I am seeking a seriously challenging position as a senior development manager leading engineering teams of cutting-edge software. I enjoy working in an environment where I can apply my technical leadership and execution skills.

I have over 18 years of software engineering experience - 13 years in management and 5 years in individual contributor roles. Over this period I developed the following key strengths:

• Extensive experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle: requirement-gathering, analysis, design, implementation, roll-out and maintenance.
• Problem-solving leader who thinks logically, focuses on identifying needs and goals, and providing solutions to meet specified objectives.
• Deep expertise in building real-time, high-availability, high-volume applications (with special experience in banking/financial applications).
• Expert in leading the design and implementation of complex, large-scale solutions with emphasis on fast installation, centrally driven configuration, replication, automation of the build/packaging and release process.
• Exceptional ability to motivate others and help provide a productive development environment.
• Excel in team building, solution brainstorming, collaboration and decision making.
• Strong sense of project ownership and attention to detail.
• Stamina and motivation to follow-through on highly visible and long-lasting development efforts.
• Talent for trouble shooting projects which run off-track (for example badly scoped projects, inexperienced personnel, technical challenges).
• High level of focus on building solutions that fit the business and customer needs.
• Flair for entrepreneurship: As a co-founder of Coxbit GmbH, I gained experience in starting and running a software consulting company.
• Breaking new grounds: Worked on innovative solutions like the very first uptake of the smart card as a debit card in Switzerland.
• International experience: held positions in Europe and the USA; lead teams in Europe, USA and Asia; multilingual (German, English, French).

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Leading a software development management team for Oracle internal infrastructure projects. My key contributions were/are:

• Driving multiple development teams to gather the requirements for the next generation of Oracle Applications (Fusion), perform resource planning, design and implementation. Our goal is to increase the productivity of the Oracle Applications development teams by performing more frequent builds and by providing up-to-date Oracle Applications instances.
• Steering a critical project that was behind schedule and staffed with professionals, who did not provide the needed domain knowledge. My tasks included redefining the scope, guiding the development team with technical expertise, resolving performance issues, integration work with other development groups, and coordination of the division-wide roll-out.
• Collaborating in a virtual team with most of the engineers located oversees (India and Europe). My ability to effectively engage individuals from different teams and timezones was recognized with the promotion to a senior development manager.

Managing a development team for an Oracle internal application that performs code compliance checks for the complete Oracle Applications code base. Whenever a Oracle Applications developer creates a patch for the Oracle Applications source code, the code compliance checker verifies that the code adheres to the coding, file location, security, memory usage and performance standards within Oracle. My main accomplishments were:

• Transition a development team of eight directly reporting engineers into a new organization, accompanied with taking ownership of a different product, changing the development environment (Java to Perl, extensive use of PL/SQL, RCS to ClearCase), adapting to new development processes, etc. I was able to successfully complete this transition without any turnover in my team (Other groups showed a 20% attrition rate).
• Managed an engineering team located in India.
• Lead the design and development to integrate the compliance checker into Oracle's source control system.
• Guided the development of a framework to check the code compliance for XML based files.
• Lead the implementation of many backlogged standards.

Managing the development of the Oracle Applications products (RapidInstall - tool to install Oracle Applications 11i; RapidClone - tool to clone Oracle Applications 11i instances; AutoConfig - tool to configure Oracle Applications 11i). Major achievements include:

• Together with my manager, I built up an offshore development team in India from scratch. In my role as a development manager, I trained, managed and constrained all eight direct reports.
• Lead development efforts to make these products ready for production release.
• Managed major development enhancements to these products.
• Extensively assisted important Oracle customers in their upgrade, uptake and install initiatives. Discussed implementation strategies with customers, performed gap-analysis, drove quick turnarounds for their specific requirements, trouble-shooting of technical difficulties and lead the development for fixing defects.
• Author and co-author of white papers and technical documentations which are published to Oracle Applications customers.
• Very active contribution to an Oracle internal mailing list which is used by consultants to discuss customer specific questions with regards to installation, configuration, cloning and upgrade efforts.
• Built customer relationships at round-table discussions at AppsWorld and Open Oracle World conferences.

Lead the integration of the iAS 1.0.2.2 middleware software into Oracle Applications on all PLE (Product Line Engineering) platforms.

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Together with a partner, I started and ran Coxbit GmbH, a software consulting company. My partner and I founded the company, created a business plan, formulated client contracts and offered fixed-price solutions.

• Design and implementation for data exchange between mainframe application and PC-based Eurotax application for the Swiss Federal Railways (January 2001 – April 2001).
• Project leading and analysis of the Eurotax project (electronic data exchange of selling data between European railway companies) for the Swiss Federal Railways (January 2001 – April 2001).
• Migration of the EFT/POS backoffice application from UNISYS mainframe to Solaris for PostFinance. Analysis, design, implementation and roll-out of the application. Technical coaching of the team members (June 1999 – November 2000).

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• Design, development and roll-out of the middleware interface between the new, international distributed Deal Entry System (Stirtrek), two settlement systems and the risk management systems (STIRM) for UBS Warburg.
• Development of the middleware interface between the Deal Entry System (EVA) and the new settlement system ABACUS.

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• Customization of the module FI (SAP R/3) for the business unit "Post International" at the Swiss Post.
• Conceptual work for the competence center SAP (SAP R/3) at the Swiss Post.

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PostFinance is one of the main financial institutions in Switzerland. Its core business is to deliver financial services in the payment field. I worked for PostFinance during an exciting time period, where we developed innovative solutions for electronic financial transactions with smart cards. I became an expert for building the software to authorize, settle and reconcile debit card and credit card transactions. I helped architect these solutions with respect to functional design, availability (24/7), volume, security and deployment.

• Design of the application "CASH" (1996).
• Design of the application "Credit cards at the Public Phone Box" (1996).
• Responsibility for the quality assurance for the project "EFT-Server" (1996).
• Responsibility for the software development and maintenance of the authorization servers "Automatic Teller Machine" and "Public Phone Box". Leading a Unix development team of 4 - 6 team members (1994 – 1996).
• Design and development of the application "Public Phone Box" (1994 – 1995).
• Design and development of the application "Automatic Teller Machine from Abroad" (1994).
• Design and development of the application "Automatic Teller Machine" (1993).
• Responsibility for the authorization server EFT/POS and leading the corresponding development team of 2 team members (1990 – 1996).
• Design and development of the application "Postomat Plus for EFT/POS and gas stations" (1988 – 1990).

• Project Management / Systems Analysis
  Business process analysis. User needs assessment. Requirements elicitation, development, and management. Project management, team building and consensus building.
• Software Engineering
  UML, Object-oriented analysis and design. RDBMS design and development. Waterfall, iterative RAD, eXtreme Programming, Agile software development methodologies and custom unified processes.
• Programming Languages
  C, Java, Perl, C++, UNIX Scripting Languages (Shells, sed, awk...), UNIX systems programming, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, SQL, PL/SQL, PHP, Cobol/Delta
• Operating Systems
  Linux, UNIX (Solaris, UNIX System V), MAC OS X, Unisys (OS1100, OS2200), VMS
• Databases
  Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySQL
• Middleware
  OpenOLTP (Tuxedo), MQSeries IBM, RPC
• Internet
  Among them iAS, Apache, JServ, JRun, JSP, PHP, Java Servlets

• German (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (good)
• Italian (basic)

• Business Information Processing Specialist with Federal Diploma, Berne. Equivalent to Master's degree.
• Business Information Processing Specialist with Federal Certificate, Berne.