Dürrenäsch, Aargau, Switzerland
In this role, I am responsible for leading and aligning all European software development activities across Bertschi’s digital landscape. In addition to transport application development, my scope now includes Master Data Management, LogisticHub, the EDI team, Invoicing systems, and European support functions. This expanded responsibility reflects a natural progression in our digital transformation journey, where modern and integrated systems are key to accelerating innovation across the European branch of the company. My mission is to strengthen our development organization, ensure architectural consistency, and deliver solutions that enable efficient, transparent, and increasingly automated logistics operations.
I tackled the challenge to dive into the whole new business of Logistics and Supply Chain. At Bertschi, I joined the software development team and lead the group which develops the transport application for the European branch of Bertschi. The need for digital transformation is a major focus point and an area where Bertschi invests a lot of resources. The strategy is to finish the replacement of the old legacy system with the completely new, state of the art, inhouse built system. This new foundation will allow us to roll out new applications much quicker, be it custom built solutions (inhouse or via third party) or interfacing with existing systems. This change triggers a lot of challenges to the existing structures and processes where our development team is part of working out more effective and accurate solutions for our inhouse users as well as our customers. Electronically submitted orders and status updates thereof, accurate tracking of goods, intermodal container bookings with partners, communication with internal and external drivers or effective tracking and allocation of containers are only a few exciting challenges me and my team implement and provide solutions for.
In Zurich, I took over the responsibility for the "Avaloq Front Platform Framework" (AFP Framework) Team. In this team, we are responsible of the inner workings of Avaloq's front offering. In particular, we take care of some infrastructure aspects (e.g. JBoss) and we structure and standardize session handling as well as interface interactions between our front applications and the core database. We are responsible for the "Front Development Kit" (FDK) that enables other teams and customers to write their services, business logic, banklets and customer facing applications in a fast and scalable manner. Furthermore, we are building and are responsible for a horizontally scalable data replication with a modern API to access it. Lastly, we are involved in ongoing rollout-process modifications as well as customer implementation projects.
I joined the Avaloq consultant team in Sydney to work on the Panorama Program of BTFG. My responsibilities are to oversee the architectural design of the Avaloq parametrization, improve the performance of the Avaloq Core Platform, do code review, implement new interfaces, support the release process as well as coach & train other consultants.
After having proven that the work model with Manila is successful, Avaloq decided to end the collaboration with our local partner and found our own subsidiary "Avaloq Philippines ROHQ". My responsibility was to found the legal entity as well as build up the office with all its various aspects (legal, HR, IT, finance, etc.) and took on the role as "Managing Director" after the go live. Besides my ongoing responsibility in the collaboration with various Avaloq subsidiaries, I took on the line manager functionality for a team which we grew to 45 employees.
I have been employed as a teaching assistant at the “Institute for Pervasive Computing“ for the lecture “Informatik II” at the “Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering“.
In order to get the teacher diploma, one has to complete an internship as a teacher besides all the courses in the subsidiary. During one semester, I accompanied the computer science students in their 4. semester partially by joining their lecture but mostly by teaching myself. The course was named “Algorithms and Data structures II” and had an emphasis on lists, trees, hash algorithms and hash functions as well as graph algorithms.
Within my computer science studies at the ETH an internship is mandatory. I completed this internship very early in the company „Brändle, Missura & Partner Informatik AG“ which developed the lambda-calculus based functional programming language UML for their reporting software. My task was to assemble a standard library from their past projects as well as to extend the programming language itself. In parallel, I wrote a tool to manage and document the program sources.