Professional Experience

PerkinElmer (Schweiz) AG, Schwerzenbach

OneSource Enterprise Professional Services Leader Europe (11/2016-4/2018)

Organizing and managing the setup of Validation Services, Information Services, and Scientific Services to clients in the Health and Environmental sector as Managed Services in Europe.

OneSource Information Services Leader Europe (2-10/2016)

PerkinElmer OneSource offers a number of Scientific IT Services to help labs optimize their scientific productivity with effective use of Information Technology. These service solutions combine scientific and technical expertise with defined project management and information technology process methodologies, to create predictable and measurable information technology outcomes regardless of instrument technology or manufacturer.Hellmuth leads the OneSource Information Services in Europe with the objective to help companies and institutions to focus on the science and leave the rest of the lab chores to our engineers.

• Coordinated the RfI for Cloud Computing
• Wrote in close cooperation with the client a point-of-view paper and a business value proposition for Information Management, Data Integration, Data Governance. This will result in a project proposal
• 9–11/2013: Controls Maturity Assessment (Risk, Compliance) for the Novartis divi­ sions Animal Health and OTC. The 3-months assessment prepared for an eventual audit and measured the actual maturity of the respective IT or­ ganizations regarding security, risk, and compliance

Principal Technology Architect
Working with Life Sciences customers in Switzerland and Europe (5/2012–3/2013)

• Working with the Retail, Consumer Goods, and Life Sciences Group (RCL)
• Coordinated a RfP for a medical instrumentation company
• Focusing on Life Sciences R&D
• Co-creating new solutions in Life Sciences
• Trusted Technology Advisor for customers on executive level

• Associate Partner, Innovia Ventures
• Chairman, careon Avalis, Switzerland
• Authorized Partner, ABOS-CONWORKS Company Network
• Preparation of a study with an international organization (IKED) on “Enabling ICT for Innovation Development” for a country in the Middle East
• Business Development Advisor for several IT companies
• Executive Advisor with Experton Group
• Consulting Expert and Council Member with Gehrson Lehrman Group and Guidepoint Global

VP Business Development
First Ondemand Ltd., Fareham, Hampsire, UK; working remotely from Basel.

First Ondemand builds enterprise-class identity authentication solutions, which are designed to prevent and minimize counterfeiting, theft and fraudulent activities.

Responsibilities:

• Present First Ondemand’s solutions to national and international trade and industry associations, at conferences, to press and analysts
• Grow the business by using the high-level contacts network
• Contribute to creating a concise messaging for the company

Accomplishments:

• Established over 70 new contacts for the company
• Represented the company at the 2nd Identity Conference in London and at the Global Forum 2008 in Athens

• Promote the group’s strategy that enables Sun technology to be used as a social utility
• Connect Sun to the world’s ultimate service providers – Govern­ments
• Represent Sun to a wide variety of audiences promoting key Sun positions to ensure leverage of opportunities
• Member of Sun’s Liberty Staff team and the OpenDocument group

Accomplishments:

• Represented Sun to a wide variety of audiences to reinforce key Sun positions (especially in Identity Management, Open Source,Open Systems, Open Standards, OpenDocument, Sustainability)
• Delivered 60 keynotes and customer presentations to governments and the private sector
• Represented Sun in the Liberty Alliance Business Marketing Expert Group, in the Public Policy Expert Group and the e-Gov SIG (Spe­cial Interest Group), contributed to privacy work in and recruited many members for the Liberty Alliance
• Continued to serve as chairperson for the annual European Net-ID conference (since 2005)

Responsibilities:

• Strategic technology transfer to customers of all indus­tries
• Keynote speaker at industry conferences
• Speaker and “storyteller” at the Executive Briefing Center
• Member of Sun’s Liberty Staff team and the corporate strategy & vision team
• Active contribution to Liberty Al­liance Business Marketing Expert Group (BMEG)

Accomplishments:

• Facilitated several large deals
• Gave 75 keynotes and customer and partner presentations
• Contributed content to and appeared as speaker in the internal Sun training video on “Strategic Insights” for the field
• Contributed my material on identity/trust/privacy to the formal presentations for Liberty Alliance and recruited many members for the Alliance
• In 2005 recognition through Sun’s “Chairman’s Award for Innova­tion” with the Liberty Alliance team
• Promoted to Distinguished Marketing Director.

Responsibilities:Sales support through strategic technology transfer to customers of all industries, keynote speaker at industry conferences.

Accomplishments:

• Translated Sun’s “Vision and Strategy” (V&S) messages for the Eu­ropean market following a request by the EMEA SVP
• Produced a training DVD on Sun V&S which was distributed to the Sun sales force in EMEA
• Compiled a team of 16 experienced speakers from 12 different countries, formed the “EMEA Vision Council” and led and managed the council 1999—2005
• Contributed to and worked with the global vision council (1998—2004)
• Gave over 200 keynotes and executive presentations
• Contributed to the use case scenarios and specification work for Federated Identity and recruited many members for the Liberty Al­liance.

Responsibilities:Member of the Country Management Team, Systems Engineering Manager, head of the Competence Center, Sun technology spokesperson and Java evangelist.

Accomplishments:

• Introduced Java to Swiss customers, the market and media
• Evangelized Sun’s vision, strategies, and technologies by delivering over 170 presentations to executive management at seminars, trade shows and conferences
• Led the system engineers (SE, pre-sales), held the weekly SE meetings
• Consulted customer management on strategic technology issues

Responsibilities: Managing application development for preclinical and clinical information systems and biological and chemical databases. Leading a team of 55 developers in Basle and responsible for a team of 33 in Nutley, NJ

Accomplishments: 

• Re-railing and recovery of a large international database project
• Introduction and organization of a monthly informatics seminar
• Organization and Implementation of a “Software Producing Unit Maturity Assessment” (BOOTSTRAP)
• Introduction of a project-based (flat) organization for the department
• Co-author of “Roche Pharma Project Management Guidelines”
• Internationalization of a logistics project for the Galenics Group
• Introducing IT systems standards in the company

Responsibilities: Leading a team of twelve analysts and developers, Coordination of the requirements engineering for AGRO Research

Accomplishments: 

• Specifications of the detailed user requirements in AGRO Research.
• Database design for complete research information in AGRO.
• Contributed to the introduction of standard software (Unix, C, ksh; TEX for document generation; C-WEB for integrated documentation inside the code base)

• Executive training
• Rhetoric training
• Presentation training
• Spokesperson training
• Sales methodology training
• Project management
• Kepner-Tregoe decision methodology
• Time management
• Diverse computer skills courses