Marc Frei

Current

• Assembly Software Quality Engineer at Odyssey Financial Technologies

Past

• Analyste Concepteur III at IBM
• Analyste Concepteur III at Unicible IT Services
• Technical consultant at e-Reality

• Help Desk Officer at Odyssey Asset Management System
• Technical consultant at Odyssey Asset Management System
• Private Banking Advisor at BCV
• Client advisor at BCV
• Bookkeeper's assistant at Metalsa SA
• Apprenticeship in import/export at Metalsa SA

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Education

• Odyssey Technical Consultant Silver Certification
• Odyssey Triple'A Plus Bronze Certification
• Vocational IT Training Switzerland I-CH

• CAPM (PMI Certified Associate in Project Management)
• SCJA (Sun Certified Java Associate)
• ISEIG Institut Suisse de l' Enseignement de l' Informatique de Gestion
• ISEIG Institut Suisse de l' Enseignement de l' Informatique de Gestion
• Self study on open source systems to obtain Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Inlingua School of Languages - San Diego, CA
• EPCL

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Industry

Computer Software

Marc Frei’s Summary

Project Management :
PMBOK from PMI (CAPM passed), Unified Process UP, RUP, Merise, ASO, Hermes, Prince2 (ITIL), Agile, Scrum.

Operating Systems :
GNU Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHCE passed), Fedora, Solaris / SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, Free / Open BSD, Android, Windows.

Languages :
Java SE / J2EE (SCJA passed), Shell script (Bash & Korn), XML, XSL, XSLT, XPath, UML, HTML, xHTML, Javascript, PHP, PERL, MS-DOS, C (knowledge), .NET and C# (knowledge), Transact SQL, SQL iso, sed, awk, regexp, Apache Ant.

Databases :
Sybase ASE 12.5.x/15.0 administration and tuning, MySql, HSQLDB, SQL Server.

Business software :
MS-Office (incl. Visio and Project), OpenOffice.org, Lotus Notes, OpenWorkbench, GanttProject.

Financial software :
Triple'A Advantage (AAA), OCS (Odyssey Component Suite), WUI, Triple’A Plus (Bronze and Silver certification passed), Finnova (knowledge).

Technical software :
Websphere TX, Jakarta Tomcat, Apache server, wuFTP, vsFTP, bind, squid, sendmail, X11server.

Testing and QA software :
Mercury HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), Mercury HP Quality Center (QC), Junit.

J2EE Application servers :
IBM Websphere, Oracle WebLogic, JBoss.

Development tools :
Eclipse platform, WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD), RAD 6, Bluefish, Vi, Emacs, Subversion (SVN), Meld, Winmerge, Cygwin, Jira, Confluence Wiki, XMLSpy.

Networking and security :
IPv4 routing, firewall (netfilter), squid proxy, nessus, nmap.

Marc Frei’s Specialties:

Installation, integration, customization, maintenance and re engineering of portfolio management systems (PMS). Specialist on Odyssey Financial Technologies products (banking platform).

Marc Frei’s Experience

• Assembly Software Quality Engineer

  Odyssey Financial Technologies

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Assembly Software Quality Engineer in the Research and Development Dept. :
  
  60% Product Validation team for the OCS framework team
  40% Product Architecture team.

• Analyste Concepteur III

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

  June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)

  IBM Banking Competence Centre since June 2007, Vallombreuse 100, CH-1008 Prilly
  
  Analyste Concepteur III
  Installation, integration, customisation, maintenance and reengineering of portfolio management systems (PMS) : Triple’A Advantage (AAA) and Odyssey Component Suite (OCS). Development of on-line and batch interfaces. Tuning and optimisation of treatments, including database. Architecture design and development of a “Front-to-back” (F2B) order processing application. Configuration management (Unix and Java EE environments). Business analysis of advanced features such has advanced performance attribution (APA for GIPS/SPPS) or order flows. Level 3 support for PMS applications. Project management for software upgrade, implementation and development.

• Analyste Concepteur III

  Unicible IT Services

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2004 — June 2007 (3 years )

  Installation, integration, customisation, maintenance and reengineering of portfolio management systems (PMS) : Triple’A Advantage (AAA) and Odyssey Component Suite (OCS). Development of on-line and batch interfaces. Tuning and optimisation of treatments, including database. Architecture design and development of a “Front-to-back” (F2B) order processing application. Configuration management (Unix and Java EE environments). Business analysis of advanced features such has advanced performance attribution (APA for GIPS/SPPS) or order flows. Level 3 support for PMS applications. Project management for software upgrade, implementation and development.

• Technical consultant

  e-Reality

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 5 months)

  Technical consulting for clients based on mandates. Projects include: installation (or upgrade) of various R3.51 Triple'A Advantage (TAA) to R4 TAA, implementation of « Front to back mode » for TAA R4 (order management system), implementation of Web Graphical Interface (WUI/TASC) on top of TAA, SPPS/GIPS compliance for TAA, implementation of various interfaces between TAA and mainframe system, development of monitoring tools, system maintenance and tuning, support to system administrators.
  
  Implemented Odyssey solutions for the following banks:
  Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (BCV), other Swiss cantonal banks (BCVs, BCNe, BCGe, Gérifonds), Ferrier & Lullin (now Julius Baer).

• Help Desk Officer

  Odyssey Asset Management System

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  People management of a team between 5 and 8 persons, including appraisals, evaluations, salaries. Project management. Crisis management, organisation, reporting, budgets follow-up, development of tools, representation of the department inside and outside the company.

• Technical consultant

  Odyssey Asset Management System

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 11 months)

  Technical and "business" problems solving. Debug. Gap analysis between client's needs and software functionalities. Databases administration and tuning. Development of administration and upgrade tools (Shell scripts and SQL scripts). Customization of clients system through scripts. (Proprietary language). System tuning and administration. Creation of interfaces between Sybase and mainframe systems. Upgrade and installation of our software solution.

• Private Banking Advisor

  BCV

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  October 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 4 months)

  Responsibility of a portfolio of "Private Banking" clients (NAV > USD 150'000.-). Relationship management. Advise the clients about investment strategy and opportunities, financial markets, investment proposal, fiscal adjustments, successions.

• Client advisor

  BCV

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  January 1994 — March 1996 (2 years 3 months)

  Responsibility of a portfolio of clients. Relationship management. Advise the clients about loans, investments and banking solutions (retail banking oriented)

• Bookkeeper's assistant

  Metalsa SA

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Import and Export industry)

  June 1993 — December 1993 (7 months)

  Accounting of account receivables and payables, salaries. Financial reports. Auditing.

• Apprenticeship in import/export

  Metalsa SA

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Import and Export industry)

  June 1990 — May 1993 (3 years )

  Various administrative and commercial related tasks.

Marc Frei’s Education

• Odyssey Technical Consultant Silver Certification

  2009 — 2009

  Odyssey Technical Consultant Silver Certification

• Odyssey Triple'A Plus Bronze Certification

  2009 — 2009

  Odyssey Triple'A Plus Bronze Certification

• Vocational IT Training Switzerland I-CH

  2007 — 2008

  Swiss Federal Master Diploma in Software Engineering, specializing in Project Management (Diplôme Fédéral / Maîtrise en informatique, option gestion de projet)
  
  Average final score 5.8/6.0. (Switzerland highest score in 2008)

• CAPM (PMI Certified Associate in Project Management)

  2006 — 2008

  CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)

• SCJA (Sun Certified Java Associate)

  2005 — 2008

  SCJA (Sun Certified Java Associate)

• ISEIG Institut Suisse de l' Enseignement de l' Informatique de Gestion

  2006 — 2007

  Swiss Federal Brevet in Software Engineering, specialized in Project management (Brevet Fédéral d’informaticien, option suivi de projet).
  
  Average final score 5.0/6.0.

• ISEIG Institut Suisse de l' Enseignement de l' Informatique de Gestion

  2005 — 2006

  ISEIG IT Project Manager Certificate (First Class Honours)

• Self study on open source systems to obtain Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)

  Red Hat Linux 2000 — 2004

  Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Inlingua School of Languages - San Diego, CA

  Business English , Business English for TOEIC preparation , 1996 — 1996

  TOEIC Gold obtained

• EPCL

  1990 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Option Management and computing.

Additional Information

Marc Frei’s Interests:

Open Source Software (OSS) and free computing, GNU Linux, Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, OO Programming, Design Patterns, The Mythical Man-Month, the CHAOS Report, YAGNI, MVC, PDCA, GIGO, FUD, No Silver Bullet, Finance, Risk Management, Banking, Investment, Market Trend Timing, Quantitative Finance, Robot Trading, Biking, mountain bike, paragliding, snowboarding, running, Half marathon, fartlek, spinning, swimming, cross-country skiing.

Marc Frei’s Groups:

ADI Association des diplômés de l'ISEIG, GULL Groupe des Utilisateurs de GNU/Linux et des Logiciels Libres de la région lémanique, PMI Project Management Institute, ARI Association Romande des Informaticiens.

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Marathoners
•    Fedora
•    Certified Project, Program & Portfolio Managers
•    Linux Users
•    Google Android
•    Odyssey Financial Technologies
•    i-ch alumni
•    ISEIG Alumni
•    SUN Certified java professionals
•    SMP - Société Suisse de Management de Projet

Marc Frei’s Honors:

Swiss Federal Master Diploma in Software Engineering (i-CH) : maximum final result (6.0/6.0) in core curriculum. Average final score 5.8/6.0. (highest score 2008 in Switzerland)

Swiss Federal Brevet in Software Engineering (i-CH) : maximum final result (6.0/6.0) in the Project Management Option. Average final score 5.0/6.0.

First Class honor in project management. (ISEIG).

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