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An AI-assisted project management simulator
Pilot a fictional program. AI agents simulate stakeholders. A decision-impact engine models how today's choices ripple into next quarter's slippage.
Quentin Jaquier, PMP
Senior PCO · PMO · Project Manager Open to work
More than twelve years in project controls, integrated planning and PMO governance, across complex IT and transformation programs at Air Canada, VIA Rail, BRP, and Loto-Québec. Comfortable at the executive layer, in the delivery room, and inside the systems that hold both together.
12+
Years in PMO
$1B+
Largest program
600
Contributors at peak
FR · EN
Bilingual
Now
Drafting the first essay in the series below. Open to senior PCO, PMO and Project Manager opportunities in Montréal — contract preferred, hybrid or remote.
§ 01
Currently building
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A multimodal local AI assistant
Voice, text, and vision pipelines. GPU-accelerated local inference. Distributed Raspberry Pi nodes for edge interaction with a central system.
§ 02
A short ledger of recent programs
2024 — 2025
Senior PCO / Master PlannerVIA Rail, via Akkodis
Modernité Mobilisation Montréal and Maintenance Process Transformation. Monte Carlo schedule risk, accruals, executive governance.
2023 — 2024
PCO / PMO AnalystCCQ, via Procom
Integrated planning, RAID, vice-presidency reporting, stakeholder coaching.
2022 — 2023
Project ControllerBRP, via Guy Bernier Conseil
Health reporting, change control, Waterfall and Agile delivery.
2018 — 2020
Program PCOAir Canada
$1B+ IT transformation, ~600 contributors, command center, Excel/VBA tooling.
Earlier
Loto-Québec, Ville de Montréal (HRIS), Morneau Shepell. Full history on CV.
§ 03
An engineering essay series
A series of posts on what I learned trying to translate real project management into a deterministic system. Published when each one is ready, not on a calendar.
I built a morale bar. Then I deleted it.
The WBS was at 66% on day 60. The project was supposed to take 182 days.
DraftingThe vendor failed. The budget overran by 40%. SPI was 1.000.
OutliningMy simulation spent 156% of its budget by day 15.
OutliningI realized my risk register was theatre.
OutliningI wrote a 5,000-line function. It was also a management structure.
Outlining§ 04
A small portfolio of dashboard work
Dashboards built to demonstrate how I think about reporting craft. Synthetic data, modeled on the output patterns of a project simulation engine.
§ 05
Learning, and passing it on
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Mentoring — CAPM certification
I volunteer as a mentor to a cohort of four candidates preparing for the CAPM certification: PMBOK fundamentals and exam strategy, online and in person.
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AI applied to project management
Working through PMI's eLearning track: generative AI for project managers, AI in agile delivery and infrastructure projects, Disciplined Agile, and PMI-CPMAI fundamentals.