{"id":495,"date":"2011-03-28T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/even-the-ceo-has-to-study-for-the-cswp-test"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:01:06","slug":"even-the-ceo-has-to-study-for-the-cswp-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2011\/03\/even-the-ceo-has-to-study-for-the-cswp-test.html","title":{"rendered":"Even the CEO has to study for the CSWP test"},"content":{"rendered":"

One evening at SolidWorks World 2011<\/a> I was having a conversation with Matt Lorono, who manages the  SolidWorks Legion blog<\/a>. During our talk, Matt brought up the topic of certification, and asked if I had already earned my Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP)<\/a> certification. I had to admit that I hadn\u2019t, but promised Matt that I would have it by SolidWorks World 2012.<\/p>\n

\"SolidWorks<\/a>Early last month, I started working toward meeting that goal, and thought that some of you might be interested in following me through the process. So over the next few months, I plan to post occasional updates letting everyone know how things are going. First, some background.<\/p>\n

While I haven\u2019t used SolidWorks every day since I joined the team in 1997, I would guess that I\u2019ve sat through approximately 1,000 customer demos and benchmarks in the past fourteen years, so I\u2019m pretty familiar with our products. And I still remember (almost) everything I learned in engineering school, which I believe will help as well.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also found a great teacher\u2014our very own Marie Planchard, who was a university professor before joining SolidWorks. Marie has been helping me understand the areas I\u2019ll need to focus on as I study for the exam, and has been working with me to set milestones for my training efforts. Working with her has really helped me understand how valuable a great teacher can be, and why they\u2019re so necessary. My 16-year-old son is also learning SolidWorks in high school, and it has been a lot of fun to work on my training exercises along with him, and share tips on occasion.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also like to mention that I used this opportunity to experience the setup process in the same way as our customers. I installed and configured SolidWorks on my own, downloading directly from the SolidWorks customer portal<\/a>. It took a little while to download the files, but the overall experience was very easy. I have to admit that I was impressed, so good job to the development team.<\/p>\n

I plan to take the first segment of the CSWP exam soon, and I look forward to updating everyone on my progress. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening at SolidWorks World 2011<\/a> I was having a conversation with Matt Lorono, who manages the  SolidWorks Legion blog<\/a>. During our talk, Matt brought up the topic of certification, and asked if I had already earned my Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP)<\/a> certification. I had to admit that I hadn\u2019t, but promised Matt that I would have it by SolidWorks World 2012.<\/p>\n

\"SolidWorks<\/a>Early last month, I started working toward meeting that goal, and thought that some of you might be interested in following me through the process. So over the next few months, I plan to post occasional updates letting everyone know how things are going. First, some background.<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3,14,18],"tags":[150,147,19],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","category-community","category-design","category-solidworks","tag-certification-2","tag-cswp","tag-solidworks-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}