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Pfäffikon, ZH, CH

Zurich, Switzerland

- Shaped Zurich's new business development & product mgmt function to drive value from tech & ops - Developed a novel approach to evaluating and enhancing the portfolio of internal tech & ops offerings- Designed, architected and implemented a data-driven approach to biz dev & portfolio mgmt

Zurich, Switzerland

- Architected and built from scratch a solution for commercial billing of tech & ops services- Enabled internal customers to manage their charges by making prices and quantities transparency- Enabled full transparency of the internal value chain to drive insights and better manage expenses

Zurich, Switzerland

- Conceived, architected & built from scratch a solution to make Zurich's tech & ops charges transparent- Design & compiled the first comprehensive catalogue of tech & ops services- Enabled business units to understand the evolution of their charges, value received & how to influence- Led the technical team to build and evolve the data model and.

Zurich, Switzerland

- Built a proof of concept to make Zurich's central IT costs transparent- Architected an approach to combine financial and operational inputs to create comprehensive insights- Shaped the requirements and use cases for technical implementation with early data driven mock-ups

Zurich, Switzerland

- Led the commercial and sourcing side of a nine-figure global network & telecoms deal- Developed the strategy, business case, commercial model, evaluation and vendor selection- Resulting deal drove significant cost reduction and service improvements

Zurich, Switzerland

- Led a team of 5 to drive insight and program management for global outsourcing deals- Outsourced scope was nine-figure annual spend, providing services to 60,000 people- Designed and implemented a performance insight and knowledge management framework

Zurich, Switzerland

- Managed the outsourcing relationship to deliver network services to 40k people across 500 sites- Developed sourcing strategy, led business case development- Developed an RFP for mobile voice and data in Europe, delivering significant savings- Drove a step change in financial insight to improve cost and demand management

Reading, UK

- Led Mars’ first IT infrastructure outsourcing project- Delivered an RFP through a project team of 18 people- Introduced a new quantitative approach to complex infrastructure design. - Transformed network infrastructure and end user services to be faster, more reliable, more useful

Stupino, Russia

- Led the project to build an offshore global IT network operations center based mainly in Russia.- Recruited and developed a team of 18 engineers to be in the top 15% of engaged teams.- Delivered significant annual savings with no drop in service levels.- Built the template for subsequent offshoring projects. - Improved process efficiency, security.

Verden, Germany

- Led program reporting and local systems integration for Mars' largest IT systems transformation- Quickly picked up expertise in manufacturing systems and processes, working partly in German

Zug, Switzerland

Led a team of 5 people to troubleshoot and significantly improve the IT of the Zug office

Reading, UK

Master Of Science - Ms, Psychology & Neuroscience Of Mental Health, Distinction

Electives: affective disorders, global mental health, child & adolescent mental health, mindfulness

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics & Computation, St Anne'S College, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Oxford Nightline (student peer support service) counsellor and trainer Landed one of the top firsts of the year.

Machine Learning Engineer One-Year Course, Deep Neural Networks; Reinforcement, Unsupervised And Supervised Learning

Built from scratch a convolutional neural network in python and TensorFlow to achieve the previous year's state-of-the-art accuracy in.