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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 their 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.

Edwaldo Lippe

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.

Rodolfo de Aguiar

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.

João Carlos Pelicer

Ricardo Vargas is a great strategic leader. Along with polished professionalism, quality and depth of character and high intelligence, Ricardo's passion for project management, leadership and strategic thinking principles moves people individually and in groups to new levels of understanding. Truly, Ricardo has done much to advance the project management profession throughout the world. Knowing and working with Ricardo before, during and since he was the Chair of the PMI Board of Directors has been an honor that I have and expect to continue to learn from for years to come.

Gil Marder

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.

Márcia Aguiar

I have met Ricardo while working as Product Manager Latin America for Hamburg Sud based out of Miami, FL. Ricardo has simply another level of knowledge about his job. He is an inspiration to anyone that want to succeed in business as is always looking for top qualification skills to bring the most benefits for his clients! I highly recommend Ricardo Viana as one of the best project management professionals in the world.

Alessandro Menezes

Our partnership with Ricardo Vargas was not about business. It was a common well-done challenge in which we had the opportunity to join our experience with his charismatic leadership. The tangible and immediate results were three months less in the schedule of Baguari HPP implementation and a new book collecting our knowledge on Hydro Power Plant developing. But the most important result can be in the future. Behind this gentle man there is one of the most expert on project management in the world and it’s comforting to know that we can count on him again.

Flávio Dutra Doehler

Ricardo is the ideal Project Manager. He is organized, disciplined, methodological, has a deep knowledge of Project, Portfolio and Program management theories and practices. He has also a great experience, not only as Project Manager but also on the Management of large and big companies. He is also a great strategist: He is able to produce, visualize and maintain a vision of the future and make it real through hard work and ability to communicate. Ricardo is a phenomenal leader. He feels at ease in multimillion dollar boards and he feels at ease with people that are still in the early stages in their professional carrier. And this is done with the same very high empathy, energy and enthusiasm that is even contagious and makes as much more optimists and much more self-confidents. Ricardo is an excellent communicator and a fantastic speaker. I have the privilege of having listened to several of his speeches especially in 2009, as he was the PMI Chair of the Board and they were always very interesting, illuminating and always very welcomed by the public. He was in Portugal as a Key Note Speaker in our conference in 2009 and this was one of the highest points of the event. Portuguese project managers really liked the way he explained what the future of the profession for him was and he truly communicated this vision. Ricardo is the ideal Project Manager, but he is so much more than that. He is a dedicated, result oriented, intelligent, emotional competent and, at the same time, he is an excellent person, with very high ethical and honesty standards and with a passion and love for the profession of Project Management and for the Project Managers. And he can communicate this passion and love to others, improving them and making them also better professionals. One special and necessary word for the 5 Minutes Project Management Podcasts that Ricardo produces every week since 2007. Ricardo can explain the concepts, the tools, the techniques, the methodology and even the environment and ambient that the Project Manager has to deal with in a way that everyone can understand and with a cost (5 minutes) benefit (having a concept, a technique, etcetera explained and understood) ratio for the listener that is really low. It is a privilege to know people like Ricardo.

José Ângelo da Costa Pinto

I have worked with Ricardo at Sonangol, an oil & gas company based in Angola, developing their project management frameworks. Ricardo has got a strong commitment and professionalism in delivering high quality services. He is also an enthusiast as a speaker/lecturer, which makes his presentations/classes very engaging.

André Coutinho