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30+Years in IT

25yPM experience

40Team size coached

€10MBudget responsibility

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Professional Experience

06/2025 → now Solution Architect — Hewlett Packard Enterprise / SPAR Austria

Requirements & solution design for a custom reporting platform (Snowball Project).
Stack: ETL, InfluxDB, MariaDB, PHP/jQuery, OpsRamp, ServiceNow.

12/2021 → 06/2025 Solution Architect / Developer — HPE / BMW #data

Global monitoring & reporting solution: Checkmk, InfluxDB, MariaDB, PHP/jQuery, Arxview, ServiceNow.
~20 global sites: local monitoring consolidated into a central reporting platform.

09/2020 → 11/2021 Architect / Developer — HPE (remote)

DB/Web solution for Data Center Transformation (discovery→execution).
Enhanced EAV model enabling fully dynamic, ITIL‑compliant customer models without DB/code changes.
PM team member; coached India dev team (SCRUM).

11/2019 → 08/2020 Project Manager — UBS (Rigi Project)

Oversaw availability of technical infrastructure for a key business initiative.
Daily status with UBS IT & stakeholders; hands‑on problem solving.

11/2018 → 11/2019 Project Manager (Storage as a Service) — Hitachi Vantara / UBS

Swiss PM for a global StaaS contract in a complex technical & political environment.
Deployments: Hitachi HNAS, NetApp FAS, Hitachi VSP G1500 across CH & managed countries.

03/2014 → 10/2018 Project Manager / Analyst (Data Center Move) — F. Hoffmann‑La Roche

Designed FATWEB; integrated with HP Service Manager (GxP compliant).
Migration of ~9,500 servers & ~1,800 apps across global sites; ensured GxP validation.

01/2008 → 12/2013 Project Manager — Bank Julius Bär

Multi‑country integrations; web-based user DB; onsite migrations; app rollouts; standards & voice‑recording policies.

06/2006 → 12/2008 CEO & External Consultant — H2O Information Technology GmbH

Roche Pharma Schweiz (GxP intranet, Swissmedic tools); Basel‑Stadt Guardianship (HA infra); Frachtsped (ASP platform).

02/1999 → 05/2006 CEO & External Consultant — Ramseier Consulting S.A.

Reuters, UBS, ZKB, Swiss Gov.: DR designs, infra integration, teaching.

12/1997 → 02/1999 Consultant — GGC AG (Zurich)

UBS Basel: WEB services; GGC/BDS merger IT integration; City of Zurich advisory.

02/1996 → 11/1997 IT Director — Univers‑Media Sàrl

Co‑founded company; “Microsoft Trophy 97” (Shopville e‑commerce).

12/1992 → 11/1997 IT Responsible — NCR EMEA

European Deployment Centre (140 people): Unix MP, NT cluster, networks; training & intranet.

Languages

German — mother tongue
French — bilingual
English — fluent

Education

Ongoing training in new technologies & management (MS Tech‑Ed, SAN‑Conference, ...)
IT Engineer — NCR (1988–1992)
Business School of Bern — IT & Accountancy (1985–1988)

Technical & Business Knowledge

Business & Service

Reporting & Analytics · KPI/OKR design · SLA/OLA governance · Financials (budget, showback/chargeback) · Vendor & contract management · Service catalog · Risk & compliance (Pharma GxP, validation) · Business continuity / DR · Asset/Inventory/CMDB.

Delivery & Process

Program/Project management · Coaching & team leadership (up to 40) · Stakeholder alignment · Change/Release (ITIL) · Incident/Problem · Capacity & Demand · Roadmapping · Quality & validation · Workshop facilitation.

Data, Platforms & Web

Data integration & ETL (Apache NiFi → MariaDB/InfluxDB) · Monitoring/Observability (Checkmk, Grafana, InfluxDB, Arxview) · ServiceNow, OpsRamp · Databases (MS SQL, MySQL/MariaDB) · Web apps (Symfony, React) · APIs (OpenAPI/REST) · Scripting/Programming (IIS/ASP, VBScript/VBA, JavaScript/jQuery, JSON, SQL).

Infrastructure

Windows & Unix · Networks · Storage/SAN · Virtualization · High‑availability & clustering · Security (design, perimeter, firewalls) · Email/Messaging.

People & Relationships

Trusted relationships (“Seilschaften”) · Executive communication · Negotiation & conflict resolution · Cross‑cultural collaboration · Coaching & mentoring · Change adoption.

Skills & focus areas