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Roger Chou, PgMP
Director of the Advanced Business Consulting (PM-ABC), PMI R.E.P. # 2510
President of the Institute of Taiwan Project Management (ITPM)
PMI 2009 Distinguished Award Receiver

Roger, the first PgMP in Asia, has been very influential on the project management profession in Taiwan. In the past four years, Roger and his company, PM-ABC 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.

Roger received his degree in Engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1992, and became a engineer for ASE. Within one year he was promoted to manager of their Technology Department. Later in 1999 he received his EMBA, and was assigned as ASE's Chief Knowledge Offer (CKO). During this period, a project with ASE for Intel in Kaohsiung using SPC, was rated by Intel as meeting their highest standards.

Before setting up his own company, PM-ABC, R.E.P, Roger had carried out large-scale projects for Taiwan's premiere semi-conductor company, and had for three years established a comprehensive knowledge management system whilst working as the CKO for ASE, which is now widely used throughout the Taiwanese business sector. He is regarded as a project management master who possesses an understanding of both the practice and theory of project management.

Roger has provided project management training and consulting for world-leading companies throughout Taiwan, such as TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), ASE (Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc.), CSC (China Steel Corporation) and CHT (Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd). He has also been encouraging media workers, entrepreneurs and organization leaders to obtain this credential to help them advance in their industries. He is now promoting the passing of a Project Management Act in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan, which will deeply root the language of PMP in the business practices of Taiwan.

He is the author of the book "Be A PMP Gold Medal Winner" (PMP摘金術), a must-have textbook for those preparing to pass the PMP exam in South-East Asia, and has produced a collection of PMP study aids, including the "Manual for the PMP Certification Exam", CDs and flashcards. He has also published books and patented products on the Project Management Profession.

On April 16th, 2006 Roger established a national project manager association - the Institute of Taiwan Project Management, and was elected as the President. Ever since then Roger, who has always regarded himself as a PMP 'gardener' because he believes carefully 'cultivating' the project management profession will 'grow' Taiwanese competitiveness, worked even harder with his company to promote the PMP® credential in Taiwan. This was realized in 2008 when Taiwan's number of qualified project managers placed them 8th in the top 10 leading PMP countries, and this was accomplished with the fastest growth rate of PMPs in the world. Even the Hong Kong Chinese University and Microsoft formed partnerships with Roger to train project managers. In 2007 Roger received the "New Chinese Competitiveness Award" from the Hong Kong Chinese University.

With Roger and PM-ABC's endeavors in boosting the number of certified PMPs in Taiwan in the past 3 years, and continuing reports in the media on the success of well-managed construction projects, all of Taiwanese society has started to pay attention to this globally recognized certificate and has increasingly embraced the benefits of having substantial numbers of individuals possessing professionalism in project management.

In the beginning of 2009, as Taiwan's national competitiveness dropped, Roger proposed 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. This response from the President's Office was then followed by an invitation from the Executive Yuan's Public Construction Commission, asking Roger to present the PM-ABC' project management course materials for their evaluation.

At the summer of 2009, 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 Taiwanese government, Red Cross and charity organizations.

In the autumn of 2009, Roger Chou was awarded the Project Management Institute (PMI) Distinguished Contribution Award for his dedication to the profession and practice of project management.

 

   
   
   
 
Michael Hung, PMP
Associate Manager, Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Michael has been a manager in construction companies for many years. His largest project was a slope construction project in Saudi Arabia, where he worked as a regional project manager. He also managed a factory expansion project for Corningware Incorporated - the world leader in ceramics and glass kitchen utensils.

Michael currently works as the procurement manager for Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s leading companies in project management and construction services.

As a civil engineering and construction manager, Michael understands what project managers face and speaks their ‘language’. As an education provider, Michael has taught management classes at numerous universities, and many enterprises have relied on Michael training their project staff in creative thinking, mind-mapping, construction site safety and security.

While directing PM-ABC as an associate manager, Michael has been training PMPs for over five years in subjects such as cost, procurement and risk management. He has been responsible for training 100 PMPs, most of whom are engineers in the semiconductor industry.

   
   
   
 
Fred Shiao, PMP, PE
Senior Consultant and Course Trainer
Board Member of the PMP Taiwanese Group

Fred, a senior, experienced civil engineer on government construction projects, has been famous for his engineer’s keen sense of logic. Students in our training center, from new graduates to entrepreneurs of listed companies, are all amazed by this civil engineer’s cleverness and clearness in explaining the ideas and concepts regarding cost, quality and procurement in management. The case studies he offers, from his own real world experiences, not only make his classes enjoyable, but give penetrating insights into the basics of project management.

Fred has worked for various large scale construction projects, including projects for Taiwan Power Corp, Methanol/MTBE Facility Project for Qatar Fuel Additives Corp.in Japan and Qatar, Chien-An Underground Aircraft Access Tunnel Project for Ret-Ser Engineering Agency and South Taiwan’s Mass Rail Transit System. Being in the position of a PMO manager, Fred also supervised several major constructions, such as Tsengwen Reservoir Transbasin Diversion Tunnel, three universities’ hospital & medical centres in Taiwan, the Rehabilitation Works for the National Palace Museum, Taipei City Hall Bus Terminal, and the Buddha Memorial Hall in Kaohsiung’s Fo Guang Mountain.

As well as directing major construction projects, Fred also provides consulting and training in project management, in subjects such as cost estimates, cost analysis, construction management, schedule control, procurement management and contract administration.

   
   
   
 
KC Liu, PMP
Course Trainer for PM-ABC
Founder of the Institute of Taiwan Project Management
Chairman of the Taipei Chapter, of the Institute of Taiwan Project Management
Radio Presenter and Host on China Broadcasting Corporation

KC, a radio presenter with a voice sounding across Taiwan and south China everyday, is one of roger’s “targeted media workers” due to his great influence and was trained by him to become a PMP.

KC is a senior manager in media and has worked in broadcasting, TV, telecommunications, media, internet, broadband connection, utilities, retail, and IT over the past twenty-five years. He supervised the internet broadband installation project at Shanghai’s Fudan University, and was responsible for the planning and launch of the ChengKung TV station in China.

He has also trained many presenters for TV and Radio, and was program producer for many radio stations. Having taught courses for media presenters and worked for numerous projects as a high-level manager, KC has mastered the art of presenting and has used this knowledge to help to train PMPs.

   
   
   
 
Elly Chen, PMP
CEO and Senior Instructor for PM-ABC

Elly obtained her MSC in Human Resources and then worked for the research and development center at the National Chung Shan University. Elly has trained personal coaches for PM-ABC and assisted over 300 PMPs to pass their Exams and become certified.
   
   
   
 
Harrison Ho, PMP
Consultant and Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Harrison specializes in product development, marketing and public relations. He currently works as Vice President of Mega International Commercial Bank’s credit card centre.

Ever since Harrison had completed several successful projects in marketing and advertising, he was invited by many universities to give lectures in Media, and Art & Design. As well as his expertise in media and marketing, Harrison’s project understanding has deepened as he continues to participate in numerous projects. He knows how project management knowledge should be used, and can be applied to the relevant application area.

Harrison has been a trainer for PM-ABC for many years, the PMPs he has trained working in technology and telecoms.

   
   
   
 
Michael Hsu, PMP, MCTS
Consultant and Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Michael is now a project manager at Taichung’s Feng Chia University Office of Technology Licensing. He has been an industry analyst and marketing professional in manufacturing and technology.

Michael has been a course trainer in the field of intellectual property rights and engineering patents, providing guidance and instruction to over 30 organizations. As an education provider, Michael shows his students how, in terms of risk management, intellectual property rights and engineering patents can serve as a shield for an enterprise’s core technologies. The areas he has worked in include technology, semiconductors, steel, telecoms, insurance, banking, finance, education and government.

   
   
   
 
Ina Lin, PMP
Senior Consultant
Exams Series Organizer and Manager for PM-ABC

Ina received her Master in Education of Curriculum & Instruction, and Bachelor of Science, from Southern Illinois University in the U.S., and has since gained over ten years of experience in staff training and project management. The areas she worked in include technology, semiconductors, telecoms, insurance, banking, finance, education, government and heavy industry. She has also been delegated to work for several U.S. prominent companies’ projects, such as Corning Display Technologies’ Finish Training Project, LOMA’s Online Insurance Training Program, and SkillSoft’s Online Management Training Program.

Ina is known for her management skills and has always applied her know-how of project management to help her trainees become more successful in their projects or business operations.

She is now a trainer and curriculum developer for PM-ABC and has also been involved in the development of the PM-ABC® Exam Series and various other products currently in development.

   
   
   
 
Paul Lo, PMP
Chief Course Trainer for PM-ABC’s Exam Review Boot Camp
Technology Consultant

Paul received his MSC in Information Management and BA in Business Administration of Finance from Taiwan University, the leading University in the region. He then worked for on Information platform transfer project for BenQ, and is now a technology consultant.

Paul spent a very short time preparing for the PMP Exam and obtained the highest PMP Exam score in Taiwan in 2006, when PMI still provided a score report. He was then recruited by the PM-ABC to be the Chief Course Trainer for the Exam Review Boot Camp, and has worked there ever since.

   
   
   
 
Amy Chang, PMP
Consultant and Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Senior instructor Amy has over 10 years experience in government and public administration. Amy specialized in system development and installation for merging and organizing large systems. The projects she had supervised include a four year, US$ 3 million platform transfer program for the Ministry of Finance’s National Tax Information Operation System, where she runs 30 sub-systems at the same time. She was also the project manager for a three year, US$ 1 million project for introducing a national electronic invoice system to business sector, the “E-Invoice Project”. When she successfully had the system pass BSI’s ISO27001 certification, the system covered over 12,000 businesses.

Amy also worked in the PMO (Project Management Office) for many other government agencies, such as the Intellectual Property Office of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, on a large scale project - “e-Taiwan”.

Amy is currently a project manager for MiTAC Inc, supervising in the Technical Research Center and System Designing Department. Apart from continually accumulating personal experiences in the real business world, she is also contributing her Project Management knowledge to our education center, in subjects such as scope, schedule, cost, quality and procurement management.

   
   
   
 
Jeffery Yuan, PMP
Consultant and Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Jeffery received his MA in Chemistry, and has been working in semiconductor, computer component manufacturing, technology and manufacturing sectors as a quality assurance manager for over twelve years. Jeffery possesses specialized knowledge and skills in quality assurance and organization’s process improvement.

Jeffery has managed a two year, international ERP system development and installation project, with a cost of US$3.6 million, on which he was responsible for quality assurance. In response to the requirement of ROHS, he also supervised a process improvement project, which costs US$9 million for introducing a lead-free manufacturing production processes, SMT. Another interesting project Jeffery has managed, was a “6δintroduction” project, whose objective was to install and promote a quality assurance system.

Jeffery is now the Plant Manager at PSM Fasteners (Asia), and he also provides consulting and training in project management, in subjects such as cost estimates, risk and quality management.

   
   
   
 
Angela Wang, PMP, MBA
Consultant and Course Trainer for PM-ABC

Angela received her BA in Information Management and MBA in Taiwan. She specializes in data system consulting and has been responsible for system/product analysis for many years. The projects she managed include a supply chain system development and installation project for a LED manufacturing company, a business process re-engineering project for the call center of a information technology enterprise that involved introducing a new system and staff training, and she also supervised a project for introducing a manufacturing company’s ERP system.

As well as directing projects for her company, Angela also provides consulting and training in project management, in subjects such as human resources, procurement management and contract administration.

 
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