Program Managers in Switzerland

Led implementation of an Azure cloud-based, event-driven enterprise integration platform connecting Salesforce, Momentus(event) and ERP applications. Reduced overall costs by 60%, lowered operational errors to under 1%, and delivered on time.

• Led the full project lifecycle from initiation to delivery using agile and hybrid methods - platform vision, feasibility, technical blueprint, architecture, implementation, integration, testing, rollout and business adoption.
• Built the engineering team from the ground up, leading teams across Switzerland, Bulgaria and India using Scrum and Kanban; established Jira, Confluence, Asana and SharePoint for delivery and reporting.
• Established and managed frequent steering meetings, reporting that gave stakeholders transparency and drove key decision-making.

• Project management, hustler (identifying the full financial picture including sales, pitching, financial analysis, & business models) and hound (identifying real customer needs including research & analysis) to build a project metrics system on the Internet.
• The system allows users to make informed decisions to keep projects on track according to key data or to realign them when they deviate negatively from the plan.
• Providing a forecast alongside the current status.
• Automatic calculation and display of metrics based on user-entered project key data.
• Skills: project management, project metrics.
• Problem space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), corporate innovation team setup, team profile / team canvas, design thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, market exploration, defining the problem.
• Solution space: narrowing the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, business model canvas, value proposition canvas, prototyping, refining the prototype and business model canvas, final pitch.

• Development, industrialization and production of helicopter seats (military)
• Responsible for an innovative seating system: weight < 15 kg, 100% crash safety according to EASA, side-facing, from concept to SOP
• Complete recovery of a project two years overdue: concept approval and prototype testing in 4 weeks, certification testing in 8 weeks, 100% EASA certification
• Management of global BCC development resources (> 60% share) and optimization of development cycles including FEM
• Streamlining the supply chain, on-time EASA and series approval, compliance with the NRE budget, timely delivery including FAI

• Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German, Swiss, Luxembourgish, Monegasque, Singaporean, Japanese wealth managers and universal/private banks, world’s largest investment banks
• Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
• Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
• Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
• Key responsibilities:
• Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
• Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
• Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
• Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
• Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
• Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
• Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
• Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
• Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
• Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
• Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)

• Led the founding of a startup for AI-based consulting products for dental practices.
• Developed and launched PraxisScore, a data-driven consulting product for economic analysis and corporate consulting of dental practices.
• Held full responsibility for technical implementation, AI integration, and structured startup setup from product idea to public launch at IDS 2025 in under three months.

• Roll-out of 12 core locations in Germany (covering core routers, route reflectors, border routers, CGNAT, Sedges)
• Roll-out of 40 aggregation locations in Germany (covering aggregation routers and BNG functionality)
• Roll-out of 230 edge locations in Germany (covering several edge routers per site)
• Network topology (re-) planning (core-to-core, core-to-agg, edge rings planning) including carrier management
• BNG (customer) migration to new network infrastructure including IT support
• Lawful interception and LIMS
• Network documentation with FNT Command, ServiceNow
• Network engineering handover to operations, process management
• Commercial and technological management, supplier management
• Management of architecture and design progress (HHLD, HLD, LLD)

• Support for a carve-in project for five sites worldwide (3 in Germany, 3 in the US) as part of a global M&A project
• SAP S/4HANA
• Introduction of structures and best practices, as well as a consistent project management methodology for the global carve-in program
• Optimization of tracking, monitoring, and communication
• Development of a change and communication concept to involve the carve-in sites
• Implementation control and stakeholder management
• Coaching and support of the project team regarding project management and communication
• Building a sustainable communication cascade and structures to support the transformation
• Advising and supporting the client project management