I build with AI to turn strategy into change that actually ships.
I’m a digital transformation, product and project lead who builds with AI hands-on. I take a business priority, scope it into a real project, govern it through to delivery, and prove it moved a number. Over twenty years of working experience, more than a decade of it in product and project delivery, much of it building new ventures from zero. My partner and I are planning our move to Dubai, so that’s where I’m looking. Start with my skills, click any one and it shows you where I’ve done it for real.
My skills, with the receipts
Anyone can list skills. So pick one. Filter by area, click any skill, and the panel shows what it looks like in my hands and the real moments from my career that prove it. No invented numbers, just the work.
The CV
Digital transformation, product and project lead in Zurich. Swiss citizen, available with notice, planning the move to Dubai with my partner. I turn ambiguous business priorities into scoped projects, governed delivery and measured results, equally at home with engineers on the build and with leadership on the trade-offs.
Jan 2026 to present
AI Project Lead, Business Development
Swiss Post, Advertising · Zurich
- Lead digital and AI-driven business transformation, from sizing the opportunity to building and governing the delivery roadmap.
- Turn strategic priorities into scoped projects and new revenue, tracked with clear KPIs and stage-gates.
- Run cross-functional work from concept to launch across product, tech, data and commercial teams.
- Build and automate working solutions hands-on with AI tooling, rather than handing off a brief and waiting.
- Translate what AI can and can’t do into plain decisions for leadership, so the investment goes where it pays off.
Aug 2025 to Dec 2025
Sabbatical & own ventures
Self-employed · Zurich and on the road
- Took five months off to travel, including bikepacking through Togo and Benin.
- Built my studio smedium: first paying clients, websites shipped, AI workflows automated.
- Grew Pedal Peak with events, a new website and a bigger community.
- Went deep on AI tooling by building real things with it: own LLM tools, prompt engineering, AI-supported content production.
Oct 2024 to Jul 2025
Senior Product Manager, Lead E-Commerce
Ifolor Group · Zurich
- Owned the e-commerce platform and strategy for a CHF 100M+ business, reporting to C-level.
- Lifted conversion 9% and the checkout step rate 15% through research, A/B testing and analytics.
- Led a cross-functional team and external agencies, owning budget, resourcing and KPIs.
- Built and prioritised the product roadmap, deciding what to ship next from data and customer research.
- Ran the experimentation programme end to end, from hypothesis to reading the numbers and acting on them.
Jun 2023 to Sep 2024
Lead Project Manager
Brixel · Zurich
- Owned the partnerships with financial institutions, UBS and Baloise, that drove growth.
- Was the main bridge between senior client stakeholders and the internal delivery team.
- Ran delivery against scope, timeline and budget, keeping both sides aligned to one outcome.
- Turned client needs into clear briefs the delivery team could build without guesswork.
Mar 2020 to May 2023
Marketing & Growth Lead, Founding Team
WePractice · Sparrow Ventures (Migros Group) · Zurich
- Founding team of a health venture. Closed two funding rounds and grew it to 10 locations, 23 people and 170+ customers.
- Generated 1000+ client matches in year one and built the full go-to-market on a hypothesis-and-data approach.
- Built and led the marketing and sales team after Series B, owning budget, KPIs and growth.
- Made the case to investors and helped shape the story that closed both rounds.
- Set up the acquisition and matching funnel, then optimised it as the venture scaled across locations.
Sep 2019 to Sep 2022
Growth & Venture Builder
Sparrow Ventures · Zurich
- Built and governed a portfolio of internal startups, from early validation through to scale-up.
- Used research and experimentation to improve conversion, lower acquisition cost and raise customer lifetime value.
- Validated each idea cheaply before committing build budget, killing the weak ones early.
- Made the build, buy and partner calls as new ventures took shape.
Jan 2017 to Aug 2019
Intrapreneur, Innovation
Die Mobiliar · Bern
- Ran staged market pilots for new products (Smide, now BOND Mobility, plus XpertCheck and Lizzy) from MVP to launch inside one of Switzerland’s largest insurers.
- Coached cross-functional teams and explored new data and partnerships.
- Took ideas through clear gates, validate, build, pilot, with a real go or no-go at each step.
- Worked across business and tech to turn an early concept into something customers could actually use.
2005 to 2016
Earlier career
Accounting discipline, then FMCG product marketing, the foundation under everything since.
- Junior Trade Marketing Manager · Promena, Pratteln · 2016
- Junior Product Manager · Cruspi, Dällikon · 2014 to 2015
- Assistant Product Manager · Domaco, Lengnau · 2010 to 2014
- Accountant · Kuoni & AMAG · 2008 to 2010
- Commercial apprenticeship (Kauffrau E-Profil) · Bridgestone Switzerland · 2005 to 2008
Things I’ve built myself
I don’t just manage other people’s products. I build my own, end to end, with modern AI workflows, web and native iOS apps. It keeps me close to the craft I ask teams to deliver.
smedium
My studio: branding, websites and content for small businesses and startups. I design and build each site myself, from positioning to the last detail. This is the live one, have a look.
Open smedium.chOnyx
A native iPhone focus app I built and use daily: start a session, block distracting apps with Apple Screen Time, and see your focus in clean charts. Built in SwiftUI, solo, with AI in the loop.
Open onyxfocus.appPedal Peak
A cycling community platform with its own native iOS app. It connects riders with curated routes, local groups and stories. I’ve built it end to end on modern AI tooling since 2023, from first idea to running product.
Open pedal-peak.comTailored application sites
Interactive, made-to-measure CV and job-application sites, like the one you’re reading now. I design and build each one to fit the role, with the work shown as proof rather than just listed.