Student Profile: Shirley Y. Gabug –Al Hoda, MPM, CHRP, PMP
My name is Shirley Y. Gabug-Al Hoda. A licensed Secondary teacher by profession, my career had shifted to Human Resources & Administration field after joining a government department 11 years ago. To further develop my career in this field, I obtained a Master of Public Management (MPM) degree and a Certification in Human Resources Professional (CHRP) to augment my knowledge & skills. In our Department, new projects are always coming up to enhance HR procedures & processes keeping abreast with the fast-changing technology and innovations.
I am currently working as a Project Manager based out of Bangalore India. I have around 18+ years of working experience in handling Software Development and Maintenance projects. I have handled projects following Waterfall and Agile Methodologies. I am very much passionate of learning new things and to apply the same in my life & work.
I am 34 years old with Bachelors degree in Business Administrations and over 12 years of professional experience, my experience is in the call center field, business process outsourcing, operations management, project management and consulting. Thanks to my PMP certificate I just scored a dream job in an organization I wanted to work in for a long time, wish me luck!
I’m a married father of three rambunctious boys (11, 4 & 2) with a fourth child on the way in December. At work, I’m a marketing strategist currently working in the Insurance and Financial Services industry. Prior to my current role, I directed prospective student recruitment marketing and communications with great success for a Top 100 public university.
I was born in South Africa but spent my formative years in Malaysia and Australia. As a result of traveling from a young age, I developed a passion for visiting to new places and learning about different cultures. After completing high school, I decided to pursue a similar career to my father, who is a Process Engineer. I started the journey by graduating in Chemical Engineering at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University in 2010. Shortly after, I accepted a job as a graduate Engineer at an engineering consultancy firm in Brisbane, Australia.
I have had an eclectic career. Non-IT and non-healthcare. My project management focus is at the corporate level...more PMO per se. My background has ranged from mergers and acquisitions, brand integration, procurement, construction, trade shows, events, estate executor, on and on. My current employment is in the automotive industry.
I work as an Operations and IT Adviser across Automotive, Aerospace, Health care, Shipping, Transport, Power, Computer Hardware, Gaming Console, Infrastructure, Lighting and Consumer lifestyle sectors. PMP is my first professional certification and the course helped me streamline my thoughts about project management and the processes and techniques involved within. The inclusion of agile concepts made PMP more relevant in the current scenario.
I am a software PM and after getting my PMP I scored an awesome new job! I have been managing software projects for about 2 years and get great joy out of it each and every day. I played football in college and knew I wanted to do something involving teamwork, being a PM has fulfilled that void for me.
My name is Von Katindoy. I discovered project management through FranklinCovey’s public workshop entitled “To Do, Doing, Done.” A couple of years after successfully managing projects in training, coaching, recruitment and employee engagement, I qualified to teach my company’s in-house project management course.
I have been working for a large grocery chain for 22 years now. Back in 2004, I decided to get a degree in Business Administrations, after being hired in my company's maintenance/construction department. I felted like this is what I want to do so I changed my degree to Construction Management.
My name is Linda Dunn. I am working as an IT Project Manager in the oil and gas industry. I started my career over 30 years ago as a Software Developer and have emerged through supporting Networking, Infrastructure, System Administration, and Project Management. I have been in various industries over the years: Manufacturing, Healthcare, Grocery Warehousing, Education, and Oil & Gas. It has been my goal to become PMP Certified but kept putting it off. I took a Project Management course at the local university in 2016 but seriously began my PMP certification in January 2018.
I work in a Consulting firm, have 7yrs of experience in IT Security. My role is more of an advisory consultant and managing the IT Security projects. Apart from PMP, I have ITIL, Six Sigma Green Belt certifications.
I am Harini from India. I am 28, working in IT as a project manager for 6.5 years. I started my career as a project coordinator and moved to project management. Over 6 years of my career, I have handled transition and migration projects on infrastructure, business intelligence and ITSM(Service Now, Remedy etc). As I progressed through my career, I felt it is significant for me to gain PMP, as I can apply it to my day-day work. I also wanted to explore new opportunities and felt PMP would be a great add on to my professional profile.
I’m a Project manager working in the Telecommunication industry for over 12 year and besides project management role I’m also responsible for performing the program management for our company one of prime key customer and I’m mainly responsible for building the network infrastructure by deploying our company network equipment for data, storage, voice and video services.
I am Nooruddin Nazerruddin Farooqui, working as Application Manager (IT) with Al Jazirah Vehicles Agencies Co. Ltd. - FORD, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Finally, I have successfully passed the PMP exams! I would like to thank the project-management-prepcast team.
I am an experienced Project Specialist with a proven track record in delivering multi-million dollars humanitarian, health and Gender development projects for UN. With extensive experience in the delivery of Women Economic Empowerment projects.
My name is Absy KRDEY, 34-year-old, Married and have two kids. I am originally from Syria, Aleppo, and I have been in Tokyo, Japan for 11 years. I graduated from Tokyo University with a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering, and currently, I work for Emerson Valves and Controls Japan. We are mainly focused on oil & gas projects. I have been working in this Industry for over 4 years now. I started as an application Engineer and came to be a project manager. For me, the PMP certificate journey was a unique and priceless experience.
I am Jibril. I lead Capex Projects at Reckitt Benckiser Nigeria. I manage capital projects in various fields such as facilities construction, new product development, equipment purchase, IT, electrical installations among others. I obtained my Bachelors in Civil Engineering from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. I started out in construction before moving to the manufacturing industry. I believe in continuous learning and decided to get the PMP certification to boost my knowledge and skills in project management.
My name is Anas, working in software industries for the past 9 years. I started as a software test engineer moved to different roles before settling for senior Quality control; I passed my Project Management Professional (PMP)® in 2017 and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® in 2018.