Professional experiences
Automotive (September 2007 – June 2018), Emil Frey AG, Team Leader, System Engineer, Analyst/Programmer
- Team Leader
- System Engineer and responsibility for Power Systems and IBM i
- Programming Cobol, CL, RPG, SQL, PHP
- First and second-level support
Leasing (June 2006 – August 2007), CS Leasing, Project Manager and Analyst/Programmer
- Creating interfaces to the DataWarehouse
- Programming Cobol, CL, RPG, SQL
- Creating user-specific queries and lists
- Second-level support
Bank (June 2001 – May 2006), AIG Private Bank, System Engineer and Analyst/Programmer
System Engineer iSeries / OS400
- System Administration, Capacity Management, Evaluation of new IBM i systems, their procurement, installation, configuration, and handover to production
- Design and implementation of the new disaster recovery
- Security Management and Review
- Implementation of the new backup recovery with BRMS and tape robot
- Change and Release Management for OS/400
- Support for Websphere MQ
- First-Level Support for all iSeries and tape robot problems
Product responsibility for the banking applications OLYMPIC, KISS, and Showcase / ESSBASE
- Programming in Cobol, CL, RPG, and SQL
- Request, change, and release management
- Data modeling, database design, and administration in DB2/400
- Creation and adaptation of user-specific reports and lists using QUERY/400 and QM-SQL
- Maintenance of bank master data, support for payment transactions in the Postfinance and DirectNet (CS) areas.
- First-level support for application problems
Other responsibilities
- Head of the Infrastructure Group
- Subproject Manager
- Deputy Head of Engineering (from November 1, 2001)
- Interim Head of Engineering (May 1, 2002 – December 31, 2002)
Health insurance company (September 1999 – May 2001), Helsana, Project Manager
- Setup and operation of a new data warehouse (Sun/ORACLE)
- Employee management
- Employee coaching in data warehouse housing
- User support
IT service provider (06.1987 08.1999), CapGemini, Consultant, Projectmanger, System Engineer
Insurance (02.98 – 07.99, 17 months), Swiss Insurance, Consultant - Collaboration in a project for an insurance solution
- System Engineer and Responsibility for the AS/400
- Coach for System Administrators
- DB Administration for the AS/400
- Testing and Implementation in the AS/400 Environment
Trade (07.97 – 07.99, 24 months), Swiss Construction Association, Consultant - Collaboration in a project for a commercial solution for an association
- System Engineer and Responsibility for the AS/400
- System tuning of clients and the AS/400
- Coach for system administrators
- Creating master configurations
- DB administration for the AS/400
- Testing and implementation in the AS/400 environment
Insurance (02.97-06.97, 4 months), Zurich, Consultant - Collaboration in the Year 2000 Project
- Survey of the operating system and system software inventory with review for Year 2000 compatibility
Trade (11.96 – 05.97, 7 months), Shell, Consultant
- Design and implementation of the new mineral oil tax system
- Communication interfaces to the Bern Customs Directorate
Chemicals (08.95 - 01.96, 6 months), Roche Consultant
- Design and implementation of a new client/server environment standard with new control and management mechanisms under Novell
- Implementation of the new master client with a copy on 60 clients
- Migration of multiple department and division servers and their clients
Authorities, (06.94 – 10.96, 28 months), Municipality of Büllach, Consultant
- Systems support and maintenance of the AS/400
- Collaboration in the conception and implementation of the migration to a Novell environment
- System support for the PC network and AS/400
- User support
Chemicals, (04.94 – 07.94, 3 months), Ciba, Consultant
- Creation of an operating concept
- Technical consulting for AS/400 (operation and optimization)
- Configuration and tuning of a new AS/400
- Create a security concept.
CAP GEMINI, (12.93 – 09.99, 70 months), System Manager
- System Engineer and Responsible for the AS/400
CAP GEMINI, (02.93 – 12.93, 10 months), System Manager
- Responsible for the entire internal AS/400 and PC infrastructure.
- Setup, installation, configuration, and tuning of the entire infrastructure.
- Deputy responsibility for SUN/UNIX
Trade (1992 - 1993, 20 months), Shell, Analyst/Programmer
- Conversion of a credit card application from an IBM 4380 Ideal/Datacom database to AS/400 DB2/400
- Creation of programming and test guidelines
- Creation of translators
- Technical design and programming
- System engineer and responsibility for the AS/400
Insurance (1991 – 1992, 20 months), Zürich, Systems Engineer and Analyst/Programmer - Collaboration in the development of a new solution for an international group life insurance company
- Creation of programming guidelines
- Creation of central modules
- Review of data models
- Identification of synergies
- Creation of a programming environment
- System Engineer and responsibility for the AS/400
Insurance (1989 – 1990, 12 months), Vita, Analyst/Programmer - Collaboration in the creation of the central information system on AS/400.
- Analysis, programming of the central reading and posting modules
- Program code reviews
Insurance (1989, 3 months), Secura, Analyst, Consultant - Consulting and support for data center management.
- Creation of the operating environment
- Creation of guidelines for converting jobs from Sperry to AS/400
Health insurance company (1987 – 1988, 24 months), CSS, Analyst/Programmer - Collaboration in Accounting
- Data Modeling
- Accounting Analysis and Programming
- Team Management
- Statistical Analysis
- Creating Batch Programming Guidelines
Health Insurance Company (February 1986 - May 1987), Helvetia, Analyst/Programmer, System Support Officer
- Responsible for accounting, bookkeeping
- Analysis, programming, and implementation of statistics. CSP programming language
- Installation of IBM S/36, maintenance, and support
IT service provider (05.1984 01.1986), Polydata, System Engineer and Analyst/Programmer
System Support Officer IBM S/36, Installation of Hardware and Software
- (1984, 1 week), Polydata installation of the IBM/36 system
- Industry (1984, 1 week), Pro Elektra installation of the IBM/36 system
- Industry (1985, 1 week), Neonlicht Zürich installation of the IBM/36 system
Program maintenance and consulting on the Serie/l
Aviation (1983, 4 Monate), Swissair
- Expansion of the existing catering system
- Conversion from a centralized system (ZH) to decentralized systems (ZH, GE, BS)
- Create complete documentation
- Consulting and support for Series/1
Industry (1984, 1 Monat), Chemap Volketswil
- Development and installation of a new order control system
- Expansion of time data recording
- Creation of the interface for the PPS system
Pharma (1985, 3 Monate), Vifor SA in Crissier
- Development of a machine control system
- Extensions to time data acquisition
Pharma (1985, 3 Monate), Galenica Bern
- Release upgrade from EDL 1.0 to EDL 5.0
- Expansion of the existing ordering system
- Expansion of the number of telephone lines
- Optimization of communication from Series/1 to IBM 4381/3
- Update all documentation
- Association (1985), Swiss Cyclists' Federation (SRB) in Zurich
- Lawyers (1986), Kopp and Partners in Zurich
- Pharma (1986), Vifor in Zurich
- Food (1985), Hero in Lenzburg Extensions of Time Data Recording
Skills
Management
- IT-Management
- Change Management
- Project Management
- IT-Service-Managment
- IT Strategy
- ITIL
IBM Power Systems
- System Management
- Hardware Managemen
- Logical partitions (LPAR)
- PowerVM (VIOS)
- PowerHA SystemMirror
IBM i (aka System i, i5, iSeries, AS/400)
- System Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Performance Management
- Space Management
- Security Management
- Database
- DB2
- Oracle
- MySQL
- DB reviews
Programming
- CLP
- RPG
- COBOL
- CICS
- SQL
- C++
- PHP
- HTML & CSS
- Java & Java script
Data Warehousing
Cloud-Computing
Education
2010 IBM Rochester - Migration to IBM i V7.1 and Copy service toolkit
2005 University of Cambridge Zurich - English B2
2005 IBM - iSeries Updateworkshop
2003 SPSS - Showcase Suite Grundlagen
1994 IBM - AS/400 Open Network Konzepte
1994 digital - Supporting Microsoft Windows
1990 IBM - MVS Supervisor Services
1989 IBM - MVS Structure & Design
1989 IBM - MVS Storage Management (DASD-Sub.)
1989 IBM - MVS Basics
1989 IBM - RACF For system programmers
1983 - 1984 Programmer course
1970 - 1972 Radio technician course
Primary and secondary school: Zurich and Collegio Don Bosco Maroggia TI
