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PM-ABC: Taiwan`s Honor - Roger Chou Wins the PMI 2009 Distinguished Contribution Award
TAIPEI, Taiwan--(Business Wire)--
Roger Chou was awarded the Project Management Institute (PMI) Distinguished
Contribution Award for his dedication to the profession and practice of project
management.
The PMI Distinguished Contribution Award recognizes significant achievement for
sustained performance by an individual who contributes to the advancement of the
project management. There are only eight receivers of this award, but thousands
of people around the world were being nominated for it.
Roger Chou was the only Chinese to receive the award at the PMI Awards Ceremony.
He is the first PgMP in Asia, and was being nominated for this award in this
April, by six individuals, including legislators, journalist association,
university education director and business CEO.
In the past four years, Roger and his company, PM-ABC (www.PM-ABC.COM) have
trained over 3,000 PMPs, boosting the number of qualified project managers in
Taiwan to 5,388, bringing Taiwan into the top eight countries of PMI trained
project managers. Apart from the increase of the quantity, Roger and PM-ABC also
made endeavors in improving the whole society`s recognition of this credential.
The six nominators, who gained their project manager certificates under Roger`s
advocating, are the testimonials of his endeavor in improving the recognition of
the project management credential. Roger said, "I tried to influence the people
with influence - the media workers, organization leaders and CEO of enterprises,
providing them with free training to become certified project managers, so that
these forefront opinion leaders can be enlightened with the power of project
management when working in their ever-changing and challenging environment."
Along with this, Roger also triggered several project management media coverage
of the role of project managers in major constructions in Taiwan, such as Taipei
101, Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transport and Taiwan High Speed Rail. As the society
turned their attentions to the credential, he urged a campaign to endorse PMP as
Basic Certification for Graduates. Now, the biggest job hunting website in
Taiwan: the 104.com, has listed the project management credential as one of the
most favorable certifications for employers.
According to the legislators in Taiwan, Roger also has been kept lobbying our
government to pass the "Project Management Act." Besides, this April, as
Taiwan`s national competitiveness dropped, Roger wrote a State Affair Memorandum
to the President of the R.O.C., suggesting how the government could use
professional project management to reduce major construction projects` risks and
improve their quality. The President replied positively, and has vowed to take
his advice seriously. Roger was asked to present the PM-ABC` project management
course materials for their evaluation.
This project management fighter has never been slowing his footsteps. This
August, as Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan, as President of the Institute of Taiwan
Project Management (ITPM), Roger brought together over 300 volunteers who were
certified project managers to develop a reconstruction guidance plan - "Morakot
Flood Disaster Reconstruction and Preparation WBS Plan." This is Taiwan`s first
complete standard operations procedures developed by a non-governmental
association, which aims to systematically and efficiently guide future
reconstruction work. In the end of Sep, this WBS Plan has been sent to the
government, Red Cross and charity organizations.
"The PMI Awards Program recognizes excellence in project management across a
broad array of categories for organizations, individuals, community advancement
and our chapters and their volunteers," said Gregory Balestrero, president and
CEO of PMI. "Winning this award is a testament to the value project management
brings to our varied stakeholders."
The PMI Distinguished Contribution Award was presented on 10 October during the
PMI Awards Ceremony at PMI Global Congress 2009 - North America in Orlando, Fla.
Note 1: About Project Management Institute (PMI)
The world`s leading project management organization, PMI shares knowledge with
nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in 185+ countries. Since its
founding 40 years ago, PMI has impacted more than one million practitioners,
businesses, governments, students and training organizations. Today, PMI`s
products and services range from world-class standards for project, program and
portfolio management to five professional credentials, including the gold
standard Project Management Professional (PMP). PMI`s exclusive Global Corporate
Council and European Corporate Networking Group engage large multinationals and
government organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The only
project management association with an established academic research program,
PMI has invested more than US$14 million in support of dozens of research
projects since 1997. Learn more at PMI.org.
Note 2: About Roger Chou
Roger Chou, the first PgMP in Asia, had carried out large-scale projects for
Taiwan`s premiere companies, and had for three years established a comprehensive
knowledge management system whilst working as the CKO for ASE (Advanced
Semiconductor Engineering Inc.), which is now widely used throughout the
Taiwanese business sector. Roger has always regarded himself as a PMP `gardener`
because he believes carefully `cultivating` the project management profession
will `grow` Taiwanese competitiveness. In the year of 2006, Roger established a
national project manager association - the Institute of Taiwan Project
Management, and was elected as the first President. He is now the second
President.
Copyright Business Wire 2009
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