Patrick B.

AML Officer

Locarno, Switzerland

Experience

Mar 2023 - Jun 2024
1 year 4 months
St. Gallen, Switzerland

AML Officer

Creative Cloud AG

  • Qualified AML officer in the Swiss jurisdiction
  • Responsible for implementing AML policies and procedures
  • Responsible for due diligence reviews of clients and compliance monitoring of transactions to identify suspicious activity
  • Organize staff training on AML regulations and practices
  • Work with regulators and audit firms to ensure compliance (AML audits)
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
2 years
Locarno, Switzerland

Chief Executive Officer

Rescale Consulting GmbH

  • Founded and built a software development agency as the sole shareholder
  • Consulted customers on web- and app-based IT projects using experience and strategies on their business ideas, modeling use cases, creating wireframes and high-fidelity designs, and writing technical concepts
  • Consulted companies in the energy and data center sectors; interim Head of IT; developed and implemented monitoring systems for the data center; coordinated frequency control reserve services (FCR)
  • Project managed an IT team in the financial sector to develop a payment gateway and other financial services tools with high security requirements under PCI-DSS in a primarily cloud environment
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
3 years 10 months
Kassel, Germany

Chief Executive Officer (and CTO)

Lehrerheld UG

  • Business development and Chief Technology Officer
  • Develop business model and improve product-market fit
  • Design platform and marketing materials
  • Coordinate international development team in Poland and Russia
  • Lead technical project management
Jun 2007 - Nov 2007
6 months
Berlin, Germany

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

seosupport GmbH

  • Search engine optimization for clients and company marketing
  • Pre-sales activities, including creating proposals and invoices
  • Build SEO-optimized client websites
  • Coordinate copywriters and designers
Feb 2005 - Dec 2023
18 years 11 months
Kassel, Germany

Chief Executive Officer

PlatinPower.com GmbH

  • Founded and built a software development agency as the sole shareholder
  • Consulted customers on web- and app-based IT projects using experience and strategies on their business ideas, modeling use cases, creating wireframes and high-fidelity designs, and writing technical concepts; supported market entry and marketing with technology and digital sales
  • Advised on cybersecurity, cybersecurity awareness, OSINT; improved software application security (OWASP); implemented security systems (WAF); managed external penetration tests and coordinated integration of findings into applications
  • Actively responded to hacked websites following the NIST framework: analyzed intrusions, backdoors, and malware; cleaned sites from malicious code
  • Implemented strategies to prevent future incidents: risk management, governance, preparation and prevention, detection and analysis with WAF, MFA, and similar measures suited to company size
  • Advised on and managed GDPR requirements for software projects and technical infrastructure decisions
  • Coordinated marketing to generate short-term (Google, Facebook ads) and long-term (organic visitors) leads; created campaign ideas; organized photographers, videographers, and copywriters; built sales funnels
  • Managed inbound and outbound sales; created sales processes and call scripts
  • Drafted contracts under German law
  • Ensured quality for graphic and code developments; coordinated test strategies
  • Consulted on and executed SEO and SEA both technically and through on-page copy and off-page factors
  • Coded small tasks, tools, and jobs in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL
  • Set up, configured, and administered Linux-based web servers for simple requirements
Apr 2004 - Jul 2005
1 year 4 months
Kassel, Germany

Trainee

B.I.O.S. Technologie Partner GmbH

  • Provided technical assistance for server setups (Windows and Linux)
  • Developed customer project websites
  • Performed quality assurance on software products; found and reported bugs
  • Digitized documents in the insurance branch of B.I.O.S.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Italian
Advanced

Education

Oct 2007 - Jun 2009

University of Kassel International Management School

Marketing Economics · Kassel, Germany

Oct 2004 - Jun 2006

Max-Eyth-Schule Kassel

Technical College Maturity · Kassel, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Professional Scrum Product Owner 1

scrum.org

Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager

Scaled Agile Inc.

AML basic education

VQF Zug

Remote Pilot Certificate of Competency ("Fernpiloten-Zeugnis")

BAZL Bundesamt für Zivilluftfahrt

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

EC Council

Marketing economist

Universität Kassel

IHK Instructor ("AEVO Ausbildereignungsverordnung")

IHK Kassel

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