Paul D Giammalvo
Jakarta, Indonesia






Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, CCE (#1240), MScPM, MRICS, is a Senior Technical Advisor (Project Management) to PT Mitratata Citragraha. (PTMC), Jakarta, Indonesia. www.build-project-management-competency.com. He is noted for the development and delivery of graduate level, blended learning curricula designed for the mid-career path, English as Second Language (ESL) professionals to develop competency in the local practitioner and build capacity for the local organizations. For 25+ years, he has been developing and delivering Project Management training and consulting throughout South and Eastern Asia Pacific, the Middle East, West Africa, and Europe.
He is also active in the Global Project Management Community, by playing a “thought leadership” role for the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACEI) http://www.aacei.org/ since 1991; He has also been active in two IPMA member organizations: The Green Project Management Association (GPM) http://www.greenprojectmanagement.org/ where he served on the Certification Board of Directors for two years and the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management http://www.asapm.org/ for which he served for four years on the BoD as Director of Marketing. He also sat on the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS), www.globalpmstandards.org, Sydney, Australia and is active as a regional leader. Currently, he is a compensated consultant to the International Guild of Project Controls. http://www.planningplanet.com/guild as the primary author of their “Compendium and Reference” as well as the chief architect of their competency-based credentialing program. http://www.planningplanet.com/guild/certification
He has spent 35 of the last 50 years working on large, highly technical international projects, including such prestigious projects as the Alyeska Pipeline and the Distant Early Warning Site (DEW Line), upgrades in Alaska and the Negev Airbase Constructors, Ovda, Israel and the Minas Oil Field in Rumbai, Sumatra. His current client list includes Fortune 500 major telecommunications, oil, gas and mining companies plus the UN Projects Office and many other multi-national companies, NGO organizations and Indonesian Government Agencies.
In addition to 45+ years of hands-on field experience, Dr. Giammalvo holds an undergraduate degree in Construction Management, his Master of Science in Project Management through the George Washington University and was awarded his PhD in Project and Program Management through the Institute Superieur De Gestion Industrielle (ISGI) and Ecole Superieure De Commerce De Lille (ESC-Lille) under the supervision of Professor Christophe Bredillet.
Paul can be contacted at [email protected].
Profile updated January 2019
Articles and Papers
- Activity Based Costing (ABC) – The Other Side of the Earned Value Coin? - Second Edition - Giammalvo - February 2019
- Earned Value – A Leading Indicator of Clean Governance? - Second Edition - Giammalvo - January 2019
- Mapping ERP “Chart of Accounts” to Building Information Modeling Software Using Omniclass Coding Structures and Activity Based Costing/Management-A CONTRACTOR’S perspective - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - April 2018
- Analysis of Current Project Management Related Job Descriptions - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - January 2017
- Project Management Certification Benchmarking Research: 2016 Update - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - December 2016
- Project Control / Project Controller Defined - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - September 2016
- Forensic Analysis/Claims Consultant Defined – A Key Word Analysis of Current Job Descriptions as the Basis for Exam and Competency Assessment Scoring Models - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - August 2016
- Cost Estimator/Quantity Surveyor Defined – A Key Word Analysis of Current Job Descriptions as the Basis for Exam and Competency Assessment Scoring Models - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - July 2016
- Project Planner/Scheduler Defined: A Key Word Analysis of Current Job Descriptions as the Basis for Exam and Competency Assessment Scoring Models - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - June 2016
- Producing Competent Practitioners Using Project Based Learning - Second Editions - Giammalvo - July 2015
- Project Management Certifications Benchmarking Research: 2015 Update - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - January 2015
- Project Management Credentials Compared – 2014 Update - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - January 2014
- Using “ Behavioral Profiling ” to Identify “Successful” Project Managers - Second Editions - Giammalvo - August 2012
- Creating a Competency Assessment for Cost Estimators - Second Editions - Giammalvo - September 2012
- Practical Look at how Private Sector Entrepreneurial Companies use Earned Value - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - July 2013
- Do Private Sector Small To Medium Sized, Entrepreneurial General Contractors Comply With ANSI 748? If yes, how; if not, why not? - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - April 2013
- Project Management Credentials Compared: A Follow Up Analysis - Featured Papers - Giammalvo - February 2013
- Project Management Certifications Compared - Second Editions - Giammalvo - January 2013
- Are Certification Credentials becoming Defacto Licenses? - Commentary - Giammalvo - June 2009
- Exploring the Role of Professional Codes of Ethics as Applied to Project Management - Commentary - Giammalvo - March 2009
- Open Source Trends and the Future of the Project Management Body of Knowledge - Commentary - Giammalvo - November 2008
- Codes of Ethics and Fiduciary Responsibility to the Consuming Public - Commentary - Giammalvo - May 2008
- What does the future hold for Project Management? An Update - Commentary - Giammalvo - April 2008
- Call for incorporating more Systems Thinking in Project Management - Commentary - Giammalvo - October 2007
- Project Management is not so “advanced” as many think! - Commentary - Giammalvo - August 2007
- A Challenge for Project Management Organizations! - Commentary - Giammalvo - February 2007
- AACEi joins GAPPS – Why & What it means! - Commentary - Giammalvo - December 2006
- Introducing the AACEi Competency-based Portfolio, Program and Project Management Credential – The C3PM - Commentary - Giammalvo - November 2006
- Time for Governance and Election Reform within the Project Management Community (Part 2) - Commentary - Giammalvo - August 2006