# Manuel Trachsler — CV

Zurich, Switzerland | currently Vancouver, Canada | available January 2027

- LinkedIn (best way to reach me): https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-trachsler/
- GitHub: https://github.com/MannuelTe
- Site: https://manueltrachsler.ch
- MCP server: https://manueltrachsler.ch/mcp
- Machine-readable: https://manueltrachsler.ch/cv.json

## Education

**UBC Sauder School of Business** — Vancouver, Canada
Master of Business Administration | Finance, Strategy and Business Development | 2025–2026 (expected)
- Relevant coursework: Fundamentals of Analytics and Technology; Financial Technology; Applications of Statistics; Banking and Capital Markets; Climate Finance and ESG Accounting; Fundamental Finance.
- Quantitative methods: statistical analysis, scenario analysis, data validation and financial modelling.

**Nanyang Technological University (NTU)** — Singapore
Exchange term, planned | Oct–Dec 2026

**ETH Zurich — Swiss Federal Institute of Technology** — Zurich, Switzerland
MSc and BSc Mathematics | degrees awarded 2021
- Quantitative foundation: Probability and Statistics, Measure and Integration, Numerical Analysis I–II, Mathematical and Computational Methods, Algorithms and Complexity.

## Selected projects

- **Wasserstein HMM Replication** (GitHub, 2026): replicated and audited a regime-aware investment strategy in Python.
- **Minimal Entropy Theorem** (GitHub, 2021): developed a constructive proof using Gromov hyperbolicity and Jacobian analysis.

## Professional experience

**FUTURi Power** — Vancouver, Canada
Business Transformation Consultant | MBA internship, analytics and automation | Apr–Jul 2026
- Implemented the first CRM, migrating and cleaning 400+ accounts and consolidating a CAD 500K sales pipeline into a consistent reporting process.
- Automated load and cost calculations in Excel and Python, reducing turnaround time by at least 50%.

**Eraneos Switzerland AG** — Zurich, Switzerland
Technology Consultant | IT risk, security governance, AI and transformation | Feb 2023–Jul 2025
- Co-led a subproject within a CHF 4M national program, coordinating delivery across state agencies, technical teams and cross-functional stakeholder groups.
- Led security consulting and ISO 27001 / BSI-Grundschutz-aligned ISMS implementation; translated assessments and penetration-test findings into mitigation measures, tracked controls and reported recommendations to senior leadership.
- Developed privacy and security-governance frameworks; built an AI documentation-QA workflow saving approximately 75% of manual copywriting effort and contributed to the AI & Security core group.

**PwC / Strategy&** — Barcelona, Spain
Junior Consultant Intern | Data and Analytics | Sep–Dec 2021
- Supported a Strategy&-led M&A due diligence review; built data workflows, Excel models and Power BI reporting, including geospatial analysis of 2,000+ EV charging points.

## Additional experience

- **armasuisse Cyber-Defence Campus** — Data Science Research Intern, Aug–Oct 2022. Solved graph-distance and classification problems; built reinforcement-learning and multimodal AI prototypes with an emphasis on model validation.
- **[Redacted]** — Aug 2023–present.

## Skills, activities and interests

- **AI and IT risk:** AI governance, risk assessment, mitigation and controls monitoring, ISO 27001, BSI-Grundschutz, security governance, privacy, incident response and operational resilience.
- **Technology and reporting:** Python, SQL, Splunk, Bash, Excel/Power Query, Power BI, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow and PyTorch; data validation, process automation and senior reporting.
- **Languages:** German and Spanish (native); English (full professional); French (professional); Catalan (elementary).
- **Leadership:** Co-President, UBC Photography Club; ETH and Canton of Zurich student representation.
- **Interests:** alpine ecosystems; junior top-10 fencing; national-level road cycling racing (Canada/USA); skiing; photography.