2020 - Today
Co-Founded Fortean GmbH, a SAAS company, which addresses technology project failures by using artificial intelligence to validate project plans, optimizes project plans, manages uncertainties, and predicts and/or detect risks preemptively.
2016 - Today
Founded Fortified GmbH, a Management Consulting & Technology Integration firm with operations in Europe and North America. Mainly providing services to Compliance, Legal, Analytics Organizations or related Technology Providers.
2017 - 2020
Consulted a Global Financial Institution as Program & Project Management, Business Analyst, Test Management within COO department of Compliance managing all Cross-Divisional Projects, specialized in integration of large-scale transformation programs into the compliance infrastructure. Mostly new entity or product integration with extensive focus on data quality and strategic migration programs.
The projects included:
- Brexit: Migration of trading and clients into the EU
- UK Entity consolidation trading and clients
- Integration of new AM entity, including platform
- Management of business requirements for both Swiss and Global data stores
- Data Sourcing Strategies
- Data Quality, Monitoring, Exception Management
2014 - 2016
Consulted a Global Financial Institution as Project Portfolio Management, Program & Project Management within COO Office of Legall and Compliance managing their project portfolio, cost allocation and various process improvement projects/programs.
The project tasks include:
- TBTF: GC Front-2-Back Business Test Management
- Payments: Legal Warning Process Improvements
- GC Outsourcing Contract Review Process Implementation − 3rd Party & Intra- Group (Third Party Risk Management)
- GC RRP Critical Service Review Process Implementation (Third Party Risk Management)
- Legacy Application Decommissioning
2009 - 2014
Consulted a Global Financial Institution as Project Portfolio Management & Financial Management Currently within Corporate Service Technology which is part of the IT Division. Main responsibility has been to manage all technology investments globally from General Counsel and Compliance. (Annual investments of 50 mCHF “CtB” and 10 mCHF “RtB Maintenance”)
The tasks include:
Portfolio & Financial Management (Project & Service)
- Portfolio & Resource Planning (Strategic & Operational)
- Portfolio Tracking (Cost, Budget & Benefit)
- Portfolio Reconciliations (Alignment with Cost Accounting)
- Budget Transfers (Cross-Divisional, Portfolio & Cost Accounting)
- IT Allocations (Budgeting, Analyzing, Commenting & Reporting)
- Total Cost of Ownership (Analyzing, Commenting & Reporting)
- Project Portfolio (Budgeting, Analyzing, Commenting & Reporting)
- Ensured & tracked compliance with IT Governance
- Portfolio and Program Status Reporting (Milestones, Dependencies, Risks & Issues)
- Quarterly Business Portfolio Reviews (Prepare and Syndicate with C-Level Stakeholders)
- Sponsor Meetings / Investment Committees (Prepared, Moderated, Minute & Track Implementation of Decisions)
- Change Review Boards and STC’s (Standardized, Prepared and Monitored)
- Overall GC Demand Manager, Portfolio Manager and Program Manager (CA Clarity PPM Roles)
Additional Tasks
- Created automated Private Banking compliance reporting dashboards for Swiss Chief Compliance Officer (02.2014)
- Created back-up FX Trade Surveillance Monitoring reports for regulatory requirements from Associated Bank of Singapore. (12.2013)
- Clarity PPM Onboarding Transition Lead for CST (2013-2014)
- Clarity PPM SME (2012-2016)
- Allocation & Portfolio Training for GC COO
- CIO & Corporate Center Portfolio Management (2010-2012)
- Coordinated Department Reorganization (2010-2011)
- Quarterly Global Townhall Presentations (2010-2013)
- Managing Departmental SharePoint, Intranet Sites and Social MyPage
- Various Project Status Reporting Meetings
- Various OBIEE reporting & operational process improvement tasks
2009
Consulted as PMO (Management Support, Financial & Resource Management) within Corporate Systems of the IT Organization. Responsible for several different duties divided between Financial and Resource Management.
The task included:
- Contract/Invoice Management & Controlling
- Process monitoring, improving & implementing of new processes
- Monthly Project Actuals (GC & CEO Basket)
- Budget Transfers & Deputy for Cost Accounting Management
- Bi-weekly IT Project Status Review (GC Basket)
- BoW Tracking (GC Basket)
2008 - 2009
Worked for a Global Technology Recruitment Company as New Business Sales Consultant / Business Development within the New Business Division, building and developing firms into larger and more profitable accounts. The goal was to build the accounts and pass them onto our Key Accounts Team, where they would after service the client/account.
Major Achievement: Highest New Business Sales in H1 2009 in all of Europe.
2007 - 2009
Worked for a Global Technology Recruitment Company as a Resourcing Consultant within the Key Account Division, where we work in close cooperation with large multinational firms (UBS, Credit Suisse, EDS, HP and IBM) located in Switzerland. Specialized in the resourcing of scarce knowledge and connecting these individuals with the international clients, specifically in the IT and IT related areas.
Major Achievement: Being the Top Resourcer and winning the Southern Region “Resourcers League 2007” in terms of New Business Sales. (€ 555’414.81 – Gross Profit)
