(openPR) - Dallas, Texas – April 16, 2007 — PMForum, Inc announced today that Mr. Lawrence Suda has become an International Correspondent for the Company in New York City. The company is in the midst of forming a Global Correspondents Network to provide project management-related news and information from around the world and to provide PMForum with local representation. PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first website devoted to professional project management, and produces the popular monthly online e-Journal PM World Today.

According to managing editor David Pells, “Larry Suda is a very experienced and well respected project management expert. He has been a member of PMI for over 25 years, and has been involved in project management education and training for the past thirty. His firm is on the leading edge in the use of simulations and technology for PM training, with NASA one of their biggest customers. It is an honor to have him join our global correspondents’ network.”

Lawrence V. (Larry) Suda is CEO and Managing Partner of Palatine Group/Management Worlds, Inc., a company he founded in 1986 that delivers world-class learning solutions and business services to organizations in the public and private sectors. Larry has over 30 years of project management consulting and training experience and has designed and delivered world-class project and program leadership workshops using computer simulation. Larry successfully designed and launched NASA Academy of Program & Project Leadership’s (APPL’s) ASK Magazine (Academy Sharing Knowledge), an on-line story-based learning and case study journal of project success stories at NASA. He also developed NASA’s first e-Learning project management program “Return to Mars”, and an enterprise-wide on-line performance center for various levels of NASA’s project management community.

Mr. Suda is a frequent speaker at PM conferences around the world on such topics as using simulations for training, PM competencies, business strategy, leadership and organizational culture. Larry is certified in various psychological and leadership instruments, and has been a member of PMI for over 25 years. Before founding Palatine Group/Management Worlds, Larry worked in the private and public sectors (Environmental Protection Agency) and was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland. He has also taught at the Universities of Iowa and Pittsburgh. Larry holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Wayne State University and a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in the USA. He is currently an adjunct professor at Drexel University teaching Global Project Leadership. Additional information about Larry Suda can be seen at www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/04/larry-suda-named-inter....

Other International Correspondents for PMForum have been announced recently in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, the UK and elsewhere in the USA. The Company expects to announce other international correspondents around the world in coming months. Additional information about the PMForum.org Global Correspondents Network and about individual correspondents can be found at www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5.

Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and continues to be one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is a company formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net.

SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.

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