Robert Rottschalk

IT Leadership:

• Coordinating a global team of 10+ business analysts and developers (Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Germany, UK).
• Managing parallel releases for clients in all regions (EMEA, APAC).
• Prioritizing Incidents, Change Requests and Information Requests, as well as ensuring in-time delivery with respects to client specific SLAs .
• Acting as SPOC for Transaction Reporting team, covering all relevant regulations (EMIR, MIFIR, FINFRAG, HKMA, MAS).

Agile Practices:

• Acting as servant leader to my team, enabling people by removing impediments (access issues, missing know-how, cross-team support requests).
• Facilitating Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Standup, Review, Retro).
• Gathering team metrics ( Velocity , Throughput ) and encourage team members to take ownership of their tasks.
• Organize information exchange via knowledge sharing sessions.

IT Project Management:

• Involvement from pre-project to go-live of a brokerage backend for a mobile broker app. Creating module concepts and solution outlines in preparation for the technical implementation.
• Cross-stream coordination of project deliverables .
• Ownership of Change Requests (incl. budget and resource planning).

Software Development:

• Implementing solutions in PL/SQL , as well as the Avaloq Script (proprietary script language). Specifically for Securities Operations (Stock Trading, Security Transfers, Transaction Reporting).
• Abiding by strict coding guidelines (readability, modularity, consistency, error handling, code reviews).

IT Project Management:

• Maintaining information on functional and technical design documents in JIRA.
• Maintaining information on systems and interfaces in LeanIX.
• Planning of sprints, following principles of Scrum.

System Administration:

• Application Owner of an open-source enterprise-search platform ( SOLR ).
• Configuring different indexes to improve UX and performance.
• Ensuring availability of system and its APIs.
• User Management of SAP CX (former SAP Hybris ) setting up application roles manage permissions.
• Coordinate and conduct deployments based on continuous deployment pipeline using Docker , Jenkins , Nexus.

IT Project Management:

• Create reports based on JIRA
• Coordinate Daily Stand-Up with Kanban
• Document project knowledge base in Confluence

Software Development:

• Helped conduct backlog grooming, sprint planning and sprint reviews for agile development of production performance management solution
• Participated in frontend development of web app with Angular

IT Project Management:

• Handle contact with client
• Planning of user stories, development tasks and milestones in JIRA

Software Development:

• Implementing a Facebook Messenger shopping assistant write backend logic in JavaScript ( NodeJS )
• Connect to Google Firebase
• Host server via Amazon Web Services
• Connecting the chabot backend to a content management GUI, built in PHP Symfony