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Michael Sönke Sönnichsen

Apartment 1601

117 on Strand, 117 Strand Street

de Waterkant

8001 Cape Town (Western Cape)

South Africa

 [Telefonnummer nur mit Premium sichtbar] (Mobile)

 [E-Mail-Adresse nur mit Premium sichtbar]

Place of birth Liestal, Switzerland

Date of birth October 25, 1963

Marital status Married

Nationality German and

Swiss

National service 102 days (Infantry) June 1983 – November 1983

Interests Africana

Reading

Gardening

References Can be made available, if required

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

September 2015 until

November 2023 Marmota Hospitality (PTY) Ltd.

&

Marmota Consulting & Operating (PTY) Ltd.

Branch: Hospitality

Category: Managing Director (and Owner)

Location: South Africa, Prince Albert (Western Cape)

Setup, Manage and Operate a Luxury Guest Lodge in South Africa

• Guest Lodge De Bergkant Lodge, Prince Albert

o Management responsibility for:

o preparing a yearly budget plan and the adherence of this plan

o all kind of employee matters:

o Hiring of new employees

o Termination of employees

o Changing in employee’s conditions during the financial year

o deciding on the best hotel room rates on the various booking

channels on offer, for the year, and the changing on the best hotel

room rates for any given day, night, weekend, or special event

o setting up the hotel service standards.

o Management of Front Desk (Reception) Staff:

o Organize reservations and cancellations (refund process)

o Define and verify check-in/check-out procedures

o Define procedures to take care of guest complaints

o Define procedures to take care of guest room issues

o Management of Housekeeping, Laundry, and Gardening Staff

o Management of Breakfast Host and Cook

o Management of Maintenance Staff

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January 2014 until August 2015 PostFinance AG

Branch: Private Banking (Corporate Center)

Category: Senior Business Analyst

Contract-Type: Consultant

Location: Switzerland, Berne

Business (Compliance) Projects

• Senior Business Analyst in Corporate Center - Compliance

(Money Laundering / Due Diligence)

o Drafting a feasibility study for the changes in the following Swiss laws and

Swiss banks' agreements with regards to the expected changes on the

Business- and IT Processes and -Systems of PostFinance AG:

o Federal law on the implementation of the 2012 revised

recommendations of the Groupe d'action financière (GAFI)

o Agreement on the Swiss banks' code of conduct regarding the

exercise of due diligence (VSB15)

o A Swiss Financial Centre Strategy – Extended due diligence for the

prevention of the acceptance of untaxed investments and assets

o Following the feasibility study (see point above) for the changes on the

Business- and IT Processes and –Systems of PostFinance AG on the 2012

revised recommendations of the Groupe d’action financière (GAFI), VSB15

and extended due diligence for the prevention of the acceptance of

untaxed investments and asset, a detailed Business- and IT- Requirement

document on the foreseen adaptions was created.

o During the realization- and testing phase of the changes due to the

adaptions for the GAFI -, VSB15 - and extended due diligence for the

prevention of the acceptance of untaxed investments and assets

adaptions and enhancements, a close assistance and support was given

to the IT- and Testing-Project Team.

Hardware/OS used: PC MS/Windows '7

Office-SW used: MS-Office '2010

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word

January 2004 to December 2013 UBS AG

Branch: Private Banking, Treasury Group

(Wealth Management & Business Banking) Category:

Solution Manager Treasury - Fiduciary and Money Market

Products

Senior Project Manager

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Senior System - / Business Analyst

Consultant

Contract-Type: Consultant

Location: Switzerland, Zurich

IT Projects

• Solution Domain Manager of Money Market– and Fiduciary-

Products / -Systems

o Managing the IT environment (end-to-end) for handling Money Market-

and Fiduciary products.

o Manage change control procedures.

• Senior Project Manager (Project Management Methodology

using SDLC) in Project 'e-Banking Next Generation' for Forex

(FX Spot, -Forward, -Swap) – Products

• Senior Project Manager (Project Management Methodology

using SDLC) for various Key Enhancements for Forex -,

Precious-Metal-, Money Market- and Fiduciary-Products

• Senior Project Manager (Project Management Methodology

using SDLC) in Project 'Multi Compliance Suitability Program'

for Forex-, Precious-Metal-, Money Market - and Fiduciary-

Products

• Senior Technical Project Manager (Project Management

Methodology using SDLC) in Project 'Discount Transparency for

Forex-, Precious-Metal-, Money Market - and Fiduciary-

Transactions'

o Managing the development and implementation of the IT system to meet

the business requirements (needs), acquiring an utilizing the necessary

skills (within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality).

o Work out project strategies, planning, definition of tasks and deliverables.

o Review project deliverables, quality control, risk analysis and -

management, status reports, problem reporting and management

systems.

o Guide the onshore team (5 people in Zurich, Switzerland) in charge of

project activities and review their deliverables.

o Guide the offshore team (4 people in Manila, Philippines and 4 people in

Bangalore, India) in charge of project activities and review their

deliverables.

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o Participate in functional working groups and progress meetings.

o Estimate costs, timescales, and resource requirements for the successful

completion of the project.

o Prepare and maintain project- and quality plans.

o Track activities against plan, provide regular and accurate reports.

o Monitor costs, timescales and resources and act where these deviate from

agreed tolerances (ensure that delivered systems are implemented within

these criteria).

o Manage change control procedure.

o Provide leadership for the project team (ensuring that team members are

motivated and constantly developing their skills and experience).

• Senior System - / Business Analyst and Senior Technical Project

Manager in Project ‘Order Manager Treasury – Fiduciary /

Money Market’

o Analyze, Design, Realize and Implement centralized Order Management

Systems for 'Fiduciary and Money Market' transactions (Money Market

Fix/-Call, Time Deposit Accounts, Fiduciary Fix/-Call, Manual-/Automatic

Refinancing) for the whole UBS Private Banking group (UBS Wealth

Management & Business Banking) in cooperation with the UBS Investment

Banking group (Market).

o Defined the technical architecture for the implementation of the various

Order Managers.

o Accompany the project team through the whole live -cycle as senior

consultant in technical as well as Treasury relevant business issues.

o Manage various onshore and offshore development and business - analyse

teams in Switzerland (Zurich), Indonesia (Accenture) and India

(Cognizant).

• Senior System - / Business Analyst in Project ‘Order Manager

Treasury - FX Induced’

o Analyze, Design, Realize and Implement a centralized Order Management

System for 'FX Induced' transactions (transactions (FX- Spots/-Forwards)

resulting out of original transactions (i.e., buy or sell of securities,

payment processing etc.), where a currency risk exposure must be

managed and covered) for the whole UBS Private Banking group (UBS

Wealth Management & Business Banking).

The following major concepts, design papers and detail specifications

were created:

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o Business Requirements for ‘Treasury Products (FX Flow) – FX

Induced’

o IT Design Specification ‘Treasury Products (FX Flow) – FX Induced’

o IT Business Service Raster’s (IT Detail Specification) 'Treasury

Products (FX Flow) - FX Induced'

o Business Readiness Concept for 'Treasury Products (FX Flow) - FX

Induced'

Hardware/OS used: IBM zOS

PC MS/Windows NT / XP / 7

Software used: SDLC, Eclipse - IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform

7.0 (Rational Software Modeler 7.5, Subversion 1.2), Select

Component Architect 4.4 / 5.0 (UML), UBS Dynamic

Repository (UBS DynaRep) 2.0, Jira, Test Director 7.6,

XML, fpML

Office-SW used: MS-Office ‘2000 / XP / ‘2010

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word

March 2003 to December 2003 Entory AG

Branch: Exchange, Clearing House

Category: System - / Business Analyst

Consultant

Contract-Type: Consultant

Client: Deutsche Börse AG

Location: Germany, Frankfurt am Main

USA, Chicago

IT Projects

• System - / Business Analyst in Project ‘Eurex’s new U.S.

Exchange’

o Analyze the impact and requirements of setting up a CFTC regulated

Exchange in the US (Eurex US) as well as setting up a new CFTC regulated

Clearing House (Eurex’s New U.S. Clearing House) for a European based

Exchange / Clearing House (Eurex).

The following major concepts and design papers were created:

o High Level ‘Clearing House Link with US based Clearing House’

o High Level ‘Eurex Global Clearing’ Requirements Eurex – CCorp

o Business Requirements for ‘Eurex Global Clearing’ Eurex – CCorp

o Business Model for ‘Eurex Global Clearing’ Eurex – CCorp

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o Various detailed ‘Process & Requirements Documents’ for ‘Eurex

Global Clearing’ Eurex - CCorp

Hardware/OS used: PC MS/Windows NT / XP / 7

Office-SW used: MS-Office ‘XP

Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Word

Lotus-Notes

April 2000 to December 2002 Commerzbank AG

Branch: Investment Banking

Category: Project-Management

Consultant

Analyst / Programmer

Contract-Type: Consultant

Location: Germany, Frankfurt am Main

IT Projects

• Technical Project Manager for the Project ‘Migration

Derivatives Backoffice-System DEVON-EQU 2.22 to Derivatives

Backoffice-System Rolfe & Nolan (Devon Logical Gateway) .’

o Management responsibility for the projects IT -development team (7

internal- and 8 external IT-professionals).

o All functional- and technical requirements of the investment- as well as

the domestic-banks site were analysed and brought together into a

concept on how to setup the derivatives business clearing of the bank (1

st

step LIFFE/LTOM markets, 2

nd

step EUREX market and 3

rd

step the rest

of the derivatives exchanges).

o The following major concepts and design papers were created to setup

the new derivatives clearing system:

o Design paper of the new setup/structure for all involved banking

sites

o Design paper of the new IT setup/structure

o Detailed programmer manual for all IT relevant changes/additions

o A fully new operational manual for the business- as well as the

technical IT site

o A whole test concept for the LIFFE/LTOM and EUREX markets

from the trading- to the clearing site

o A security concept for the setup of the new environment

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o A functional- as well as a technical migration-concept

Hardware/OS used: Compaq Alpha, VMS 7.x

IBM 3090x, MVS / XA / ESA

PC MS/Windows ’2000 / NT / XP

Software used: COBOL, Vax-C, Dec-C, PL/SQL, SQL, DCL, DB2, CMS, TPX,

TSO-ISPF/PDF, ROSCOE, -REXX, MVS-JCL, -CA7/-11, XPF,

XPEditor, Connect:Direct, RVS

Office-SW used: MS-Office ’97 / ‘2000 / ‘XP

Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint,

Project, Visio, Word

April 1987 to December 2001 UBS Warburg

(Former SBC, SBC Warburg, Warburg

Dillon Read)

Branch: Investment Banking

Category: Business-Analyst / -Integrator

Analyst / Programmer

Consultant

Contract-Type: Consultant

Location: Switzerland, Basle, and Zurich

Germany, Frankfurt am Main

Great Britain, London

IT Projects

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Migration of the Eurex -

User-Device Infrastructure to the Eurex -MISS – Infrastructure’.

o Design of the migration concept.

• Full technical project and operational management

responsibility for the ‘Eurex’ exchange on the client (bank) site.

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Migration of the

Backoffice-System ‘SBG Rolfe & Nolan’ to the Backoffice -

System ‘SBC Warburg Rolfe & Nolan’.

o Design of the migration concept followed by full realisation and

implementation of the proposed migration-solution.

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Migration of the DTB -

and SOFFEX-User-Device - Infrastructure to the Eurex – User-

Device - Infrastructure’.

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o Design of the migration concept followed by full realisation and

implementation of the proposed migration-solution.

• Full technical project and operational management

responsibility for the DTB - and SOFFEX – exchanges on the

client (bank) site (Zurich and Frankfurt).

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Migration Derivatives

Backoffice-System DEVON -EQU 2.22 to Derivatives Backoffice -

System Rolfe & Nolan’.

o Design of the migration concept followed by full realisation and

implementation of the proposed migration-solution.

• Full project and operational management responsibility for the

Backoffice-system DEVON -SOFFEX/DTB -Host Systems (Devon

from SunGard Capital Markets).

• System Manager for the various Devon -EMS/EQU / -OPT – and

DTB-/SOFFEX-systems (VMS based systems).

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Implementation of Over -

The-Counter Financial Instruments (OTC) for Swiss Bank

Corporation Switzerland’.

o Design of the application and creation of the concept followed by full

realisation and implementation of an In-House ‘Over-The-Counter (OTC)

Derivatives System’ application, including (among various others):

o Transaction Management, Commission -/Fees-Management, Client

Statements, Position-keeping / -management, Margining, Payments

(SIC and SWIFT), Credit Limit System, Position Revaluation,

Analyses/MIS

o Additionally, the external ‘DEVON Back- and Frontoffice-System (DEVON-

EQU/-OPT 2.22)’ was implemented in the former SBC - infrastructure. All

interfaces to and from this system have been designed, realised and

implemented.

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Implementation of

Exchange Traded Derivatives Financial Instruments (ETD) for

Swiss Bank Corporation Germany (including Deutsche

Terminbörse – DTB -).’

o Design of the application and creation of the concept followed by full

realisation and implementation of an In-House ‘ETD – Exchange Traded

Derivatives System’ application, including (among various others):

o Transaction Management, Commission -/Fees-Management, Client

Statements, Position-keeping / -management, Margining, Payments

(SIC and SWIFT), Credit Limit System, Position Revaluation,

Analyses/MIS

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o Additionally, the external ‘DEVON Back- and Frontoffice-System (DEVON-

EQU/-OPT 2.22)’ was implemented in the former SBC - infrastructure. All

interfaces to and from this system have been designed, realised, and

implemented.

• Technical Project Manager for Project ‘Implementation of

Exchange Traded Derivatives Financial Instruments (ETD) for

Swiss Bank Corporation Switzerland (including Swiss Options

and Futures Exchange – SOFFEX -)’

o Design of the application and creation of the concept followed by full

realisation and implementation of an In-House ‘ETD – Exchange Traded

Derivatives System’ application, including (among various others):

o Transaction Management, Commission -/Fees-Management, Client

Statements, Position-keeping / -management, Margining, Payments

(SIC and SWIFT), Credit Limit System, Position Revaluation,

Analyses/MIS

o Additionally, the external ‘DEVON Back- and Frontoffice-System (DEVON-

EQU/-OPT 2.22)’ was implemented in the former SBC - infrastructure. All

interfaces to and from this system have been designed, realised, and

implemented.

IT Integration Projects (Merger – Activities)

• Technical Project and part -time operational management

responsibility of project ‘Integration of SBG (Schw.

Bankgesellschaft)’ into SBC Warburg Switzerland’s ETD

infrastructure.

• Technical Project and operational management member of

project ‚Integration of SG Warburg’ into SBC Switzerland’s ETD

infrastructure.

• Full technical project and operational management

responsibility for project ‘Integration of O’Connor Associates’

into SBC Switzerland’s ETD infrastructure.

Hardware/OS used: Compaq VAX/Alpha, VMS 4.x/7.x

IBM 3090x, MVS / XA / ESA

PC DOS

MS/Windows 3.x / ’95 / ’98 / ’2000 / NT

PC MS/Windows ’2000 / NT / XP

Sun Solaris, UNIX

Software used: COBOL (ANS- / -2), Vax-C, Dec-C, SQL / QMF, DCL, Perl5,

DB2, IMS DB/DC, RMS, DL/1, VSAM, Sybase, TPX, TSO -

ISPF/PDF, -ROSCOE, -REXX, MVS-JCL, CA7/-11, DCF, XPF,

XPEditor, CMS, Connect:Direct, DTF, OpenDNA, OpenNDM,

OpenLAT, SUNLink DNI

Office-SW used: MS-Office ’95 / ’97

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Access, Excel, FrontPage, Outlook, PowerPoint,

Project, Visio, Word

Lotus-OpenMail / -Organizer

ABC-Flowcharter

August 1986 to March 1987 SB-I Software Consulting

Branch: Insurance

Category: Programmer / Analyst

Contract-Type: Consultant

Client: Vita Insurance Company

Location: Switzerland, Basle, and Zurich

IT Projects

• Project Team Member for Project ‘Central Transaction

Processing System .’

o Analyze and design of a concept for a ‘Central Transaction Processing

System’ (‘Transaction Manager’) for all branches and subsidiaries in the

insurance company.

Hardware/OS used: IBM 3090x, MVS / XA / ESA

PC DOS

Software used: COBOL (Meta), Delta, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, TPX, TSO -

ISPF/PDF, -ROSCOE, -REXX, MVS-JCL, -CA7/-11, DCF

January 1984 – July 1986 Patria Life Insurance

Branch: Insurance

Category: Programmer / Analyst

Contract-Type: Permanent

Location: Switzerland, Basle

IT Projects

• Project Manager for Project ‘Central Output Management

System’.

o Project manager in analyse, design and creation of a concept, followed by

the full realisation and implementation of the conceptual solution, of a

‘Central Output Management System’ for all branches and subsidiaries in

the insurance company.

o The entire output (client- / in-house-statements and –reports) from

all the company’s applications was centrally managed:

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• Creation, collection, and printing
• Mailing
• Microfiche-archiving and reports-archiving
• Capacity Planning
• MIS (Analyses)

• Project Team Member for Project ‘Central Payments System’

(Telecoms and Banks).

o Team-member in analyse, design and creation of a concept, followed by

full realisation and implementation, of a ‘Central Payments System’ for all

branches and subsidiaries in the insurance company.

Hardware/OS used: IBM 3090x, MVS / XA / ESA

PC DOS

Software used: COBOL (ANS- / Meta-), Delta, DB2, IMS DB/DC, DL/1,

VSAM, TPX, TSO-ISPF/PDF, -ROSCOE, -REXX, MVS-JCL, -

CA7/-11, DCF, XPF, XPEditor

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Business Skills - Compliance

GAFI Groupe d’action financière

VSB15 Agreement on the Swiss banks' code of conduct

regarding the exercise of due diligence

Extended Due Diligence Swiss Financial centre Strategy – Extended due

diligence for the prevention of the acceptance of

untaxed investments / assets

Corpus juris OR, SchKG, StGB, ZGB etc.

Business Skills – Derivatives Products (Standard

Products)

Trading Systems Eurex – Trading-System (former Soffex-/DTB-

Trading-System)

Devon 2.22

GL Trade

Clearing Systems Eurex – Clearing-System (former Soffex -/DTB-

Clearing-System)

The Clearing Corporation – Clearing System (former

BoTCC - Clearing System (Board of Trade Clearing

Corporation))

ClearVision

Devon 2.22

Rolfe & Nolan (RANSys, RANgl)

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Information Technology Skills

Hardware, OS Compaq VAX

Compaq Alpha

IBM 3090x

VMS 4.x /5.x

VMS 6.x /7.x

MVS / XA / ESA / OS390 / zOS

PC DOS

MS/Windows 3.x / '95 / '98 / '2000 /

NT / XP / Vista / '7 / '8 /

'8.1 / '10 / '11

Sun Solaris

UNIX

System-/Software-Design

And -Modelling

SDLC

UML / UML 2

Select Component Architect 4.4 / 5.0

Eclipse – IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform 7.0

Rational Software Modeller 7.5

Subversion 1.2

Enterprise Architect 8 / 9

UBS Dynamic Repository (UBS DynaRep) 2.0

Programming Languages COBOL (ANS- / Meta- / -2 / - for z/OS 4.2)

Delta

Vax-C / Dec -C

PL/SQL / SQL / QMF

DCL

Perl5

File Systems / Databases DB2

IMS DB

RMS

DL/1

VSAM

Oracle-7 / -8 / -9 (i)

Sybase

Online Experience CICS

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IMS/DC

Tools Citrix

TPX

TSO-ISPF/PDF / -ROSCOE / -REXX

Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme

MVS-JCL / -CA7/-11

DCF

XPF / XPEditor

CodeWright

IBM Remote Debugger / IBM Debugger for System z

CMS (CodeManagementSystem on VMS based systems)

Serena-ChangeMan ZMF / -ZDD for z/OS

(CodeManagementSystem on z/OS systems)

Connect:Direct (former NDM)

DTF

OpenDNA, OpenNDM, OpenLAT

RVS

SUNLink DNI

XML, FpML

Jira (Issue and Project Tracking Tool)

BMC Remedy ARS (Action Request System)

ServiceNow

Sharepoint

Test Management Tools Mercury's Quality Center 9.2

QuickTest Professional

Test Director 7.6

Office Tools MS-Office '95 / '97 / '2000 / XP / '2003 / '2007 / '2010

/ '2013 / '2019

Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, Project, OneNote,

Outlook, ToDo, Visio, Word

Lotus-Notes / -OpenMail / -Organizer

McAfee Office 2000

Norton AntiVirus / -Internet Security

ABC-Flowcharter

Web-Publishing HTML 3.2 / 4.0

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EDUCATION

1980 – 1983 3 years Business–College Liestal, Switzerland

Areas of expertise:

Business: Accounting, Mathematics, Data Processing, Macro - /

Microeconomics

General: Economy, Geography, History

Other: Office Organization, Languages

1976 – 1980 4 years Secondary School Liestal, Switzerland

1970 – 1976 6 years Primary School Liestal, Switzerland

LANGUAGES

German Fluent Mother Language

Swiss German Fluent Mother Language

English Fluent Oral and Written

French Basic Oral and Written

Italian Basic Oral and Written