Urs Rüegg

Architect at Mirosoft Technology Center

Zürich area Information Technology & Services Previous: Director at Avanade View More Education: Juventus View More

Personal Details

  • Birthday: 13 October 1966
  • Marital: Maried
  • Nationality: Swiss

About Me

I am a system integration consultant with profound understanding of enterprise solution architecture, application development and project management. I combine this expertise with the ability of business development and proficiency on marketing management. Since 2018 I’m employed in the role as Technical Solution Architect at Microsoft (Switzerland) GmbH.

My passion is to deliver leading edge and complex projects within multi-national environment. Since 2000, 12 development, 8 infrastructure and over 25 CRM projects were successfully delivered.

I possess unique qualifications to contribute to several of these aspects including…

…the project management including planning, analyzing, design, build, test, deploy and transfer projects to operation in different settings.

…the ability of bridging the gap between business and IT regarding specific needs and contents.

…the guiding teams through forming, storming, norming and finally performing phases.

I truly enjoy working in teams, be it in my professional life or as player in team handball. I embrace circumstances where I can be accountable and responsible to drive success.

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Experience

From Aug 2018 To Present

Microsoft Technology Center Zürich Airport

Technical Architect

Responsible for Enterprise Accounts driving Cloud Solution Adaption delivering Technical Workshops like Envisioning, Strategy Breifings, Architecture Design, Rapaid Prototype and Hackathons.

From Apr 2017 To Jul 2018

(1 Years 3 Months)

Pega Systems Zürich

Practice Leader

Responsible for Financial Services: Credit Suisse, Swisscard, UBS, UBS Card Center, SIX Group und Raiffeisen and the related Pega- and Partner- Projects.

From Mar 2011 To Mar 2017

(6 Years 1 Month)

Avanade Zürich

Service Line Lead

Inventing Customer Analytics and Insight solution for Dynamics 365 for retail banking using prediction-based dialog marketing models (Azure ML) to evaluate next best customer interactions across channels.
2016 extend Avanade share of wallet from CHF 1.5 to 8.5 Mio Revenue.
2013 promoted to Director after successfully delivered a Privat Cloud by migrating 12 data centres and Service Transition to Off-shore.

From Jan 2009 To Dec 2010

(1 Year)

Dun & Bradstreet Urdorf

Project Lead

Implemented a master plan to replace AS/400 master data management within 3 years developing a SQL Server and .Net based custom solution. Collecting data from different sources to calculating the bankruptcy and payment index score for all business and indi-viduals within Switzerland.

From Aug 2001 To Jan 2009

(7 Years 6 Month)

Skybow Zürich

Head of CRM Competency Center

Establish the Dynamics Competency Centre based on 3-year business plan.

  • First Microsoft CRM 1.2 project in Switzerland at Goldbach Media.
  • First Swiss Microsoft Certified partner for CRM.
  • First certified solution for Microsoft CRM with Skybow Budget Workbench.

  • Expand it to 7 employees and 1.7 million revenue per year, as well as 20 successful delivered CRM projects. Microsoft CRM partner with a market share of 18%.

    From Jul 1990 To Jul 2001

    (11 Years 1 Month)

    Microsoft Zürich

    Principal Consultant

    Employees No 5 of the local branch in various functions:

  • Principal Consultant: Delivered the ABB project in 1 year with 18 members.
  • Principal Consultant: Delivered the ABB project in 1 year with 18 members.
  • System Engineer: Win Nixdorf to use Windows and SQL for their ATM.
  • Skills

    Customer
    Technology
    Architecture
    Delivery
    Team
    Business
    AI
    Azure
    Dynamics
    DevOps
    IoT
    Mixed Reality

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    My Blog

    Hackathon - Visitor Management app

    The Visitor Management is a collection of four Power Apps to manage smart factory visitors.

  • Visitor Welcome Desk app located at the entry point of the factory floor
  • Visitor Self Registration app on a tablet device
  • Visitor Management app to manage visits
  • Visitor Mixed Reality app to confirm mixed reality competency
  • We build this apps during a three day Hackathon with the Swiss Smart Factory team. [...]

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