Gerry Broennimann	Switzerland	
		
Education		
Qualifications	Bachelor Degree in Applied Computer Sciences	

University of Applied Sciences FHNW, Switzerland	

Thesis Title: Boomerangs Content Management System (BoomCMS), 2007	

		
Languages	English	
Fluent	

German	
Fluent	

French	
Good	

Professional experience	
Profile	After having successfully mastered my studies in Applied Information Technologies and already worked for a year as programmer of dynamic web applications, I joined IBM in April 2007 as IT Specialist. For the ‘India Program’ I was 10 months on assignment in a Global Delivery project in Kolkata, India.
Back in Switzerland I started working as IT Specialist in an architectural role in another big GD project about the Swiss social insurance system.
In 2014 I was consultant on assignment for the Corporate Service Corps (CSC) and an NGO customer in Casablanca, Morocco.
Also in 2014 I re-skilled myself for CAMS, especially as Mobile Solution Architect on Worklight / Mobile First.	
Key Skills	Mobile / Cloud:
In several labs and small projects I created working mobile apps using the Worklight / Mobile First tool set. I also created new Bluemix applications and services using NodeJS and MongoDB.

J2EE:
In customer projects I worked with J2EE, XML, XSL and DB2/Oracle databases. Before coming to IBM, I developed games for web pages and for mobile phones. I kept my skills up to date by developing an Android App for IBM internal usage.

SQL:
I had to perform countless of data cleanup and -creation activities for productive systems using SQL and combinations with stored procedures (DB2) and spreadsheets.

Internet Programming:
I gained a lot of experience in a wide range of internet technologies (PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, ColdFusion, ...). I have designed and programmed many websites, dynamic web applications and even an open-source Web Content Management System.	
Key Courses and Training	GBS Mobile Solution Architect Mobilization
ITIL V3 Foundation Certification
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
Project Management Fundamentals	
Career History	04/2007 - To date
IBM, Switzerland
Advisory IT Specialist
Software Development Java/J2EE as Developer, Architect and Application Lead; Mobile Solution Architect	

10/2001 - 10/2002
Internet Services
Programmer of Dynamic Web Applications
Planned, designed and programmed complex dynamic web applications;  programmed and maintained various websites	

Assignment History	01/2014 - 05/2014
5 months
Corporate Service Corps (CSC) / ALCS
Corporate Service Corps
Project Description: The Corporate Service Corps was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. The program empowers IBM employees as global citizens by sending groups of 10 – 15 individuals from different countries with a range of skills to an emerging market for community-based assignments. During the assignment, participants perform community-driven economic development projects working at the intersection of business, technology, and society.
Contribution: I was Technical Consultant in a subteam and worked for ALCS (Association de Lutte contre SIDA), a Moroccan AIDS prevention association. I produced the data model for a system which would help branch offices to collect business data, wheras project managers would have on-time overview on key business metrics and reporting functions. Additionally, I provided guidance on topics like data security, archiving, social media and collaboration tools.	

10/2011 - To date
41 months
IT solutions for social insurances
VISTA AMS - IK
Project Description: IK stands for Individuelles Konto (individual account) and is a central application in the VISTA context, a system which manages all social insurants in 16 Cantons in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Contribution: The IK module was set live in a rather immature state. Within the IBM AMS organization, I am responsible for client support via incidents, request for services like data corrections, defects and changes. Within this role, I am a crucial connector between the end users, the customer’s Service Desk, the IBM AMS stakeholders and local and remote architects and developers in Switzerland and India. Since December 2012 I additionally have the team lead responsibilities for 5 local Architects and 4 Developers in India.	

07/2011 - 09/2011
3 months
IT solutions for social insurances
BW Proposal
Project Description: During the development time of VISTA, some applications have been ramped down temporarily. Mid of 2011, the client asked to provide an effort estimation and a technical draft of a reworked concept of the application BW (Beitragswesen).
Contribution: I took over the analysis about the integration of BW, which has dependencies to the PV (Partnerverwaltung)-Module in VISTA. I described the required interfaces, data model and two Back-Interfaces for the parts, which will stay in the Legacy context.	

03/2008 - 10/2011
44 months
IGS GmbH
VISTA - PV
Project Description: VISTA is a set of applications which will replace the old social insurance system of 16 Swiss cantons and Lichtenstein. It is a Global Delivery project, development takes place in Switzerland, Germany and India.
The ‘Partner Verwaltung’ (PV) module [partner administration] is a core part of the VISTA application. IBM AMS (Application Maintenance Services) provide support for the live modules.
Contribution: In my architectural role, I maintained the modules PV and BI (Back Interface). BI is a batch-driven interface to convert and transfer the Data from the new VISTA environment to the legacy applications. I analyzed inconsistencies between the systems and developed strategies to do a data clean-up as a first step. Secondly, I performed deep root-cause analysis to identify defects and needs for change requests. For PV changes, I created detailed change cases and leaded and supported the developers in India. For BI relevant changes, I did the modelling and coding myself.
Since December 2010 I was Lead Architect for the PV module.

Additionally, as Application Test Team Leader (ATTL) I was responsible for the testing in two project phases and for the automation of test cases. During a 3-weeks workshop in India I was the leader of a team consisting of customer testers from Switzerland and test architects from India. The team overachieved the target of automated testcases for PV.	

08/2007 - 02/2008
7 months
Maersk Logistics
Spective 2.0
Project Description: Architectural changes in a supply chain visibility system.
Technologies used:
J2EE, XML, XSL, Oracle databases
Contribution: Realisation of many requirements in order to improve stability, performance and usability of a core application in supply chain management.	

06/2007 - 02/2008
9 months
IBM Switzerland
India Program
Project Description: On international assignment in India from June 2007 until February 2008.
Contribution: Engaged as an Application Developer in an international environment in India in order to deepen IBM Switzerland’s Global Delivery know-how.	

Prior Experience	03/2002 - 10/2002
8 months	
Banking
Website Reprogramming
Project Description: The bank’s static website has to be redesigned and become more dynamic and easier to maintain.
Contribution: Entire programming work of the content management system; integrating bank’s intranet system with the public website (coordination tasks with Russian developer team); supervising testing phase; training bank’s employees to maintain the website using the new content management system.