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A year and a half ago, Rich Brodowski of Bell Canada presented to us on the planning and anticipated challenges in the delivery of all electronic communications for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.  On September 29th, Rich returns to PMI Vancouver Island to share with us the lessons learned by the Olympic PMO for Bell Canada.

Learn how Bell, the Exclusive Telecommunications Partner to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, was able to deliver the most-watched Winter Games in history to Canada and the world.   From February 12 to 28, every image seen on TV, every story read around the world and every real-time score transmitted during the Games traversed a communications solution designed and delivered by Bell.  The Bell team had to rise to the extraordinary challenge of connecting the 2010 Winter Games by exceeding the immensely high communications standards of an Olympic event. Rich Brodowski discusses, through his personal experiences, how best practices in planning, teamwork and governance were the keys to the programs success.

Rich Brodowski is an award winning Project Management professional with 18 years experience in managing complex, mission critical programs.  In his most recent role as Director, Olympic PMO, Rich was the Project Executive tasked with providing governance to Bell Canada’s Olympic Program.  This Program provided all the telecommunications needs for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.  It was an end-to-end solution that included all the voice and data services, systems cabling, logistics, business office functions and support staff to ensure flawless delivery.  The solution delivered massive capacity, maximum availability, fail-safe reliability, formidable security and unmatched breadth of services.  Every Olympic image seen on television, every real-time score transmitted and every story read around the world traversed the integrated Vancouver 2010 network designed and delivered by Bell.

Rich is a member of the Board of Directors for the Project Management Institute’s Canadian West Coast Chapter, a member of the Board of Advisors for ProjectWorld, a past member of the Calgary PMO Roundtable, and has served on several project management “expert” panels.  He has been referenced in; project management trade journals (PMI.org & PM Network), market advisory services case studies (IDC) and in business solutions video series.

Rich is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Registered Engineering Technologist (R.E.T.).  He received his diploma in Civil Engineering Technology from Lethbridge College, and studied Science and Engineering for four years at the University of Alberta and University of Lethbridge.  He was a senior member of a Project Team that was awarded eCustomer World’s “Best Mobile CRM Solution” Golden Customer Award, and was awarded the 2005 Project Management Excellence Award for individual achievement from the Project Management Institute’s Southern Alberta Chapter.