Business-Analyse, Enterprise-Architektur, Software-Architektur
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Business-Analyse und Requirements Engineering
Solution-Architektur
Enterprise-Architektur
Data Modeling
Datenarchitektur
Data Dictionary
Business and Enterprise Glossary
Domain Driven Design
Micro Services
API and Interface Design
Program- und Projekt-Portfolio-Management
Enterprise Content Management
Dokument Management
Dokumentenmanagement
Archivierung-Systeme
German
Mother tongue
English
fluent in speech and writing
French
fluent in speech and writing

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

4 Jahre 4 Monate
2020-12 - heute

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

various Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Enterprise Architecture; OpenText
various
  • Worked-out company strategy for enterprise architecture integration into application landscapes
  • Analysed of integration of business intelligence tools OpenText Magellan into ECM 
  • Analysed of integration of Master and Reference Data Management into ECM 
  • Managed the OpenText implementation program together with OpenText according to guidelines suggested by Project Management Institute (PMI) 

Roles
Senior Enterprise and Software Architect; Senior Program Manager for a world-wide OpenText implementation project for an industry client
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Enterprise Architecture; OpenText
Enterprise Content Management Consulting Company, Switzerland
6 Jahre 7 Monate
2018-09 - heute

Solutions to combat the pervasive attacks on profitability

Enterprise strategy consultant
Enterprise strategy consultant
Searched for solutions to combat the omnipresent strikes on profitability in private banking and wealth management such as e. g. performance loss and continued structural erosion

Made the enterprise-wide IT both more efficient and effective so as to transfer the IT (and in particular its core systems) by a tight alignment with all relevant business divisions from a state of just being a cost factor for the company infrastructure into a very powerful means to produce profit
Strategy and Software Consulting, Switzerland
7 Jahre 1 Monat
2018-03 - heute

Development of information system prototype based on ontologies for financial information data feeds

Co-founder Semantic modelling ontology development OWL; Magic Draw by NoMagic
Co-founder
  • Worked-out company strategy 
  • Co-planned road-map for main system functionalities 
  • Developed conceptual models including ontologies for financial instruments 
  • Performed market research about financial information systems market 
  • Worked on documentation for external investors
Semantic modelling ontology development OWL; Magic Draw by NoMagic
Software Start-up for the design of semantic-rich information systems, Switzerland
2 Jahre 2 Monate
2018-02 - 2020-03

Company-wide glossary and data dictionary initiative

Lead Information Architect Essential Systems Analysis conceptual data modelling MS Office ...
Lead Information Architect
Worked as Lead Information Architect in an enterprise-wide glossary and data dictionary initiative to bring about 80 glossaries and data dictionaries to a common technical platform based on a common core data model. This infrastructure supports meta data integration, creates transparency by integrating all main data catalogues in one central repository to provide a single source of truth for definitions of technical data items, business terms, and business concepts. In addition, data lineage was also supported.
  • Analysed (business) requirements from a data dictionary perspective of the before-mentioned project
  • Suggested data model to integrate structured data records with semi-structured data content
  • Advised on the conceptual data model ? including time version management ?, which built the foundation of the platform, and included taxonomy and ontology management
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Helped in the design of the user interface and the workflow definitions, including KPIs and dashboards
Essential Systems Analysis conceptual data modelling MS Office SharePoint; PowerDesigner by SAP; Atlassian Jira; EBX5 by Orchestra Networks
Re-Insurance Company, Switzerland
5 Jahre 11 Monate
2014-05 - 2020-03

Development of a conceptual data model

Lead Information Architect and Senior Business Analyst Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing conceptual data modelling ...
Lead Information Architect and Senior Business Analyst
Lead the development of a conceptual data model for the new accounting system supporting new economic and traditional valuations based on complex accounting regulations (US-GAAP, Solvency II etc.) for a 500+ Mio CHF programme
  • Developed group-wide information model for business areas Investments, Property & Casualty (P&C), and Life & Health (L&H) 
  • Advised on data modelling foundation which is cross-functional and which requires modelling work that is not directly attachable to a business function and serves a basis for SAP FRDP on HANA development 
  • Formalized business concepts required for (data) modelling
  • Led information gathering and structuring process for subject matter experts (SMEs) 
  • Led conceptual and logical modelling session with SMEs 
  • Advised in the group-wide information models alignment initiative 
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Led model validation process via business cases 
  • Systematised business know-how in the project glossary (to be used for the whole programme) 
  • Was vital in developing the business requirements document 
  • Systematised the very complex accounting rules with their formulas in dedicated catalogues 
  • Suggested several temporality (e. g. Star Schema) concepts for the physical data base design
  • Advised senior architects about rules engines and in-memory databases
  • Led development of selection criteria catalogue for a valuation engine to be spread out to potential vendors
  • Introduced the concept of a semantic layer which offers a unified view on the whole project (and later programme) data landscape, presenting data in a consistent and re-usable way in the language used by business, e.g. for reporting purposes
  • Advised on data architecture layers for integrating programme and SAP HANA data architectures
Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing conceptual data modelling temporality data modelling rules modelling MS Office SharePoint SAP HANA PowerDesigner by SAP Atlassian Jira and Confluence Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Re-Insurance Company, Switzerland and USA
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2014-01 - 2016-03

Set-up a holding structure for a consulting and software company

Lead Senior Business Analyst and Lead Senior Architect Strategy Analysis Domain Modelling Modelling for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ...
Lead Senior Business Analyst and Lead Senior Architect
  • Advised on and influenced business strategy 
  • Advised on the conception and evaluation of a software stack ? based on open source ? for front banking applications 
  • Analysed software product for insurances and advised on domain models 
  • Analysed software product for insurance and advised on software architecture 
Strategy Analysis Domain Modelling Modelling for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) MS Office BPMS Tools Activiti and Stardust Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Consulting and Software Company, Switzerland
10 Monate
2013-03 - 2013-12

Development of a global data mart

Lead Senior Business Analyst (Led a team of three highly skilled business analysts)
Lead Senior Business Analyst (Led a team of three highly skilled business analysts)
Was instrumental in the development of a global Data Mart which transformed several local non-conformant analytical solutions into one global platform. This platform was planned to centralize data and business logic while retaining analytical flexibility. Conformity to security and IT architectural standards was a further goal. 
  • Analysed data from operational banking system (Olympic and Host) 
  • Elicited and documented data requirements for Data Mart (several hundred data fields) 
  • Elicited and documented functional and quality requirements for Data Mart 
  • Designed part of the conceptual data model, including models and ontologies for financial instruments as well fact and dimensional models 
  • Advised in Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Documented data enrichments from static and reference data 
  • Developed hierarchy and categorization for financial instrument types 
  • Developed and documented rules for data population and derived data fields 
  • Suggested concept for data temporality in Data Mart (Star Schema) 
  • Co-Developed test concept and test cases for Data Mart 
  • Co-Developed security concept for data access in Data Mart 
  • Suggested concept for data governance as a data foundation for Data Mart
Private Bank (Julius Bär Group, Zurich), Switzerland
3 Monate
2013-01 - 2013-03

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

Senior Requirements Engineer Essential Systems Analysis MS Office Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Senior Requirements Engineer
Developed an essential and conceptual model for ?Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)?: Reporting requirements in addition to reporting of foreign financial assets to the US Treasury Department. 
  • Analysed document with the ?Final Regulations?, authored by the ?Department of the Treasury?
  • Extracted static model structure as an information model 
  • Extracted dynamic model structure as business rules
Essential Systems Analysis MS Office Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Requirements Engineering Community, Zurich, Switzerland
9 Monate
2012-04 - 2012-12

Risk Management

Senior Business Analyst & later additionally Senior Project Manager Essential Systems Analysis SDLC (RUP Variant) MS Office ...
Senior Business Analyst & later additionally Senior Project Manager
  • Risk Management in Analytical Processing (APR) for Data Warehouse (DWH) and BI Services 
  • Analysed and led the solution finding process for identified risk and action items in the corporate DWH and APR infrastructure 
  • Designed document structure in SharePoint for documenting the analysis results and evidences of the Risk and Action Items
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Defined document workflow for the integration of risk items into the corresponding documents 
  • Challenged and co-developed the concept for software component inventory system (i-SAC) for the corporate DWH and APR infrastructure 
  • Worked together with software architect to ?cut? software components within APR to support the APR software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Led a team of highly skilled developers and managed the project i-SAC for Data Sourcing Framework (DSF) and its technical frameworks, called i-SAC@TFW 
  • Led the analysis and documentation task to elicit the requirements for i-SAC@TFW in order to operate within i-SAC environment 
  • Led the IT specification task for i-SAC@TFW
  • Delivered stakeholder communication 
  • Instrumentalized i-SAC for the development and deployment teams
Essential Systems Analysis SDLC (RUP Variant) MS Office SharePoint Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
International Bank (UBS Corporate Center, Zurich and Basel), Switzerland
2 Monate
2011-10 - 2011-11

Suitability Monitoring

Senior Requirements Engineer Essential Systems Analysis MS Excel
Senior Requirements Engineer
  • Advised the formalization of Monitoring Controls to be used in reporting 
  • Developed data dictionary for data fields used in the Monitoring Controls 
  • Formulated business rules to support the Monitoring Controls 
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management
Essential Systems Analysis MS Excel
International Bank (CS, Risk, Finance & Corporate Systems IT, Zürich), Switzerland
1 Jahr 3 Monate
2010-08 - 2011-10

Securities Intelligence

Senior Requirements Engineer & later Senior Solution Architect Data modelling for DHWs Temporality Data Modelling Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Requirements Engineer & later Senior Solution Architect
Securities Intelligence ? Optimizing the Sales Credit Calculation Processing for trades in the context of an international data warehouse (DWH) program and a Swiss local DWH
  • Supported the project management in setting up the requirements engineering tasks 
  • Developed a meta data model to document the data feeds with their data fields and data flows 
  • Defined and set up a way to gather information from several distributed data feeds 
  • Formalized and documented formulas for the sales credit calculation ? Documented and structured data enrichments 
  • Documented and structured business requirements in a business requirements specification
  • Developed an architecture and a design documents for the data warehouse 
  • Developed life cycle models for trades originating from several data feeds for alignment in the local DHW 
  • Developed ETL logic for the local DWH 
  • Analysed and documented two Sales Credit Calculation systems which would eventually both be decommissioned by the local DWH
Data modelling for DHWs Temporality Data Modelling Structured Interviewing DWH architecting MS Office SharePoint MS Access Oracle 11g Toad for Oracle PL-SQL Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems SAP BusinessObjects
International Bank (CS Investment Banking, Zürich), Switzerland
7 Monate
2010-03 - 2010-09

Evaluation of two solution concepts

Senior Business Analyst CMMI Level 3 Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst
Evaluation of two solution concepts to associate financial instruments to markets for portfolio benchmarks
  • Supported the business and IT side in finding a common solution for portfolio benchmarking and reporting by modelling two alternatives 
  • Investigated several options for portfolio benchmarks
  • Developed the software requirements specification for these portfolio benchmarks models 
  • Worked in a CMMI Level 3 environment
CMMI Level 3 Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing UML2 Rational Tool Suite MS Office SharePoint Java EE
International Bank (CS Asset Management, Zürich), Switzerland
2 Jahre 4 Monate
2007-09 - 2009-12

Output Management System and application integration

Senior Business Analyst & Senior Requirements Engineer Content and Document Management Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst & Senior Requirements Engineer
  • Had the functional lead for team of five to six Java developers
  • Collaboration both in the conception and in the IT specification for the client output management system, which supplied ? within a modern service-oriented inter-banking application ? the complete functionality as formatting the output according to templates, creating output as XML files, and controlling output channels. In this context, a service-oriented architecture was also created within this output system such that the services of the architecture were made available to the components of the interbanking solution via events 
  • Developed IT Strategy for the Output Management System from the overall RTC enterprise strategy of their main software product IBIS 3G 
  • Worked extensively with IT program and IT project management. 
  • A third party software application generating client output had to be integrated 
Special challenges were
  • Consistent requirements engineering for the processes and the events generating about 100 client output document types
  • Integration of structured data records into semi-structured electronic output documents 
  • Sophisticated event design in a way that the client output became highly configurable for complex business processes (e. g. corporate actions) 
  • Integration of several applications via web services, e.g. Legando Corporate Action 
  • Created and monitored quality standards for output management architecture 
  • Consistent data field mapping between the external applications and the client output management system 
Content and Document Management Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing IBIS 3G MS Office SharePoint Altova Tool Suite Java EE SQL Navigator Legando Corporate Actions Borland Together
Financial Services (RTC, Bern), Switzerland
3 Monate
2008-07 - 2008-09

Credit Risk Control Data Warehouse International

Senior Business Analyst Essential Systems Analysis Model-Driven Design Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst
Credit Risk Control Data Warehouse International (17 locations world wide), Model Driven Change Management
  • Initiated and worked on a project with IT project management and project sponsor on how the modelling approach could be used to improve documentation and change management in data warehouses. This procedure led to Model Driven Change Management (MDCM). In contrast to other approaches, MDCM focused on the business decisions and the derived requirements, rather than implementation specific details. Additionally the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations had to be respected in the context of loans. 
  • MDCM has been developed initially for the risk & compliance data warehouse of UBS Switzerland and is now applied for the credit risk data warehouse of 17 international UBS locations. Leveraged the existing tools in order to model not only various viewpoints on data (business people, implementation, local views, transaction and analysis of the system's view), but also the various business decisions and their connections to business rules, data mappings, and interface definitions.
Essential Systems Analysis Model-Driven Design Structured Interviewing MS Office Sybase PowerDesigner Excel VB SQL
International Bank (UBS Wealth Management, Zurich), Switzerland
1 Jahr 10 Monate
2005-10 - 2007-07

International risk and compliance application and data warehouse (DWH)

Senior Business Analyst Data modelling for DWH AML SOX ...
Senior Business Analyst
  • Authored a specification of requirements for an international risk and compliance application and DWH 
    • Developed IT Strategy, starting from the UBS enterprise strategy to evaluating third party solutions, which finally led to the solution package Fortent. 
    • Developed strategic scenarios of the Anti Money Laundry (AML) application of UBS Switzerland by means of the AML software by Fortent: 
      • Designed extensive test cases 
      • Supported the development of highly complex AML rules (customer and transaction based): rule-based development within Fortent 
      • Created highly complex and sophisticated SQL scripts
  • Developed a conceptual data model for the DWH as the crucial component including both, the Swiss model and an international data model of UBS from operative data:
    • Analysed SWIFT messages
    • Compared an existing internationally deployed UBS data model to extract relevant payment information Developed several fully dressed use cases to gather the required AML-related data fields
    • Supported the extension of the original project focus being anti money laundering (AML) to enhanced risk and compliance applications such as fraud detection (respecting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements) and fraud suitability analysis 
    • Developed a concept for a comprehensive business event model to react on very complex fraud detection scenarios
Data modelling for DWH AML SOX PowerDesigner MS Office Fortent (Searchspace) SQL SQL Navigator
International Bank (UBS Wealth Management, Zurich), Switzerland

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Degrees
1994
Senior Research Fellow (equivalent to a Postdoc/Research Professor), for the application of KADS methods in Document Management for an ESPRIT co-project; Research Institute: Cap Gemini Innovation, Paris, France

1989
Research Fellow (equivalent to a PhD in computer science/ mathematics) for the development of parsing methods and procedure integration into a Database Management System (DBMS); Research Organizations: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York City, USA and Sandoz IT Research, Basel, Switzerland

1986
Minor in computer science; ETH of Zurich, Switzerland

1985
Pre-graduate in mathematics and advanced studies in mathematics and theoretical physics; University of Basel, Switzerland

Position

Position

  • Senior Business Analyst
  • Senior Software Architect
  • Senior Enterprise Architect

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Business-Analyse und Requirements Engineering Solution-Architektur Enterprise-Architektur Data Modeling Datenarchitektur Data Dictionary Business and Enterprise Glossary Domain Driven Design Micro Services API and Interface Design Program- und Projekt-Portfolio-Management Enterprise Content Management Dokument Management Dokumentenmanagement Archivierung-Systeme

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

  • General Experiences 
    • Requirements engineering (Borland Caliber, RequisitePro)
    • data and object modelling with various formalisms (UML, E/R, BPMN, RM-ODP)
    • Essential Systems Analysis (Stephen M. McMenamin, John F. Palmer) 
    • Software Architecture
    • Solution Architecture
    • Enterprise Architecture (EA)
    • Information Architecture
    • Model driven and model based design 
    • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Domain Specific Modelling (DSM) 
    • Data warehousing (DWH), ETL processes, semantic layer definition, mapping specifications, and temporality concepts (e. g. Star Schema) 
    • Ontology definitions and semantic modelling, rule-based systems and artificial intelligence (knowledge representation, inference systems, neural networks)
    • Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) and Document Engineering (Robert J. Glushko, Tim McGrath)
    • Software generators, meta modelling tools 
    • Technical writing (requirements specification, architecture documentation) 
  • Products & Standards 
    • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio 
    • XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD Schema (Altova Tool Suite) 
    • Object Modelling, UML2, MDA, MOF, Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems, Magic Draw by NoMagic, IBM RSM, RSA, Rational Rose 2003, SpiraTeam by Inflectra Corporation 
    • KADS, E/R, (Cool:Biz; System Development Workbench (SDW); ADW) 
    • Conceptual Data Modelling (CDM), Physical Data Modelling (PDM), Temporality Data Modelling, Extract Transform Load (ETL), PowerDesigner, ERwin, Toad, SQL Navigator
    • Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), ERP: SAP HANA, SAP R/3 Architecture (basic knowledge) and Quality Management Module (basic knowledge), SAP IS-H; Nexus, MediCare; StepAhead Steps Business Solution 
    • COTS: Searchspace (Anti Money Laundering); TIBCO EBX 
    • Business Intelligence: SAP BusinessObjects, Pentaho 
  • Life Cycle and Development Standards 
    • RUP (including UP and OpenUP)
    • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC, RUP Variant)
    • CMMI
    • PERFORM (® Cap Gemini) 
    • Agile: Scrum, SAFe
  • Middleware
    • Several application servers (JBoss, Tomcat, WebSphere)

Industry Knowledge 
  • Banking/ Finance/(Re)Insurance 
    • Master and Reference Data Management IT strategy planning, enterprise and application architecting, credit risk control, data governance, risk & compliance (anti money laundering (AML), fraud detection), accounting (including valuation regulations for USGAAP and IFRS17), data warehousing, payment systems, trading systems, order management systems, pricing engines, portfolio management, core banking, reporting, product catalogues, financial instruments and structured products, Document Management (DM) and Output Management (OM), SWIFT messages 
  • Management Consulting
    • IT strategy planning, enterprise and application architecting, business capability modelling, business planning for start-ups 
  • Life Sciences ? Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry 
    • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), In Process Control (IPC), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) for Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), integration of Quality Management Initiatives, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), Good Clinical Practice (GCP) 
  • Life Sciences ? Health Care 
    • Clinical information systems, medical coding systems as far as relevant for clinical information systems, medical information standards ICD-10, HL-7, TARMED, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) 
  • Logistics 
    • Freight tracking with geographical information systems (GIS) integration 
  • Internet/Intranet 
    • Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Internet corporate identity, internet and intranet applications, web based development

Positions 

2014-04 - today 
Independent Senior and Management Consultant

2008 - 2014-03
Independent Senior and Management Consultant as well as Senior Partner and practices lead Business Object Modelling and Methodology 
Montages AG 

1995 - 2007
Independent Senior and Management Consultant 

1993 - 1995 
Senior Technical Consultant 
Cap Gemini 

1990 - 1993
Senior Software Developer and Technical Project Leader 
UBS (ex SBV) 

1987 - 1990 
Systems Designer 
Novartis (ex Sandoz, Clariant and Bayer Schering Pharma) 

Programmiersprachen

Java
including J2EE and Java EE
C#
SQL
OCL
Visual Basic
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
PL-SQL
IMINT
Eiffel
Ada95
Modula-2
Pascal
Prolog
Lisp
Smalltalk-80
JavaScript
Ruby
including Ruby on Rails
Python
Perl
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

Datenbanken

Oracle
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MS Access
DB2
NoSQL Databases
Hadoop, Documentum (today OpenText) Repository
HP1000 Image II
Sybase
V12 Database Engine

Branchen

Branchen

  • Banking/ Finance/(Re)Insurance
  • Management Consulting
  • Life Sciences ? Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Life Sciences ? Health Care
  • Logistics
  • Internet/Intranet

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

4 Jahre 4 Monate
2020-12 - heute

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

various Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Enterprise Architecture; OpenText
various
  • Worked-out company strategy for enterprise architecture integration into application landscapes
  • Analysed of integration of business intelligence tools OpenText Magellan into ECM 
  • Analysed of integration of Master and Reference Data Management into ECM 
  • Managed the OpenText implementation program together with OpenText according to guidelines suggested by Project Management Institute (PMI) 

Roles
Senior Enterprise and Software Architect; Senior Program Manager for a world-wide OpenText implementation project for an industry client
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Enterprise Architecture; OpenText
Enterprise Content Management Consulting Company, Switzerland
6 Jahre 7 Monate
2018-09 - heute

Solutions to combat the pervasive attacks on profitability

Enterprise strategy consultant
Enterprise strategy consultant
Searched for solutions to combat the omnipresent strikes on profitability in private banking and wealth management such as e. g. performance loss and continued structural erosion

Made the enterprise-wide IT both more efficient and effective so as to transfer the IT (and in particular its core systems) by a tight alignment with all relevant business divisions from a state of just being a cost factor for the company infrastructure into a very powerful means to produce profit
Strategy and Software Consulting, Switzerland
7 Jahre 1 Monat
2018-03 - heute

Development of information system prototype based on ontologies for financial information data feeds

Co-founder Semantic modelling ontology development OWL; Magic Draw by NoMagic
Co-founder
  • Worked-out company strategy 
  • Co-planned road-map for main system functionalities 
  • Developed conceptual models including ontologies for financial instruments 
  • Performed market research about financial information systems market 
  • Worked on documentation for external investors
Semantic modelling ontology development OWL; Magic Draw by NoMagic
Software Start-up for the design of semantic-rich information systems, Switzerland
2 Jahre 2 Monate
2018-02 - 2020-03

Company-wide glossary and data dictionary initiative

Lead Information Architect Essential Systems Analysis conceptual data modelling MS Office ...
Lead Information Architect
Worked as Lead Information Architect in an enterprise-wide glossary and data dictionary initiative to bring about 80 glossaries and data dictionaries to a common technical platform based on a common core data model. This infrastructure supports meta data integration, creates transparency by integrating all main data catalogues in one central repository to provide a single source of truth for definitions of technical data items, business terms, and business concepts. In addition, data lineage was also supported.
  • Analysed (business) requirements from a data dictionary perspective of the before-mentioned project
  • Suggested data model to integrate structured data records with semi-structured data content
  • Advised on the conceptual data model ? including time version management ?, which built the foundation of the platform, and included taxonomy and ontology management
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Helped in the design of the user interface and the workflow definitions, including KPIs and dashboards
Essential Systems Analysis conceptual data modelling MS Office SharePoint; PowerDesigner by SAP; Atlassian Jira; EBX5 by Orchestra Networks
Re-Insurance Company, Switzerland
5 Jahre 11 Monate
2014-05 - 2020-03

Development of a conceptual data model

Lead Information Architect and Senior Business Analyst Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing conceptual data modelling ...
Lead Information Architect and Senior Business Analyst
Lead the development of a conceptual data model for the new accounting system supporting new economic and traditional valuations based on complex accounting regulations (US-GAAP, Solvency II etc.) for a 500+ Mio CHF programme
  • Developed group-wide information model for business areas Investments, Property & Casualty (P&C), and Life & Health (L&H) 
  • Advised on data modelling foundation which is cross-functional and which requires modelling work that is not directly attachable to a business function and serves a basis for SAP FRDP on HANA development 
  • Formalized business concepts required for (data) modelling
  • Led information gathering and structuring process for subject matter experts (SMEs) 
  • Led conceptual and logical modelling session with SMEs 
  • Advised in the group-wide information models alignment initiative 
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Led model validation process via business cases 
  • Systematised business know-how in the project glossary (to be used for the whole programme) 
  • Was vital in developing the business requirements document 
  • Systematised the very complex accounting rules with their formulas in dedicated catalogues 
  • Suggested several temporality (e. g. Star Schema) concepts for the physical data base design
  • Advised senior architects about rules engines and in-memory databases
  • Led development of selection criteria catalogue for a valuation engine to be spread out to potential vendors
  • Introduced the concept of a semantic layer which offers a unified view on the whole project (and later programme) data landscape, presenting data in a consistent and re-usable way in the language used by business, e.g. for reporting purposes
  • Advised on data architecture layers for integrating programme and SAP HANA data architectures
Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing conceptual data modelling temporality data modelling rules modelling MS Office SharePoint SAP HANA PowerDesigner by SAP Atlassian Jira and Confluence Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Re-Insurance Company, Switzerland and USA
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2014-01 - 2016-03

Set-up a holding structure for a consulting and software company

Lead Senior Business Analyst and Lead Senior Architect Strategy Analysis Domain Modelling Modelling for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ...
Lead Senior Business Analyst and Lead Senior Architect
  • Advised on and influenced business strategy 
  • Advised on the conception and evaluation of a software stack ? based on open source ? for front banking applications 
  • Analysed software product for insurances and advised on domain models 
  • Analysed software product for insurance and advised on software architecture 
Strategy Analysis Domain Modelling Modelling for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) MS Office BPMS Tools Activiti and Stardust Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Consulting and Software Company, Switzerland
10 Monate
2013-03 - 2013-12

Development of a global data mart

Lead Senior Business Analyst (Led a team of three highly skilled business analysts)
Lead Senior Business Analyst (Led a team of three highly skilled business analysts)
Was instrumental in the development of a global Data Mart which transformed several local non-conformant analytical solutions into one global platform. This platform was planned to centralize data and business logic while retaining analytical flexibility. Conformity to security and IT architectural standards was a further goal. 
  • Analysed data from operational banking system (Olympic and Host) 
  • Elicited and documented data requirements for Data Mart (several hundred data fields) 
  • Elicited and documented functional and quality requirements for Data Mart 
  • Designed part of the conceptual data model, including models and ontologies for financial instruments as well fact and dimensional models 
  • Advised in Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Documented data enrichments from static and reference data 
  • Developed hierarchy and categorization for financial instrument types 
  • Developed and documented rules for data population and derived data fields 
  • Suggested concept for data temporality in Data Mart (Star Schema) 
  • Co-Developed test concept and test cases for Data Mart 
  • Co-Developed security concept for data access in Data Mart 
  • Suggested concept for data governance as a data foundation for Data Mart
Private Bank (Julius Bär Group, Zurich), Switzerland
3 Monate
2013-01 - 2013-03

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

Senior Requirements Engineer Essential Systems Analysis MS Office Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Senior Requirements Engineer
Developed an essential and conceptual model for ?Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)?: Reporting requirements in addition to reporting of foreign financial assets to the US Treasury Department. 
  • Analysed document with the ?Final Regulations?, authored by the ?Department of the Treasury?
  • Extracted static model structure as an information model 
  • Extracted dynamic model structure as business rules
Essential Systems Analysis MS Office Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
Requirements Engineering Community, Zurich, Switzerland
9 Monate
2012-04 - 2012-12

Risk Management

Senior Business Analyst & later additionally Senior Project Manager Essential Systems Analysis SDLC (RUP Variant) MS Office ...
Senior Business Analyst & later additionally Senior Project Manager
  • Risk Management in Analytical Processing (APR) for Data Warehouse (DWH) and BI Services 
  • Analysed and led the solution finding process for identified risk and action items in the corporate DWH and APR infrastructure 
  • Designed document structure in SharePoint for documenting the analysis results and evidences of the Risk and Action Items
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management 
  • Defined document workflow for the integration of risk items into the corresponding documents 
  • Challenged and co-developed the concept for software component inventory system (i-SAC) for the corporate DWH and APR infrastructure 
  • Worked together with software architect to ?cut? software components within APR to support the APR software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Led a team of highly skilled developers and managed the project i-SAC for Data Sourcing Framework (DSF) and its technical frameworks, called i-SAC@TFW 
  • Led the analysis and documentation task to elicit the requirements for i-SAC@TFW in order to operate within i-SAC environment 
  • Led the IT specification task for i-SAC@TFW
  • Delivered stakeholder communication 
  • Instrumentalized i-SAC for the development and deployment teams
Essential Systems Analysis SDLC (RUP Variant) MS Office SharePoint Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems
International Bank (UBS Corporate Center, Zurich and Basel), Switzerland
2 Monate
2011-10 - 2011-11

Suitability Monitoring

Senior Requirements Engineer Essential Systems Analysis MS Excel
Senior Requirements Engineer
  • Advised the formalization of Monitoring Controls to be used in reporting 
  • Developed data dictionary for data fields used in the Monitoring Controls 
  • Formulated business rules to support the Monitoring Controls 
  • Defined data structures for Master and Reference Data Management
Essential Systems Analysis MS Excel
International Bank (CS, Risk, Finance & Corporate Systems IT, Zürich), Switzerland
1 Jahr 3 Monate
2010-08 - 2011-10

Securities Intelligence

Senior Requirements Engineer & later Senior Solution Architect Data modelling for DHWs Temporality Data Modelling Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Requirements Engineer & later Senior Solution Architect
Securities Intelligence ? Optimizing the Sales Credit Calculation Processing for trades in the context of an international data warehouse (DWH) program and a Swiss local DWH
  • Supported the project management in setting up the requirements engineering tasks 
  • Developed a meta data model to document the data feeds with their data fields and data flows 
  • Defined and set up a way to gather information from several distributed data feeds 
  • Formalized and documented formulas for the sales credit calculation ? Documented and structured data enrichments 
  • Documented and structured business requirements in a business requirements specification
  • Developed an architecture and a design documents for the data warehouse 
  • Developed life cycle models for trades originating from several data feeds for alignment in the local DHW 
  • Developed ETL logic for the local DWH 
  • Analysed and documented two Sales Credit Calculation systems which would eventually both be decommissioned by the local DWH
Data modelling for DHWs Temporality Data Modelling Structured Interviewing DWH architecting MS Office SharePoint MS Access Oracle 11g Toad for Oracle PL-SQL Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems SAP BusinessObjects
International Bank (CS Investment Banking, Zürich), Switzerland
7 Monate
2010-03 - 2010-09

Evaluation of two solution concepts

Senior Business Analyst CMMI Level 3 Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst
Evaluation of two solution concepts to associate financial instruments to markets for portfolio benchmarks
  • Supported the business and IT side in finding a common solution for portfolio benchmarking and reporting by modelling two alternatives 
  • Investigated several options for portfolio benchmarks
  • Developed the software requirements specification for these portfolio benchmarks models 
  • Worked in a CMMI Level 3 environment
CMMI Level 3 Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing UML2 Rational Tool Suite MS Office SharePoint Java EE
International Bank (CS Asset Management, Zürich), Switzerland
2 Jahre 4 Monate
2007-09 - 2009-12

Output Management System and application integration

Senior Business Analyst & Senior Requirements Engineer Content and Document Management Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst & Senior Requirements Engineer
  • Had the functional lead for team of five to six Java developers
  • Collaboration both in the conception and in the IT specification for the client output management system, which supplied ? within a modern service-oriented inter-banking application ? the complete functionality as formatting the output according to templates, creating output as XML files, and controlling output channels. In this context, a service-oriented architecture was also created within this output system such that the services of the architecture were made available to the components of the interbanking solution via events 
  • Developed IT Strategy for the Output Management System from the overall RTC enterprise strategy of their main software product IBIS 3G 
  • Worked extensively with IT program and IT project management. 
  • A third party software application generating client output had to be integrated 
Special challenges were
  • Consistent requirements engineering for the processes and the events generating about 100 client output document types
  • Integration of structured data records into semi-structured electronic output documents 
  • Sophisticated event design in a way that the client output became highly configurable for complex business processes (e. g. corporate actions) 
  • Integration of several applications via web services, e.g. Legando Corporate Action 
  • Created and monitored quality standards for output management architecture 
  • Consistent data field mapping between the external applications and the client output management system 
Content and Document Management Essential Systems Analysis Structured Interviewing IBIS 3G MS Office SharePoint Altova Tool Suite Java EE SQL Navigator Legando Corporate Actions Borland Together
Financial Services (RTC, Bern), Switzerland
3 Monate
2008-07 - 2008-09

Credit Risk Control Data Warehouse International

Senior Business Analyst Essential Systems Analysis Model-Driven Design Structured Interviewing ...
Senior Business Analyst
Credit Risk Control Data Warehouse International (17 locations world wide), Model Driven Change Management
  • Initiated and worked on a project with IT project management and project sponsor on how the modelling approach could be used to improve documentation and change management in data warehouses. This procedure led to Model Driven Change Management (MDCM). In contrast to other approaches, MDCM focused on the business decisions and the derived requirements, rather than implementation specific details. Additionally the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations had to be respected in the context of loans. 
  • MDCM has been developed initially for the risk & compliance data warehouse of UBS Switzerland and is now applied for the credit risk data warehouse of 17 international UBS locations. Leveraged the existing tools in order to model not only various viewpoints on data (business people, implementation, local views, transaction and analysis of the system's view), but also the various business decisions and their connections to business rules, data mappings, and interface definitions.
Essential Systems Analysis Model-Driven Design Structured Interviewing MS Office Sybase PowerDesigner Excel VB SQL
International Bank (UBS Wealth Management, Zurich), Switzerland
1 Jahr 10 Monate
2005-10 - 2007-07

International risk and compliance application and data warehouse (DWH)

Senior Business Analyst Data modelling for DWH AML SOX ...
Senior Business Analyst
  • Authored a specification of requirements for an international risk and compliance application and DWH 
    • Developed IT Strategy, starting from the UBS enterprise strategy to evaluating third party solutions, which finally led to the solution package Fortent. 
    • Developed strategic scenarios of the Anti Money Laundry (AML) application of UBS Switzerland by means of the AML software by Fortent: 
      • Designed extensive test cases 
      • Supported the development of highly complex AML rules (customer and transaction based): rule-based development within Fortent 
      • Created highly complex and sophisticated SQL scripts
  • Developed a conceptual data model for the DWH as the crucial component including both, the Swiss model and an international data model of UBS from operative data:
    • Analysed SWIFT messages
    • Compared an existing internationally deployed UBS data model to extract relevant payment information Developed several fully dressed use cases to gather the required AML-related data fields
    • Supported the extension of the original project focus being anti money laundering (AML) to enhanced risk and compliance applications such as fraud detection (respecting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements) and fraud suitability analysis 
    • Developed a concept for a comprehensive business event model to react on very complex fraud detection scenarios
Data modelling for DWH AML SOX PowerDesigner MS Office Fortent (Searchspace) SQL SQL Navigator
International Bank (UBS Wealth Management, Zurich), Switzerland

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Degrees
1994
Senior Research Fellow (equivalent to a Postdoc/Research Professor), for the application of KADS methods in Document Management for an ESPRIT co-project; Research Institute: Cap Gemini Innovation, Paris, France

1989
Research Fellow (equivalent to a PhD in computer science/ mathematics) for the development of parsing methods and procedure integration into a Database Management System (DBMS); Research Organizations: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York City, USA and Sandoz IT Research, Basel, Switzerland

1986
Minor in computer science; ETH of Zurich, Switzerland

1985
Pre-graduate in mathematics and advanced studies in mathematics and theoretical physics; University of Basel, Switzerland

Position

Position

  • Senior Business Analyst
  • Senior Software Architect
  • Senior Enterprise Architect

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

Business-Analyse und Requirements Engineering Solution-Architektur Enterprise-Architektur Data Modeling Datenarchitektur Data Dictionary Business and Enterprise Glossary Domain Driven Design Micro Services API and Interface Design Program- und Projekt-Portfolio-Management Enterprise Content Management Dokument Management Dokumentenmanagement Archivierung-Systeme

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

  • General Experiences 
    • Requirements engineering (Borland Caliber, RequisitePro)
    • data and object modelling with various formalisms (UML, E/R, BPMN, RM-ODP)
    • Essential Systems Analysis (Stephen M. McMenamin, John F. Palmer) 
    • Software Architecture
    • Solution Architecture
    • Enterprise Architecture (EA)
    • Information Architecture
    • Model driven and model based design 
    • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Domain Specific Modelling (DSM) 
    • Data warehousing (DWH), ETL processes, semantic layer definition, mapping specifications, and temporality concepts (e. g. Star Schema) 
    • Ontology definitions and semantic modelling, rule-based systems and artificial intelligence (knowledge representation, inference systems, neural networks)
    • Enterprise Information Management (EIM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) and Document Engineering (Robert J. Glushko, Tim McGrath)
    • Software generators, meta modelling tools 
    • Technical writing (requirements specification, architecture documentation) 
  • Products & Standards 
    • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio 
    • XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD Schema (Altova Tool Suite) 
    • Object Modelling, UML2, MDA, MOF, Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems, Magic Draw by NoMagic, IBM RSM, RSA, Rational Rose 2003, SpiraTeam by Inflectra Corporation 
    • KADS, E/R, (Cool:Biz; System Development Workbench (SDW); ADW) 
    • Conceptual Data Modelling (CDM), Physical Data Modelling (PDM), Temporality Data Modelling, Extract Transform Load (ETL), PowerDesigner, ERwin, Toad, SQL Navigator
    • Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), ERP: SAP HANA, SAP R/3 Architecture (basic knowledge) and Quality Management Module (basic knowledge), SAP IS-H; Nexus, MediCare; StepAhead Steps Business Solution 
    • COTS: Searchspace (Anti Money Laundering); TIBCO EBX 
    • Business Intelligence: SAP BusinessObjects, Pentaho 
  • Life Cycle and Development Standards 
    • RUP (including UP and OpenUP)
    • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC, RUP Variant)
    • CMMI
    • PERFORM (® Cap Gemini) 
    • Agile: Scrum, SAFe
  • Middleware
    • Several application servers (JBoss, Tomcat, WebSphere)

Industry Knowledge 
  • Banking/ Finance/(Re)Insurance 
    • Master and Reference Data Management IT strategy planning, enterprise and application architecting, credit risk control, data governance, risk & compliance (anti money laundering (AML), fraud detection), accounting (including valuation regulations for USGAAP and IFRS17), data warehousing, payment systems, trading systems, order management systems, pricing engines, portfolio management, core banking, reporting, product catalogues, financial instruments and structured products, Document Management (DM) and Output Management (OM), SWIFT messages 
  • Management Consulting
    • IT strategy planning, enterprise and application architecting, business capability modelling, business planning for start-ups 
  • Life Sciences ? Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry 
    • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), In Process Control (IPC), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM) for Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), integration of Quality Management Initiatives, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), Good Clinical Practice (GCP) 
  • Life Sciences ? Health Care 
    • Clinical information systems, medical coding systems as far as relevant for clinical information systems, medical information standards ICD-10, HL-7, TARMED, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) 
  • Logistics 
    • Freight tracking with geographical information systems (GIS) integration 
  • Internet/Intranet 
    • Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Internet corporate identity, internet and intranet applications, web based development

Positions 

2014-04 - today 
Independent Senior and Management Consultant

2008 - 2014-03
Independent Senior and Management Consultant as well as Senior Partner and practices lead Business Object Modelling and Methodology 
Montages AG 

1995 - 2007
Independent Senior and Management Consultant 

1993 - 1995 
Senior Technical Consultant 
Cap Gemini 

1990 - 1993
Senior Software Developer and Technical Project Leader 
UBS (ex SBV) 

1987 - 1990 
Systems Designer 
Novartis (ex Sandoz, Clariant and Bayer Schering Pharma) 

Programmiersprachen

Java
including J2EE and Java EE
C#
SQL
OCL
Visual Basic
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
PL-SQL
IMINT
Eiffel
Ada95
Modula-2
Pascal
Prolog
Lisp
Smalltalk-80
JavaScript
Ruby
including Ruby on Rails
Python
Perl
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

Datenbanken

Oracle
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
MS Access
DB2
NoSQL Databases
Hadoop, Documentum (today OpenText) Repository
HP1000 Image II
Sybase
V12 Database Engine

Branchen

Branchen

  • Banking/ Finance/(Re)Insurance
  • Management Consulting
  • Life Sciences ? Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Life Sciences ? Health Care
  • Logistics
  • Internet/Intranet

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