Marcio Santos - May 2020

Marcio Santos

As IT professional, Marcio is an experienced Project Manager, Business Analyst and Professor with experience in different industries and multicultural projects. He holds PMP credentials since 2007, SAP since 2009 and his academic background includes a specialization in IT, a MSc in Logistics and a MBA in executive management in Audencia, Nantes. He has a continuous value delivery approach and currently works for Shell as a senior IT Business Analyst.

Marcio has a non-linear academic background (it involves Electricity, Engineering, Biology, Ecology, Logistics, Information Technology and Executive Management). So he is able to connect topics involving different areas and together with that, the discipline for a continuous learning approach were the main drives that made Marcio to volunteer to the Member Journalist opportunity in the chapter.

Marcio is Brazilian and Portuguese, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has two kids and his hobbies includes playing tennis, football, sailing, running and nature.

You can learn more about Marcio by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

 

Tunahan Kirabali - May 2020

Tunahan Kirabali

Tunahan is originally from Turkey and has been living in Switzerland since 2014. He came to Switzerland for his master's studies at EPFL and currently he is a PhD student at University Zurich working on Alzheimer’s disease.


Tunahan is currently in a career transition phase. After finishing his studies in a couple of months, he is hoping to continue his career in consulting. Tunahan joined the Swiss chapter and started to read about project management to increase the efficiency of scientific collaborations and inter-disciplinary, multi-center projects in academia.

Recently Tunahan got his CAPM certification from PMI and now looking forward to applying this knowledge in real-life projects, improving himself further and acquiring PMP certification in the following years.


You can learn more about Tunahan by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

Thierry Le Gall - February 2020

Thierry Le Gall

Thierry is a freshly new PMP although he has more than 20 years of experience in project management.


French, Canadian and soon to be Swiss, Thierry has spent his entire career in the air transport industry (airlines, airports, ANSP): 27 years at SITA and now at Geneva airport as a project manager.


Thierry has a solid experience in technical (software development, systems design), marketing (product management), program management, consulting and business development. During his 2 years at the SITA Lab, he discovered the field of Artificial Intelligence, which is a subject he follows with great interest. Thierry recently passed the PMP test to become a better project manager.


Thierry has lived in different cities: Montreal (CAN), Brest-Lille-Bordeaux-Paris (FRA) and now Gland (since 2000). His hobbies include sports (football, basketball, skiing, hockey), photography, food and wine. Thierry volunteers at BBC Gland (basketball) as Vice President.


You can learn more about Thierry by visiting his LinkedIn profile

Daniele Rocca - March 2020

Daniele Rocca

Daniele is 35 years old and work for abaQon - a young, dynamic and modern consulting boutique, where they live and breathe at the heart of the financial services industry. In his role as associate partner Daniele drives strategic IT / Business initiatives, lead transformation programs, manage process improvement projects and act as key account manager for some of their customers.


Daniele joined the Swiss chapter to get in contact with interesting people, exciting topics, exclusive project insights and to share his experience with open minded people.

You can learn more about Daniele by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

Felix Jimenez - March 2020

Felix Jimenez

Felix is an international traveler who has worked in 4 different countries and with people from all over the world. He started his career in IT as a part time programmer while his university studies. Felix work has evolved with himself as a person by analyzing, learning, improving and changing. Felix is always looking to new areas where he could expand. This soon took him from the IT world into the Supply Chain Processes world. His last role as Business Analytics Manager helps Alcon Operating Committee to see what data is telling them in order to focus our company's energy.

After 30 years of working experience Felix thinks it is the time to share with other colleges experiences that can be of help and at the same time can help him to know what project management means nowadays. To relax, Felix has discovered the world of mandalas.

You can learn more about Felix by visiting his LinkedIn profile.