Tim Stern - Founder & CEO | FRATCH

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Lörrach, Germany

Experience

Dec 2024 - Present

1 year 2 months

Lörrach, Germany

Founder & CEO

Entrepreneur / Founder & CEO

Empower businesses to harness AI-driven app solutions for transformative growth
Combine hands-on development with strategic AI consulting to turn complex ideas into smart, scalable products
Passionate about creating software that delivers real-world impact

Sep 2022 - Nov 2024

2 years 3 months

Basel, Switzerland

Project Manager in Asset Management Projects Dept.

Helvetia Versicherungen

Co-led a large-scale, international program to implement the Aladdin BlackRock investment software and modernize IT landscape and processes for asset managers in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Singapore

Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

1 year

Basel, Switzerland

Strategic Projects Leader and Inhouse Consultant

Basler Kantonalbank

Performed internal consulting roles including project and program management, project portfolio management, peer coaching in project management methodologies, and inhouse project management trainings
Led large-scale strategic projects, e.g. initializing a 4-year program in payment transactions including the introduction of Instant Payments
Improved organizational project and portfolio management processes towards a bottleneck-driven and benefits-oriented agile methodology setup
Provided operational support to the project portfolio management

May 2019 - Aug 2021

2 years 4 months

Füllinsdorf, Switzerland

Project Lead for Medium to Large Size Laboratory Automation Plants

Chemspeed Technologies AG

Managed between 10 to 20 international customer projects worth between 200 000 and 5 Mio. CHF with cross functional project teams
Supported sales activities, project initiation, planning, and execution
Stakeholder management
Requirements engineering
Project team building
Work package definition
Progress tracking
Steering committee meetings
Risk and opportunity management
Project communication and marketing
Organizational change management
Introduced a harmonized project management process and templates, improving efficiency and effectiveness of project work and increasing stakeholder satisfaction through uniform processes and structures
Assigned to company-wide simplification and harmonization of IT tools, resulting in increased productivity and improved 3D model structures in the mechanical design department

Jan 2013 - Apr 2019

6 years 4 months

Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

Specialist for Manufacturing Operations Management

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Mapping of pharmaceutical production and packaging processes in the implemented Manufacturing Execution Systems
Responsible for system upgrades
Led several business and IT projects in validated production and packaging environments, e.g. the integration of serialization/aggregation data for finished goods

Jun 2009 - Dec 2012

3 years 7 months

Karlsruhe, Germany

Consultant / Junior Project Manager

Systec & Services Ltd.

Career entry as consultant and project manager
Responsible for IT projects in the pharmaceutical environment
Validation of soft- and hardware in the GMP area
Consulting MES integration projects
Development and integration projects

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2004 - Apr 2009

University of Applied Sciences

Diploma · Mechatronics · Karlsruhe, Germany · 1.3 (very good)

Certifications & licenses

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist – Leading SAFe® 5.1

SERVIEW Ltd.

Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM I)

scrum.org

Project Manager IPMA Level C

GPM

APICS – Basics Of Supply Chain Management (BSCM)

PMI Product Management Institute Ltd.

Project Management Associate IPMA Level D

GPM

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