Senior Consultant / Senior Projektleiter

12/2008 – 2/2011

CEO Management support | March 2010 – December 2010
Besides supporting the CEO in day-to-day activities, key activities were defining the new company strategy together with the CEO, building up budget forecasts, project effort estimations (>5’000 PD) and project setup strategies for new projects, contract negotiations (projects and SLAs).

QA Manager | June 2010 – December 2010
Responsible for the internal QA Initiative by defining and implementing internal processes with primary focus on software development such as requirements engineering, testing and client sign-off procedures. Communication and coordination of QA measures with key clients.

Swiss Private Bank, Zurich | January 2010 – February 2010
Member of a core team defining a preliminary study for the new core banking reference architecture. Responsible for cross domain topics such as blocking or cancelation of securities, corporate actions or deliveries transactions.

Team Lead Project Management | December 2008 – December 2009
Leading a team of three project managers. Responsible for client planning, project planning, estimating, billing and project related legal contracts. Deal team lead for several transactions.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Testing (IT), Softwareentwicklung (allg.), Telekommunikation / Netzwerke (allg.), Technisches Testing, Management (allg.)

5/2008 – 11/2008

Program to replace the current Content Management System infrastructure. Program Lead with overall responsibility for the program consisting of two projects: New CMS platform and content migration

Projektmanagement (IT), Migration, Management (allg.), Führungssysteme, Content Management

5/2007 – 9/2007

Strategic project for evaluating the replacement of the core credit card processing solutions of the company. Member of a three man strategy team, responsible for the IT scope of the project.

IT-Beratung (allg.), IT-Strategieberatung

2/2007 – 5/2007

Definition and implementation of a new software delivery methodology. Methodology definition and coaching of a project manager (Executive Director) in order to support him with the new methodology.
Setup of the functional and technical testing team and definition of the testing concepts for a multi-million project based on the new methodology.

Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT), Testing (IT), Schulung / Training (IT), Technisches Testmanagement / Testkoordination, Management (allg.), Schulung / Coaching (allg.)

11/2005 – 11/2006

Strategic project in the Java infrastructure area Co-lead of the project and responsible for the sub-project “Provider Management” which coordinated the different component providers for a timely and high quality delivery.

Release Management, Projektmanagement (IT), Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition (EE), Java (allg.), J2EE (Java EE)

6/2004 – 11/2005

Implementation of a risk management system for controlling the bank's ALM portfolios on a daily basis. Responsible for the technical implementation team (6 team members) and the system architecture

System Architektur, Architektur (allg.), Risikomanagement, Asset management

11/2003 – 5/2004

Project for the automatic generation of liquidity and interest rate risk reports. Deputy to the system architect and responsible for the technical implementation team. Responsible for the system architecture and the implementation of the technical requirements.

.Net, System Architektur, Architektur (allg.), Corporate Banking, Risikomanagement (Finan.), Liquiditätssicherung

10/2003 – 10/2003

Risk assessment in the ATM area. Responsible for the identification of risks and the creation of a risk concept

ATM

8/2001 – 10/2003

Implementation of an integrated CRM-Solution for the Private Banking department. Member of the Base-Architecture Maintenance Team and deputy to the team lead. Design and implementation of J2EE Architecture components.

Team lead of the technical performance test team.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT), Testing (IT), J2EE (Java EE), Architektur (allg.), CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

9/2000 – 7/2001

Portal and E-Business project in order to position the internet as additional selling platform. Leading the Functional Test Team pursuing the verification of the functional requirements, managing a pool of nine part time working students who performed the tests.

Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT), Testing (IT), Internet / Intranet, Management (allg.)