About This Community

Charles Waligura is a Project Manager in the Refining Industry. Charles is a registered Professional Engineer in Texas (Chemical) and certified Project Management Professional. Forty Years Experience of project management, department management, sales and chemical process industries process and systems engineering. Managed task force activities including manpower forecasting and scheduling, client liaison, engineering and construction cost estimating and cost control; Managed subcontractors and field construction. Fields of Experience include project management of refinery and petrochemical revamps; wind energy facilities; business development; and process and systems design for petrochemical plants and offshore oil and gas production, refining, light hydrocarbon processing, pipeline compressor stations and utility systems. Charles was Chairman of the Leadership Development & Excellence Committee under the PMI Board of Directors. He is the Founder in 1998 of the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Specific Interest Group (OGPSIG). He is a Charter Member of the Coastal Bend Chapter of the PMI. He is a Past President of the PMI, Houston Chapter. He is a Past Chairman of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Division for Fuels & Petrochemicals. He is a Past Chairman of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, South Texas Chapter. He is currently the Community Manager of the PMI Energy, Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Community of Practice (EOG&P CoP).

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Bob Templeton retired after working 39 years for the M. W. Kellogg Company in various project management, project engineering, project controls, and management roles serving the petroleum and petrochemical industry. He has spent over 16 years doing consulting part time work and is currently CEO of Templeton Enterprises, Inc. Bob has been a member of PMI for about 30 years and is a Charter Member of the Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Specific Interest Group (OGPsig) prior to its transition to the PMI Energy, Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Community of Practice. He is currently serving as the EOG&P Community Involvement Lead. He is a Past President of the PMI, Houston Chapter. Bob had been working with the PMI Certification Committee (PMP) based on his involvement in the development and implementation of the Certification Program (CCE) for The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI) in 1976. Bob is an AACEI Association Past President. He is a Past Chairman of the first AACEI Certification Board. He is an AACEI Fellow Member with over 50 years of Association membership. He received the first AACEI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. His prime goal is to work with the new EOG&P CoP Council to help achieve the new planned objectives and thus provide a valuable service to the PMI membership.

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AJ Collier is president of Collier Worldwide Consulting and has been in Project Controls for over forty years. His work has covered petrochemical, pulp and paper, power, energy and other process industry sectors. His progressive experience includes working with Commonwealth Engineering and Construction, Ralph M. Parsons, Bechtel, Parsons, and Worley Parsons. He has worked domestically, internationally, in a home office, and in the field. He first joined PMI in 1972 in Los Angeles and has been a very active member for over 30 years. He is founder and past president of the PMI Clear Lake - Galveston Chapter. He is also the founder of a popular annual event entitled the PMI Seminar@Sea and he has organized several of them to date. Since starting the event, many other members of PMI Chapters, SIGs, and Communities of Practice have participated in this highly enjoyable educational and networking experience. AJ is also working as coordinator for the Ray Piper Memorial Scholarship Fund through the Clear Lake-Galveston Chapter, and he has also been instrumental in working with the PMI Oil, Gas and Petrochemical SIG (now EOG&P CoP) to establish the Ray Piper Global Project Management Education Scholarship. Through all of his activities he has become quite capable and well-known in the PMI’s petroleum community; thus, he provides a solid background for his role as Marketing Coordinator for the EOG&P Community of Practice.

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Tim MacFadyen is a Director of the IT PMO at NiSource where he has specializes in improving project, program, and portfolio management. He has successfully supported organizations regarding quality and development processes for over 20 years in the energy and automotive sectors. His primary areas of expertise are product development and project management. He helps organizations successfully improve quality, reduce cost, and time-to-market by improving their people, processes, and technologies. Mr. MacFadyen has successfully guided product teams throughout the product development lifecycle while improving business and manufacturing processes. Serving as an advisor to Project Offices, he has successfully deployed various information technologies and the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). He has extensive ERP implementation at Oil & Gas Companies. Additionally, he has architected, launched, and directed multi-million dollar project offices. Tim has a passion for project management and has recently completed serving as the Project Manager for the release of the Project Management Institutes (PMI) 2nd edition of the ANSI standard OPM3® (Organizational Project Management Maturity Model). He has also written or coauthored customized project management methodologies and has extensive experience chairing rootcause analysis meetings. Tim completed his undergraduate studies at DeVry University with honors and received his Master of Business Administration as well as a Master of Project Management with distinction from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University. He is also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), a Certified OPM3® Consultant, and serves on the PMI's Consensus Body of Standards.

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Gary Kennedy, P. Eng., PMP, is President of Linear Project Services Inc (LPS) (www.LPSglobal.ca) based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Gary is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil) and certified Project Management Professional with a wide range of project experience in the contracting, consulting, utilities, and federal and provincial government sectors. His project involvement includes development of facilities for the offshore oil and gas industry, refining, shipbuilding, bridges, roads, buildings, harbour and port facilities, as well as administration over Offshore R&D projects and technical feasibility studies. Gary holds a Masters Certificate in Project Management through Memorial and York Universities and received his PMP certification through the Project Management Institute (PMI). He has been an active and founding member of the Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Chapter of the PMI and has performed in leadership/committee roles in the PMI, Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador (PEG-NL), NL Offshore Petroleum Engineering Task Force, NL Petroleum Industry Human Resources Committee, and various community organizations. He is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI).

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Vincent Perrin is Base Manager at TOTAL Exploration & Production Nigeria and is based in Onne, Nigeria and in Sète, France. Vincent is a Mechanical Engineer and certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Companies he has worked for include Air Liquide (a world leader in industrial gases) and Entrepose Contracting (EPC contractor for the oil and gas industry). His background includes gas engineering, R&D, project management (onshore field development, tank farms, on-site gas production units), E&P operations, and reservoir engineering. Vincent’s front-line experience in heavy industry projects includes the full life cycle of initiation, concept selection, front end design, detailed design, construction, commissioning and start-up, and close-out. He has enjoyed years of engineering and construction experience in the field as well as in an office environment, and has worked in geopolitically challenging locations worldwide. Vincent is currently the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) Coordinator for the PMI EOG&P CoP serving this role since 2009. He is also a member of PMI, France-Sud Chapter and PMI, Paris-Ile-de-France Chapter.

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Ben E. Voivedich Jr., PMP, is founder and president of PMCC, Inc. PMCC is a 21 year old project management firm with its main offices in Houston, Texas. PMCC provides training, consulting, and assessment services for clients involved in the oil, gas, petrochemical and energy markets. Ben has served in many volunteer capacities with PMI since 1991. He was one of the first three PMPs certified in Louisiana in 1995. He has served as the Chapter President for the Greater New Orleans PMI and as the Chairman and a board member for the PMI EOG&P COP (formerly the PMI OG&P SIG) since its founding in 1998. Ben was the technical program manager for the 1995 PMI Seminar Symposium and has presented numerous papers at PMI sponsored events over the years. Ben has been a keynote speaker and presenter on topics related to project management for over twenty years. Ben also served on the PMI Lexicon Control Board which arbitrated the definitions of terms used in the eight PMI standards which were updated in 2008.

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