3. Concise summary
Lwanda is very secure, easy-going, sharp-eyed, cheerful, lively and pleasant-spirited, God-
fearing, smart, assertive, hard-working, sociable and a team player in every sense. I get
unparalleled contentment in assisting people (colleagues) and making an impactful and positive
difference. I am a family man through and through and place immense regard pertaining to
family life and togetherness. I also take pleasure in outdoor activities such as: playing or
watching sports, although I have extensive fondness for Formula 1 racing and soccer in
particular as well as occasionally race track racing and bungee jumping (I am a bit of an implicit
adrenalin junkie)
Education History
Last school attended: Grenville High school (Rustenburg, North West Province)
Highest grade passed: Grade 12 (Senior certificate)
Year matriculated: 2005
Tertiary Education
Institution: Varsity College (Sandton campus)
Qualification; Sports Management Diploma (Partially complete)
Modules completed: Basic Accounting Business Management 1 Marketing Strategy
Coaching Public Relations Human Resource Management
Marketing Sponsorship Player and team Management
DisasterManagement Business Communication
Introduction to Computing Sport Psychology
Facility and Venue Management Sport Law
4. I still have several modules outstanding to complete the course; I have not completed it to date as
I legitimately lost interest and curiosity in the course as I felt it was limiting and as a result
discarded it.
Institution; Varsity College (Sandton Campus)
Qualification: Diploma in Journalism
Year complited: 2013
Modules completed: English Experiential Learning Media Studies 1
Newswriting1 Practice of Journalism Compu-typing
Sub- Editing Communication Science 1 Media Law
Photography Magazine and Feature Writing Publishing
Sub-Editing 2A Communication Science 2
Work Readiness Programme Broadcast Journalism
Opinion and Specialist Writing Internet Journalism
Sub- Editing 2 B Media Studies 2 Newswriting 2
Knowledge and Skills
Outstanding Business and overall writing skills
Outstanding Communication skills (Presentation and Speaking abilities)
Outstanding Inter-personal skills and Corporate mannerism
Excellent Time management Skills and Client Relationship management skills)
Exceptional work ethic and Professional
Solid emotional maturity
Hard Working and a Team Player through and through
5. Knowledge of: General office administration procedures
Data Capturing
Client relationship etiquette
Filing and Archiving Systems
Writing reports for clients and internally
Site verification and visitation procedures
Setting up meetings and Co-coordinating events
Customer service skills
Computer skills: Microsoft Excel
Microsoft office outlook
Microsoft office Word
Microsoft office Publisher
Microsoft office Power Point
Internet search engine skills
MS Projects
Trainng and Development: Project Management Principals (Non-Managers) 2015
6. Employment History
This section defines my history of employment in descending array.
Employer: Global Access Telecommunications
Position Held: Junior Project Manager
Period: 2016 January – Current
Division: Project Management Office
Reporting to: Head of Projects
Duties and responsibilities:
Progress - deliverables are being completed within the baselined time scales
Cost - deliverables are being completed within the baselined cost plan
Quality - deliverables are being completed to defined expectations, first time
Regulatory - all required statutory and regulatory conditions are being met
Reporting - regular and timely reporting of project progress to the sponsors
Risk - to proactively manage foreseen project risk, mitigating as necessary
Change - managing changes to the project without unduly affecting the stated objectives
and benefits
Managing and leading the project team.
Recruiting project staff and consultants.
Managing co-ordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work.
Detailed project planning and control including:
Developing and maintaining a detailed project plan.
Managing project deliverables in line with the project plan.
Recording and managing project issues and escalating where necessary.
Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
Managing project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary.
Monitoring project progress and performance.
Providing status reports to the project sponsor.
Managing project training within the defined budget.
Liaises with, and updates progress to, project board/senior management.
Managing project evaluation and dissemination activities.
7. Employer: Bytes ManagedSolutions
Position Held: Junior Project Manager
Period: 2015, May 4th – December 20th, 2015
Division: Project Management Office
Reporting to: Project Mananger(s)
Reason for Leaving: End of Contract
For all supported projects, create a library of project documents in the format and location
specified by
the business unit's project governance framework.
• Ensure that project scoping documents, business cases, schedules, business requirements and
other
artefacts are in the correct formats, properly signed off and stored. Manage the version control of
these
documents as well as the archiving of old or redundant documents.
• Develop and maintain project stakeholder lists including contact details and email distribution
lists.
• Develop and maintain the project organisation structure including short descriptions of the roles
and
responsibilities of different contributors in the projects.
• Obtain project budgets and ensure that they are updated with actuals and stored and reported
where
needed.
• Obtain the project schedules from the project or programme managers. Ensure that the initial
schedule is
formally baselined and that future amendments to schedule activities or dates are approved and
updated.
Obtain documents to support all formal re-baselining.
8. • When requested by members of the project teams, internal audit or any delivery assurance
functions,
provide project documents to them to enable their reviews.
• During project close-out, review all project documents to ensure that sign-off requirements
have been
met and that project document libraries are complete.
• Support the business unit's efforts to maintain lessons learnt by obtaining information from
project and
programme managers and updating lessons learnt documents and databases.
On request, schedule meeting venues, teleconferencing dial in details, video conference venues
and
supporting equipment for project meetings.
• For formal project meetings (such as steering committees or budget reviews), prepare meeting
minutes,
arrange approval by the meeting chair and distribute to meeting partipants. If capacity allows,
support
project and programme managers with meeting minutes for other project meetings.
• Support the onboarding of contract staff or consultants on projects by arranging their building
access,
systems access and equipment allocation.
• Support the off-boarding of project contractors or consultants by arranging the collection of
their building
access cards, removal of the system access and retrieval of all bank equipment (such as laptops
and
security ID tokens) on their last day of work.
• For projects requiring travel arrangements, liaise with the bank's approved travel agents to
obtain quotes.
9. Employer: Open Learning Group
Position held: Project Co-ordinator
Period: February 2013 – April 2014
Division: Open Learning Solutions
Reporting to: Central Projects Manager
Reason for Leaving: BetterGrowth opportunities.
Duties and responsibilities:
Project Administration
Understand the requirements of the Project Management Office.
Set up the project office environment for the relevant projects/programme.
Implement change and version control with the project office environment.
Co-ordinate all project related events.
Manage data and backup procedures effectively.
Schedule appropriate meetings.
Compile and distribute minutes of meetings.
Compile and distribute project reports.
Procure project supplies.
Maintain project deliverable library and document registers.
Assist with compliance procedures to ensure that the project adheres to agreed
standards, controls and methodologies.
Ensure that developments are administered in such a way that they run within time and
budget requirements.
Ensure all report are collated and checked for accuracy and relevance and submitted
timeously.
Establish and maintain an efficient filing system and information retrieval system,
ensuring filing of documents including meeting packs, reports, both electronically and
manually
Arrange site meetings and liaise with professional teams to ensure that administrative
development procedures are being complied with.
Administration and Reporting
10. Assisting the General Manager and HODs with various administration based functions and
activities, including, but not limited to coordinating, compiling and/or maintaining weekly,
monthly and quarterly reports, SAP reports, presentations, scorecards.
Plan and co-ordinate resources in order to meet internal customer requirements and deadlines.
Communication and reporting with / to internal and external parties, using various media in order
to ensure that communication needs are met (liaising with colleagues, other departments and
external contacts).
Liaising with the IT Department to ensure that the electronic document control system is
functional and well maintained.
Manage manual and electronic filing.
Function and event planning including coordinating meetings, workshops, functions, attendees,
venues, equipment and catering.
Communications
Facilitating internal communications, including, generating and distributing newsletters, notices,
management briefs and memos.
Employer: Deloitte Consulting
Position held: Junior Project Administrator
Period: May 2010 – June 2012
Division: CSI (Project Services)
Reporting to: Associate Director
Reason for leaving: To complete my studies on a full time basis.
Duties and Responsibilities:
All Administrative related work
Setting up meetings with clients (current and prospective ones)
Liasing on an on-going basis with clients
11. Site visitations (Client related)
Verifications on Projects (dependant on nature of project)
Presentations and Master of ceremonies Duties (client dependant)
The type of work involved in CSI has exposed me to a lot of travelling, meeting different people
from all walks of life and learning the valuable skill of adaptability. It has also opened my eyes
to a multitude of different business fields, such as Mining, Banking, and Trusts. I whole-
heartedly enjoy this field of work and am content to see and be an integral part of a project from
start to finish and all-round success for all parties concerned, predominantly the client and
sponsors.
Employer: Impala Platinum Mine
Position held: In-house Journalist
Period: June 2009 – December 2009
Division: CSI
Duties:
Sub-Editor and writer for Team Spirit (In-house Publication), that went out every month. My
role was an Intern role and mainly was to research and collect stories of any newsworthy
events that was happening in-and-around the firm, things like attending work functions, taking
photos and reporting on all those happenings in the Publication. Drafting of business letters and
social media articles for newspapers.
Contactable References
Reference: Jabulane Mangena
Company: Deloitte Consulting
Position held: Chief Facilitator
Contact number: 072 239 3731
12. Reference: Chris Molefi
Company: Open Learning Group
Position held: Central Projects Manager
Contact number: 078 174 8314
Reference: Sibusisiwe Ndlovu
Company: Bytes ManagedSolutions
Position held: Senior Project Manager
Cell number: 083 459 1969