Michael Schneider

Profile

Certified project manager with 10 years of experience delivering IT and business-change projects worth up to CHF 15M. Strong at planning, stakeholder communication and keeping complex projects on track.

Skills

Project planning

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Agile & Waterfall

Budget control

MS Project / Jira

Experience

Senior Project Manager

Mar 2020 – Present

Alpine Insurance AG · Zurich

Delivered a CHF 15M claims-system replacement 2 weeks early and 4% under budget
Manage teams of up to 25 people across 3 countries
Introduced a risk register and monthly steering reports used company-wide

Project Coordinator → Project Manager

Aug 2015 – Feb 2020

Helvetic IT Consulting · Basel

Ran 20+ client projects (CRM, ERP and website launches)
Kept customer satisfaction above 9/10 on every project

Education

M.Sc. Business Information Systems

2013 – 2015

University of Applied Sciences Bern · Bern

Languages

GermanNative

EnglishFluent (C1)

FrenchProfessional (B2)

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)PMI · 2018

PRINCE2 PractitionerAXELOS · 2017

Interests

SkiingSailingCooking