Alfonso Bucero, MSc, CPS, PMP, PMI-RMP, PfMP, PMI Fellow, is the founder and managing partner of Bucero PM Consulting (www.abucero.com). He managed IIL Spain for almost two years, and he was a senior project manager at Hewlett-Packard Spain (Madrid Office) for more than 13 years. Previously he worked as a project team member, team leader, and project manager for Secoinsa, Digital Equipment Corporation, and ICL.
Alfonso is a member of PMI and ALI (Professional engineering Asociation). Alfonso was the founder, sponsor, and president of PMI Barcelona, Spain Chapter, and he was an IPMA Assessor. He was a member of the Congress Project Action Team of PMI EMEA’s Congresses in Edinburgh (2005), Madrid (2006), and Budapest (2007). He graduated from PMI’s Leadership Institute Master Class 2007 in Atlanta at the PMI NA Global Congress. He was president of the PMI Madrid Spain Chapter for two years, served as component mentor for Region 8 South-West from 2011 to 2013 and served the PMIEF (PMI Educational Foundation) as a volunteer for two years. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2010 for his long and varied body of work, the PMI Fellow Award in 2011 from the Project Management Institute for his sustained contribution to the development of the profession internationally, and the PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award on October 2017.
Alfonso has a computer science engineering degree from Universidad Politecnica (Madrid), got his MSc in project management at Zaragoza University and, is still working on his PhD at the ISM University in Lithuania. He has 36 years of practical experience and thirty of them in project management worldwide. He has managed and consulted on projects in various countries across Europe, United States, and the Middle East.
Since 1992, Alfonso is a frequent speaker at international PMI Congresses, IPMA Congresses, and PMI Seminars World. He has been a keynote speaker in several congresses worldwide. He delivers PM training and consulting services in several countries worldwide. As a “project management believer,” he defends passion, persistence, and patience as vital keys for project success. Alfonso has been a professor for MEDIP (Master in Construction and Project Management) at the UPM in Madrid (Spain) since 2004, and for two years ago in Panama City (Panama), and was a professor and executive consultant for the Marketing and Finance Business School in Bilbao (Spain) for two years.
He authored the book Dirección de Proyectos, Una Nueva Vision published by LITO GRAPO Editors (2003). He contributed Chapter 7 of Creating the Project Office published by Jossey-Bass (2004), authored by Randall L. Englund, Robert J. Graham, and Paul Dinsmore. Alfonso coauthored with Randall L. Englund the book Project Sponsorship published by Jossey-Bass (2006). He authored the book Today is a Good Day: Attitudes for Achieving Project Success, published by Multimedia Publishing in Canada (2010). Alfonso contributed to the chapter “From Commander to Sponsor: Building Executive Support for Project Success” in the book Advising Upwards (2011) authored by Lynda Bourne in Australia. He also contributed Chapter 15 of the book CIRCA 2025 written by Dr. David I. Cleland and Dr. Bopaya in 2010.
Alfonso coauthored with Randall L. Englund the books The Complete Project Manager and The Complete Project Manager Toolkit published by Management Concepts in March 2012 and got published a new version from his book Dirección de Proyectos, Una Nueva Vision, and the book Hoy es un buen día (Spanish translation from Today Is a Good Day).
Alfonso wrote and got published his book The Influential Project Manager by CRC Editors in the United States in 2015, coauthored a new version of the book Project Sponsorship with Randall L. Englund published by PMI on October 2015, and then wrote and got published his latest book Tomorrow Will Be Better by Motivational Press in 2017.
He has also contributed to professional magazines in the United States, Russia (SOVNET), India (ICFAI), Argentina, and Spain. Alfonso was a contributing editor for six years for the “Crossing Borders” column of PM Network magazine, published by the Project Management Institute. He was a monthly contributor for Project Connections blog and get published several project management articles in other professional magazines.
You can reach Alfonso Bucero at: [email protected]