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Julien TSCHERRIG

Julien TSCHERRIG

IT Project Manager · PhD in Computer Science · Entrepreneur.

French-speaking Switzerland

French (native) · English (fluent)

  • Finance & Risk
  • IT Project Management
  • Software Architecture
  • Applied AI
  • Semantic Web
  • Software Engineering
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About

PhD in Computer Science from the University of Fribourg, I currently lead IT projects and development teams in the Finance & Risk domains of a major Swiss bank.

I combine scientific rigor with industrial pragmatism: equally comfortable governing a portfolio of projects and diving deep into architecture, development, ops and the AI tooling that powers them.

Co-founder of JOE-SI Sàrl and founder of Ilygo Sàrl, I run both companies alongside my main role.

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Experience

  1. 2020 — Present

    IT Project Manager

    BCV — Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

    Leading IT projects and development teams in Finance & Risk domains. Primary activity. Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, business-IT alignment, regulatory compliance.

  2. 2020 — 2021

    Enterprise Architect (50% concurrent mandate)

    BCV — Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

    Enterprise architect mandate at 50%, run in parallel with the IT project management role. Target architecture design and alignment across the Finance & Risk portfolios.

  3. Since 2019

    Co-founder & Managing Director

    JOE-SI Sàrl

    Applied research and IT development company serving the Swiss federal administration, cantonal administrations and Swiss SMEs, in partnership with the HumanTech Institute (HES-SO).

  4. Since 2018

    Founder & Managing Director

    Ilygo Sàrl

    IT engineering and software development services for SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland.

  5. 2014 — 2020

    Head of Smart and Innovative Services Group

    HumanTech Institute, HEIA-FR (HES-SO)

    Leading an applied research group. Project supervision and industrial and institutional partnerships with cantonal and federal administrations, automotive and railway manufacturers, and various SMEs of the Fribourg region.

  6. 2012 — 2014

    Scientific Assistant

    HumanTech Institute, HEIA-FR (HES-SO)

    Applied research alongside a Master's at the University of Fribourg. Student supervision, contributions to the institute's projects.

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Education

  1. 2014 — 2019

    PhD in Computer Science

    University of Fribourg

    Thesis: Situational Web Synthesis. Advisors: Prof. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux & Prof. Omar Abou Khaled. Semantic Web, document aggregation and extractive summarization. Several concepts validated and operationally deployed within the Swiss federal administration for political information analysis.

  2. 2014 — 2016

    DAS in Higher Education Didactics (Did@cTIC)

    University of Fribourg

    Diploma of Advanced Studies in university didactics. Diploma project on improving the Software Engineering course at HEIA-FR.

  3. 2012 — 2014

    Master in Computer Science

    University of Fribourg

    Bridging Master's leading to the PhD. Design of the LinkedPolitics system: extraction of political facts published online in semi-structured or unstructured formats, conversion into semantic data (RDF), incremental interlinking and exploitation as Linked Data, applied to the Swiss political context. Work published at AINA 2016.

  4. 2010 — 2012

    Master of Science HES-SO in Engineering

    University of Bedfordshire (UK) — HES-SO

    Master's thesis carried out at the University of Bedfordshire. Initial work on data analysis and fusion — foundations of the LinkedPolitics research line.

  5. 2007 — 2010

    Bachelor of Science HES-SO in Computer Science

    HEIA-FR — School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg

    Bachelor thesis: brain-computer interface combining EEG sensor and immersive navigation (Google Street View). Published at HCI International 2011 (Head-Computer Interface: A Multimodal Approach to Navigate through Real and Virtual Worlds).

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Skills

Project Management

  • Leading IT projects and development teams
  • Portfolio governance, steering committees, executive reporting
  • Agile & hybrid methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks)
  • Multidisciplinary team and vendor management
  • Business analysis, requirements engineering, IT-business alignment
  • Risk management, compliance, quality
  • Standard tooling: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Power BI

Technical

  • Software architecture & system design
  • Full-stack development (Java, Python, TypeScript, React, Angular)
  • Relational databases (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL / graph stores
  • Semantic Web: RDF, SPARQL, ontologies, Linked Data
  • DevOps & Ops: Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, Traefik, monitoring
  • Applied AI: LLMs, RAG, LangChain, PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace
  • Human-computer interaction, signal processing, computer vision
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Scientific Publications

Selection · 89 citations on ResearchGate

  1. 2019
    Situational Web Synthesis
    PhD Thesis, University of Fribourg
  2. 2019
  3. 2016
  4. 2016
  5. 2013
    Democratizing 3D Dynamic Gestures Recognition
    IEEE Workshop on User-Centered Computer Vision (UCCV)
  6. 2012
  7. 2012
    Ontology Based Scope Visualisation
    Web Intelligence / IAT Workshops 2012, pp. 210-214
  8. 2011
DBLP →ResearchGate →
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Teaching

  1. 2014 — 2020

    Bachelor & Master thesis supervision

    HEIA-FR — HumanTech Institute

    Supervision of numerous Bachelor and Master theses in computer science within the Smart and Innovative Services group.

  2. Since 2020

    External Expert for Bachelor & Master Theses

    HES-SO

    Regular external expert role for Bachelor and Master HES thesis defenses, including evaluation of presentations and participation in juries.

  3. Lecturer

    Web Engineering (Master)

    University of Fribourg

    Master-level course on Web Engineering: modern front-end and back-end architectures and technologies, design of distributed applications and engineering best practices.

  4. External lecturer — completed

    Introduction to the Web of Data (MAS)

    HE-Arc Engineering

    MAS module of 2 ECTS on Web evolution (1.0 → 3.0), Linked Data & Open Data, ontologies, RDF/RDFS/OWL, NoSQL, SPARQL.

  5. Teaching Assistant — 2012-2015

    Software Engineering & Software Engineering for Telecom (Bachelor)

    HEIA-FR

    Three years as teaching assistant for the Software Engineering courses, Computer Science and Telecommunications Bachelor classes. Full redesign of the pedagogical approach.

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Engagement

A few associations I'm involved with outside of work.

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Contact

For any opportunity, collaboration, or professional discussion.

julien@tscherrig.com