was honoree as godfather of 4 different classes and honoree teacher in other 4 classes.

• Professor

  Instituto de Educação Tecnológica (IETEC)

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  January 1996 — December 1999 (4 years )

  Ricardo started his career in the project management specific disciplines at Ietec. Since the first classes, Ricardo teached communications skills for project managers and project management tools. He was recognized at that time as one of the most skilled professionals in Microsoft Project.

• Instrutor and Sales Manager

  Prompt Informática Objetiva

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1992 — August 1995 (3 years 2 months)

  Ricardo started as a trainee to learn about computers and information technology. During this time Ricardo started to teach classes and delelop training skills to be a future teacher. The first project management classes that Ricardo attend were in Prompt.

• Student, Aspirant and 2nd Lieutenant

  Military Service at Brazilian Army (CPOR)

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  January 1991 — December 1991 (1 year )

  Ricardo Vargas served in the Brazilian Armed forces in 1991 as part of his compulsory military service. Due to his commitment during the year, he has honored with the "Correia Lima" Merit Award as the best Infantry student in that year.

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Education

• The George Washington University

  Master Certificate , Project Management , 2001 — 2003

  Master Certificate including the following disciplines:
  Managing Projects in Organizations
  Project Risk Management
  Leadership and Communications in Projects
  Procurement Management
  Project Quality Management
  Project Schedule and Cost Control
  Project Management Applications
  Negotiation Skills for Project Managers

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  Master of Science , Earned Value Management , 2000 — 2002

  Dissertation titled “Earned Value Management Application in the Heavy Conctruction field”, 2002. Published in 2003 by Brasport Publishers (more than 3,500 copies sold). Partially published at PMI CPM Measurable News Journal in 2004.

• Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  1995 , Chemical Engineering , 1990 — 1995

  Monitor of Chemistry Lab (1991)
  Monitor of ThermodynamicsLaboratory (1993)
  Production Engineer trainee (1994)

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Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Interests:

Project management consulting, Project and portfolio management training, International work, Short and long term consulting, Complex projects, International publishers for my books, PMI, PMP, CAPM, PgMP, IPMA, Prince 2, APM, Microsoft, Office, Project, Scrum, Agile Project Management

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Groups:

PMI, Project Management Institute,
AACE, Association for Advancement of Cost Engineering,
IPMA, International Project Management Association,
IGE, Institute for Global Ethics,
PRMIA, Professional Risk Management International Association,
AMA, American Management Association,
Forbes.com CEO Network Member,

•    eOffice
•    Lean Six Sigma Brazil
•    U.S. Government Relations & Public Affairs
•    Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
•    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
•    Marzar
•    OpenNetworker.com
•    ! Sales Best Practices
•    Online Business Owners
•    Brazil | Open Networkers • Brasil
•    China Networking Group
•    marzar CEO network
•    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
•    1. IPMA (International Project Management Association) 500+ members
•    IPMA Project Management Professionals
•    Job & Career Network
•    PgMP Credentialed Networking Group
•    MBA FGV (1700+)
•    PMO - Project Management Office
•    UFMG Alumni
•    LION500.com (Open Networkers)
•    PLANEJAMENTO
•    CPOR - Centro de Preparação de Oficiais da Reserva
•    Certified IT Practitioners
•    AACE International Members & Friends Network
•    PMI Adelaide South Australia Chapter
•    UAE National Forum
•    Earned Value Management
•    Strategic IT Portfolio and Project Management
•    Pharmaceutical & Chemical Professionals in the US
•    Agile Application Lifecycle Management
•    Sales Coaching Tips
•    International Management
•    Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS)
•    Connect to South America
•    REDE DE CONSTRUTORIA SYMNETICS
•    China Executive Search
•    PMO Group
•    CAPM - Brasil
•    PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR BEGINEERS
•    Project Management Experience
•    >>> P.R.O.J.E.T.I.Z.A.D.O <<<
•    Portugal – plataforma de serviços
•    Connect to Brazil
•    Brazilian Expats - www.brazilianexpats.com
•    Energias Renováveis
•    www.esesearch.com
•    The International Community for Project Managers
•    C-Level Global Network

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP’s Honors:

Honored in 2005 with the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award
Honored in 2005 with the PMI Professional Development Product of the Year Award
Honored in 2004 as a Fellow Member of PMI Brazil Minas Gerais Chapter
Honored in 2003 as the first professioanl worldwide to be certified in Microsoft Project 2002
Honored in 1991 with the Correia Lima Medal for the first position in CPOR (Brazilian Army)

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