CEO & President

• Oct 2020 - Present

CEO - Managing Director

• Apr 2009 - Sep 2020

Work for large and mid-size corporations and administrations, on complex corporate projects and managing IT Teams, either as an employee or a contractor. E.g.: • Zurbuchen Frères SA - CEO - 144 FTEs. 31M revenue (2020) • Etat de Fribourg - SiTel. Head of “Back Office” and “Field Services” - 26 FTEs and PM on Office 365. CHF 4M budget (2019) • Alcon – see below • Large industry: definition and rollout of a Home office strategy and solution • Selection and implementation of a Cloud hosted solution on VPS (Virtual Private Server) • Specialized in building and re-motivating IT teams, and in very challenging projects management • and much more (Web sites, CRMs, Help Desks, App design and development cycle, etc ...) • involved in management of real estate projects (around CHF 6M) Show less

IT Head - Engineering & Application support

• Oct 2011 - Dec 2012

• 10 to 15 direct reports + externals + offshore group • Manage, set objectives, control, ensure business continuity, motivate and guide people in charge of infrastructure, projects and application support including virtual servers (VmWare, VBlocks, VSphere), Exchange, AD, SAP, JDE, Siebel, Cognos, Web applications and servers. Plan and support resources, manage internal and external customers, approve expenses, plan budget • Proposed and led development of several applications (e.g. application ensuring compliance of various Address Books, automated WiFi management utility) • Deeply involved in Pharma compliance projects, requiring to review and adapt hundreds of applications and procedures • HR and budget management (around CHF 1.5M) • Resigned, following the takeover of Alcon by Novartis Show less

Founder, IT Director, CEO (Application Development, R&D, Tests, Support)

• Aug 1995 - Mar 2009

• Founder & President of the Board. CHF 9M budget • Operational management of the Swiss headquarter (Zürich, Lausanne) and affiliates in France, US (NY, Buffalo, Boston) and UK • Up to 25 direct reports + external software providers • CTO responsible for Application Architecture & Development, Support, Infrastructure and R&D • Creator of the GSX suite of administration and monitoring application (WW leader product in monitoring of heterogeneous collaboration environment, including IBM Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, BlackBerry, Sametime, SharePoint, Web servers) • Designer of debug, regression/acceptance tests, protection and software distribution strategies: 1 support person for 550+ clients • Put in place a fully automated software distribution architecture requiring zero offsite visits • Innovative and efficient debug system • 40+% EBIT profitability business model • Hired as contractor (Solutions Architect) for large companies such as: SwissRe, Omya Plüss-Staufer, ABB, Certiam, Crédit Suisse, etc… • Speaker, author of technical publications, trainer … • Resigned in 2009, following the selling of GSX to private investors in 2008 Show less

Lotus Notes & Email specialist

• Sep 1992 - Jul 1995

• Design, installation and maintenance of the EMEA Lotus Notes network of Andersen Consulting/Accenture and Arthur Andersen (Biggest Notes network in the World at that time with over 70’000 people) • Level 3 support to country Administrators, including many on-site visits across the world • Development of applications. Network & server administrator • Resigned to create GSX • Design, installation and maintenance of the EMEA Lotus Notes network of Andersen Consulting/Accenture and Arthur Andersen (Biggest Notes network in the World at that time with over 70’000 people) • Level 3 support to country Administrators, including many on-site visits across the world • Development of applications. Network & server administrator • Resigned to create GSX

Project member in R&D Lab

• Mar 1992 - Aug 1992

6 months end of studies Engineer stage. Evaluation of collaboration systems for planes, including Alprange and Icocor gateways, Lotus Notes V2, etc. Prototyping of collaboration applications used to share information within the group 6 months end of studies Engineer stage. Evaluation of collaboration systems for planes, including Alprange and Icocor gateways, Lotus Notes V2, etc. Prototyping of collaboration applications used to share information within the group

Analyst Developper

• 1989 - Sep 1991

• Development of microcode and regression tests for communication controllers for IBM's R&D Lab in La Gaude, France • Resigned to resume studies • Development of microcode and regression tests for communication controllers for IBM's R&D Lab in La Gaude, France • Resigned to resume studies