Jira Experts in Switzerland

• Established the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up for Sulzer Group (~13,500 employees, CHF 3.6B revenue)
• Defined the Technical Governance framework, Target Operating Model, and IT PMO foundation now governing architecture decisions and portfolio demand across all divisions.
• Deployed SAP LeanIX as the authoritative application portfolio system of record - catalogued 500 applications group-wide (140 for Chemtech), onboarded business and IT stakeholders, and initiated integration with ServiceNow to embed architecture data into operational workflows.
• Led the divisional & group wide Application Rationalization initiative
• Decommissioned 15% of the 140 applications Chemtech portfolio, delivering CHF 627k in run-rate savings over two years and materially reducing licensing and support exposure.
• Defined and executed the divisional AI Roadmap in partnership with Sales, Legal, and R&D leadership
• Delivered 4 AI solutions into production (including Sales process harmonization and LLM-based IP conflict detection) from a portfolio of 7 prioritized initiatives.
• Built and owned the 3-year IT Strategic Roadmap for Chemtech
• Aligned cloud and technology architecture with divisional business priorities and a CHF 1.5M annual investment envelope.
• Delivered CHF 500k in cost avoidance by challenging and discontinuing funded but low-value initiatives, demonstrated governance discipline and executive influence, with zero implementation spend.

The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to develop a multi-channel output system to support their customers on their digital enhancement journey.

• Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
• Trained all ART leadership
• Coached the development of the solution intent
• Established 5 teams in the ART. Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
• Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions

The insurance application service provider in Switzerland intended to transform their claims management BPO and IT team into an agile delivery organization.

• Established an Agile Release Train based on SAFe 6.0
• Trained all ART leadership
• Coached the development of the solution intent
• Established 2 teams in an ART.
• Developed the Epic and Feature Backlog for the team.
• Planned and coached 2 PI planning sessions

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.

MVP app for shock logger to monitor and analyze transport data via BLE as a Kotlin Multiplatform solution for Android and iOS.

• Strategic Marketing
• Responsible for defining and presenting the overall go-to-market strategy to management and stakeholders
• Leading and optimizing comprehensive marketing campaigns, including concept, execution, and performance tracking
• Monitoring and adjusting marketing activities to maximize efficiency and ROI
• Overall responsibility for planning, allocating, and controlling the marketing budget
• Working closely with the global marketing team (NL & DE)
• Extended responsibility for digital marketing, including the strategic development of digital marketing initiatives with SEO principles to improve visibility and findability
• Responsible for the full management and ongoing optimization of the website, including SEO measures to increase organic traffic and improve rankings
• Monitoring and strategic alignment of Google Ads, Bing Ads, and LinkedIn Lead Generation Ads
• Development and implementation of innovative landing page concepts and Pardot flows to support campaigns, designed according to the latest SEO standards to optimize conversion rates
• Creating and presenting a comprehensive social media editorial plan
• Leading brand marketing and lead generation, including the strategic positioning of the NorthC brand in the ICT, Finance and HealthCare, public sector & administration, and HPC/AI segments
• Running campaigns to increase awareness and brand presence
• Developing and implementing an employer branding strategy that strengthened the company profile as an attractive employer, increased employee retention, and contributed to successful recruiting as well as strong employee growth
• Developing and leading lead generation initiatives and campaigns
• Managing strategic sponsorship partnerships to strengthen the brand and generate leads
• Overall management of event marketing projects: strategic planning, coordination, and execution of offline and online events
• Responsible for the online and offline implementation of the NorthC brand at datacenter locations
• Planning and execution of the local content strategy
• Creating content such as white papers, or managing external assignments
• Uploading content into a content management system (CMS)
• Data-driven performance analysis and optimization of measures
• Continuous optimization of content and web presence

• Project Management Office: analysis and setup, master plan, standardized project planning (generic work breakdown structure according to HERMES), earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Finance management at portfolio, program and project level.

• Resource management and single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Process management.

• Implementation of a program management tool for unified program and project management.

• Program controlling: finance management, earned value management, milestone trend analysis, consolidation of project budgets, actual costs and forecasts at the program level.

• Variance analyses at program level.

• Transition from total cost view to commitment credit view (federal administration terminology).

• Calculation of available reserves (rolling), forecasts and scenarios.

• Monthly, quarterly, half-year and annual reports, preparation of annual planning at program level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Project controlling: support for project managers in project planning, earned value management, milestone trend analysis.

• Review of projects for budget compliance, adherence to phases and schedules, deliverables, resource planning and deployment.

• Variance analyses at project level, special analyses / ad-hoc reports.

• Resource management: resource planning based on program and project plans, review of timesheets.

• Supply chain (until April 2022): single point of contact for resource procurement (human resources / operating costs / investments).

• Change management: involvement in change management for cost-relevant changes (change requests), tracking of service contract price for contract-related changes, participation in change control boards / decision boards at management level.

• Establishment of controlling structures in a new Swiss federal agency (becoming a federal office as of January 1, 2024) since April 2022.

• Credit monitoring with validation of actual costs and commitment values.

• Resource management: cross-project resource planning (HRP).

• Earned value analysis and milestone trend analysis for key ICT projects of the federal government.

• Participation in the introduction of the JIRA Tempo module.

• Tools & methods: HERMES 5.1 / Agile HERMES, Sciforma 7, JIRA, Confluence, Tempo, Signavio, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Prof., Excel-VBA.

• Establishment of a licensing model
• Preparation of investor documents (business plan, cash flow forecast, ROI, etc.)
• Marketing simulation of market development, market potential assessment, etc.
• Definition and implementation of KPIs to measure market entry
• Setting up project planning, project controlling, and business processes

• Interim head of IT POS on GK and SAP basis for DEPOT GDC.
• Responsible for the stability and further development of the POS base platform.
• Managing adjustments and rollouts in the POS environment in coordination with the SAP backend.

• IT consulting, analysis, architecture design, new and further development, code review, test automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery in the backend and frontend area.

• Technology stack:

• JAVA 21

• Spring Boot 3

• Spring Framework 6

• Spring Rest

• Spring Data

• JPA

• Postgres

• Aurora Database

• Typescript

• OWASP

• Renovatebot

• Sonarqube

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• Spring Security

• Single SignOn

• Keycloak

• Angular 19

• NgRx Redux

• AWS ECS

• AWS Cloudwatch

• Terraform

• Spacelift

• GitOps

• Docker

• Junit

• Maven

• Jenkins Pipeline

• GitHub

• BitBucket

• Nexus

• Kafka

• Conduktor

• Kafdrop

• OpenApi

• Swagger

• Scrum

• SAFe

• Jira

• Confluence

• Solely responsible for managing procurement operations
• WTO tenders in an open procedure
• Invitation process
• Direct call-offs and mini-tenders from framework contracts
• Simap.ch, SuisseOffer.ch, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft 365 applications

• Product strategy, architecture, and technical co-direction
• AI workshops, client onboarding and go-to-market activities
• Design and implementation of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, MCP, agents, voice, automation)
• Hands-on development of prototypes and production-ready AI integrations
• Consulting clients on AI adoption, workflows, and integration into existing infrastructure
• Collaboration with co-founders on strategic direction
• Collaboration in sales and customer acquisition

Tools and Technologies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Vercel AI SDK, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), MCP (Model Context Protocol), FastAgent, VAPI, n8n, make.com, LibreChat, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Next.js, Vercel, Docker

• Designed the growth and digital strategy for an EU distributor
• Established a differentiation strategy focusing on horizontal portfolio expansion, ESG and SG&A cost reduction using new digital sales and service channels
• Offered same-day logistic delivery for key customers, increasing customer satisfaction by 25%

• 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.

• Test strategy design
• Continuous defect tracking and documentation
• Test case creation and execution for performance and end-to-end tests as well as mass tests
• Responsibility for all test activities in the team
• Requirements and documentation analysis
• Agile testing based on stories, epics and features
• Test management and coordination
• Use of SAFe (PI planning, PI preparation, sprints, daily meetings, Kanban board, retrospective, review)
• Use of GitHub, Tortoise, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, Splunk, Swagger UI, Tosca, Rocket.Chat, Visual Studio Code, Oracle SQL Developer
• SAFe framework and project abroad