• Project management of the Swiss Health Data Space (SwissHDS) project as a national initiative for an interoperable, federated health data space in Switzerland. Responsibility for project planning, financial controlling within budget constraints, contract management, and coordination of external partners and service providers to ensure efficient and goal-oriented project execution.
• Deputy Head of the Specialist Architecture DigiSanté (FADS) section, supporting the strategic and operational management of cross-functional architecture and transformation initiatives.
• Subproject management for the “Governance” and “Core Services and Domain Services” streams, including the professional development of key foundations for the Federal Act on the Digital Health Data Space (BDG).
• Responsibility for the conceptual, technical, and organizational design of target operating models and the reference architecture, taking into account data protection, information security, and regulatory requirements.
• Functional definition, conceptual design, and architectural alignment of interfaces between SwissHDS and the electronic patient record / electronic health record (EPR/EHR) to ensure an interoperable and sustainable overall solution.
• Management of complex stakeholder and governance processes involving federal authorities, healthcare providers, primary system vendors, associations, and industry representatives to develop robust and widely supported solutions.
• Design and supervision of proof-of-concepts and/or pilot projects to validate key use cases such as eMedication, referrals/eTOC, diabetes monitoring, laboratory data exchange, and other data-space-relevant applications.
• Representation of the project in public through expert presentations at conferences and industry events in the healthcare sector, as well as active communication of the vision, target models, and value proposition of SwissHDS.

• Key Highlights:
  • Team Lead for 8-10 internal engineers and 3-5 associated virtual employees
  • Responsibility and decision-making competence regarding methodology, technology, and architecture of the
  clinical data platform
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Architecture, development, maintenance and administration of the clinical data platform and its underlying
  data lake, databases, and data marts
  • Manage capacity and workload of the clinical data platform, including planning for additional large data
  sources, and their impact on the underlying infrastructure
  • Manage support and development activities with software suppliers
  • Responsible for the internal technical work packages related to the Swiss Personalized Health Network
  (SPHN) for building an infrastructure to enable nationwide use and exchange of health data for research, as
  well as the work packages of all clinical research projects associated
  • Responsible for the technical implementation of interfaces from USZ to The LOOP Zurich Biomedical
  Informatics Platform (BMIP) to allow for translational data-driven research across Zurich hospitals
  • Member of multiple decision-making bodies including the Information Security Board, as well as the Software
  Advisory Board and the Change Advisory Board
  • Provide expert guidance to users in the clinical research domain, who include data science specialists, data
  analysts and the wider business such as physicians, nurses, and data managers regarding the data
  availability, clinical and other terminologies (ICD, CHOP, UCUM, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, etc.) as well as the
  data governance, data protection and IT security
  • Project management (effort estimates, offers, invoices), resource allocation and customer communication
  • Technical and use case documentation (security concept, operating concept, user manuals)

• Key Highlights:
  • Developed solution for enterprise-wide distribution of general consent data from patients to ensure the data
  governance and the conformity to applicable internal directives, laws, and regulations (Web Application and
  API based on .NET Core)
  • Developed backend and data delivery processes for national SPHN research projects Swiss Personalized
  Sepsis Study and Population Wide Screen
  • Member of the hospital-wide expert panel for clinical and research projects
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Architecture, development, and maintenance of the data integration layer especially the ETL processes from
  clinical and administrative source systems to the Research Datawarehouse
  • Aggregation, cleansing and masking of clinical data to fulfill the requirements of internal and external
  research projects
  • Architecture, development, and maintenance of processes to provide encoded and encrypted health-related
  data to SPHN (Swiss Personalized Health Network) and internal researchers
  • Support the technical development and evolution of master and reference data models for specific data
  domains
  • Provide domain expert guidance and specialist technical support to users in the research domain
  • Technical and use case documentation (security concept, operating concept, user manuals)
  

• Key Highlights:
  •Developed solutionfor automated data encryption and delivery with PGP and LiquidFiles
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Architecture, development, and maintenance of the data integration layer especially the ETL processes from
  clinical and administrative source systems to the Research Datawarehouse
  • Aggregation, cleansing and masking of clinical data to fulfill the requirements of internal and external
  research projects
  • Architecture, development and maintenance of processes to provide encoded and encrypted health-related
  data to SPHN (Swiss Personalized Health Network) and internal researchers
  • Support the technical development and evolution of master and reference data models for specific data
  domains
  • Technical and use case documentation(security concept, operating concept, user manuals)

• Key Highlights:
  • Developed backend for a near-real-time care dashboard rolled out enterprise-wide and used by 1000+ users
  (physicians, nurses, etc.) a day
  • Developed solution for traumatology to prefill a case report form for the Swiss and German trauma registry
  with data from the clinical data platform, as well as a yearly XML export to the registry providers
• Key Responsibilities:
  • Maintenance, second-level support, and coordination of third-level support for clinical data management
  applications, interfaces, and solutions
  • Testing and Rollout of the developed applications and interfaces
  • Project management
  • Analysis of source systems and interfaces
  • Implementation of ETL processes from clinical and administrative source systems into the Clinical
  Datawarehouse (Caradigm Intelligence Platform)
  • Technical specifications for data management and data warehouse applications and interfaces
  • Programming and scripting with Microsoft .NET / ASP.NET / C# in Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Writing complex T-SQL queries, views, procedures, triggers, and functions (MSSQL)
  • Intensive use of database management and development tools incl. Business Intelligence (SQL Server
  Integration Services and SQL Server Reporting Services)
  • Technical and use case documentation (security concept, operating concept, user manuals)

• Key Responsibilities:
  • Project Management and Consulting of Hospitals
  • Analysis of clinical source systems and interfaces
  • Technical implementation of interfaces, reports, applications / solutions for various clinics (traumatology,
  infectiology, emergency department)