Grüningen, Zurich, Switzerland
I'm an accomplished Project Manager and IT specialist with over a decade of global experience in Telecom, Finance, and Fintech industries. My education background includes a Master of Engineering in IT, and I hold certifications as Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1). Throughout my career, I've successfully delivered complex Agile, Lean, and Predictive integration projects, as well as digitalization initiatives. My expertise extends across the whole end-to-end project life cycle, from initiation to orchestrating global-scale product launches, whether introducing new solutions or enhancing/upgrading existing products. As point of connection between Business and IT, my leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills have empowered me to effectively lead globally distributed cross-functional teams and emerge as trusted single point of contact for large clients throughout my recent endeavors. My analytical acumen and proactive problem-solving abilities enables me to anticipate potential issues, drive continuous process improvements, and enhance the overall quality of products and in general digital solutions. #permanent #contracting
Direction and management of multiple parallel projects to deliver cloud/on premises digital solutions for Lending and Wealth Management to Private/Affluent clients. Single point of contact with the client (Tier 1 Bank), accountable for budget, schedule, scope, risk, release, change and team management. Key elements include: • Management & Development of three multi-cultural teams of over 10 in/nearshore professionals, including Business Analysts, Technical Lead Engineers, Developers, and Solution Architects. • Delivered 3 multi-million digital solutions and new release/incident management process/procedures. • Streamlined quality management and prioritized continuous improvement and innovation. • Established a long-term collaboration with client C-level stakeholders, driving significant business growth and strategic advancements. • Tailored and oversaw end-to-end project and development life cycles to fast-paced environments, being either predictive (waterfall) or adaptive (Agile / Lean).
Direction and management of front-to-back office onboarding projects for Asset Manager and Retail customers with Trading, Forex and ePB portfolios: Key elements include: • Planning, Directing & Managing, Monitoring & Controlling and Closing project work • Project baselines & Integrated change control • Direction of both production deployments & incident management • Management & Development of a project team of six (6) full stack offshore engineers • Inshore/Offshore Project Management team, including Business Analysts • Design for high availability, resilience & an heterogeneous set of non-functional requirements • Standardized Quality assurance and control policy & procedures • Stakeholders engagement strategies • Tailoring project and Development life cycles (Waterfall vs adaptive - Scrum/Kanban) • Self-contained development environments (Docker and Kubernetes) • Focus on continuous delivery, automation, digital transformation & innovation
Product Engineer & Coordinator of highly customizable trading and banking solutions for Asset Managers, designed for high availability, continuity and reliability. Key elements include: • Adaptive (BDD) product development (Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban) • Management of an offshore team of 4 software engineers (QA included) • SOA ( RESTful Microservices - Jersey/Jackson) • Automated integration testing (Selenium/Cucumber) • Spring, ORM based (Hibernate), Oracle 11g-12c, Active Directory, LDAP • Git, Mercurial, Nexus, Jira • Maven, Jenkins, XL Deploy, SonarQube • Java 8, React, Bash-Scripting • Docker and Kubernetes development & testing environment
Software Engineer on an Agile team developing cloud-based smart voice solutions, designed for resilience, continuity and high concurrency. Key elements include: • Adaptive project life cycle and Test-driven (Scrum) development life cycle • Member of a Virtual Team of nine (9) software Engineers • Member of the Project Management Team managing external contractors • SOA ( RESTful Microservices - Jersey/Jackson) • Glassfish 4 (J2EE 7 Microservices), Dropwizard and Spring • Java 8, JavaScript and Bash-Scripting • MySQL (RDBMS), MongoDB (NoSQL) and LDAP (Windows/Linux) • Git, SVN, Nexus and Jira • Maven, Jenkins • Automated integration testing (Selenium/Cucumber)
Software Engineer on a team developing large-scale distributed systems for Hospitals in France. Key elements include: • Agile (Kanban) development life cycle • Colocated team of four (4) software Engineers • Tomcat, Apache and Nginx • Spring 4 (MVC) and RESTful services (Json data-interchange format) • MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) • Java 8, JQuery, JavaScript and Perl scripting • EclipseLink / Hibernate Java Persistence Solution (JPA) • Git, Maven and Jenkins (continuous integration & delivery)