Oracle Database Experts in Switzerland

Swiss University of Applied Sciences institute (HEdA/AAQ accredited); ranked #5 globally for Executive MBA (CEO Magazine 2025)

• Led the research function and chaired the Research Advisory Board.
• Editor of the Journal of Applied Business Research.
• Member of the Thesis and Dissertation Committee.
• Contributed to the AAQ and ACBSP accreditation processes.

• Migration of databases from ODA to ExaData
• Migration of databases from ExaData to ExaCC/OCI
• Reduced UCC usage by 10%
• Developing automation scripts using Python
• Performance tuning
• Reduced development databases from 6 TB to 3 TB using Exadata columnar compression
• Improved application performance by 30% using the inmemory option
• Improved non-production Exadata performance by 20% to free up CPU resources before ExaCC migration
• Database patching of Oracle 19c
• Basic Ansible scripting for deployments and database cloning
• Developing an accounting model for a shared Oracle platform
• Migrating single-instance databases to Oracle RAC
• Analysis of RAC issues
• Advising development teams on how to migrate to RAC

• Project management, Hustler (identifying the complete financial operations, including Sales, Pitching, Financial Analysis, & Business Models) and Hound (identifying real customer needs, including Research, & Analysis) to build an online project KPI system.
• The system enables users to make well-founded decisions to keep projects on track according to their key parameters or bring them back on track when there are negative deviations from the plan.
• Provision of a forecast in addition to the current status.
• Automatic calculation and display of KPIs based on project key parameters entered by the user.
• Skills: Project Management, Project KPIs.
• Problem Space: Co-Innovation Builder (CIB), Corporate Innovation Team Set Up, Team Profile/ Team Canvas, Design Thinking, highlighting people, creating customer personas, researching the market, defining the problem.
• Solution Space: Narrowing down the problem, how to turn ideas into solutions, how to turn solutions into a concept, customer journey, Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, prototyping, fine-tuning the prototype and Business Model Canvas, final pitch.

• Developed Power BI semantic models, DAX and RLS, improving reporting performance and security.
• Designed Fabric Lakehouse with Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), accelerating data processing and improving maintainability and scalability.
• Built Fabric Data Factory pipelines and PySpark transformations, reducing processing time by 40%.
• Delivered automated Power BI KPI dashboards, accelerating reporting and decision-making.
• Supported SAP BO 4.3 → 2025 migration across 2,000+ Webl reports and 34 universes, reducing testing effort by 35% and improving migration quality and reliability.
• Optimized UNX universes, reducing query execution time by 40%.
• Optimized SAP BO reporting solutions, improving reliability and reducing manual effort.

Environment: Power BI, Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, PySpark), Tabular Editor, DAX Studio, SAP BI (BO 4.3/2025, Webl, UNX Universes), 360Suite, InfoBurst, GitHub, JIRA.

• Clarifying and discussing technical requirements and coordinating with the team
• Contributing to the objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit and implementing them
• Analyzing, specifying, updating and delivering architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements
• Selecting suitable technical options for application design, considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security, and optimizing the cost/quality ratio
• Creating and maintaining concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation
• Reviewing services to be provided and other documents for solution development
• Collaborating with the IT enterprise architect, business analyst, project manager, developers, testers and process owner on the design and documentation of technical specifications for new developments and enhancements
• Communicating concepts to relevant stakeholders and supporting them
• Participating in enterprise architecture activities and ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines
• Monitoring compliance with defined designs at application, solution and enterprise levels
• Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required
• Supporting and guiding development teams in implementing new projects or maintaining existing products, taking on the product manager role if required
• Establishing and ensuring best practices in implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution
• Contributing to the handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third-level support, and following up as required

• Establishment of a licensing model
• Preparation of the documents required to attract investors (business plan, liquidity calculation, ROI etc.)
• Marketing simulation of market development, evaluation of market potential etc.
• Definition and implementation of KPIs to measure market penetration
• Establishment of project planning, project controlling and business processes

• Led architecture and end-to-end engineering delivery for community-driven SaaS platforms serving 2M+ monthly active users.
• Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL database and LangChain with codebase to an event-driven microservices architecture on AWS EKS, sustaining 10x traffic growth from ~150 RPS to 1,500+ RPS with zero re-architecture cycles.
• Defined and enforced engineering standards across services including API contracts, observability baselines, and deployment topology, reducing production incidents by 55% and MTTR from 2 hours to under 25 minutes within 9 months.
• Redesigned the caching and query layer using multi-tier Redis caching and database indexing/partitioning, cutting p95 API latency from 850ms to 180ms (78% reduction) and database CPU load by 45%.
• Built CI/CD platform on GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS) with blue-green and canary rollouts, increasing deployment frequency from ~2/month to 8-12/day and reducing lead time from 10 days to under 6 hours.
• Implemented contract testing, automated load testing, and observability SLOs using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, raising platform availability from 99.5% to 99.95% (10x reduction in error budget burn).
• Led and grew a cross-functional team of 8 engineers across backend, frontend, and DevOps, scaling headcount from 4 to 8 with 85% retention; owned hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
• Partnered with Product, Design, and Client Success leadership as primary technical decision-maker; translated business goals into technical roadmaps and drove build-vs-buy decisions on authentication, search, and AI tooling.
• Introduced AI-assisted development workflows including automated code review and a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant using Graph (GraphRAG, Neo4J), increasing sprint throughput by 30% across two quarters.
• Owned incident command and production support rotation; established runbooks, postmortem culture, and on-call SLOs, reducing weekend paging incidents by 70%.
• Developed and optimized Algorithms using python libraries like Numpy and Pandas.

• Served as a DM contractor for Mirum Pharmaceuticals between 2025-02-01 and 2026-05-31, leading end-to-end clinical data management activities
• Coordinated a significant networking event for HEMEX (Swiss CRO), fostering connections within the Swiss biotech ecosystem
• Engaged with stakeholders to explore innovative models that simplify execution and reduce operational burdens for clinical trials

• Partnering with organisations to manage complex IT programmes, architect and implement ERP solutions, and embed AI where it drives measurable performance gains.
• ERP solution architecture and hands-on delivery across the full lifecycle (Oracle Cloud, Infor LN, Cegid, iValua)
• Programme and delivery leadership in both Waterfall and Agile environments (SAFe / Scrum / Kanban) - governance, stakeholder management, and execution at scale
• Comprehensive assessment of business processes, organizational maturity, and technology landscape to ensure successful ERP adoption and digital transformation initiatives
• Current mandate: Oracle Cloud SCM implementation for a Big Four consultancy
• Geneva-based; operating across Switzerland and the EU

• Recording, validating and coordinating customer requirements
• Analyzing commercial processes at customers, as well as designing and implementing solution designs in Salesforce
• Designing and developing Salesforce architectures based on Sales and Service Cloud
• Maintaining and expanding own competence in order to know the new functions of Salesforce
• Taking an active role in the pre-sales phase and working closely with the sales and pre-sales teams
• Building and consolidating maturity within the team in new topics
• Actively helping to define and align own role within the DXC Best Practice
• MC Growth implementation
• AI Agentforce Agents Builder
• Agent Designer with elements.cloud
• Salesforce ORG assessments
• Process configuration mining
• Single point of contact for SFDC contacts global
• Project coordination with the EMEA and global head
• Proposal presales work with Salesforce AE and client partners for global accounts

• Highest level achieved: Certified Mid-Level Angular Developer
• 13 technologies newly learned or refreshed with (re-)certifications
• Current: Docker, Azure, Quarkus

• 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

• Advising insurance companies on modelling, reporting, valuations, risk management and acting as Appointed Actuary
• 2023–2025: Improvement of Solvency II software, annual financial statements (HGB, SII), process optimisation, pricing, SQL- and Python-based reports for AXA Deutschland, Cologne
• 2022–2023: Support with portfolio transfer (RAFM optimisation; impact on HGB balance sheet, SII, reinsurance; migration to msg.Life Factory) for Zurich Deutschland, Cologne
• 2021 and 2024: Redesign of Solvency II model, implementation in Python and model enhancements; testing and documentation for PK Rück, Zurich
• 2021–2023: Control calculations for policy maturity benefits; specification and testing of an administration system for product launch at Youplus, Liechtenstein
• 2021: a) Support in drafting a reinsurance contract: project management and analyses; b) Support with Solvency II reporting and multi-year planning for Allianz Leben, Stuttgart
• 2020–2021: Further development and optimisation of models with Risk Agility FM (RAFM), integration into the IFRS 17 reporting process with Unify for Allianz Slovakia and Bulgaria
• 2017–2023: Quality improvement of the RAFM model; methodology development; documentation; optimisation of reporting and planning processes; automation with Excel and Oracle SQL (on COR-Life); implementation of a life reinsurance contract; validation of mathematical figures in the administration system for SV Versicherung, Stuttgart and Mannheim
• 2015–2017: Project management and senior actuary in the development of an actuarial projection tool and in the IMAP process with the regulator; guidance of the reporting team; analyses; methodology development; process design; coordination with IT, asset management and risk management for Allianz Leben, Stuttgart
• 2016–2020: Review of cash flow models for investment projects for B Capital, Zurich
• 2015: Rebuilding of methodology for MCEV calculation based on MVBS; weakness analysis and support in addressing weaknesses for Allianz SE, Munich
• 2014: Solvency II risk capital reporting project: validation of data submissions; analyses for management and the regulator; tool development; process and documentation improvements; training of team members for Aegon Group, The Hague, Netherlands

• Implementation and maintenance of highly critical IAM solutions for B2B clients (SSO, MFA, SAML/OIDC, Entra ID, PIM/PAM)
• Security administration of Linux systems (CentOS, Red Hat) in Docker and Kubernetes environments
• Migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
• Infrastructure automation with Terraform
• Planning and execution of risk assessments, threat modeling, and compliance reports
• Development and management of B2B applications (Java, REST/SOAP, Angular) and CI/CD pipelines (Python, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab)
• Leading integration tests and UAT (Cucumber, Selenium, Katalon)
• Implementing monitoring and observability strategies with Grafana, Prometheus, and Splunk
• Integrating SAST tools like Snyk and SonarQube
• Release management and project coordination according to Scrum and SAFe
• Mentoring and technical support of junior team members