General Information :: UMT-PMI Component Scholarship Recipients

To further promote education in project management, UMT offers a scholarship program for IT & Telecom SIG [UMT press release] and PMI Washing DC Chapter members [UMT press release].

Spring Recipient: Xiaowen He

Xiaowen, also is known as Amy, is a product manager in the consumer market division at Bell Canada. She takes overall accountability for marketing initiatives and process improvement projects to generate and identify revenue opportunity. Previously, she worked for Nortel in different roles with progressively increasing responsibility. During her 8 years serve at Nortel, she mainly worked as a project manager and later a team leader for Asian Pacific market. She acquired expertise in managing lifecycle of contract implementation and projects on business planning, new product introductions, and business process improvement. Her excellent performance for project management and revenue recognition won her two merit awards at Nortel.

Xiaowen has extensive working experience in the Communications and Telecommunications industry with in-depth knowledge of B2B/Consumer Market, global supply chain operations, marketing, and customer service.

Xiaowen, a Chinese immigrant in Canada, holds an IMBA (International Master of Business Administration ) degree from Schulich School of Business, York University, a Bachelor degree in English and Foreign Trade Study from Jina Universtiy, China. Now, she is working on PMP.

Xiaowen is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and she is studying French.

Spring Recipient: Gabriel Epelbaum

Mr. Gabriel Epelbaum obtained an Electronic Engineering degree, from Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina - in 1985.

After a year in IBM Argentina in 1985, implementing Series/1 systems, he joined in September 1986 Telettra - later in 1991 taken over by Alcatel - as a Microwave Transmission Engineer. He played different roles in Alcatel until April 1999: Manager Telesupervision Engineering systems, Manager Wireless Engineering Systems and Marketing and Business Development Manager. During his career in Alcatel, he projected and managed project teams in charge of projecting and implementing hundreds of High, Medium and High Capacity, PDH and SDH, Linear Transmission Microwave and Point to Multi-Point access systems for as Telefonica and Telecom Italia/France Telecom in Argentina. He also was Alcatel’s technical representative in Argentinean Commercial Chambers and the Telecommunications Administration and during the period 1998-1999 started Alcatel’s strategic marketing activities for the Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay Region.

In 1999, Gabriel joined Nortel Networks as Wireless Marketing Manager for the Southern Cone, position held for one year, after which he became Wireless Sales Engineering Manager for the Southern Cone. He introduced GSM technology in Antel, and wireless and wireline access technologies in Impsat.

In the January 2002 - November 2003 period, he carried out Project Management activities as a consultant, to deploy wireless access networks for the Coopenet in Argentina. He also worked as Sales Associate in the Latin American region for Intelligent Compression Technologies from Boston, USA, and sold the first acceleration solution for the region. In December 2003 he immigrated to Toronto, Canada. He worked since January 2004 for Contestix as a Sales Associate and since July 2004 for QiiQ/Ecocarrier/Airvenue. He currently holds the Sales Director-Special Projects Position in that company and pursues a PMI certification by next year.

Along the period 1986-2004, he got training in Telecommunications Technologies, Management and Project Management, Human Resources and Marketing and Communications.

Fall Recipient: Venerando G Tangco

Venerando G. Tangco, PMP is known by his friends and colleagues as Randy. He has been in the I.T. industry for about 15 years primarily in the banking sector. His work has mainly been concentrated with payment systems such as those dealing with credit and debit cards, automated teller machines (ATMs), and all other VISA and Mastercard electronic fund transfer (EFT) projects. He has served in various capacities as customer support, programmer, systems engineer, unix administrator, oracle database administrator, computer operations support, business support manager for the card center, and project manager. He has conducted a presentation to promote the project management profession in Kuwait through the Information Technology Professionals of Kuwait (ITP-K).

He had worked with National Bank of Kuwait and Commercial Bank of Kuwait where he primarily contributed to the success of the business units’ revenue generating projects; in retail banking and cards business. He is an active member and volunteer of the Project Management Institute and its IT-Telecom special interest group. He graduated with a Bachelor in Information Technology from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Spring Recipient: Mohammad Malik Sakil

Mohammad Malik Sakil is the Senior Project Officer, International Development Division at the International Reading Association. He manages multi-million dollar grant funded literacy projects around the world. Previously, he served as a Program Manager for Capacity Building and Advocacy at World Learning for International Development, Program Coordinator for Child Welfare League of America's International Office in Washington, D.C. He also worked for SIT-BRAC Global Partnership and The Asia Foundation's Democracy Partnership Program, CARE International, PRIP Trust (Former PACT/USAID Project) in Bangladesh, and the Advocacy Institute, Washington D.C.

Sakil, a native of Bangladesh, holds a Master of Arts degree from the Aligarh University, India, a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and an International Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European Peace University in Austria. He has recently started his PhD Coursework at University of Maryland, College Park.

Sakil is a development worker, project manager, trainer, and facilitator with extensive experience in international and development management in the areas of NGO and socio-cultural development, project design and planning, policy advocacy, organizational development, gender, small-enterprise development and micro credit, cultural competence and workforce development. As a development worker, he has a thorough understanding of cultural, political, economic and social issues in developing countries.

Sakil is fluent in five languages, Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu, and Arabic. Sakil has published his articles in international newsletters and journals.

Sakil lives in Laurel, Maryland with his son Shafin, daughter Samreen and wife Mary.

Fall Recipient: Subhash Tuladhar

Subhash Tuladhar, PMP holds a Masters Degree from the Carnegie Mellon University. At the Carnegie Mellon, his research work focused in project scheduling systems. He has a strong background in project controls and project management software with special interests in the management of time and cost. He is also strong believer in the application of the earned value and earned schedule management systems.

Mr Tuladhar has ten years of combined industry experience and has been engaged in a wide variety of projects. In his first two jobs between 1997 through 2001, he served as a project engineer and then as an engineering management consultant in two separate multi-million dollar World Bank financed projects in Nepal. Following that, he worked for the Asian Development Bank where he gained extensive analytical experience analyzing the Bank-financed portfolio consisting of over 20 projects. In 2004, Mr Tuladhar joined CDM as a project engineer where he was part of the project management team providing consulting services to Fairfax Water. Since 2006, he has been with Quality Planning Solutions (QPS) where he is currently providing scheduling services to the Washington Dulles International Airport among other project. For his clients at QPS, he is also spearheading the migration to the latest project scheduling software technology including its integration with building information models.