About Us

This site is a business portal for pm4hire.com that was established in early 2000 to support a project management consulting practice. With over 40 years in project management and consulting, on large projects in IT, Business, and Construction, it felt right to start sharing the experience with any local business or consumer that can benefit from the many aspects of business management that we bring to the (boardroom) table. We still have our pm4hire.com website and we are still open to large projects, but there is more to enjoy in life.

What has led up to this business portal is a wealth of accumulated experience:

Mar. 2015 Launch of “Excel in Business Management” website as a portal to the training website that has long been associated with my pm4hire.com project management practice. For many people project management is a somewhat obscure specialization: in fact, the techniques and the tools developed for project management turned out to be superb examples and teaching tools to make the business program more exciting to the students. All we can hope now is that it will have a general appeal.
Nov. 2013 – Feb.2015 Teaching College-level courses in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, and Career Skills
IT Project: (PM4HIRE) - Development of project management training seminars
Fall 2012 IT Project: Netezza Data Warehouse & IVR Upgrade – Business Cases
Sep. 2010 – Apr. 2012 IT Project: Configuration Management (CMDB) – Infrastructure Operations
IT Project: Monitoring Remediation (IBM Tivoli ITM-6x, OMNIbus/Impact) – Infrastructure Ops
Construction Projects : OAM - Barrie Data Center Construction - Infrastructure
Summer 2010 IT Project: Coordinate BladeLogic software implementation, resolving cross-project       dependencies for CMDB rollout plans.
Sep. 2009 – Dec. 2009 IT Project: ADP-Broadridge Cheque Printing (Wealth Management)
IT Project: CCAPS – NCCS/NIS upgrade installation plan and arrange technical resources,       SDLC and PMLC.
Mar. 2009 – Sep. 2009 IT Project: Commercialize Clear Cell Business Intelligence products interfaced with a SAS       Data Warehouse.
Feb. 2007 – Sep. 2008 Business Program: Aviva Brand development - Program Office
Business Program: Corporate Projects Office - CMMI Qualification analysis
Aug. 2005 – Oct. 2006 Project: Retail Credit Quality Control - Tracking Database with C++ and JEE
Project: General Systems Quality Control - Legacy System Adapter Software       (GRIDBEAST)
Project: Lean 6-Sigma - Legacy System Adapter Software (GRIDBEAST)
Jan. 2005 – July 2005 Project: Highly customized ETL initiative: Investment Assets Database Migration
Mar. 2002 – Sep. 2004 Project: Quality Assurance - Test Automation – JEE implementation
Excel in Business Management
Project: MethoTD SDLC Development Methodology, QA Test Methodology
Project: Project Management & Portfolio Methodology
Jun. 1999 – May 2001 IT Program: Y2K Upgrade – Cheque Processing Systems - Planning & Execution of       applications and support infrastructure upgrades.
Project: Organization - Methodology and Standards
Project: Strategic Plan Organizational Development
Sep. 1996 – Apr. 1999 IT Program: BASE24 ABM/POS Y2K Upgrade Canadian FIL applications
Project: BASE24 POS/SCD - POS Shared Cash (cash back)
Project: BASE24 Smart Card - Mondex
Sep. 1994 – Sep. 1996 Project: QDS - World-wide Stock Exchange Quotes Distribution System
Aug. 1986 – July 1993 - Construction Projects - Pickering Nuclear Generating Station Reactors 3&4 Overhaul.
And more… Although I have been active in mentoring project managers since 2006 and developed a suite of training materials over the years, it was a great opportunity to start teaching in 2013. It became clear that there was a lot of potential demand for what I had to share on my existing website for Pm4hire.com that was aimed at project managers. Excel in Business Management provides a new portal that does not change the core training programs we developed, but that provides a natural introduction for a much broader audience than to share these tools and techniques only with project managers. I thank my former students for being so interested in the use of Excel™ tools that made many courses more exciting, and I invite them to contact us if at any time in the future they see a need for a more up-to-date version of the software.
Frits J. Bos, PMP