Serge Ackermann

Serge Ackermann

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Product Owner Document & Records Management Platforms at Swiss Re

  • Education

    • Kantonsschule Olten

      1991 - 1996
      Matura Economics

      Activities and Societies: Member of Regional Student Fraternity (Dornachia), Chamber Choir, Improv guitar duette Swiss Vice Champion Short distance sprint, Chess tournament second place

    • The Overlake School

      1992 - 1993
      Economics

      Activities and Societies: Varsity Lacrosse One year international student exchange program with EF International

    • Claremont McKenna College

      1996 - 2000
      BA Dual Major in Economics and Psychology

      Activities and Societies: Kravis Leadership Institute, Varsity Football, International Club Top 10 US liberal arts school with emphasis in economics & politics

    • Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

      2008 - 2009
      Course Executive MBA N/A

      EMBA courses - Leading People in Changing Organizations: MBAA 641: Applied Strategic Research Project - Organizational Behavior & MBAA 651: Understanding Human Behavior, Leading People and Change in Organizations

  • Experience

    • Day Software (acquired by Adobe)

      Aug 2000 - Mar 2001
      Project Manager

      Managed medium to large (multi-million dollar) projects in the US. Spent 1/2 year on east coast in New York city supporting one of the company's largest accounts. Worked side-by-side with IBM Global Services team.

    • Document Control Solutions (aquired by Smead)

      Dec 2001 - May 2003
      Project Manager

      Acted as key technical project manager to support sales team during pre-sales efforts as well a major implementations of document management and workflow solutions. Managed key partnerships with HP, EMC (Legato) and Hyland Software (OnBase) and others.

    • Smead Manufacturing Inc.

      Dec 2001 - Aug 2004
      Senior Project Manager

      Provided professional services to reseller channel and end users. Provided Sales support and professional services for wholly-owned subsidiary Document Control Solutions (DCS). Internally supported product development team and represented both companies at industry events such as ARMA and AIM.

    • CDG a BOEING Company

      Aug 2004 - Oct 2008
      Solutions Architect

      As part of the Business Solutions Group, I managed Professional Services as well as partner relationsships. I assembled and managed various internal and external project teams. As a senior consultant, I provided consulting services to our clients as well as internal groups and BOEING. I helped expand CDG's solutions portfolio to include partner offerings from EMC, Microsoft, Hyland Software (OnBase), Smead, LibertyIMS and Kofax in addition to CDG's homegrown, web-based content management solutions. Show less

    • Process and Content Management Consulting

      Oct 2008 - Aug 2011
      Principal Consultant

      Provided consulting services such as business process analysis, performance improvement assessment as well as systems planning, design and implementation. I have provided services to a range of businesses from family owned businesses to fortune 100 and 500 companies including BOEING, Countrywide and one of the largest counties in the US.

    • Corinthian Colleges, Inc.

      Mar 2009 - Aug 2011
      Technical Lead

      Joined CCi as the original architect of their integrated enterprise content management solution to help CCi manage its 130+ schools across the USA and Canada. I manage a team of 4 systems engineers to design and execute an innovative ECM strategy which integrates our Campus Management solution with Enterprise Content Management. The primary focus of the solution is to provide a single user interface for accessing and manipulating content around a centralized Citrix server framework. I am responsible for virtualizing all 50+ ECM servers using VMWare technology. Show less

    • ELCA Informatik AG

      Dec 2011 - Nov 2013
      Senior Consultant / Manager

      As a Manager within the ECM group, I specialized in Input Management Solutions such as AP Invoice Processing as well as integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM). On top of project and quality management for ELCA clients, I also supported the internal Sales and Marketing team with complex solution proposals (RFPs).

    • Infocentric Research AG

      Nov 2013 - Apr 2017
      Senior Consultant / Project Manager

      Infocentric Research AG is an innovative research and consulting company dedicated to delivering effective information management. From intranets to digital workplaces, from corporate websites to social media, from collaboration to enterprise content management – Infocentric covers the entire spectrum of information management and new media.

    • Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

      Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
      Senior Business Consultant / Program Manager

      Everything we do at Netcentric is rooted in delivering the best possible customer experience. It lies at the center of everything we do. We believe that – by meeting their customers’ expectations – our clients will meet their business objectives. And we believe that technology is the enabler. These core elements are the drivers of our strategies and the processes we define and implement for our clients.

    • Prime Force Group

      Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
      PO / Scrum Master / Engagement Manager / Consultant

      The Prime Force Group is an agile IT consultancy enterprise with Europe-wide connections. It offers comprehensive consultancy in enterprise content management (ECM), web content management (WCM) and e-commerce.We support our customers in every stage of complex IT projects:Requirements AnalysisChoosing the right IT systemSolution designIT development and implementationTest managementCare and maintenanceOperationManaged Services

    • Disruption Disciples

      Jul 2019 - now
      Member
    • Swiss Re

      Jun 2021 - now

      As Product Owner Document & Records Management Platforms at Swiss Re Group Data Services, I lead 4 DevSecOps Team that run and deliver company-wide solutions to ensure compliance and business operations across all SwissRe entities. The Transactional Enterprise Document Management Squad delivers company-wide solutions offering core capabilities and platforms in the area of integrated & automated document processing, storing, document generation, transformation and management. In addition to an enterprise e-signature solution we also maintain and develop our own application integration layer which exposes all of our EDM capabilities to all consuming applications and stakeholders.

      • Product Owner Document & Records Management Platforms

        Jun 2023 - now
      • Product Owner Transactional Document Management

        Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Serge Ackermann
      Adobe Digital Experience Partner of the Year for DACH Region - 2019 Adobe May 2019 Prime Force won Partner of the Year 2019 for DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland). This award was given in part due to sales excellence with strong execution and post sales activities, like community events across the region. Our commitment to promoting Adobe’s value proposition to our customers has resulted in two major Adobe Managed Services projects with BASF (Germany) and SPAR (Austria).
    • Awarded to Serge Ackermann
      Adobe Experience Cloud Partner of the Year for EMEA - 2018 Adobe May 2018 The Adobe Partner of the Year 2018 EMEA award cements Netcentric’s position as a true Adobe Experience Cloud expert that bridges the gap between marketing and technology