Christian Schweizer

Leading IT Infrastructure Programs and Projects within shared services area.

Fund Management and financial research services to independent asset management companies.

>> Led the IT-decoupling program of the Vitamins &Fine Chemical Division from the Roche Group. Managed 150 staff globally engaged to separate business applications, network and data of the division with 6000 employees in 44 global locations. (Budget 25 millions CHF) >> Managed a global program to introduce IT Service Management (ITIL) with HP Service Desk tool to the 16 global IT locations and trained over 1800 IT staff >> Negotiated the transitional IT services provided by Roche to Bayer

>> Responsible for the development of Internet Portal for independent financial advisors. Responsible for IT, product development, operations and infrastructure; (Budget: 10 millions CHF) >> Repositioned Financial Planning software at top 3 in the Swiss market by restructuring development, support, sales and marketing >> Managed middle- and back-office operations (portfolio mgt tool) of an independent asset management firm, defined internal processes and compliance to allocation strategies

>> Post merger integration project of Bank Austria and Creditanstalt; Coached 40 bankers on process modeling and simulation >> Led Testing Team of Stock Exchange XETRA system at Deutsche Boerse >> Setup EURO readiness team for Deutsche Boerse Clearing AG and its over 300 financial institutions during EURO introduction. >> Introduced Project Portfolio Management processes to UBS Global IT; >> Defined Program/Project reporting structure for Swisscom

MBA Trainee; Performed profitability analysis study for jet engine spare parts distribution center in EU; Presented to CEO and obtained approval for project.

>> Responsible for software localization and distribution for Hicom 300 ISDN private network switches within Swiss market. >> Supported trade fair events and product presentations at client sites >>Supported the launch of new telecommunication products into the Swiss market >> Pre-sales, 2nd level technical support, testing