Yannick H.-AI & Cybersecurity Consultant
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Experience
Managing Director and Trusted Advisor
ODCUS
ODCUS makes sure AI works alongside people in the day-to-day operations of Swiss SMEs while keeping their data secure: vendor-independent, pragmatic and without hidden agendas. We make a company's knowledge useful to AI, automate workflows and protect what matters.
I transform IT from a cost factor into a competitive advantage. As the founder of ODCUS, I advise Swiss SMEs and mid-sized companies—independently, with a focus on results and without hidden agendas.
What drives me: Too many companies invest in technology without knowing its business value. That is where we come in: we always advise on IT in the context of the business and its success.
My focus areas:
- Cybersecurity – Pragmatic protection that fits the business
- Compliance – NIS2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act without excessive bureaucracy
- IT costs – Create transparency, eliminate waste
- AI – From pilot project to measurable value creation
IT Consultant Cybersecurity
Rewion GmbH
Built the cybersecurity practice
IT Project Manager
WebGate Consulting AG
Programs for insurers and large corporations with up to 160'000 employees
Design Engineer
Franke Schweiz AG
Building a Security Operations Center with Sentinel and Defender XDR
Built as a service (multi-tenant)
Tasks & challenges:
Building a SOC offering with centralized monitoring of multiple M365 tenants.
Results achieved:
- Connected customer tenants to a central tenant
- Log collection with Microsoft Sentinel
- KQL detection rules based on MITRE ATT&CK
- RBAC permissions model and incident response processes
Project Management and Design: Migration from IBM Notes to Exchange Online
Machinery company (approx. 5'100 employees)
Tasks & Challenges:
Led the technical project team and served as the customer contact. Developed a concept for migrating email from IBM Notes to Exchange Online with coexistence.
Results Achieved:
- Managed the project team (8 people)
- Project planning, roadmap and project reporting
- Customer and stakeholder management
- Migration tool license management
- Developed the concept
Technical Project Management: Migration from IBM Notes to Outlook
University (approx. 12'000 users)
Tasks & Challenges:
Led the technical team and co-managed the project with the customer. Led the setup of the technical infrastructure and coordinated the teams. Migrated 20'000 IBM Notes mail files to Outlook with coexistence.
Results Achieved:
- Managed the project team
- Set up the technical infrastructure and carried out the migration
- Risk analysis, roadmap and project planning
- Process definition, customer and license management
Project Management and Business Analysis: Decommissioning IBM Notes Applications
Insurance company (approx. 160'000 employees)
Tasks & Challenges:
Planned and defined the decommissioning approach. Worked with business units on business analysis for migrating IBM Notes applications to Confluence, Jira or SharePoint.
Results Achieved:
- Project planning and customer management
- Agile management of the project team
- Project processes and documents
- Communication between teams and users
- Business analysis of applications and implementation on Confluence, Jira and SharePoint
- Coordinated migrations
Conceptual Approach to Decommissioning IBM Notes Applications
Insurance company (approx. 60'000 employees)
Tasks & Challenges:
Conducted business analysis, developed the concept and defined processes for a global project to decommission around 3'000 IBM Notes applications. Led a sub-project and coordinated business analyses with individual business units.
Results Achieved:
- Decommissioning process for databases and applications
- Project planning and roadmap
- Managed the central project team
- Coordinated international teams
- Reporting with Power BI
Speaker and Trainer: Zero Trust Security and NIS2
heise Academy, Haufe Akademie, golem.de, ComConsult, isits
Content:
One-day and multi-day seminars on the transformation to Zero Trust. NIS2 training for executive boards and top management (in-house).
Target audience:
Mixed groups of administrators, architects and managers with budget responsibility.
Sustainable IT: Strategy and Governance Workbook
Public sector (approx. 25'000 employees)
Tasks & Challenges:
Catalog of criteria for sustainable IT use. Workbook covering strategy and governance aspects, best practices, a list of measures, and case studies. Workshop to share expertise.
Results Achieved:
- Structured workbook on the strategy and governance of sustainable IT
- Knowledge transfer
- Level of detail that works for all stakeholders
- Open and transparent communication
Industry experience
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Experienced in Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Insurance, Information Technology, and Professional Services.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Product Development, Information Technology, and Project Management.
Summary
I run ODCUS, a consulting practice for Swiss companies. My focus: redesigning work that repeats every week so it runs without manual handovers. My foundation is cybersecurity: interim CISO, ISMS and Microsoft 365 security at companies with 10 to 160'000 employees. That is why company data never flows uncontrolled into AI tools.
- 10 core processes in my own business run without manual handovers
- 150+ specialist articles on various AI and security topics at odcus.com
- 2 years as interim CISO at an international industrial company
- Reviewed and hardened 10+ Microsoft 365 environments
Skills
Ai In Practice
- Ai Operating System For Smes: Context, Automations, Cockpit
- Find And Eliminate Processes That Keep Repeating
- Custom Business Apps Instead Of Spreadsheets
- Ai Agents With Approval Loops And Monitoring
- Context Workshops For Teams
- Ai Governance And Secure Adoption (Ndsg)
Cybersecurity
- Interim Ciso / Ciso-As-A-Service
- Isms According To Iso 27001, Risk And Supplier Management
- Strategy And Roadmap (Nist Csf 2.0, Cis, Zero Trust)
- Critical Infrastructure (Ict Minimum Standard)
- Incident Response And Ransomware Recovery
- Nis2 And Zero Trust Training
Microsoft & Cloud
- Secure Microsoft 365 Tenant Management
- Entra Id, Pim, Conditional Access
- Intune And Defender Suite
- Sentinel And Defender Xdr (Soc)
- Cloud Security Requirements And Governance
Frameworks And Reference Models
- Nist Esf 2.0
- Iso 27001
- Cis Controls
- Ict Minimum Standard
- Iso 27036
- Iec 62443
- Mitre Att&Ck
- Revdsg
- Zero Trust
Ai And Development
- Claude & Claude Code
- Openai
- Gemini
- Ai Agents & Mcp
- Supabase
- Cloudflare
- Netlify
- Python
- Node
- Playwright
Security Technologies
- Extra Id & Pim
- Conditional Access
- Intune
- Defender Xdr
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Sd-Wan / Sase
- Power Bi
Languages
Education
Hochschule Luzern
BSc · Industrial Engineering · Lucerne, Switzerland
Certifications & licenses
Passed CISM exam
ISACA
Cybersecurity for Executives
HSG St. Gallen
CAS IT Project Management
FHNW
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance & Identity
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Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Qualifications
Frequently asked questions
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Yannick is based in Baar, Switzerland and prefers 100% remote projects.
Yannick speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), French (Elementary).
Yannick has at least 14 years of experience. During this time, Yannick has worked in at least 4 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 5 months. Note that Yannick may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Yannick would be well-suited for roles such as: Managing Director and Trusted Advisor, IT Consultant Cybersecurity, IT Project Manager.
Yannick's most recent position is Managing Director and Trusted Advisor at ODCUS.
In recent years, Yannick has worked for ODCUS, Rewion GmbH, and WebGate Consulting AG.
Yannick is most experienced in industries like Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, and Insurance. Yannick also has some experience in Information Technology and Professional Services.
Yannick is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology, and Project Management.
Yannick has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Insurance, and Information Technology.
Yannick has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology and Project Management.
Yannick holds a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Hochschule Luzern.
Yannick has 5 certificates. Among them, these include: Passed CISM exam, Cybersecurity for Executives, and CAS IT Project Management.
Yannick is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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