Derek Lakudzala is an experienced ICT Consultant with many years of practical experience especially in the Windows Desktop application environment.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE: DEREK LAKUDZALA
Consultant and Trainer: Business ICT and Management
1. Contact Information
DEREK LAKUDZALA
BUMAS International, P. O. Box 51379, Limbe, Malawi
Tel: +265 999 240 293 / +265 1 873 575 Email: dlakudzala@gmail.com
Skype: Derek.Lakudzala Twitter: http://twitter.com/dlakudzala
2. Personal Information
Date and Place of Birth: 18th APRIL 1956, Lilongwe, Malawi Citizenship: Malawi
Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Children: Three sons
Employment history
1. Team Leader: CBET College, Malawi, 2004 to date:
Derek is a team leader of Computer and Business Education and Training (CBET) College in
Malawi. He is responsible for strategic direction and the operational matters. CBET College is an
education partner of NCC Education of the UK (www.nccedu.com) accredited to teach Level 4
NCC Education IT and Business Diploma courses and also a level4 Post Graduate Diploma
Programme in Strategic Business IT. He has taught Project Management and Research in
Information Technology modules at the Post Graduate Diploma Level.
1. Business ICT and Management Consultant: 1996 to date
Developed the Information Systems Strategy Plan (ISSP) for the Local Development Fund, a
development fund consolidator and management organisation, February 2011 to June 2011.
The project recommended ICT infrastructure and management for a multi-stakeholder group for
local government development.
Co-authored and co-edited an advanced training course "AFRICAN FOSS BUSINESS MODELS" in
Nairobi Kenya, February 2009, for ict@innovation project (http://www.ict-innovation.org/) and the
Free Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA –http://www.fossfa.net/) sponsored by InWent of
Germany (http://www.inwent.org)
Facilitation of Training Module “General Business Skills” for senior managers from Zambia,
Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia. The programme took place at the
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (http://www.uem.mz/) Centre for ICT (EACOSS), Maputo
Mozambique, 26-27 October 2009.
Facilitation of Training Module “General Business Skills” for senior managers from Ethiopia,
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. The programme took place at the University Computing
Centre (UCC) of the University of Dar es Salaam (www.ucc.co.tz ) 22-23 September 2009.
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2. Facilitation of Training Module “General Business Skills” for senior managers from Ethiopia,
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania. The programme took place at the East African Centre for
Open Source Software (EACOSS) (http://www.iicd.org/projects/uganda-eacoss/), Kampala Uganda,
7-9 September 2009.
IT Project Management
Management of business register digitization project at the Department of the Registrar General,
Blantyre. The project digitalised the business register as a first step in the implementation of a
computerised business registry for the Registrar Of Companies April 2009 to November 2009
Development of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans
Mr Lakudzala led a team of three consultants that developed the business continuity and disaster
recovery plan for the Privatisation Commission in Malawi.
Separately, Mr Lakudzala also conducted training in business continuity and disaster recovery on
the behalf of the ICT Association of Malawi.
ICT Needs Assessment (TNA)
Mr Lakudzala conducted ICT needs assessment for three different departments in Malawi. He
completed a World Bank funded project through the Privatisation Commission to conduct an ICT
Needs Assessment at the Department of the Registrar General and Department of Lands, Land
Registry. A key component of the assignment was conducting training needs assessment in the
area of ICT in the two departments. He has since conducted a similar project for the High Court of
Malawi, Blantyre Commercial Division.
Strategic Planning
Mr Lakudzala facilitated the development to strategic plans as follows
(a) for Business Computers Services (BCS), official dealers of a Dell and HP computers in Malawi
(b) Trans World Radio (TWR) Malawi
Mr Lakudzala facilitated the development of the strategic plan for Trans World Radio, local FM
station as well as the TWR Malawi National Strategic Plan, translated from the African region
strategic plan for Trans World Radio.
IT Functional Re-organisation
Mr Lakudzala led a two-person consulting team to establish an information technology
department at Lilongwe Water Board and reorganise the ICT function in the board.
Financial Modelling
Mr Lakudzala provided IT specialist computer based financial modelling services and in regulatory
level reforms project in Malawi when Malawi was moving to multi-sector regulatory framework
from single sector regulatory framework.
He also provided computer financial modelling services for in the electricity regulator in Malawi
as part of providing a framework for tariff management.
Mr Lakudzala has since conducted financial modelling courses for accountants and financial
managers using Microsoft Excel.
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3. Training Needs Assessment (TNA)
Mr Lakudzala participated in conducting comprehensive assessment of long term training needs
for the Malawi Ministry of Health covering a period of three years to satisfy an important funding
conditionality. In the exercises targeted service delivery cadres in the Ministry.
Mr Lakudzala started work on training needs assessment (TNA) at the Malawi Institute of
Management (MIM) where he served as subject matter expert in training needs assessment for
the Institute. He served as local counterpart of Canadian and British experts on training needs
assessment projects at the start of the Malawi Institute of Management.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Mr Lakudzala led it two man consulting team that customised the Malawi Social Economic
Database (MASEDA) for the Health sector (MASEDA Health) in a UNICEF funded project. The
underlying system is a GIS and the MASEDA Health isolated health sector indicator information
and analytical tools for use by the health sector decision makers and planners in Malawi.
Mr Lakudzala trained as a consultant in UNICEF’s Malawi version of ChildInfo database called
MASEDA (Malawi Social Economic Database). He is a trained independent consultant on
ChildInfo in Malawi; and he has special understanding of GIS based database systems and
projects.
Website Development
Mr Lakudzala designed and managed the first website development projects for the Malawi
Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCCI) and the Malawi Meteorological
Service Department. Subsequently the Meteorological Service website became the most
frequently updated website in Malawi as it maintained daily weather forecast data.
Mr Lakudzala has since conducted various website development training courses. In April 2010
he conducted website development training using Joomla! - a content management system with
PHP and MySQL as the underlying technologies.
Training
Mr Lakudzala is a consultant and trainer in businesses ICT. In his training experience is mainly on
office applications, computer based project management tools, database and software
development in the Windows environment. Mr Lakudzala has contacted training covering the
following software.
Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook).
Project Management and Software Development (Visual Basic 2008, Visual Basic 2005,
Visual Basic 6, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project)
2. Management DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT (IT): MALAWI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT: 1989 TO 1996
Mr Lakudzala spent seven years in management consulting, training and research specialising in
the Information Technology field as Senior Management Development Consultant/Head of the IT
Division at the Malawi Institute of Management (MIM) in Lilongwe, Malawi from March 1989 to
January 1996. After resigning he continued to serve as adjunct faculty in the area of Computer
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4. Applications in Project Management sometimes facilitating modules on Microsoft Project in a
Cambridge (UK) Diploma programme at the institute.
Employment Record:
JANUARY 1996 TO DATE: RESIDENT PARTNER, BUMAS INTERNATIONAL
Designed a business register database for the Department of the Registrar General as part of the
private sector development project. This was an expanded phase of an earlier project. The
newly designed database is to replace an earlier one also developed by Mr Lakudzala and his
team at BUMAS International.
Provided corporate computer skill training programmes for numerous organisations in Malawi
including the following
(a) Malawi Revenue Authority (http://www.mra.mw/)
(b) Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) (http://www.mtl.mw/)
(c) Southern Africa Aids Trust (SAAT) Malawi
(http://satregional.org/country_programmes/malawi)
(d) National Insurance Company (NICO) (http://www.nicomw.com/)
(e) Chemicals and Marketing
(f) Investment and Development (INDE) Bank (http://www.indebank.com/)
(g) British American Tobacco (BAT) Malawi Limited,
(h) Investment and Development Fund (INDEFund). (http://indefund.com/)
These special course were designed to address the needs of the organizations to gain
competence in use of computers for office and personal productivity
Developed computerized systems for conducting economic research for economic researchers at
the Reserve Bank of Malawi (Malawi’s Central Bank). The system includes provision for
outputting information for web publishing.
From 1990 to 1996, Mr Lakudzala served as UK’s NCC Education country moderator for Malawi
on their international diploma course in Computer Studies programmes in Malawi.
MARCH 1989 TO JANUARY 1996 CONSULTANT/SENIOR CONSULTANT AT MALAWI INSTITUTE
OF MANAGEMENT, LILONGWE MALAWI.
Handled information technology training and applications in other disciplines, consulting and
research activities catering for the needs of middle and senior level managers in all three sectors
of the economy. My primary areas included computer familiarization training, computer skills
training for specific groups such as executive assistants and secretaries, financial managers,
project managers and human resource managers.
Apart from conducting Project management courses for IT professionals Mr. Lakudzala also
conducted Project management training for Water Engineers of the Lilongwe Water Board and a
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5. similar programme for Software and System Staff of the Data processing department in
Government. Both programmes used Microsoft Project as the Project Management Software.
MAY 1986 TO MARCH 1989; PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ANALYST PROGRAMMER - DATA PROCESSING
DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI.
From April 1989 to July 1992 I concurrently held a government post as Assistant Chief data
processing Officer (P6) in the Malawi Civil service while on secondment to Malawi Institute of
Management and Management Development Consultant in IT at the Malawi Institute of
Management.
Managed development and maintenance project team responsible for the central government
accounting system.
August 1980 to march 1983: Systems analyst/programmer - Data processing Department of the
Government of Malawi. I spent a greater part of this period as head of the computer division at
the Meteorological Office headquarters in Blantyre on secondment from my parent department.
Designed and implemented systems for management of industrial licenses in the Ministry of
Trade and Commerce, management of Malawi Government censorship in the Censorship Board.
APRIL 1983 TO APRIL 1986: SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST/PROGRAMMER - DATA PROCESSING
DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MALAWI.
He started his career as a systems analyst/programmer in the Malawi government at professional
officer grade. He progressed through the ranks of senior systems analyst programmer, principal
systems analyst programmer to Assistant Chief Data Processing office (P6, personal to self)
4. Education:
Institution Dates Qualifications
University of Essex, (UK) October 1984 to M.Sc. (Computer Studies)
(http://www.essex.ac.uk/) September 1985
University of Essex, (UK) September 1983 to Post Graduate Diploma
(http://www.essex.ac.uk/) July 1984 (Computer Programming and
Microprocessor Applications)
University of Malawi October 1976 to B.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
(Chancellor College) June 1980
(http://www.chanco.unima.mw/)
He is currently studying for a PhD in Management with Columbia Commonwealth University
Malawi (http://ccwum.org/). His doctoral studies this far have covered Organizational Behaviour,
Business Ethics, Operations Management, Business Research Methods, Corporate Finance,
Strategic Management, International Economics, Change Management fact and Marketing
Management.
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6. 5. Other Training
CERTIFICATE NAME CERTIFICATE ISSUER
TYPE
Technology Transfer Negotiation: Attendance UNIDO/MRITDC
and www.mirtdcmalawi.com
Completion
Workflow Management Participation International Federation for Information
Processing
(IFIP), Hamburg Germany
(http://www.ifip.or.at/)
Training of Trainers Participation Malawi Institute of Management
(http://www.mim.co.mw/)
Scientific Writing and Reporting Participation International Service for National
Agricultural Research (ISNAR)
(http://www.isnar.org/)
Relational Database Management Attendance Learning Tree International, Toronto
Canada
(http://www.learningtree.ca/)
Business Planning and Marketing PARTICIPATION INWENT
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
(http://connect.inwent.org/en/regions/r
egional-offices/south-africa.html
Structured Systems Analysis and Participation National Computing Centre (NCC),
Design (SSADM) London, England
(http://www.nccedu.com/)
6. Membership of Professional Associations:
• Board Member of the Sothern Africa Tele-centre Network (SATNET)
(http://www.satnetwork.org)
• Information Communication and Technology Association of Malawi (ICTAM) – immediate
past Treasurer and have previously served as the Vice President .and Acting President
• Co-author and Co-training of Free Open Source Business Models course
<www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net > Viewable and downloadable from
http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/wiki/public-wiki/course-advanced-african-foss-busine
ss-models/FBMTrainers and http://www.ict-innovation.fossfa.net/node/4252
• Member of Global Network of Eminent National Experts for the World Summit Awards
2010-2011. (www.wsis-award.org )
Member of Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) (www.fossfa.net)
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7. Retired Trustee – Malawi Switch Centre (Malswitch) - http://www.malswitch.com/
Mr Lakudzala has very good understanding of cultural issues as they relate to organizations and
performance of people in organizations.
.7 Languages:
Language Speaking Reading Writing
English Excellent Excellent Excellent
French Fair Fair Poor
Chichewa Excellent Excellent Excellent
8. Certification:
I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, these data correctly
describe me, my qualifications, and my experience.
Date: Friday2nd December, 2011
Full name of applicant: Derek Lakudzala
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