New Members Introductions

Monika Uscimiak - January 2021

monika uscimiak

Monika is a Project Manager with a strong background in Finance, specialized in the banking industry. During the last 10 years of her professional experience she has worked for the biggest investment banks across Europe. She was mainly responsible for the change management, projects bringing an efficiency increase due to process improvement as well as regulatory requirements projects.

Monika is keen to work in dynamic, multicultural environments, which require open minded approach, problem solving and organizational skills.

She has passed her PMP exam this year and is looking to connect to project management professionals in Switzerland to exchange experiences and develop by learning from each other.

Outside work she is a passionate climber, snowboarder and kite surfer.

You can learn more about Monika by visiting her LinkedIn profile:

Georges Moussa - January 2021

Georges MOUSSA

Georges is specialized in the Medical Device industry where he has been working as an Industrial Project manager since 2018 @Cellprothera - a biotech company specialized in Heart Regeneration using Stem Cells.

George has been managing projects since 2014 and this year he earned the PMP certification and lately, he got a promotion to become the PMO. Georges lives near Basel City at the border with France.

He is excited to be a member in the swiss chapter and meet other PMP managers to exchange our experience and discuss new ways to manage projects specially in the Pharma and Medical Device sectors.

In his free time, Georges likes cooking so much. Every weekend, he cooks new recipes and post them on his special Instagram profile. @by.jorje (IG".

You can learn more about Georges by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

Ju Yang - January 2021

Ju Yang

Ms Ju Yang is Technical Officer, Continuous Business Improvement at the WHO Health Emergencies Programme based in Geneva, Switzerland.


She is an international professional with about 20-year experience in Canada, China (Mainland and Hong Kong) and Switzerland, mainly with non-profit UN organizations. Her experience lies in the areas of programme management, continuous improvement, SOP development and training, monitoring and evaluation, as well as data management and analysis. In addition, her duties consisted of IT system development and implementation, coordination of large-scale international reporting and review meetings. She has been applying these skills within the context of non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, vaccination, disaster management as well as emergency preparedness and response.

Ms Yang has post-graduate educational qualifications in Management Information Systems, Statistics, Public Health, Disaster Management and Humanitarian Leadership. She is PMP, Prince2 and Scrum Master certified. She speaks Mandarin Chinese (native), English (C2, 2016), French (B2, 2016) and German (B2, 2020). She is also a Certified Coach, with ACC credential from International Coach Federation (ICF), focusing on career development, life transition and work-life balance.

She joined the PMI Switzerland Chapter to know more like-minded people and contribute to the industry practice, especially from the perspective.

You can learn more about Ms. Yang by visiting her LinkedIn profile.

Florian Zbinden - January 2021

Florian Zbinden

Florian is 37 years old and a chemical engineer by background. He has been working in the biotech and chemical industry in Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Having experience in process development, production and projects in both chemistry and IT fields, he is now working in a biotech company, leading IT projects related to the laboratories and the production of hemophilia-related products for CSL Behring.


Florian is a certified PMP (since September this year) as well as a PRINCE2 & AgilePM Practitioner. He expects to learn from his peers through the Swiss chapter and to engage in interesting discussions.


In his free time, Florian goes skiing, rides his mountain bike and spends time with his family.


You can learn more about Florian by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

 

Raphael Branger - December 2020

Raphael Branger

Raphael is a pioneer in adapting agile and requirement engineering methods in the context of data and analytics projects. He works as a Principal Consultant Data & Analytics at IT-Logix in Switzerland with more than eighteen years of experience in business intelligence and data warehousing.


Raphael is helping organisations to plan and build what's needed for their data & analytics requirements. He is a strategist, architect, requirements engineer, agile coach but also a developer hence providing a holistic view on the projects he is involved with. He started his career with creating reports and moved on to system engineering for business intelligence platforms. He learned to build new data warehouses from scratch and how to optimize this process following an agile process as well as data warehouse automation. His projects led him from small data to big data to smart data, from simple dashboards to sophisticated data science models.


Raphael holds a master’s degree in information management of the University of Fribourg – Switzerland. In 2017 he became a Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner. He is an active contributor to the community in associations like IBCS, TDWI and SwissVR. He is looking forward to contributing to PMI as well.


You can learn more about Raphael by visiting his LinkedIn profile: