Emanuel Zehnder

Built a strong career of promotion and accomplishment for Switzerlands number one telecommunications, IT, and outsourcing firm to overseeing and directing the development and execution of short-term and long-term strategic data protection and confidentiality plans.

Provided high level management and project leadership in guiding cross-functional virtual team of 25+ SMEs in architecting and supporting the E2E information flow and data governance strategies across entire corporate IT infrastructure. Served as liaison between Developers, Senior Management, Agile Teams, and internal/external B2B clients to assess project specifications, define scope of work, and establish the rules regarding the use of critical and confidential information.

Excelled as Senior Architect responsible for defining and documenting enterprise level, corporate data architecture and IT infrastructures and devised strategies to drive improvements across all business unit operations. Interfaced directly with Executive Team and business unit leaders to understand technical needs and devised plans to translate/integrate the business strategies/user case stories into relevant IT architectures.

Utilized vast industry expertise and team leadership skills to direct a team of 15 development, engineering, and operations specialists in executing and supporting all IT workplace and communication functions, processed improvement initiatives, and BI/Informatics platforms/tools used to support the Executive decision. Established vendor relations, negotiated contracts, and monitored activities to ensure prompt/quality delivery of all service agreements.

Built solid career of achievement for one of the globally leading investment bank and financial services firm with SFr 1.61 trillion AUM. Supervised and directed daily activities of 12 specialist operating in Raleigh, Pune, London, Singapore and Warsaw (Poland). Served as lead on numerous, strategic project implementations, including design, architect, and release of Technical Domains, global product and service catalogs, data warehouse strategies and rollout of business continuity solutions.

Utilized proven technical insight and business development expertise to oversee the development of client specific enterprise level software/hardware infrastructure improvement strategies for such Telco providers as UPC Cablecom, Sunrise, and T-Systems; worked closely with all stakeholders and Senior Leadership team to analyze and document current technical infrastructure, identified gaps, anticipated firms future technology needs, and composed Requests for Proposal (RFP) to achieve strategic objectives.

Served as SME in coordinating design and completion of complex application development and process automation engagements for clients in a highly competitive markets; interfaced with key decision makers to identify needs and provided cost effective solutions to meet/exceed customer expectations, including implemented process automation that increased client's business efficiencies by 25%.

Successfully grew and mentored strong team of 13 Technical Sales Representatives in highly profitable customer base that accounted for $12.5M in annual sales; managed entire sales cycle from identifying/qualifying prospective targets and guiding team to present sales proposals and negotiate/close contracts; devised and implemented new processes and procedures that increased department profitability by 5%, reduced fixed costs by 1%, and increased staff productivity by 6% on CHF 100M annual revenue budget.

Information Systems, Pattern Analysis, Data Structures and Leadership.

Structured Programming, Automation, and Global IT Organization

Application Design and Development.