Experiences

MS IT Interim Management
Interim CIO/CDO/CTO | ICT Director
CIO Advisor

November 2022 - today

  • Interim Management (CIO, CDO, CTO) and CIO Advisory

  • Driving IT-, digital and agile transformations

  • Modernizing IT organizations

Wincasa, Zurich
Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Member of Top Management

November 2019 - September 2022

Leading the ICT division (30 employees, 15 mio. CHF budget); responsible for operations and maintenance of all ICT systems, for ICT strategy, for providing modern ICT services, for planning and organizing the ICT division and the service providers, for architecture and application management, for compliance and information security, and for driving the digital & agile transformation and technological innovation.

  • Successful implementation of cloud-first strategy (M365, MS-Azure, several SaaS solutions)

  • Outsourced infrastructure responsibility

  • Delivered the technical foundations for the digital transformation for all stakeholders (applicants, tenants, owners, service providers and employees) & fostered agility

  • Focused the SW development on the integration of standard solutions and services

  • Continuously improved information security, e.g. by connecting to an external SOC

skyguide, Zurich/Geneva
Head of Division “Data/Application Services”

Member of Top Management

July 2010 - September 2019

Leading the IT division of skyguide (140 employees, 40 mio. CHF budget); responsible for 7x24h operations and maintenance of 75 IT systems for the core business areas of air traffic control (Air Traffic Management, Aeronautical Information Management and Training/Simulation), for the elaboration and implementation of IT-strategy and -architecture, for provider- and contract-management, for planning and realization of projects within the safety-framework, for information security and for IT-compliance.

  • Initiated skyguide’s strategic Virtual Center transition from a technology perspective

  • Transformed the division towards a client- and service-oriented software integrator, transferring software development activities to partner companies

  • Implemented IT architecture management and initiated transition to service-oriented architecture and on-premise private cloud services, operated by an external partner

  • Improved success rate of IT projects by increasing project management competen­cies and by implementing agile and DevOps methodologies & mindset

  • Modernized IT-architecture, technologies and methods

  • Gradually adapted level of information security to increasing risk exposure

AXA Group - Asset Management, Paris/Zurich
Business Program Manager

Director

January 2007 - May 2010

Setting up and managing a program (budget 60 m€) to standardize the business processes, IT-systems, data and operating models in the investment accounting & controlling function across Europe.

Key achievements:

  • European-wide harmonization of business processes, of the target operating model and of the centralized technical architecture; accepted by CFOs and Chief Investment Officers from AXA Group and from the European entities

  • Successful implementation of the first wave of 4 European countries of the Shared Platform (based on SAP-FAM)

  • Centralization of defined functions in Paris and India

Winterthur Insurance Asset Management, Zurich
Head "Projects & Architecture"

Director

September 2001 - December 2006

Setting up and managing the sector ‘Projects & Architecture’.

Key achievements:

  • Global roll-out of a central standard investment accounting software within Winterthur Group, which allowed to have a daily Profit & Loss of the global investments and to better manage the investment risk

  • Development and implementation of several IT systems to support and optimize the different asset management business processes

  • Implemented project portfolio management methods and tools, improved project controlling & reporting

  • Management of the sector with 15 international business project managers

Think Tools, Zurich/Munich
Project Executive

January 2001 - March 2001

  • Definition and implementation of new processes for software development, requirements definition, release planning, testing and customer support

  • Product Owner “Think Tools Suite 2.0”

UBS Zurich
Head "Departmental Business Solutions (IT)"

Director

October 1996 - December 2000

  • Development and management of the IT section with 15 employees

  • Responsible for the acquisition and successful implementation of the projects in the section for several internal clients (human resources, group audit, security services, language services, training center, economics, information services)

IT Project Manager

November 1993 - September 1996

  • Planning and tendering of projects, conducting business process analyses, developing concepts, leading the development and implementation of IT solutions for Security Services, Human Resources, Language Services and the Management Training Center

Bank Leu, Zurich
IT Analyst / Software Developer

April 1992 - December 1992 (temporary)

  • Project "Portfolio Master Data": Detailed analyses, programming, design of lists, documentation, test concepts; primarily in the area of "fee calculation"

  • Project BLEU (Integration Bank Leu Geneva): Collaboration on data conversion concept for portfolio master data, realization of central modules and batch procedures, integration of processes in data center operations, test concepts and documentation, collaboration on implementation planning