Business consultant, ICT Architect
ISLE Suisse SA
12/2012
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My previous experience with the IBM Cloud Computing portfolio along with my standardisation activities, in particuler at the OMG and the Cloud Community Council made me aware that cloud computing, as a whole, was more of a back-office paradigm shift for the IT industry, and not yet commodity IT for the business entities of organisations, not for their IT. A new job role was needed in the industry, that of a courtier, that allowed business entites to purchase commodity IT on the go. I created ISLE Suisse SA for that very purpose, and since our inception, we have had a lot of market traction.
This is an on-going project and latest news and information are best sought directly from our website: www.isle-cloud.ch
Cloud Evangelist & Architect
Consultant, Cloud briefing centre
IBM Global Technology Services
09/2010
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09/2012
As IBM started to build its cloud computing offerings, I took the lead of the cloud portfolio covering both go-to-market and sales activities, as well as close monitoring of the first rolled-out projects, which were among the very first projects in Europe. I developed the business with clients, but also with partners and ISVs in a strategic transformation of IBM’s business model from B2C to B2B through strategic alliances and technology white-labeling.
I setup the first cloud briefing centre in Europe (and the second worldwide) in Geneva, which opened in November 2010, and which boasted over 80 companies attending on the opening day. The briefing center was among the first social network experiments in Switzerland and the conferences we organised, both on-line and on trade-floors which boasted the highest attendance ever to an IBM event in Switzerland.
CBM/SOA/APA Consultant
Engagement manager
Base Growth Leader
IBM Global Business Services
03/2008
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09/2010
I initially joined IBM’s business consulting services – previously PricewaterhouseCoopers’ consulting arm, to develop information-technology consulting and management. I focused on application innovation and management services, typically application modernisation, component business modeling and application portfolio assessments and roadmaps.
Shortly after the start of the economic crisis, I took the role of base growth leader with the objective of growing the business of IBM’s core clients and generating more income out of existing contracts, primarily outsourcing contracts. My portfolio included all of IBM’s largest accounts in Austria and Switzerland.
Business Consultant, ICT Architect
IBM Strategic Outsourcing
04/2005
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03/2008
Joined IBM’s “Strategic Outsourcing” entity to manage the outsourced delivery of one of the major banks in the world. Handled the reverse engineering, documentation, re-engineering and porting to multiple platforms of that bank’s application integration and security framework. Integration and adaptation of that framework to Swiss private banking laws, IBM’s ITIL-compliant processes, and harmonisation of the outsourced environment with global development resources in Eastern Europe and in the Far East.
In particular, I implemented and managed a next-generation IT security framework for a large private wealth management international corporation, preparing for audits, FINMA and internal compliance, and enabling both before the event and after the event tracking.
Business Consultant, ICT Architect
08/2003
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03/2005
Specialised in banking and financial institutions, more specifically in private wealth management organisations. Performed architectural and transformation work, in particular migrations from legacy platforms to core banking platforms. Focused on the Swiss lemanic regions, and Geneva in particular, with such clients as Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Capital Investments.
Business Consultant, ICT Architect
Country legislation manager
Payroll & expatriate specialist
Interwage
04/2002
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03/2005
Transformation of a specialized payroll service company (over 80 people) into a software startup in a market niche only partially addressed by big players such as IBM, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP: international payroll and expatriate management. Responsible for the business and industry analysis and the associated application development. Designed the conceptual and software cartridges for the legislation of 18 European countries. Industrial testing was done in Guernsey where we handled the payroll for 12,000 European mariners – multiple currencies, British legislation, cash payments, lunar calendar, …
CMS Consultant, IT Architect
Project leader
CMS developer
Edipresse Publications
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02/1997
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02/2002
Edipresse Publications is a mid-size press and publications group with activities in a dozen countries and sound financial backing. I joined the company to live the exciting and demanding mutation of the press industry from a still old-fashioned organization to encompass new technologies for the automation of prepress and printing plants. The ever increasing focus on Internet technologies and the rethinking of business workflows to be both print and web-centric, with its pros and cons, provided me with a hands-on experience both from a technical and strategic standpoint on all hype technologies which have progressively be introduced and rolled out since the Internet boom in the mid 1990s.
(*) Tamedia acquired the Swiss activities of the Edipresse group (Edipresse Publications SA) in 2009.
Consultant, Solution Architect
Founder
ISLE Consultants SA
01/1995
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01/1997
Created ISLE Consultants SA (Nyon, Switzerland) – Innovation, Solutioning, Logistics and Engineering – specialized in the field of document management. Our major contracts were with Philip Morris EEMA (Lausanne, Switzerland), Philip Morris (Munich, Germany) and Edipresse Publications (Lausanne, Switzerland).
Senior Consultant, Solution Architect
Industry Analyst
Go-to-market & QA specialist
MC2 / Litton Industries
04/1990
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12/1994
Operations review and analysis, custom system design, objective third party component selection, custom component specification, and complex program management for TOP 100 companies in Europe and North Amerdica. Involved during more than 4 years in many major initiatives in the field of document management for the aerospace and pharmaceuticals industry, for banks and financial services, and more specifically for the information reprocessing industry (i.e. patents, trademarks, market/info survey companies).
Head of Agency
Gifac Industries
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04/1989
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03/1990
Set-up of regional offices for the DATAID Group for the south of France. Managed a pool of consultants with specific expertise in the Unix kernel and in telecommunications. Privileged partnership with Honeywell Bull with whom we developped X.400-based solutions, participated in the redesign of the UNIX kernel for real-time systems, and automated the workflow for technical documentation.
(*) AT&T aquired Gifac in 1992 as part of the DATAID merger.
Product Manager
Sagem
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04/1989
Design and delivery of a fully packaged telecom desktop unit to be exported in 46 countries. The product, based on a revamped UNIX workstation, featured Telex, Teletex, Facsimile communications as well as a complete office automation suite built on top of Uniplex. The product was equally a full featured all-digital copier.
Project Manager
Société européenne de services informatiques et de télécommunications (SESIT)
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08/1986
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Design and delivery of large scale communication packages based on UNIX boxes and capable fo simultaneously handling hundreds of synchrone and asynchrone communications. Support of Telex, Teletex, Videotex, Facsimile Group III and IV, as well as X400 mailing over switched, X.20 and ISDN networks. Major clients include: Boehringer Mannheim, France Telecom, Paco Rabanne, Rohm & Hass, Gelmer.
(*) Sagem acquired Sesit ITAB circa 1985.
Co-founder
Informatique Liaison Entreprise (ILE)
01/1984
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08/1986
Started with a partner an independent activity specialised in the training on office productivity tools, primarily on Tandy TRS and IBM PC computers.
The activity was transformed into a company in 1985, as development contracts were signed for administrations and as we specialised in mobile applications on the (trans)portable Tandy TRS Model 4P and on the laptop Tandy TRS-80 model 100. We built ruggerdised applications. Our main projects were for Danzas (now part of DHL) and specialised in logistics and just in time.
During the summer of 1986 the company name became Informatique Liaison Entreprise. It is the origin of the current ISLE acronym.
I have lived and worked in many differenct locations:
