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Geneva, Ch

Responsibilities:• Providing strategic leadership to Lombard Odier Group network infrastructure team• Participate in defining the Group network architecture with team: LAN, WAN, network segmentation and filtering, security, DMZ, load-balancing, wifi.• Risk assessment and management• Stakeholders management• Vendor/procurement management• Resiliency/redundancy design• Capacity planning

Geneva, Ch

Responsibilities: • Directly reporting to the COO and ensuring smooth IT Operations for Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo offices. • Defining, measuring and optimising IT Infrastructure department processes along with evaluating and leveraging new technologies to enhance or enable new capabilities on the Group level. • Translating the business requirements into technical specifications and handling Technology risk management. • Providing strategic leadership and direction for IT Infrastructure and Operations for Lombard Odier Asian branch offices. • Asia Incident Manager and Asia Security Officer • Member of the Asia-Pacific Crisis Management Team. • Managing and coordinating with various stakeholders for projects (incl. IT procurement, vendor management, IT assets and DC service and maintenance, technology budget). • Leading L1 and L2 IT Support for LO Asia and APAC banking infrastructure clients (Asia/Australia). • Managing multi-national and multi-cultural technology operations team through effective communication, coordination, coaching and performance management. • Responsible for effectively planning the workload for the team and managing motivation and morale levels for the staff. • Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning and Testing as per local regulations (SG, HK, JP). • Appointed Manager-In-Charge IT for Lombard Odier (HK) Ltd (in accordance with HK Securities and Futures Commission’s MIC regime).Key Achievements: • Successfully led the Asia L1 IT support team to do L2 support, decreasing volume of escalation to other remote teams. • Significantly reduced tickets resolution time and improved user experience. • Simplified, shortened processes for new requests (improving user understanding with user workshops, translating business needs into technical specifications). • Negotiated and reduced local procurement/vendor costs on an average by 20%. • Successfully passed all internal and external IT audits for Asia offices.

Geneva, Ch

Responsibilities: • Planned and supervised projects of multiple teams of IT engineers working in IT infrastructure and service delivery. • Was responsible for IT Infrastructure in-sourcing for banking clients, defined standards for the clients and managed any related risks to the business operations of the clients. • Coordinated and delivered the new app for online portal authentication. • Developed and maintained strong relations with IT Infrastructure Clients and acted as a Single Point of Contact for several infrastructure customers (banks).Key Achievements: • Successfully delivered the IT Infrastructure (servers, network, workstations, telephony, migration of applications) to a banking infrastructure customer (another Swiss private bank), within short timeline as compared to a previous similar project. • Successfully set up service standards for future projects.

Geneva, Ch

Responsibilities: • Worked as Communications systems and network infrastructure engineer. • Designed and defined network architecture on the Group level (LAN, WAN) and was responsible for all operations for Group network infrastructure: switching, routing, firewall, encryption, VPN, load balancing. • Managed connections for LO branch offices worldwide, developed and maintained strong relationships with external partners, market data providers, etc. • Handled responsibilities of security, interconnection with a partner, colocation, wifi, new products, etc. for all projects. • Designed and setup Group Telepresence and video conference collaboration infrastructure.Key Achievements: • Set up several monitoring tools for capacity management, fault detection, and post-incident analysis. • Improved the reliability of the network infrastructure with team coordination to achieve one of the lowest numbers of duty-calls among the company infrastructure teams. • Simplified and automated the worldwide branch offices switch infrastructure renewal. • Led to successfully set up the first network and server infrastructure in a colocation data centre (Equinix). • Lead Network Engineer for the services in-sourcing project of another Swiss private bank.

Tokyo, Jp

Master Thesis: “Total-Variation Based Noise Reduction Algorithm for Color Image” • Proposed an advancement on previous noise reduction methods based on Total-Variation minimisation by developing an image residual shrinkage method and multiscale image processing. • The results obtained by the proposed technique performed better than the benchmark (SURE-LET technique and PictureCode Noise Ninja)

Lausanne, Ch

R&D in image processing.Developed a technique for printing machines calibration using pattern recognition with genetic algorithms.

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Teaching Assistant for "Digital Photography" class

Mortsel, Belgium, Be

R&D in image processing.Developed an algorithm for rendering High Dynamic Range images.

Plan-Les-Ouates, Genève, Ch

R&D

Master, Communication Systems

Bachelor, Communication Systems