Martin Schneider
IT Delivery & cross-functional IT ownership
I take responsibility for IT projects and services – from clear planning and steering through to stable operational readiness.
Structured planning, prioritisation and steering of complex IT initiatives
Interface between business and technology – integrations & platforms
Quality assurance, go-live coordination and stable operational handover
- ✓Clear target pictures before fast execution
- ✓Decisions transparently documented and communicated
- ✓Risks identified early and actively addressed
- ✓Taking responsibility, even for uncomfortable decisions
Core Competencies
Project References
09/2025 – present · Internal initiative (Stratum IT GmbH)
Context: Design of an analytics and profitability model to assess ROI, payback period and investment risk of mining devices – including modelling of volatile factors (hashrate, asset prices, costs, lifetimes) and translation into transparent decision foundations.
Role: Entrepreneurial and functional overall ownership: validating the business case with potential target customers, assessing commercial viability and controlled discontinuation after insufficient market demand.
Key Results:
- •Complex payback and profitability logic for volatile mining assets structured
- •Transparency over risk, payback and investment logic for device fleets created
- •Operational experience from the Albacore mandate translated into an independent analytics initiative
- •Commercial viability assessed; further investment consciously limited
04/2024 – 08/2025 · Mandate via Stratum IT GmbH
Context: Multi-region SaaS platform with high availability and stability requirements; focus on delivery, platform operations, monitoring, billing and operational handovers.
Role: IT Delivery & Service Operations Lead: steering delivery and operations workstreams, stakeholder alignment on scope and risks, release/cutover management including go/no-go and rollback planning, building operational readiness (runbooks, handovers, knowledge transfer) and hypercare post-go-live.
Key Results:
- •Automated per-customer invoicing via Xero integration
- •Asset and ownership tracking for large device fleets introduced
- •Repair tracking including reporting for improved operational transparency
- •Reproducible deployments and operational handovers standardised across environments
09/2022 – 04/2024
Context: E-commerce platform with millions of products and business-critical performance requirements.
Role: Responsible for delivery and steering of revenue-critical PDP features with measurable business impact (>€20M).
Key Results:
- •Predictable feature rollouts through structured prioritisation and data-driven decisions (A/B tests)
- •Measurable performance and stability improvements in the revenue-critical PDP environment
Areas of Responsibility
Depending on the role I take on different focus areas
Permanent
Responsibility for planning, prioritisation and steering of IT projects, including stakeholder alignment, risk management and stable go-lives.
Learn more →Permanent
Leadership and steering of IT services and teams with a focus on prioritisation, SLA/KPI transparency, vendor management and stable operations.
Learn more →Permanent
Technical leadership responsibility for platforms and integrations: architecture decisions, team coordination, operability concepts and sustainable system stability.
Learn more →Focus Areas
- •IT Delivery & Project Steering
- •System & Integration Ownership
- •Operations, Stabilisation & Go-Live Reliability
Availability
- •Lucerne (CH)
- •80–100%
Interested in working together?
Happy to introduce myself and discuss how I can support your team or project.