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Christian RIEDER

GENEVA AREA, SWITZERLAND

En résumé

I.C.T expert (15 years of experience) ◦ a visionary, with an aptitude for anticipating the lifecycles of technological solutions for both internal and external customers as well innovation ‘relais’ ◦ agent of change capable of independent self-development in both strategic and multicultural environments, Christian aims to mobilize his overall vision of an IT ecosystem by taking charge of the information systems department of a company wishing to deploy information management as a key vector in its economic development.

Mes compétences :
Entrepreneurial

Entreprises

  • Sophia Genetics - Executive MBA in MoT project team member

    2011 - maintenant Ensuring a successful commercial launch of the new venture, aiming to provide "Genetic testing as easy as blood testing". Sophia Genetics enables diagnoses of a wide array of genetic conditions using state-of-the-art visualization. The solution provides integrated quality assurance and secure banking of DNA sequences.With the EPFL's MoT project team composed of 5 Executive MBA peers, I ensured that the market analysis, risk analysis, IT infrastructure, intellectual property and financial projections are defined, validated and consolidated in the company's business plan.The Sophia Genetics business plan is now live for the financial rounds, and, last but not least, for the venture 2012 business plan competition.More information on http://venture.ch/ I will be attending the Awards Ceremony on May 24th in ETH Zürich with the EPFL's MoT Sophia Genetics team.

  • BobstGroup - IT Infrastructure Manager

    2006 - maintenant Responsible for providing group IT services based on service level agreements and at the best cost/quality ratio ◦ development of a technical innovation strategy as well as supervision of the industrialization and budget optimization phases ◦ coordination with other group IT managers (Development, Security Officer, Project Management Office and Support)• Management of IT infrastructure policies based on budget, quality and performance criteria ◦ management of a team of fifteen IT engineers and system operators ◦ supervision of external service providers ◦ speaker at international seminars, such as VMworld 2006 (Los Angeles) and 2007 (awarded prize in San Francisco for the Best Development and Test Solution)• Increasing awareness of the ITIL methodology for integrating the processing of ticket management and development ◦ implementation of an international enterprise network: from multiple heterogeneous solutions to a homogenous WAN network linking all 35 locations of Bobst Group ◦ integration of telephony traffic in the new WAN, thereby reducing communication costs by 10% (representing savings of more than 100, 000 CHF per year) • Design of a new high-availability SAP architecture and implementation of a new ERP platform for deadlines and budget planning ◦ deployment of more than 17 SAP modules over six sites ◦ conception of an R&D cloud infrastructure and its deployment over ten sites, with innovative replication mechanisms enabling simultaneous collaboration between sites

  • Bobst SA - IT Systems Manager

    2001 - 2005 Management of structuring projects through the implementation and maintenance of IT systems: installation and maintenance of server software ◦ responsible for a team of four system engineers • From 2003, introduction of virtualization and pioneering ‘hypervisor’ technologies for CRM, leading to a significant reduction of development life-cycles for software versions and the overall cost of solutions ◦ from 2005, implementation of cloud computing solutions leading to a reduction of more than 60% in data center operating costs ◦ implementation of a CRM system with data replication on a global level

  • Bobst SA - System Engineer

    2000 - 2001 System Engineer Managing Windows servers, Oracle databases and CRM Siebel application. Introducing VMware ESX server in 2003

  • ICRC - Intenational Comitee of the Red Cross - IS Technician

    1996 - 2000 Guaranteeing the availability of operational IT and telecommunications in various countries of ICRC involvement in the context of armed conflict: Congo and Rwanda (1997 and 1998), Afghanistan and Pakistan (1998 and 1999) and East Timor (1999 and 2000) ◦ training and supervision of radio operators and local technicians ◦ budget management and monitoring of installations

Formations

  • Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (Lausanne)

    Lausanne 2011 - 2012

  • HEC Lausanne - School Of Business

    2011 - 2012

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