UNIVERSITY INTERN
PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Victor Dantas
Fundação Getúlio Vargas
São Paulo, Brazil
Victor Dantas is a master’s level student at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV - Getúlio Vargas Foundation) in São Paulo. He studies for an MBA in Project Managemente, a program at FGV directed by Dr. André Barcauí. He earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Civil Engineeting from the Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil (2016) and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Civil Engineering from the University of East London, United Kingdom (awarded visiting student scholarship - 2013/2014).
Victor is a civil engineer with 4+ years of professional experience comprised mostly in construction management, quality management and planning. He holds the PMP certification (since 2020) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is currently studying for PSM and Prince2 certifications. Victor currently works in government, with urban infrastructure for São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. Past work experience includes a major sanitation project (Public-Private Partnership) for 4 million inhabitants of the Recife Metropolitan Area.
Major Field of Study: Master of Business Administration (MBA), Project Management
Research interests: risks in project management, managing mega or complex projects (such as infrastructure projects), stakeholder management, agility in project management
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For information about the MBA in Project Managemente at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV - Getúlio Vargas Foundation), follow the link to https://portal.fgv.br/en/education/graduate-mba
Victor can be contacted at victorhsdantas@yahoo.com
Start date: October 2021
News
Victor Dantas joins PMWL research team in Brazil
Research results:
221006 - The Nature of Risk in Complex Projects
220927 - Risk coping capacity and risk transparency
220609 - Ambiguity Management: the new frontier
220511 - Schedule is Different
220503 - Delivering Sustainable Capital Projects
220407 - Cultural Risk in the Execution of Megaprojects
220330 - Make megaprojects more modular
220323 - Delivering sustainable infrastructure: Insights from industry leaders
211209 - Better ways to green-light new projects
211202 - Analytics for better megaproject outcomes
211125 - Lessons learned from a large metro project
211118 - Seven Key Risk Management Principles
211111 - Earned Value Management (EVM) in Agile Development
211104 - How to make sure agile teams work together
211028 - Accelerate data transformation with agile
211021 - Fundamentals of project sustainability