Bertrand KORNFELD

Contractor, Director R & D improvement

Structuring and promotion of a standard offering within the Life Sciences Practice to improve the effectiveness of R & D by means of e-Sourcing and PLM.

Sector: Organization and Strategy

Adviser to COO

Assist the sponsor of the e-PROMIS system used at the Commission for Technology and Innovation (Bern) in finishing software development. e-PROMIS links over the Internet start-ups, experts and agency staff to evaluate investment opportunities, to deliver reports and to trigger payments in SAP.
Use of HERMES methodology

Sector: Teaching - Research

Contractor, Project Manager

Managed a proof of concept to implement product information database for diverse functions (marketing, regulatory affairs, affiliates).
Implemented 4 business processes on PLM applications (shelf life update, text and design, product web site factory, attribute ownership in shared system) and federated a legacy Oracle database.

Sector: Pharmaceutical

Contractor, Head CRELIS architecture

Managed a team of 4 people developing software architecture for the credit management system and a decentralized user management software module to administer 1600 users in 16 divisions.
The Credit Management SAP shared service was built on the architecture of the Payment portal eCIS that I succeeded to get sold and implemented when I was with Brokat.

Sector: Industry

Vorstand and CTO

As a founder I defined, piloted on KPMG's infrastructure and proved to customers and venture capitalists a secure infrastructure providing large volumes of e-services to merchants to manage risks and to authorize and settle payment transactions using commonly available B2C payment means

Sector: Financial Services

Presenter - TV Interactive numérique: Quelles perspectives?

Developing secure e-services on digital TVs

Sector: Professional training

Consultant in customer competence center then Presales Consulting Manager EMEA

Development with clients of e-services based on the Twister application server. Successfully assured customer satisfaction to Siemens ZF in Munich (eCIS payment portal), Orbian in London (Trade Credit Management offering of Citigroup) and GoMobile / Bank of Valletta in Malta.
Partnership development with system integrators.

Sector: Software publishers

Contractor, Interim Manager

Developed and lead professional services in the Internet business.
In a second mandate, represented the Smart Card and Terminals division in Switzerland working on Proton e-purse ( cash card), ride-and-pay transportation ( easyRide ) and strong authentication services, until enough business was generated to justify hiring.

Sector: High Tech

Project Manager

Developed quality management policies for validated systems ( CSV ) in Pharma Research.
Representative of Pharma Research in the Pharma Operations Information Strategy Plan developed using Summit-S from Coopers & Lybrand.

Sector: Pharmaceutical

Assistant to the US Head of International Project Management

Managed change in the US organization, Nutley NJ

Followed professional education and training curriculum from Roche International Clinical Research ( Project Management Executive Overview, Basic clinical pharmacology and pharmacotherapy, Interpretation of laboratory values in clinical trials ), from Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association ( FDA / PMA interactive drug development, Training course on basic pharmacology ), from the Drug Information Association ( Document management challenges in constructing the clinical dossier )

Sector: Pharmaceutical

BPR Core Team Member

Member of a team of 7 mandated to design a new and global drug development process. Responsible for logistics activities (synthesis scale-up, formulation, packaging, dosage form development, QC, drug supplies).

Sector: Pharmaceutical

Business Consultant

Intervention in a runaway IT project to recover control over post-marketing activities (selectively opening access for Roche affiliates personnel to drug development information and handling Phase IV clinical trials).
Used NIAM (today better known as object-role modeling) methodology

Sector: Pharmaceutical

Kanban specialist

Seminar on just-in-time ( now lean ) manufacturing techniques and their impact on Information Systems. Focus on integration of sales order management with production planning and on production line design.
Case study of relationship between automotive suppliers and car manufacturers.

Sector: Professional training

Adjunct professor CESA Production

Computer-integrated Manufacturing ( CIM ) seminar

Sector: Universities and higher education institutions

Adjunct professor

Using Materials Management / 3000

Sector: Universities and higher education institutions

Application Engineer, Consultant then Project Director

Grew from providing support services (hot line, training, maintenance services) to presales and implementation consulting of MRP II and JIT systems. Managed fixed price projects for pharmaceutical and automotive suppliers industries.

Sector: High Tech