PMForum names Alexander Matthey as International Project Management Correspondent in Switzerland

Dallas, Texas – July 18, 2007 — PMForum, Inc announced today that Alexander Matthey has become an International Correspondent for the Company in Switzerland. PMForum is establishing a global network of international correspondents to provide project management-related news and information from around the world and to provide the company 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 PMForum managing editor David Pells, “Alexander Matthey is a very experienced project management leader and consultant, with over 20 years of experience in a number of industries, countries and cultures. He is truly a global citizen, speaking four languages fluently and active throughout Europe and Northern Africa. He will be a great asset to our correspondents’ team.”

Alexander Matthey, PMP, is the Managing Director of 3PM Experts Sàrl. He possesses over 24 years experience and has worked extensively in many cultural environments, from Switzerland to Australia, from Morocco to Singapore, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. He graduated as a Computer Science engineer and worked in the Information services, consulting and training industries. Following a fruitful career in software development and ERP implementation, he has now focused on combining his Services, Project, Process and People skills and expertise to promote organisational excellence.

With over 20 years in project management including as a Project Management Office (PMO) Manager, he has established a reputation as expert and trouble shooter in Project Management consulting, coaching and training. Alexander is a PMO consultant at Richemont International; was the PMO Manager at SITA in Geneva in 2005, and designed, established and managed the PMO at Orange Communications from 2002 to 2004. He led the world’s first organisational project management maturity assessment based on PMI’s OPM3 model. Alexander has written and lectured widely on Project Management in French and in English, and is the author and trainer of the PMP certification course which enabled 30% of the PMPs in Switzerland to pass their certification. He offered the first such courses in Morocco and Tunisia.

Alexander Matthey is a frequent speaker at International PMI leadership meetings and global congresses, is a faculty member at the International University in Geneva, and is an external lecturer at the University of Geneva for undergraduate and MBA students in project management. He is Vice President of the PMI Switzerland Chapter. Alexander holds a Masters Degree in computer Electronics and Software Engineering and a Master in Business Information Systems. He is fluent in the Bulgarian, English, French and Hungarian languages, and speaks some German and Russian. Mr. Matthey is based in Vich, between Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland

Other International Correspondents for PMForum have been announced recently in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, India, Nigeria, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and in the UAE, UK and 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 http://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, papers, reports 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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