Andrej Sobkowski Email & Phone Number

Lausanne, Ch

- Reporting to the Group CTO, defined and drove the corporate technical vision and strategy for BOBST Connect, the company’s main digital transformation initiative.- Managed complex cross-team cross-product line cross-business unit projects and change management via internal/external executive partnerships and influence, including supplier management and contract negotiation.- Delivered a high-performance industrial IoT environment based on state-of-the-art cloud technologies, processes, and data-driven analyses and optimizations, integrating information generated by industrial PLCs and corporate ERP/CRM.- Built, grew, and led a world-class international department of 50 resources (4 Scrum teams – including 2 nearshore –, 1 data science team, and 1 operations/support team) for a budget of CHF 7M.- Represented the company at a variety of customer meetings and events related to Digital Transformation, Packaging, Cyber-Security in front of 100-people audiences.

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

- Completed full regulatory CE certification of Class IIb software relying on international standards such as ISO 13485 (QMS), 62304 (software), 14791 (risk), 62366-1 (usability) as well as FDA’s cyber-security recommendations.- Delivered in record-time-and-effort (15 man-years vs. competitors’ 75 man-years) an innovative acquisition medical software by building from scratch an international team of experts and a network of partners, agile processes and (serverless) tools, DevOps automation, and open-source components.- As a member of the executive team with signature empowerment, owned the strategy and roadmap for IT and services (teleradiology, AI, remote monitoring, cloud PACS/RIS).

- Member of the executive team and President of the Board, reported directly to the investors, responsible for the full company turnaround: complete review and implementation of the market positioning (products and partners); sales, pricing and channels strategy; social media exposure and business collaboration.- Owned the product and software technology strategy, architecture and roadmap (API, Cloud, Mobile, Blockchain, DevOps).- Selected and deployed relevant corporate tools (Service Desk, CRM, ERP, JIRA, Confluence, etc.).- Managed the delivery of the IoT, RFID and mobile tracking and monitoring platform for real-time end-to-end supply chain visibility (cloud/mobile software platform integrated with hardware devices and sensors).- Held responsibility for corporate partnerships – from selection to contractual agreements – for suppliers, sales agents, integrators and for the relationship with analysts (Gartner, etc.).- Represented the company at a variety of customer meetings and events in multiple industries and countries.- Worked with legal advisors for the development and deposit of patents.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

- Defined SITA’s Software As A Service B2B platform – one of SITA 2020’s top corporate priorities – building the relevant business cases and models and fulfilling the broader cloud computing and mobility requirements.- Supervised the RFI/RFP/RFQ process and selection then program-managed the delivery involving multiple sub-projects with an internationally distributed team of more than 30 resources and an overall budget of CHF 4M.- Managed relationships with internal and external business senior stakeholders and negotiated partnerships and contractual agreements with C-level executives from technology vendors and system integrators in the international Cloud Computing space.- Coordinated the business processes reengineering (Billing, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable) and their integration with Oracle ERP.- Contributed to the broader IT Transformation of SITA software architectures and applications.- Acted as Chief Software Architect on various initiatives.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Locations: Geneva (Switzerland), New York (USA), Casablanca (Morocco)- Reporting directly to the CEO, member of the executive team and of the Strategic Advisory Board.- Worldwide perimeter, management of 50 resources divided in 5 teams spread on 3 continents. Budget of CHF 6M.- Accountable for the corporate product roadmap, priorities, planning and deliveries.- Transitioned from older generation technologies to state of the art modular software architectures in Java/J2EE and C#/.NET.- Defined and enforced project management culture and techniques, agile methodologies and continuous integration platforms, usage of open source components and appropriate collaboration tools.- Created an offshore development team in Casablanca (Morocco).- Held accountability for business case creation and financial modeling, due diligence and legal contractual formalization with C-level executives for business partnerships, acquisitions, and OEM relationships.

Locations: Lausanne (Switzerland) and Bangalore (India)- Managed a senior development team of 30 resources (15 in Lausanne and 15 in the offshore team in Bangalore (India))- Responsible for the deliveries of new versions of the Triple A application, Odyssey's flagship product generating most of the company's revenue with more than 100 clients worldwide- Achieved drastic quality improvements:o Reorganized the project management dynamicso Reduced the number of open Customer Incidents from many hundreds to less than 20o Improved the reactivity towards the Help Desk and reduced of the average incident resolution timeo Increased the organization's visibility via global and detailed corporate statistics

Lausanne, Vaud, Ch

Location: Lausanne (Switzerland)

Puteaux, Fr

Locations: Paris (France) and London (UK)- Department management on a worldwide perimeter, 15 resources, cost centre management (3M€)- Defined and industrialized the J2EE and .NET architectures for AXA IM based on the latest specifications, tools and best practices. This included the integration between .NET and MS Office (Excel, Word, SharePoint) and market-data tools (Reuters and Bloomberg)- Supervised the management of the desktop environment (4000 machines worldwide) including security processes (anti-virus and patch) - Defined project management methodologies for the IT department (250 people) in order to introduce iterative development at AXA IM.- Managed the full delivery of multi-M€ strategic projects related to business Master Data Management and SOX compliance.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Technical management for the design and implementation of a cementing fluids design tool to be used in all Schlumberger’s oil fields worldwide. Budget 500k€, 5 resources- Knowledge transfer of best practices in project management and software architecture

- J2EE re-architecture of the existing Perl Internet system for the management of all Bell Canada’s VPN users. Budget 1M$, 20 experienced and heterogeneous resources, 2000 users.- Definition and enforcement of the internal software development process

Cary, Nc, Us

Locations: Montreal (Canada) and Raleigh, NC (USA)- Designed and implemented an Internet/Extranet platform (www.steelroads.com) for the unified logistics of railways transportation across North America (Canada, USA, Mexico) as part of a program involving more than 200 railroads companies.- Managed a department of 10 experienced resources in Canada and US- Defined and industrialized the new Java/J2EE architectures.

Montréal, Québec, Ca

Lecturer for a class of students in Software Engineering: Java and object-oriented design.

Istanbul, Istanbul, Tr

Worked as a consultant in several functional domains. Expertise related to software applications research, development and to pre-sales support.Expertise: Project- and resource- management, software architectures, end users relationships and pre-sales supportTechnologies: Java (Swing), COBOL, UNIX, Mainframe AS/400, client/server

Design and implementation of a prototype for an Internet 3D commercial centre based on artificial intelligence concepts.Technologies: C, SQL, Python, 3D graphics(VRML)

Executive Mba, Management And Corporate Finance

Study Tour, Sales, Suppliers And Procurement Management

Masters, Electronics Engineering

Masters, Computer Science, Telecommunications

High School - Bac C, Mathematics And Physics