Andre Araujo Hofmeister

Director, Planning & Business Development

Gerdau – Porto Alegre, Brazil "The experience of working with Ricardo and his team was excellent. We identify good opportunities for improvement and we also developed processes with great consistency for project and portfolio management."

Jose Eduardo Motta Garcia

Portfolio, Program and Project Manager

Itaú – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo is one of the professionals who helped me decide to pursue the project manager career. His ability to solve problems with simplicity is awesome. Definitely he is a bright professional."

Bruno Carvalho

Project Management

Embraer – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo is one of best Profissional to deal with project consultant in companies. He has a lot of experience on Portfolio and Project Management. He has capacity to coordinate jobs for any segments for any companies to held and improve companies business, profit an so on."

Edwaldo Lippe

Engineer

AES Tietê – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo Vargas is an excellent professional and also a reference in the area of Project Management with whom I had the pleasure of living during the development of joint projects. During these moments, I could see his potential such as strategic thinking, drive for results, and especially your attention and skill in dealing with the people involved. From these competencies he can motivate teams to deliver high quality results."

Shalimar Rahde

Strategic Planning and Project Office Manager

Gerdau – Porto Alegre, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo is a distinguished professional, has superior knowledge in project and portfolio management. It is undeniable the quality of the work he delivers. He’s flexible to adapt his way of work to the client’s style, he accepts the challenges offered and is persistent in the pursuit of results. Furthermore, he is available and present in all development work."

Rodolfo de Aguiar

Sonangol – Luanda, Angola "Ricardo Vargas has passion in doing what he does when it comes to teaching Project Management and simply managing projects according to high standards of PMI. His passion is contagious and this has been a great and valuable contribution to the challenging effort of raising standards in project management, worldwide."

Leandro Patah

Siemens – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo is one of the best instructors on Project Management working in Brazil nowadays. He has done at least training sessions per year for Siemens Brazil in the last 5 years and his approval by the participants is always 100%. I’m sure he is the responsible for our great success in achieving the number of 170 PMPs certified in our group in Brazil. I can finally say that his training worth how much it costs."

Sergio Favaro

Bosch – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo was one of the main speakers in our worldwide seminar for Project Managers. He really transmits passion and engagement for PM activities that encourage us as Project Managers to speed up our pace for development bringing this way effective contribution to our business. In addition his communication skills keep attention of the people and give us a good feeling of “I want to hear more”. I hope we have another opportunity in the future to work together again."

João Carlos Pelicer

Engineering and Construction Director

AES Tietê – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative. Ricardo Vargas is a very dedicated professional, with deep knowledge of project management who have brought significant results to our project. Besides that he is a great and reliable person, that honors his commitments. So, it was a pleasure meeting him in my professional life."

Márcia Aguiar

Manager, Quality / NPI / R&D

Telefônica – Manaus, Brazil Linkedin "I hired Ricardo on 2009 to help Technicolor in PMO implementation for NPI (New Product Introduction) , R&D (Research and Development) and LSS (Lean 6 Sigma). Additionally, I hired Ricardo in several Project Management Trainings (PMDOME Workshop, Leadership in Projects, Risk Management, PMO Workshop to Project Management Teams). Ricardo is really an expert, very detail-oriented, with outsdanding job and focused on results. He also has done a great job for the PM comunity, contributing to spread the PM best practices around the world. Ricardo is a Top professional in Project Management and I was impressed with his job and final product I got. I really recommend him."

Virgilio Fiorense

Convergys – São Paulo Linkedin "I met Ricardo in a PMI training when I was working for Convergys. He is very charismatic and he knows everything about project management. So it was a great training but even better it was to get his sponsorship to my idea to write a book about value added services, OSS and BSS, on Telecom industry. I´m very grateful for all his support and I would like to thank him with this recommendation."

Hilario Martins

Gerdau – São Paulo, Brazil Linkedin "Ricardo is now the most powerful Guru of Project Management worldwide. This is one of a kind. He engages people with their perceptions and thoughts! See Ricardo breaking new horizons for the Project Management is a pride for all of Brazil."