Calgary Event 2010
 


Managing Risks & Uncertainties and Trends in the local Hiring Market

CIMA Calgary is pleased to inform you of the above event which is taking place on Thursday 11 March 2010.

Date Thursday 11th March 2010
Time 5.30 to 8.30pm
Venue Calgary Petroleum Club
319, 5th Avenue, Calgary
Alberta SW T2P 0L5
Directions Venue can be found at the intersection of 5th Avenue SW and 2nd Street SW in downtown Calgary opposite Bow Valley Square

There will be two speakers covering managing risks and uncertainties and trends in the local hiring market.

Your speaker
Janaka Ruwanpura, Canada Research Chair, Director and Associate Professor of Project Management Department at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary. He specialises in the area of risk management, productivity improvement and decision analysis.

Rod Miller, Regional Vice President, Robert Half, is familiar with the staffing skills that are currently in demand and is an expert on the local and national employment trends within the fields of accounting and finance

Refreshments will be served at 5.30pm with a prompt start at 6.00pm.

Please RSVP by registering here.

Registrations close on Sunday 28 February 2010.

In association with Robert Half, the world's first and largest specialized staffing firm. Since 1948, Robert Half has helped companies hire highly skilled accounting and finance employees and assisted professionals in finding rewarding career opportunities. For more information, please visit www.roberthalf.com or call 403.269.5387.
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We would like to recognize the sponsors of this event - Robert Half and thank them for their valued contribution to continued professional development of CIMA in Canada
Dr. Janaka Ruwanpura

Dr. Janaka Ruwanpura, a former US Fulbright Scholar, is the Canada Research Chair, Director and an Associate Professor in the Project Management Specialization in the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He earned his BSc. (Honours) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and his M.S. in Construction Management from Arizona State University, and Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Alberta. He has developed many planning and simulation best practices and tools that have been successfully implemented in the construction industry for project planning, risk management, productivity improvement and decision analysis. As team leader, Dr. Ruwanpura commenced a major Canadian Construction Productivity Improvement research project at the University of Calgary from 2003 which developed many best practices and tools to improve productivity of Alberta construction projects. He has published over 110 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Ruwanpura was recognized with many awards for teaching, research, service, graduate education and Internationalization.

As President of JYR Consultants, he has been a project risk management consultant and a facilitator using his RisQ© framework and a training consultant in the areas of project management, project planning, project control, risk management and productivity improvement. JYR Consultants has served in oil and gas owner, engineering, construction and telecommunication companies as well as municipalities and utility companies in Canada and many overseas countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Middle East. He is a professional quantity surveyor (cost consultant) both in Canada and Sri Lanka and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

Rod Miller

Rod Miller is a regional vice-president for Robert Half International (RHI), the worldwide leader in professional staffing and consulting services. His area of responsibility currently includes managing the daily operations of the company's two Calgary locations.

Rod is thoroughly familiar with the staffing skills that are currently in demand and is an expert on the employment trends within the accounting, information technology, legal and administrative fields. Under Rod’s direction, RHI has achieved great success in establishing itself as a leading provider of highly skilled professionals to meet the needs of the business community in Calgary.

Rod holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics), Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Calgary as well as the Chartered Manager (F.CIM) designation with the Canadian Institute of Management. He is a member of the Haskayne Business School Mentor Program where he helps B.Comm and MBA students achieve success in their careers. With over twenty years of business development experience, with ten years at the senior management level, Rod often shares his perspectives at professional association conferences and is regularly highlighted in local and national media on workplace related issues.

About the Firm
Founded in 1948, Robert Half International is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing and consulting service with more than 350 offices worldwide. The company has seven divisions: Accountemps®, Robert Half® Finance & Accounting and Robert Half® Management Resources, for temporary, full-time and project professionals, respectively, in the fields of accounting and finance; OfficeTeam®, for highly skilled temporary administrative support; Robert Half® Technology, for information technology professionals; Robert Half® Legal, for temporary, project and full-time staffing of lawyers, law clerks, paralegals and legal support personnel; and The Creative Group®, for creative, advertising, marketing and web design professionals.