About / Consultant Profiles - Darya Duma

Darya Duma
duma@procept.com

Darya Duma is a Vice-President with Procept. She has been designing and leading training courses in Project Management theory and application for 10 years. She creates Project Management training for delivery by herself and others, designs PM methodologies for clients, prepares templates for implementation of PM software, and facilitates the implementation of PM practices. Darya has designed courses for Bruce Power LP, Public Works and Government Services Canada, Ontario Power Generation, National Energy Board and University of Toronto. She is one of our Microsoft Project instructor/consultants. She is Program Director for our 10-day Mechanical Contracting Project Management course for the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada. She is also an instructor in our regularly scheduled courses at University of Waterloo and other universities.

Darya was a practising Project Manager for over 10 years, first in “hard” projects managing industrial elevator installations with a mechanical contractor, and then in “soft” projects developing national and international standards with CSA International. A few of the projects that she has managed include providing elevators for Hibernia GBS, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Ontario Hydro, Alberta Power, and Vancouver Port. More recently, with the Canadian Standards Association, she managed the development of codes and standards for subsequent implementation in provincial regulations, as well as the development of ISO standards for the elevator industry. She has extensive international experience with clients in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Darya has been a member of PMI’s Registered Education Provider Advisory Group, and is on the Canadian Advisory Council for the upcoming ISO PM standard.

Darya holds a degree in Engineering Science from University of Western Ontario, as well as additional credentials in adult education design and facilitation. She is designated as a Professional Engineer, as a Project Management Professional by PMI, as a PRINCE2 Practitioner by the APM, and as a Planning and Scheduling Professional by the AACEI.