Eric Sinot, IT Mountain Guide
Having trained as an engineer with a focus on information systems, some employers entrusted me with strategic projects very early on. Although I was pleased with their success, I remained frustrated: all too often, they succeeded by chance or by sheer determination.
Then, in my role as an independent consultant, compliance and IT security mandates and projects for numerous SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland led me to discover the importance of managing the human also, not only technical and organizational aspects of projects.
And to combine the strengths of traditional approaches (waterfall) and agile methodologies to make these often IT projects (but not only) a success repeatedly, i.e. not by chance or by forceps. For example, knowing how to juggle new tactics (agile, adjustable "online") and proven tactics (waterfall, planned well in advance) to achieve the best results.
Training naturally emerged as one of the keys to the success of these cybersecurity and cybercompliance projects: I practiced it step by step.
As a challenge, a few years ago, Romandie Formation, the training branch of the Centre Patronal in Lausanne / Paudex (canton of Vaud), asked me to teach project management using the PMI association's methodology, and to prepare students and trainees for success in their PMP and CAPM certifications, first when they were looking for a job, then when they were already employed.
I have accompanied hundreds of students in French-speaking Switzerland, training and preparing them in person or online, to obtain their PMP or CAPM certification, by taking the exam in their main language (French or English), with a pass rate close to 80% on the first try (and around 95% with a 2nd attempt at the exam).
As a final step, Romandie Formation also entrusted me with the responsibility of supervising and helping to develop, commercially and in terms of the depth of the offer, as well as the pedagogical approach, structure and content, all the project management training courses. A challenge I took up, with a new-found passion for passing on experience and knowledge.
Today, from my base in Genthod, in the canton of Geneva, I face a new challenge: to move up to a new level of speed and efficiency in the transmission of knowledge. Because IT security, compliance with privacy laws and project management in general, just like PMP and CAPM certifications, are ever more intense to be led and coached by us humans :)
