20 February 2010

Henry Mkhwananzi named International Correspondent for PMForum in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s first PMP joins PMForum’s Global Correspondents Network to provide project management news coverage  from Harare

Dallas, Texas — PMForum, Inc announced today that Mr. Henry Mkhwananzi has been named an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Harare, Zimbabwe.  PMForum’s global network of international correspondents delivers project management-related news and information from around the world and provides local representation.  PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s oldest website devoted to professional project management, and produces the popular monthly global project management e-Journal PM World Today.

According to PMForum Managing Editor David Pells, “We are thrilled to have a representative in Zimbabwe, an important African country that has been dealing with serious political and economic problems in recent years.  Clearly, projects and project management will be critical for the country’s rebound, so it will be great for us to have a correspondent there.  Also, since there is currently no project management professional body, PMI chapter or visibility for the project management profession in Zimbabwe, it is exciting for PMForum to be there first.  We look forward to working with Henry to put Zimbabwe on the project management map, to learning about the country’s projects and project management needs, and to helping advance the PM profession there.”

Henry Mkhwananzi is founder and president of Quitsun Investments (Pvt.) Ltd, a project management consultancy based in Harare, Zimbabwe.   Henry has twenty two years experience working in the ICT field, nine of which were spent managing information systems resources, infrastructure and utilities at senior management levels within a large hospitality concern and a financial services group.  He has managed ICT implementation projects for the fastest growing hotel group in Africa, with projects in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nigeria. Henry was a project manager for a card-based systems integration project for a building society that was being merged with a leading banking group in Zimbabwe. For five years he led several medium to large ICT implementation projects for a leading banking group in Zimbabwe.

Henry has a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree, Information Systems Major, from the University of Southern Queensland, Towoomba, Australia (2001) and a Bachelor of Business Studies & Computing Science Degree from the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe (1986).  Henry has lectured on a part-time basis to students studying for the International Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies (NCC Education) where he taught data communications, networking and computer programming.  A member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2003, he is PRINCE2 certified (2009) and Six Sigma Green Belt certified (2008).  The only PMP in Zimbabwe, Henry hopes to create a local PMI chapter or national project management society in the near future.

PMForum’s Global Correspondents Network includes representatives in over 35 countries and several US states, with more being added monthly.  Additional information about PMForum’s Global Correspondents Network and about individual correspondents can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.

About PMForum

PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s oldest website devoted to professional project management and one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information.  PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, reports and stories about projects and project management around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.

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