Experience

Worldline Switzerland

• Switzerland
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head Products and Architecture

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  With the division Acquiring and Online Global Products I am leading a team of product managers, as well as a team of Business Architects. Spread over four countries and six locations we ensure the development of our target applications to support our customers with best or breed solutions.

• Head Architecture and Test Management

  • Apr 2018 - Aug 2020

  Department leader of a team of architects and a team of test engineers. Ensuring system simplicity and testability all over our application landscape. Covering all the electronic payment business domains, such as enabling, acquiring, scheme and issuing.



SIX

• Switzerland
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Cards Architecture, Engineering, Test Management

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2018

  Department leader of architects, engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as transaction processing core applications in the business domains acquiring and debit issuing. Department leader of architects, engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as transaction processing core applications in the business domains acquiring and debit issuing.



SIX Group Services AG

• Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Head Cards Backoffice Application Engineering

  • Apr 2014 - Jan 2018

  Department leader of software engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as transaction processing core applications in the business domains acquiring and debit issuing. Department leader of software engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as transaction processing core applications in the business domains acquiring and debit issuing.



Worldline Switzerland

• Switzerland
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head Issuing & Enabling Application Development & QA

  • Apr 2012 - Mar 2014

  Department leader of software engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as debit card transaction processing core applications. Department leader of software engineers and quality assurance engineers developing and testing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as debit card transaction processing core applications.



SIX Card Solutions AG

• Head of development enabling & issuing backoffice applications

  • Jul 2011 - Apr 2012

  Department leader of software engineers developing credit & debit card processing enabling software, as well as debit card transaction processing core applications.

• Head of development issuing backoffice applications

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2011

  Setting up and leading a new department to build a new platform for debit issuing processing. One brand new application for our international business (about 4-8 million trx/day) and maintaining applications for our existing Swiss market.

• Head of development backoffice applications

  • Apr 2007 - Jun 2009

  Department leader of software engineers developing two company core applications and maintaining two further systems. Approx. 55 (internal and external) employees working within the department.



Telekurs Card Solutions AG

• Head of development PASS new accounts

  • Jan 2004 - Apr 2007

  Group leader of 5-10 software engineers developing a company core application and enabling multi institution processing on it.

• Head of development PASS batch & transaction

  • Jun 2001 - Jan 2004

  Group leader of 5-10 software engineers developing and maintaining a company core application.



Payserv AG

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2000 - Jun 2001

  Software Engineer working on a company core application. Being under the first on site member to develop on the formally off shore developed software

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 1999 - Sep 2000

  Software engineer working on a company core application processing all ATM transaction of Switzerland.



Brunner Elektronik AG

• Hittnau, Switzerland

• Software Engineer (Freelancer)

  • Jun 1998 - Dec 1998

  Developing software (image,character and bar-code recognition) running on a DSP (digital signal processor). Developing back end software controlling the software on DSP. Developing software (image,character and bar-code recognition) running on a DSP (digital signal processor). Developing back end software controlling the software on DSP.



Canon Information System Research Australia

• Sydney, Australia

• QA Engineer

  • Sep 1997 - May 1998

  Testing a client-server software system which allows a Canon laser copier to be used as a general purpose printer and scanner. Testing a high-speed print driver for large format printer. Testing a client-server software system which allows a Canon laser copier to be used as a general purpose printer and scanner. Testing a high-speed print driver for large format printer.



Brunner Elektronik AG

• Hittnau, Switzerland

• Software Engineer (Freelancer)

  • May 1997 - Aug 1997

  Developing front end and back end software for a system reading text or bar codes. Developing front end and back end software for a system reading text or bar codes.



Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund

• Switzerland
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Supporter (Holiday job)

  • 1993 - 1994