Volunteer Awards

(most recent award at the top of page, oldest award at the bottom of page)

Best Volunteer Awards for Q3 2022:

Harvinderjit Singh Gornam Singh

Agile Outreach Squad’s Deputy Director

‘Harvin is hard working, meticulous and authentic. Anyone who connects with him will find his is an expert of his field, he breathes in and out only agile and carries agile with him wherever he goes. Even then Harvin does not hesitate to roll up his sleeves and take an active role to support his team members to achieve their goals.

Harvin approaches everything with logic, he demonstrated an ability to make sensible logic-based proposals and decisions. He always remains calmness with a high attainment of EQ, even though in front of a huge risky challenge i.e. Chapter’s Agile Symposium.

Harvin as a seasoned agile practitioner, a leader, more than deserved to be recognized for his brilliant mind, inspiring thoughts and selfless contributions to the agile squad, chapter and everyone who has worked together with him.’

Marccus Low

Publication Tribe Team Lead

‘We are very pleased and grateful for Marccus’ contribution in:

Phase 1 Website enabling – extending his expertise to ensure timely delivery, going above and beyond to take over the ownership on some of the backend platform in the absence of technology team
Enabling Agile Conference website before hand over to S54. Marccus working closely with Benedict to meet regularly with Agile Conference organizing committee/ marcom team to build the website from scratch.
Provide coaching to Northern Conference website as part of on-boarding process for new volunteer
Part of the monthly highlight enabling team – rolling out Aug’22 monthly highlight and reconnect to PMIMY community

His dedications and sense of responsibility was unparallel since the formation of publication team in Apr’22.’

Best Volunteer Awards for Q2 2022:

Shafida Hermy Halamy

Women in Project Management (WIPM) Core Team Member

‘We are very pleased and grateful for Shasha’s contributions in:

Dedication, commitment and contribution to WIPM, especially in helping to organize WIPM’s International Women’s Day event on 5th March 2022. Shasha was involved in the planning of the event and was also the host for the whole event which included three back-to-back webinar sessions.
Shasha also jointly organizes PMIMY’s monthly Clubhouse sessions with Lau Siew Fui every fourth Friday of the month. These Clubhouse sessions cover a variety of topics of general interest to PMIMY members.
Shasha actively participates and supports WIPM’s internal discussions and activities and is very passionate about sharing of knowledge and experiences among fellow WIPM volunteers and PMIMY members.’

Shoba Sekaran

Treasury & Procurement Support

‘Shoba with her tireless commitment to the chapter, always processing and clearing claims on time, seamlessly juggling this around her work and personal activities.

As the chapter treasurer, I personally admire her for her positive attitude, kindness, and diligence, even calling and supporting her chapter volunteers in private to enable the tribe activities to run smoothly. Long overdue award and recognition!’

Best Volunteer Awards for Q1 2022:

Irene Chang Chiew Mun

Membership Tribe Volunteer - Squad Lead - Membership Administration

‘Irene’s excellent accomplishments:

Providing effective leadership to manage, motivate and inspire the squad volunteers
Helped Malaysia Chapter to achieve LARGE CHAPTER status through the squad volunteers
Effective stakeholder management through constant engagement with Portfolio Director and BOD on the progress.
Managed various campaigns (e.g Chapter Guest Pass, Winback, engaging non-members, etc..) to increase the membership numbers.

A RELIABLE, CONSISTENT, DEPENDABLE volunteer. 

Although she will be leaving the portfolio at the end of March 2022 (due to work commitment), we hope that she would re-engage in volunteering once her time permits.’

Pronob Das

Social Good Squad team lead

‘We are pleased and grateful for Pronob’s contributions in:

Hard work in leading the team and coordinate with the clients to execute 2 projects throughout Q1 2022:
- Project Management for Life training with UN Global Compact Network Malaysia & Brunei.
- Project Management for Life training with Penang Science Cluster
His dedication and sense of responsibility was unparallel. He was able to pick up and own the task/project, when required.

Moreover, our clients from UN Global Compact Network Malaysia & Brunei and Penang Science Cluster have also recognize his contribution in both the above training.

His effort not only contributed to PMIMY effort in giving back to the society, but also upkeep the good name of PMI with his professionalism.’

Best Volunteer Awards for 2021:

Special Service Awards 2021:

Ahmad Zakaria Md Ali

10 Years of Volunteering Service

Zak is the longest service volunteer and council member of PMIMY. For over 10 years volunteering with PMIMY, he had served the Chapter as Deputy President, Director of Professional Development and Director of Publications.

Through the years, your talents and efforts have helped our success. Together, we take pride in your accomplishment and your commitment to excellence. Thank you for your many wonderful years of service!

Congratulations and thank you Zak.

Krishnan Srinivasan

8 Years of Volunteering Service

Krishnan is a 4 term Chapter Leader. For over 8 years volunteering with PMIMY, Krishnan had served the Chapter as Treasurer and Chapter President.

Congratulations and thank you Krishnan.

William Wong

8 Years of Volunteering Service

For over 8 years volunteering with PMIMY, William had served the Chapter as Director of Planning and Deputy President. He is currently the Youth and Social Impact Region Advisor of PMI Region 15.

We sincerely appreciate your hard work and efforts year over year. Together, we take pride in your accomplishment and your commitment to excellence. Thank you for your many wonderful years of service!

Congratulations and thank you William.

Haryanni Masarip

2 Years of Volunteering Service

Haryanni had served the Chapter as Director of Public Relations for 2 years and she is part of the founding members of our Women in Project Management (WiPM) special interest group.

We sincerely appreciate your hard work and efforts. Together, we take pride in your accomplishment and your commitment to excellence. Thank you for your wonderful years of service!

Congratulations and thank you Haryanni.