Cris Schmude

• Managing key technology transformation project with 8 biggest partners • Maintaining relationship with strategic partners • Created data-driven approach to up-selling

MBA consulting projects for companies: • Proposed ideas for innovative business models for cash solutions provider • Assessed international expansion opportunities for cybersecurity provider • Suggested ideas for turnaround of deteriorating brands for consumer goods company

Internal consulting project for Search Advertising team: • Developed strategy, how Amazon could advise vendors to acquire new customers faster and more cost-efficiently

Project manager and PMO on PSD2 implementation project at top 10 German bank: • Prepared steering committees with bank's VPs • Accelerated processes of processing PSD2-relevant customer complaints from 3 to 1 day • Detected fraud risk of €2m a year and implemented mitigation measures

10+ strategic projects in SaaS, e-commerce, private equity, consumer goods, and retail: • Assessed investment attractiveness of 6 M&A deals • Discovered market niches of €2m for spirits producer through innovative market segmentation • Helped trade association lobby against new tax: wrote report used in government negotiations

Restructuring project for construction conglomerate: • Verified management's business plan assumptions • Assessed potential to streamline optimize workforce size

Strategic management, marketing, operations research