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For Immediate Release
8
October 2007
Component Leadership Award
This award
recognizes and honors a Chapter, SIG or College elected officer who has
effectively guided a component’s operation that resulted in significant
advances or achievements, furthering Project Management Institute’s envisioned
goal that "Worldwide, organizations will embrace, value and utilize
project management and attribute their success to it." The award was based on the nominee’s significant
achievements in the component’s growth, innovative programs, and efforts that
are visible beyond the area of operation while consistently meeting the
Institute's requirements.
We are
proud to announce that the recipient for the Component Leadership SIG was our
very own Chair Margareth Carneiro, PMP.
Margareth’s leadership and excellence
in her work earned her the recognition of ‘One
of the 25 influential Woman in Project Management’ in the world. She is highly respected and has a very
good relationship with all the Brazilian component leaders and many others
worldwide. Margareth is a creative person and imprints dynamism to the
Component which she leads. Under her
leadership since 2005, our SIG has worked to improve the practice of project
management in government at all levels. Congratulations Margareth!
MARGARETH CARNEIRO, PMP OF THE PMI GOVERNMENT
SPECIFIC
INTEREST GROUP HONORED WITH 2007 PMI AWARD
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
USA – Project Management Institute (PMI®),
the world’s leading membership association for the project
management
profession, has awarded Margareth Carneiro, PMP of Brasilia, DF, Brazil,
with
the PMI Component Leadership Award. Component Leadership Awards
recognize PMI
members who have made significant contributions to their communities,
the
project management profession and PMI.
A PMI
component is a chartered subsidiary of the PMI organization composed of
PMI
members. PMI Components include:
- 260 chapters (geographically based community)
- specific interest group (SIG) (virtual
interest-area community) or
- college (community centered around a
knowledge area in A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide).
Carneiro,
a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®),
chairs the PMI
Government SIG. Her work as chair of the Government SIG since 2005 has
set the direction
for the SIG’s presence in the government community and raised
the direction of
the project management profession and PMI. She has been recognized by
PMI as
one of the 25 influential women in project management. When she earned
the PMP
certification in 1999, she was one of the first people in Brazil
to receive the PMP
certification.
Carneiro
is the executive director of her own consultancy, PMA Project
Management. As a
volunteer, she works on social and government projects and has helped
the Brazilian
government plan the Zero Hunger Program that fights the causes of
poverty and
hunger in Brazil.
PMI
Component Leadership Awards were presented on 6 October 2007 during the
2007 Awards
Ceremony held in conjunction with the PMI Global
Congress—North America in Atlanta.
PMI GOVERNMENT SPECIFIC INTEREST GROUP HONORED
WITH 2007 PMI AWARD
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA– Project Management
Institute (PMI®), the world’s
leading membership association for the
project management profession, has awarded the PMI Government Specific
Interest
Group with the PMI Component of the Year Award – Specific
Interest Group
Category.
A PMI
component is a chartered subsidiary of the PMI organization composed of
PMI
members. PMI Components include:
- 260 chapters (geographically based community)
- specific interest group (SIG) (virtual
interest-area community) or
- college (community centered around a
knowledge area in A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide).
The
PMI Government SIG improves the quality and practice of project
management in
government at all levels – federal, state/provincial and
local/municipal –
around the world. The
PMI Government SIG
has recognized the rapidly growing need to serve PMI members globally
and has
participated in collaborative initiatives including government forums
in Brazil,
Hong Kong and Spain.
PMI
Government SIG Chair-Elect Sivasailam Sankara, PMP, accepted the award
on
behalf of government SIG members.
PMI
Component of the Year Awards were presented on 6 October 2007 during
the 2007 awards
ceremony held in conjunction with the PMI Global
Congress—North America in Atlanta.
About PMI
With
nearly 250,000 members in more than 160 countries, Project Management
Institute
(PMI®) is the leading membership
association for the project
management profession. PMI is actively engaged in leading the
profession by
setting professional standards, conducting research and providing
access to a
wealth of information and resources. PMI also promotes career and
professional
development and offers certification, networking and community
involvement
opportunities. For more than 38
years, PMI has advanced the careers of practitioners who have made
project
management indispensable in achieving business results. Please visit www.pmi.org for more
information.
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