Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Senior Project Manager with 15+ years driving large-scale technology, business, and digital transformation programs across financial services, fintech, and global enterprise environments. Proven track record managing annual budgets up to USD 12M and delivering complex multi-region initiatives across EMEA, APAC, and North America. Experienced in bridging business and IT, aligning C-suite stakeholders, compliance, and cross-functional teams to deliver measurable results. Skilled in program governance, system migrations, enterprise data platforms, and digital product delivery. Background spans investment banking, wealth management, fintech lending, and payments. Prior entrepreneurial experience founding and scaling multiple technology ventures, leading teams of 20+ engineers, and delivering 40+ web, mobile, and embedded solutions. Certified PMP, Agile (PAL I & PSM I), ITIL 4 and Cloud (AWS, Azure) with strong knowledge of systems architecture, integration, and DevOps. Multilingual (English, German, Latvian, Russian). Leading organizational transformation at the intersection of regulatory requirements, technological innovation, and business objectives.
Delivered multiple end-to-end projects for a major Swiss investment bank, managing budgets up to USD 12M. Oversaw coordination of IT teams, business stakeholders, architecture planning, and senior-level reporting. Drove delivery across internal and client facing initiatives, ensuring alignment, risk mitigation, and timely execution. Acted as senior IT specialist to resolve cross-team blockers, estimate efforts, and support architecture design. Directed production releases and supported system migration efforts. • Led integration and enterprise data platform migration for Global Wealth Management (GWM) across EMEA and APAC, aligning architecture, governance, and reporting standards. Delivered regulatory and executive insights to steering boards. • Delivered critical business and digital transformation programs across commercial and product domains. • Led business and digital transformation across various commercial and product changes.
Led enterprise-wide business and digital transformation across commercial and product domains. Directed cross-functional teams spanning sales, marketing, operations, legal, compliance, regulatory, IT, and manufacturing to deliver coordinated change across North America, APAC, and EMEA. • Oversaw full system and data migration during Align’s corporate relocation from the Netherlands to Switzerland. • Scoped and initiated the build-out of the Special Markets segment, defining operating models and leading early-stage integration of commercial, legal, and IT functions across EMEA and globally.
Directed strategic cross-border programs across 16 countries, including a subsidiary bank, with budgets up to EUR 7M. Oversaw vendor management, regulatory alignment, and execution of Fintech, banking, compliance, and payments initiatives. Delivered complex, high-impact projects involving 30+ stakeholders across multiple geographies. • Led the Funding Diversification Program: built a securitization IT platform, managed loan portfolio transfers, and developed a P2P lending platform across 5 countries. • Launched and scaled new Fintech loan products, including a greenfield credit card solution. • Delivered payment systems including SEPA, Target2, credit card processing, and an award-winning automated loan disbursement platform. • Introduced credit card acquiring to a Web B2C platform with 100K+ users, coordinating delivery across 4 countries. • Reported directly to C-Suite and Board on project delivery, risks, and KPIs.
Co-founded technology company offering B2B solutions using Near Field Communications (NFC); company grew into mid-sized Latvian software house specializing in complex web-based solutions and systems requirements. Hired and managed more than 20 software developers, successfully managed portfolio of more than 20 clients, designed, shipped and managed over 40 different IT products over platforms including web, mobile, cloud and embedded. Key Projects/Achievements: * Led development of Textin, time-tracking SaaS based on SMS check-ins and OTP hardware: helmed product and system design, managed IT delivery team, developed subscription payments architecture with Visa & Mastercard, procured 2-way WEB-SMS communication channel available in over 40 countries, developed Six-Sigma-based SLA model for reverse-use of HOTP algorithm with 99.99% precision, produced branding and marketing materials, established sales office in USA. * Directed project and product management for Payyap, smart wallet app and loyalty system backend for major Latvian retailer: led waterfall plan project for 12-member team, communicated with 30+ stakeholders, orchestrated mobile app API architecture for simultaneous communication across apps on 3 platforms, ensured smooth integration with Microsoft Dynamics ERP point–of-sale terminals, built scalable server architecture on AWS and BI analysis models for sales data, used AWS Machine Learning to build predictive analytics BI tools for retail sales. * Developed waterfall project plan and requirements specification for Meteo.Lv, commercial web products platform for government agency: developed platform’s relational database model and full API architecture, ensured integration with Horizon ERP, FirstData, Eparaksts.lv and DocLogix systems, directed platform security specifications according to OWASP 10 model.
A startup for an online 3D multiplayer game that runs in the browser without installing anything on your computer. Raised an initial VC investment and an 85% state development fund co-funding to develop a prototype. Although a viable working prototype was developed, the technology (WebGL) turned out to be premature (there are no comparable products out yet), I was able to return the private investment and liquidate the company. Cityguide: Audio-guides for Latvian market turned audio hardware brokering company for audio goods