§ Recognition
Credentials, awards, and
community service.
Evidence-grade reference. Issuing bodies linked for verification; credential IDs are kept private and shared on request. Education and certifications also appear in narrative form on /about; this page is the dense record.
Credentials
Active- 01.
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Education
2004 – present- 01.
Construction Management Specialization (5 courses)
Columbia University · Coursera · Aug – Oct 2025
5-course specialization taught by Ibrahim Odeh, Ph.D., MBA — Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University.
5 course certificates →
- Construction Project Management Aug 29, 2025 · grade 88.00%
- Construction Scheduling Sep 11, 2025 · grade 89.82%
- Construction Cost Estimating and Cost Control Sep 18, 2025 · grade 92.95%
- Construction Finance Oct 27, 2025 · grade 90.57%
- The Construction Industry: The Way Forward Oct 27, 2025 · grade 96.00%
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Executive Program in Innovative Project Management & Business English
College of Business, The University of Akron, Ohio · Feb – Mar 2022
LAIOB Scholarship recipient.
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Executive MBA in Real Estate Business & Construction Management
Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Brasília · 2012 – 2016
Direcional +Educação Scholarship recipient.
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Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás · 2004 – 2010
Diploma awarded 2010. Started at Universidade Estadual de Goiás and transferred mid-program; community work and student-government experience all from the UEG years.
Awards & honors
3 entries- 01.
PMI LATAM Excellence Awards 2025 — Nominee
2025"Carlos Novello" Volunteer of the Year · LATAM Brasil
Chapter-nominated by PMI Brazil Goiás for sustained voluntary contribution to the AI ⨯ Project Management research initiative across federated Brazilian chapters. Notification by PMI LATAM Chapter Engagement (Diana Victor) on December 18, 2025.
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LAIOB Scholarship
2022Innovative Project Management Executive Program · The University of Akron
Competitive selection for the executive program; full scholarship.
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Direcional +Educação Scholarship
2012Postgraduate studies — MBA Real Estate Business & Construction Management at FGV
Employer-sponsored postgraduate scholarship.
Memberships
- Project Management Institute (PMI) member · since 2019
- Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) member
- CONFEA / CREA-GO licensed civil engineer · since 2010
Continuing education
SelectedSelected courses below; full library on LinkedIn.
AI ⨯ Project Management
- PMI Talking to AI: Prompt Engineering
- PMI Generative AI Overview
- PMI Data Landscape of GenAI for Project Managers (2024)
- Generative AI Prompt Engineering Basics
- Generative AI for BI Analysts Specialization (Coursera, 2025)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) Cert Prep (2025)
- AI-Driven PM Techniques (Ricardo Vargas)
Sustainability + Cloud
- Career Essentials in Sustainable Tech (Microsoft + LinkedIn)
- Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability — ESG
- Including Sustainability in Cloud Strategy
Foundations
- Construction Scheduling
- Business Analysis Foundations
- Data Analytics
- Cloud Computing First Steps
Community leadership & service
Since 2005- 01. Co-founder · Platform & framework author AI & PM Research Hub (Núcleo IA & GP)
PMI Brazil · multi-chapter · Mar 2024 – present
Voluntary inter-chapter PMI Brazil research initiative on AI ⨯ Project Management. Co-founded; author of the open-source platform and the management framework. Started in 2024 as a PMI Goiás Chapter pilot; now a federation of 5 PMI Brazilian Chapters (Goiás, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul) with 10 more in integration, 50+ researchers active across Cycle 3 (2026/1) organized in 4 strategic quadrants under 8 lead researchers and 10 tribe leaders. Submission accepted for the PMI LIM Summit LATAM 2026. Externally recognized in April 2026 at CBGPL — Brazil's largest Project Management conference (1,200+ leaders) — when Ricardo Viana Vargas, Ph.D. closed his keynote with a dedicated acknowledgment of the initiative.
- 02. Project Manager
PMI Brazil Goiás Chapter
Aug 2019 – Dec 2021
Two-and-a-half years as chapter-level project management volunteer. Project Manager of PMentoring — PMI Goiás's structured mentor–mentorando program for chapter members and the broader community — governed PMBOK-style across the ten knowledge areas, with Vitor as Gerente do Projeto and PMI-GO as Patrocinador. The 1st cycle (planned 2019, ran January–June 2020) opened registrations one week before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic and ran through the early-pandemic transition; twelve mentor–mentorando pairs, half PMI-affiliated and half community, up to 10 PDUs in the Leadership category on completion. Project Manager of subsequent cycles as well.
- 03. Mentor
PMI & GPjr Latin America Connection Journey
Oct 2020 – Dec 2020
Mentorship cohort for early-career Latin American project-management professionals.
- 04. Sales Volunteer
Fundação Estudar — "Na Prática"
Oct 2019 – Oct 2021
Two-year volunteer sales work for a Brazilian career-development foundation.
- 05. Director General (President)
Centro Acadêmico de Engenharia Civil "Marcus Vinícius Cavalcanti" (CAEC) · UEG
Dec 2005 election · two consecutive mandates
Re-established the extinct Centro Acadêmico de Engenharia Civil at Universidade Estadual de Goiás (Anápolis campus) as Director General of the elected "Chapa RECONSTRUIR" slate, serving two consecutive mandates. Led campaigns for a permanent CAEC headquarters ("Cantinho E-Civil"), a university cafeteria, and summer courses; authored governance documents (bylaws, election rules, meeting minutes); produced the Manual do Calouro freshman guide; designed the CAEC visual identity; and built and maintained a custom library system (Estante/PHP) for the CAEC book collection. During this period, also co-founded — alongside the department's academic coordination under Prof. Marcus Vinícius Silva Cavalcanti, after whom the CAEC was named — the AMEnC (Associação Minerva de Engenharia Civil), an umbrella student association operating at a higher organizational level than the CAEC, and the ComEnC (Comissão Permanente de Engenharia Civil), the standing committee that organized the annual SemanEnC engineering weeks; served as a ComEnC member across SemanEnC editions 3 through 6 (2005–2008) and authored the SemanEnC 5 PHP web-registration and certificate-generation system (2007); led engineering-extension activities in partnership with academic coordination. In parallel, served as the official web designer for the Civil Engineering department under a formal UEG subdomain contract, in partnership with GR InfoArt — built and maintained three independent web applications on engenhariacivil.ueg.br: a Joomla department portal, a separate Joomla CAEC site, and the Biblioteca/Estante system.
Live badge wall (continuously updated as new credentials are earned): credly.com/users/vitor-maia-rodovalho ↗
Credential IDs (PMP, CMAA, CONFEA / CREA-GO, etc.) are kept private and shared on request. Public links above point to issuing-body verification portals or canonical proof artifacts (Coursera, Credly).