Project:                                   Commodity Migration Kiodex to Sophis

Timeframe:                            January 2009 ? December 2009

Client:                                     Unicredit Group/Hypovereinsbank (Munich)

Role:                                       Test Manager, Senior Business Analyst

Objectives:                            

• Set up commodity trading in Sophis for LME Metals, Oil & Distillates, Pulp & Paper, Plastics and Freight
• Coordinate testing through all departments in the bank to get acceptance on modeling of new and existing trades in a different system
• Plan and coordinate end to end testing through multiple complex interfaces (BO, Accounting, Risk Controlling, Credit Risk, Regulatory Reporting, etc.)
• Plan migration and cutover involving all interfaced systems
• Facilitate requirements and test results through all departments
• Provide input as commodity subject matter expert
• Management of team of up to 15 people in peak times, core team size 5

Project:                                   Emerging Markets Market Data Modeling and Risk Consolidation

Timeframe:                            March 2008 ? December 2008

Client:                                     Unicredit Group/Hypovereinsbank (Munich and London, Moscow)

Role:                                       Project Manager (team of 5 consultants plus Fraunhofer institute researchers and Unicredit IT)

Objectives:                            

• Research, definition and implementation of parametric volatility models for emerging markets equity trading
• Automatic calibration of volatility surfaces to market data (simulated annealing)
• Consolidation of multiple market data sources for markets with little liquidity (Cscreen OTC quotes, Asset Control Unicredit market database, Reuters, Bloomberg)
• Definition and implementation of daily pricing workflow for simple and complex equity derivatives (RTS/FORTS listed futures and listed options, complex structured trades and vanilla OTC options on equity ADOs
• Consolidation of trades and positions from multiple systems in Moscow (ORC for equity derivatives, custom built system for cash equities) via a central trade repository into target systems ORC and Sophis
• Definition of business and technical processes around exception handling and reconciliation for position transfer mechanism

Project:                                   Sophis in New York

Timeframe:                            April 2007 ? March 2008

Client:                                     HSH Nordbank (Kiel)

Role:                                       Lead Business Analyst Commodities

Objectives:                            

• Initiation of financial commodity trading activities (oil, gas, power, agricultural, transportation, metals) for the New York branch of HSH Nordbank
• Coordination of project content with FO and BO/MO team members
• Definition and finalization of project requirements and business responsibilities
• Business process design FO to BO
• Modeling of the NY branch trades in Sophis
• Business and technical design of STP processes for Back Office (invoicing, confirmations, accounting, deal life cycle)
• Configuration of Sophis accounting and document creation modules

Project:                                   Setup Physical Energy Trading

Timeframe:                            October 2006 ? April 2007

Client:                                     Fortis Bank (Brussels)

Role:                                       Sr. Business Analyst Back Office

Objectives:                            

• Documentation of planned trading activities for risk committee approval
• Coordination of implementation activities for physical trading in Sophis
• Business design invoicing and confirmations for physical energy trading

Project:                                   Visualization Trading Portfolio Phase 2

Timeframe:                            July 2006 ? September 2006

Client:                                     VNG - Verbundnetz Gas AG (Leipzig)

Role:                                       Lead Business Analyst, Project Manager (team of 5 Sapient consultants), Business Developer

Objectives:                            

• Analysis of detailed requirements for a project to reach the business objectives by planning and facilitating a number of client workshops
• Identification and shaping of future projects to reach current business objectives
• Responsible for project estimation, planning and management as well as deliverable structure and content, proposed business changes and presentation to the steering committee
• Be key contact and responsible person for client sponsor
• Communication with the business to create consensus and momentum for the initiative
• Change management (evolutionary approach) for business and IT
• Define future processes using the ETRM system based on workshop outcomes and industry best practices
• Plan and execute vendor RFI process and presentations of short-listed vendors (OpenLink, SunGuard, Allegro Development, IRM and PSI)
• Create RFI based on detailed requirements and evaluate RFI responses and decide on vendor suggestion at the end of the phase

Project:                                   Visualization Trading Portfolio

Timeframe:                            May 2006 ? June 2006

Client:                                     VNG - Verbundnetz Gas AG (Leipzig)

Role:                                       Lead Business Analyst, Project Manager (team of 4 Sapient consultants), Business Developer

Objectives:                            

• Analyze current business processes and IT systems with the objective to increase visibility into the business
• Propose changes to business structure, processes and IT systems to achieve the business objectives
• Responsible for project approach, execution and suggested changes
• Create target system architecture supporting changes in business
• Improve visibility into the key data kept separately in different departments by formalizing both business data and processes
• Provide approach to measure and track profitability and risk on a contract level, allowing increased control and better risk management and enabling profitability improvements

Project:                                   Internet Services for UIP

Timeframe:                            April 2006 ? May 2006

Client:                                     T-Systems

Role:                                       Project Manager (team of 3 external consultants)

Objectives:                            

• Backup for project lead of subproject ?Technology ? Internet Services?
• Managing subcontractors for delivery of technical design and implementation
• Budget responsibility
• Drive decision process for required hardware
• Coordinate technical solution with all relevant parties within T-Systems (Operations, Backbone, etc.)

Project:                                   Proposal GuideRes Migration to Common IT Platform

Timeframe:                            March 2006 ? April 2006

Client:                                     Lufthansa (Frankfurt)

Role:                                       Project Manager (team of 3 Sapient consultants), Architect, Business Developer

Objectives:                            

• Assess current architecture
• Define target architecture for call center application (Qik3 scripting language) to allow cost effective integration into new Common IT Platform architecture

Project:                                   Day One Readiness Support

Timeframe:                            December 2005 ? February 2006

Client:                                     Energi E2 (Copenhagen)

Role:                                       Business Analyst, Facilitator, Subject Matter Expert          

Objectives:                            

• Definition of program and subprojects to enable Day One readiness based on client requirements and priorities
• Responsible for project estimation and planning for some subprojects
• Plan and execute operational and IT changes required for operation of post-merger company
• Plan migration of trades between trading systems

Project:                                   Cross Border Trading Extensions

Timeframe:                            November 2005 ? January 2006

Client:                                     Energi E2 (Copenhagen)

Role:                                       Business Analyst, Project Manager (team of 3 Sapient consultants)

Objectives:                            

• Responsible for requirements definition, project planning and execution based on interviews
• Extend Excel-based trading support system based on requirements defined with the traders
• Enable continued trading activities by updating the tool with changes required due to business environment changes (e.g. creation of Kontek price area)
• Reduce effort and cost by automating the interaction with exchanges (prices, bids, auction results, etc)
• Reduce risk by including full position reporting logic and capacity checks

Project:                                   Roadmap Setup

Timeframe:                            November 2005 ? December 2005

Client:                                     Energi E2 (Copenhagen)

Role:                                       Business Analyst

Objectives:                            

• Structure complex post-merger integration into a definition phase with requirements workshops to create a business-value and priorities driven roadmap
• Plan for a workshop phase to capture current and future state of IT systems and applications of the post-merger company
• Create an approach and content structure to efficiently provide a decision basis for the project roadmap for the next two years

Project:                                   Murex Data Migration

Timeframe:                            May 2005 ? October 2005

Client:                                     Vattenfall Trading Services GmbH (Hamburg and Stockholm)

Role:                                       Business Analyst, Subject Matter Expert, Project

Manager (team of 3 OpenLink consultants and 6 clients), Business

Developer

Objectives:                            

• Analysis of trading portfolio and of modeling differences between the two existing systems
• Responsible for migration approach between two systems (based on workshops facilitated including the COO) and for team management including OpenLink resources
• Migrate all trades from Murex MxG2000 to OpenLink Endur
• Detailed hands-on comparison of trading portfolio using trade entry and reporting functionality of both systems
• Ensure data quality and migration completeness, identification of explained differences for the full portfolio
• Create and implement an approach to ensure year-to-date reporting out of both systems is identical
• Coordinate daily activities for IT project staff and vendors
• Manage and facilitate daily meetings, open issues list and status reports
• Advise on project and quality approach
• Facilitate workshops to capture knowledge of key resources leaving the project

Project:                                   Service Creation and Delivery Platform ? Retailer Insulation Layer

                                               Design

Timeframe:                            April 2005 ? May 2005

Client:                                     Bluewin AG (Zürich)

Role:                                       Project Manager (team of 3 clients and one external senior

consultant)

Objectives:                            

• Design B2B interface layer ?Retailer Insulation Layer? between the new architecture for a service creation platform and the connected retailer business (Swisscom Fixnet)
• Evaluate feasibility of open telecommunication standards for the interface layer (OSS/J)
• Analyze current state and define and synchronize requirements for new insulation layer with stakeholders
• Manage knowledge exchange and synchronization between different similar approaches within Bluewin, Swisscom Fixnet and Swisscom Mobile

Project:                                   Service Creation and Delivery Platform ? Define Phase Workshop

Timeframe:                            February 2005 ? March 2005

Client:                                     Bluewin AG (Zürich)

Role:                                       Business Analyst, Facilitator

Objectives:                            

• Define new technical architecture for telecommunications Service Creation and Delivery Platform (e.g. for services like email to mobile phone, etc.)
• Clearly define stakeholder expectations and business value of initiative
• Analyze current state architecture and facilitate gap analysis workshop session
• Facilitate workshop sessions with participants from different stakeholder companies (Swisscom Fixnet, Swisscom Mobile, Bluewin IT and business users)
• Create consensus and momentum for initiative

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