Work Experience

since February 2012: IT Analyst at UBS AG

After I finished my studies with my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, I joined UBS Investment Bank in Zurich as IT/Support Analyst. Our team manages and supports the trading infrastructure for the Fixed Income trading desk.

My projects and responsibilites cover various topics:

  • 2nd level support of our trading infrastructure
  • ensuring business continuity
  • developing business reports (SQL) and maintenance scripts (Perl, Bash)
  • developing system enhancements to minimize manual work and operational risk
  • investigating and analyzing incidents, identifying root causes and resolving these
  • maintaining interfaces to upstream systems (pricing, position, ECNs) and downstream systems (risk, P&L, settlement)
  • documenting my work and training my peers and team colleagues
I work with a multitude of software and technologies including:
  • 3rd party trading systems from SunGard and ION Trading
  • inhouse developed trading systems using Java, C++ and middle ware technologies such as Tibco/RV
  • Citrix MetaFrame/XenApp
  • HP OpenView monitoring solution
  • ServiceNow and BMC Remedy ticketing systems

As IT Analyst I’m looking to reduce risk and operation costs by developing scripts, good documentations and providing training to my team.

November 2007 – January 2011: IT System Engineer  at ETH Zurich

While studying Electrical Engineering, I worked part time (at a 20% to 50% pensum) as IT System Engineer at the  Educational Development and Technology (LET) department of ETH Zurich. My work included:

  • administration and maintenance of up to 30 servers: HP and Dell servers, RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 and 6
  • automated remote deployment of new servers with Puppet
  • maintenance and support of our VMware vSphere environment and blade center.

In addition to that, I was managing a project where we deployed SSL certificates to all employees of our departement to facilitate secure digital communication, and I was concerned with the overall security of our IT infrastructure. During my time at LET, I contributed to the security of our server environment. By developing tools to automate deployment and management tasks, I was able to reduce operational risk and scale our infrastructure more easily.

During the time I studied at ETH, I also worked on projects of other departements at ETH Zurich as Software Engineer for Embedded Systems. Those two projects are described here:

April 2007 – August 2007: IT System Engineer at EMS Chemie (Internship)

In my internship at EMS Chemie, I was part of the core IT team. My project was to evaluate and test different intranet file search engines, to replace the outdated legacy system EMS Chemie was using. Initially, my supervisors had planned the whole 5 months to evaluate alternatives and expected me to hand in a written document of all alternatives with its advantages and disadvantages at the end of my internship.

As I was progressing faster than expected, we revised the initial project plan. The evaluation phase could be shortened to three months. In the remaining two months, I led the negotiations with vendors and together with management we made the decision to licence Coveo Enterprise Search. In the last phase, I put the software into operation for a trial phase. Additionally, I trained the IT staff and provided documentation to maintain and extend the search engine.

The result of my internship at EMS Chemie is an intranet file search engine that produces more accurate search results, with reduced licence costs.

Januar 2007 – March 2007: Language school in Auckland, NZ

During the three months stay in Auckland, New Zealand, I attended an English language school and finished with the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English.

July 2006 – December 2006: Military service, Swiss Army Band

Right after graduation from high school, I served in the Swiss Army Band as Clarinettist.