• Technology and architecture evaluation and implementation
• Product ideation and specification
• Product development team buildup from scratch, including team in Switzerland and offshore team in Vietnam
• QA strategy and implementation
• Agile coaching
• Lead of MVP implementation and support of go to market strategy for new product
• C-level and stakeholder communication

• Technology and architecture evaluation and implementation
• Product ideation and specification
• Product development team buildup from scratch, including team in Switzerland and offshore teams in Romania and Vietnam
• QA strategy and implementation
• Agile coaching
• Fullstack MVP implementation and support of go to market strategy for new product
• Overview of all product development activities
• C-level and stakeholder communication

MVP of an AI supported innovative UI/UX testing solution, build product development organization from scratch

• Solution architecture and technology stack evaluation and definition
• Product specification
• Implementation of MVP Test4Data (B2B) backend and frontend
• Implementation of MVP Test4Cash (B2C) backend and mobile frontend
• Integration of external AI services
• Build the whole product development organization from scratch

Business domain:

• AI supported UI/UX testing SaaS B2B/B2C solution

Business domain:

• Digital Strategy Development
• Product Development
• Software Engineering
• Technology Consulting
• Digital Innovation
• Near-/Offshoring
• Cloud Transformation
• Agile Coaching
• Interim CTO
• Technology Advisory

Turnaround from chaotic startup mode, migration to cloud, cost optimization, architecture modernization, maintainability, quality, scalability, performance, robustness, 24/7 SRE, security, data protection, ISO27000/27001/HIPAA certification, future proof software engineering strategies

• Executive board member of dacadoo with budget responsibility for engineering organization (software engineering Web/iOS/Android/backend/API, data/data science, SRE, QA, corporate IT teams), cloud operation, tooling, offshore operations (Ukraine, Spain, Romania, Vietnam)
• Strategic collaboration on new product features and products, company goals, initiatives at management level
• Close collaboration with product team, bringing in extensive product management experience to streamline product development
• Build up cost budgeting and forecasting system for Engineering
• Architecture refactoring and migration of Lua based solution from locally hosted system to cloud native SaaS platform running in multiple cloud regions worldwide (Azure and MongoDB Atlas), introduce micro service architecture pattern
• Implement Datadog, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), Opsgenie, Ostorlab, Let?s Encrypt/ACME
• Implement centralized log management with Datadog
• Implement service desk solution for support team and corporate IT (JIRA Service)
• Implement and coach Agile methodology for engineering and product divison (Scrum, Kanban), restructure engineering into autonomous Agile teams, define KPI system for engineering
• Introduce QA automation and BDD
• Migrate corporate IT to cloud (Azure / Office365)
• Restructure rollout process from project-oriented approach to full CI/CD automation capability, including automated mobile security vulnerability testing
• Massive upgrade of security posture (AAD MFA SSO, Cloudflare, Zero Trust, CASB, PAM, SIEM)
• Successful ISO27000/27001 and HIPAA certification, full GDPR compliance, evaluation and implementation of Drata compliance automation system
• Drive down cloud consumption cost by 70% in two years
• Improve performance, scalability (1000s to mio. of users), quality and robustness (uptime virtually 100%) of distributed SaaS platform
• Refactor solution from single tenant to multi tenant capability
• Onboard alternative cloud provider (AWS)
• Refactor tracker device integration (Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch, Google Fit etc.)
• Refactor Risk / Health Score quantification engine into headless cloud service
• Drive recognition and award wins for technical excellence (MongoDB, Gartner, World Finance Innovation, Swiss Insurtech etc.)
• Manage lay-off of 40 engineers worldwide due to company cash-flow issues and keep operation stable and performant with reduced and restructured teams
• Continuous support of pre-sales, business development, security governance, product teams
• Manage and extend data / data science team (risk / health quantification, advanced analytics, data warehouse, ETL)
• Managed and restructured Engineering operation during COVID and Ukraine war

Business domain:

• HealthTec
• Scientific risk and health quantification
• Digital health engagement
• Data science
• large scale customer base (HSBC, AON, Optum, Chubb, Albertsons etc.) with millions of users
• API and white label solutions 

Business domain:

• SME business and fiduciary SaaS solution

Post IPO turnaround, cost optimization, architecture modernization, maintanability, SRE, near shore provider onboarding, integration of Joinvision technology, security compliance with Tamedia Group policies

• Executive board member of dacadoo with budget responsibility for engineering organization (software engineering Web/iOS/Android/backend/API, data/data science, SRE, QA, corporate IT teams), operation, tooling, offshore operations (Austria, Romania)
• Strategic collaboration on new product features and products, company goals, initiatives at management level
• Close collaboration with product team to spin off internal startups for several new initiatives
• Build up, manage and lead product, software engineering, QA, SRE, support, corporate IT teams (70+ employees)
• Implement and coach Agile methodology in engineering and product divisions
• Define, structure and organize rolling migration of two major job classified portals (jobs.ch, jobup.ch) from legacy architecture to state of the art micro service based architecture
• Product, technology and innovation management of cloud infrastructure and cloud based product portfolio (iOS, Android, Web) and operations processes (CI, automated testing, performance management)
• Drive innovation and R&D activities focusing on human interaction, chat bots, AI, machine learning, semantic extraction and matching, domain ontology with internal resources and Joinvision
• Restructure software development and rollout processes, introducing and tuning Scrum process in complex environment with multiple distributed teams supporting standard products and project related development
• Technology and process alignment with acquired and invested companies karriere.at and Joinvision
• Transition and re-train of JobUp Microsoft VB legacy based development team to Web / JavaScript technology
• Responsible for JobCloud and JobUp platform and company security
• Member of the Tamedia Group Security Council
• Business development and due diligence support for M&A operations
• Design architecture and manage implementation of Big Data and BI infrastructure and processes for KPI driven management process, build and manage data / data science team 
• Build up and manage data management team to support domain business analysts
• Streamline and integrate CRM ? ERP ? Finance processes based on Salesforce and Abacus
• Supervise refactoring of legacy Salesforce implementation
• Implement Customer Contact Center solution for Tele Sales and Sales Backoffice teams in Zürich and Geneva
• Support internal startup projects as technology consultant
• Manage implementation of Office 365 / Azure / Sharepoint
• Design and implement cloud strategy for internal business and platform services (Azure, AWS)
• Manage implementation of SEO / SEA strategy

Business domain:

• Job classifieds portal and recruiting technologies for Switzerland and Austria

Startup, leader in innovative staff rostering products in partner ecosystem (Astrum, Interflex, Inform, Ximes) to target large customer accounts

• Responsible for product management, business development and transition business from local national market to international markets
• Manage partner relations
• Build up and manage software engineering, QA, operations and support (40+ employees in Switzerland, Romania)
• Architecture, design and implementation of product portfolio for large account workforce management and planning optimization (30?000+ FTE)
• Product, technology and innovation management of web based product portfolio including lead of UI / UX design
• Technology consulting and arechitecture blueprints for integration with partner solutions and customer systems
• Co-design and development of new staff rostering approaches / algorithms together with University of Applied Sciences ZHAW (Winterthur, Switzerland) and commercial partner Swissport (Zürich, Switzerland)
• Design and development of automatic algorithmic holiday scheduling system for large employee communities
• Member of European expert board for the development of new staff rostering processes, tools and algorithms
• Pre-sales, sales, consulting and project implementation / budget responsibility in complex large scale multinational / multi-cultural development/ rollout projects, workforce management systems for airport / airline ground handling with totally over 200?000 users worldwide (EMEA, APAC, North America)

Business domain:

• Complex large scale workforce management / access control / time attendance registration systems for airport, airline, ground handling, security, health care domains (e.g. Air France, Lufthansa, British Airways, Qantas, Cathay Pacific, Swissport, SAS, Finnair, Iberia, SEA etc.)

• Lead analysis, design and implementation of in house built ERP system
• Lead mainframe legacy software migration to new architecture / technology (client / server)
• Port and unify legacy data management to Oracle RDBMS
• Complex step by step refactoring / transition / rollout of legacy software to new architecture
• Database administration (Oracle, HP TurboImage)

Business domain:

• Industry
• Aluminium extrusion and casting

• Analysis, design and implementation of travel agency administration system
• Pre-sales and consulting for customers and partners
• Responsible for all partner relations and integrations (reservation systems)
• Trainer of Swissair PARS reservation system for affiliate travel agencies

Business domain:

• Travel
• Reservation systems

• Maintenance, refactoring and extension of legacy mainframe applications on HP MPE midrange infrastructure (ERP, Finance, Controlling, HR, Logistics)
• Analysis, design and implementation business applications
• Industry automation integration
• Responsible for creation of company wide data dictionary on Powerhouse QDD

Business domain:

• Industry
• Aluminium extrusion and casting