Student Profile: Tom James, PMP
I have spent the majority of my career in the telecommunications industry performing Operations Management. Recently moved to Memphis TN to officially pursuit a career in Project Management designing and implementing logistics and material management solutions.
All and all I enjoy the control, organization requirements, and working with various business units the most.
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Student Profile: Vernisha Ahyoung-Baur, PMP
I am an IT Professional with over 16 years of industry experience across various industries but most significantly the Energy industry where I have spent the last 11+ years. I'm also married and the mother of a very busy 6 year old.
Currently I am the IT Manager at one of the largest energy producers in the island and a member of the company's Leadership team. Our projects are usually infrastructure, security or application based in support of the organization's goals. In my spare time I enjoy traveling and building legos with my little one.
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Student Profile: Ernest Chapman, PMP
I am a 30 year Air Force Veteran. Landed a job as a Project manager based on my experience leading Air Force projects. Failed the PMP exam once after attending a local PMP boot camp before discovering The PM PrepCast.
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Student Profile: Alphonse Rutayisire PMP
I am an African Australian, Husband to one beautiful wife only and a father to three lovely children. I am also an IT professional with over 12 years’ experience within the NGO and private sectors in Australia, South Africa, and East-African countries.
My past roles included all aspects of the system development life cycle, Office, Windows Client and Server, SharePoint, Office 365, management and delivery of IT projects to meet organisational objectives.
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Student Profile: Douglas Kellow, PMP, PL Eng., MICorr.
I am a Professional Engineer and Project Manager working in the Kuwait Wafra Oilfield, charged with managing all of the specialty production chemical treatment programs and monitoring services for maintaining the integrity and longevity of their downhole and surface facility assets.
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Student Profile: Manlio Frizzi, PMP

I'm an Italian guy working for a multinational firm. I've got Ms. in Conputer Science in 1998 and start working in a system integrator firm on different IT projects, vertical on the financial industry, but also on Telco and manifacturing.
Last year, in accordance with account manager of mine, I start studying for the PMP-PMI certification, as I want to be more inline with my life/careers goals.
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Philip Stratakis. PMP
I have spent the last few years working on telecom projects in Austria and Slovenia as a service program and project manager working for a large telecom infrastructure provider. Within the company project management along the PMI principles and methods is highly regarded. Internal trainings gave me a jump start on the way to cerftification.
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Student Profile: Chris Preziotti, PMP
I'm a 27-year-old Principal Consultant for an Oracle consulting firm based out of Atlanta, and I passed my PMP exam this past September on my first try after two months of dedicated study. Having worked in a project-based, consulting environment for over five years, I started my PMP certification journey already familiar with the project lifecycle and its many processes; however, at the time I took the exam, I had never actually held a role as a project manager.
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Student Profile: Susan Iadarola, PMP
I’m a Marketing professional with 20+ years’ experience in the financial & insurance services industry who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina (past 5 years) and is a native of Long Island, New York. I passed the PMP® exam on my first try on September 19, 2015 after four month of study (2-3 hours per weekday and 10+ hours on weekends).
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Student Profile: Mingmin Liao, PMP
I am currently a Project Manager in a prestigious organization "Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization - International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac)" at the University of Saskatchewan. I have managed various contract projects and some core research projects in the past five years. Our clients are from a broad range of health-related companies, government agencies and other funding agencies.
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Student Profile: Jerome Francis, PMP
My name is Jerome Francis. I have been in the Facilities Management industry for the past 20 years. I am currently working in Changi Airport Group (S) Pte Ltd which operates Change Airport's 4 terminals.
I was leading FM teams in Changi Airport that oversees the maintenance operations in the terminal buildings for the past 20 years. Implemented changes in the procurement contracting model that includes bundling and reverse auction models to reap cost and efficiency benefits for the company (ranging from 20% to 40% cost savings per annum).
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Student Profile: Vemal Raja, PMP
I hold a PhD in engineering, and have been working on projects for the last 8.5 years. I decided to finally pursue my PMP certification to compliment my PRINCE 2 Practitioner certificate. I wanted to move into much larger, complex projects and realized PMP was the way to get the right kind of attention. My current employer recognizes this effort and it has been paying off handsomely for me thus far.
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Student Profile: Ayman Shawaly, PMP
My Name Is Ayman Shawaly working at Salma Structural Engineering (SSE) SSE Company, a consulting company in management and supervision of Construction projects. I am working as an Electrical projects Manger in SSE projects in KSA.
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Student Profile: Prashant Shah, PMP
I am Prashant Shah, 15 years of telecom, health care, Legal, and finance experienced person.
PM PrepCast videos and all the test questions, along with you tube free video questions and answers are my recommendations. I would say generally speaking depending on your strength you need about 1000 hours of study in this, about 3-4 months 40 hours a week, study 2 months and q and a 2 months. Write down cheat sheet every time you take exam then study your mistakes from the exam. You need to also practice what are you going to do when you go for an actual exam for first 15 minutes? Practice on that.
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Student Profile: Elena Farnè, PMP
I am originally from Milan, Italy where I obtained a M. Sc. in Political Sciences and International Economics. After 4 years working for governmental agencies in commercial and financial roles, I moved to Denmark where I have been living ever since.
Since 2009 I embraced a career within Renewables and particularly Wind Energy, first as a Senior Advisor in a consulting company specialized in wind power and afterwards continuing my professional journey with DONG Energy, Danish utility and market leader within offshore wind.
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