How to become a Chartered Project Manager in 2024 Part 1

Currently working for Irish Rail as a Programme Manager, Ricardo leads the team responsible for delivering a €1billion railway electrification project. Having worked on railways, renewable energy, telecoms and software development, Ricardo has a successful track record in nine different countries around the world. Cognizant that changing processes is impossible without the transformation of people, Ricardo defends that only happy teams can deliver great outcomes.

His achievements include:

• Chartered Project Professional (ChPP)
• Praxis Professional (PFP)
• Change Management Practitioner (CMP)
• Master of Engineering in Engineering Management
• Post-graduate Diploma in Management
• Post-graduate Diploma in Project Management
• Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Electrical Engineering

Ricardo's proudest achievement professionally is to have successfully delivered large-scale projects in four different continents, nine countries and across a wide range of cultures. On a personal front, Ricardo is proud of the fact that his three sons look up to him. 

Marion's current role involves consultancy programmes and projects for BlueVisions and the Institute of Management. Typical change initiatives include Project Management Frameworks, Capability Frameworks and Vocational Education-type projects and programmes, along with all the Change Management activities to ensure the successful implementation and outcomes of each of the projects and programmes are achieved.

Many of Marion's projects include upskilling for clients and employees and they do this through the delivery of several International Certifications like AgilePM, Change Management and Marion's new favourite project topic – Praxis, as well as local Australian qualifications in the project and programme management space.

Attention to customer service and student experience, using innovative and modern techniques, provides superior results!

Marion's proudest achievement?

• Inheriting a class of Diploma of Project Management students that two trainers had given-up on as they said the students were too disruptive. I was able to get these students to settle in to their studies with twenty-six out of twenty-nine students recieving their qualifications.

Sheila Roberts is the Chief Progress Officer for Resilience Professionals Ltd. She has more than three decades of PPM experience, leading project professionals to deliver successful initiatives. She is accredited in many PPM and supports Best Practices. Sheila is passionate about the need for resilience and facilitating progress. Sheila is a co-author of ‘Business Resilience; A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace.’ She led the development of the Resilience Profile and other unique tools in the Business Resilience Framework.

Sheila is a Consultant, Assessor and Trainer in PPM and Business Resilience. She is a recognised specialist holding positions as Chair of Examiners and Chartered Assessor, in addition to being a Chartered Project Professional herself. She has been elected by competitor organisations as Chair of the PPM Training industry body, the Association for Training Excellence.In her spare time Sheila loves to read, walk, cycle and participates in car related activities with her family.

Tomasz Manugiewicz is the General Manager of Grand Parade Poland. An engineer at heart. A speaker by passion. He has delivered speeches at the largest European IT conferences, also as a keynote speaker. He has had presentations for brands such as Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Poland, Agile Tour London, Agile Central Europe, DevDays Europe, and many more.

He has been in the IT sector since 2006 . Tomasz worked as an Engineering Manager and, at the beginning of his path, when he was a Java developer Engineer, he helped to create the first Polish online banking systems. He also worked for international global corporations, including in the banking and ICT telecom sectors.

Tomasz is an Agile enthusiast and coach - conducted his first Agile Transformation in 2009. He is a co-author of the leadership book "The LiGHT BOOK2 - Leaders' insights for leaders based on true stories". At the AGH University of Technology, he is a lecturer, supporting young engineers on their way to the world of IT.

• Keynote Speaker at DevDays Europe 2022 conference

My proudest achievement is my daughter – Zosia

Besides that, I am proud that I had a chance to speak to 2500 + software engineers during Devoxx Poland conference.

I am responsible for the End to End for the delivery of prefabricated solar trackers. In order, my role consists in managing people to manufacture the solar tracking systems as per the customers requirement (Capacity to deliver), and Environmental conditions.

I held previous positions as project Engineer and Sales engineer in Italy, where I was in charge of developing new products in the construction and automation industries respectively.

Proudest achievement: I mentored one of my sisters to become a better version of herself, she was able to attend a top university in Europe in the field she desired.