Linus Zimmer

- Building an extensive web scraper in Python (BeautifulSoup and Playwright) & PostgreSQL and deploying it in Google Cloud - End-to-end implementation of a CRM system including technical project planning, setup, user training - Preparing pitch presentations for prospective customers

- Leading a cooperative research project with the BCG comparing the sustainability of battery recycling to raw mining of minerals, including cooperation with leading academics in the field, planning and leading steercos, modeling emissions - Developing and implementing an inventory management system for 500+ tracked objects including building a tracking application from scratch, training colleagues, refining processes

- Supporting the development of a holistic 2024 ESG strategy for a significant German bank, and assisting in progress tracking of a transformation project - Creating a commercial excellence strategy for a leading international mining corporation focusing on sustainable metals - Developing a proposal for the green transformation of a large Polish coal mining player - Calculating target EV sales mix for a large German automotive OEM in scope of a strategy review

- Design, construction and implementation of a comprehensive cash flow model for the majority of portfolio company activities in close collaboration with PortCo stakeholders - Significantly improved the portfolio reporting process, providing new insights into portfolio performance which were previously unattainable - Research of market trends and value chain analysis in the solar photovoltaics industry to assess investment viability and business case of a European PV module production value chain

- Target organisation design and overhead headcount reduction by 20% in a leading healthcare company - Independently developing a model for the internal benchmarking of retail store labor costs across >1k facilities - Admitted to "Kearney Connect", the internal talent programme facilitating full-time employment

- Leading and managing a team of consultants on a client project exploring the landscape of digital innovation units in public and private institutions of the Aerospace & Defense industry - Coordinating, preparing, and performing client meetings - Design and implementation of a marketing strategy for a German start-up - Derivation and analysis of attractive customer segments - Development of targeted marketing strategies in close collaboration with the client

- Supporting the strategic replanning of a project critical to the operations of an Insurance-as-a-Service provider - Analysis and derivation of project delay and budget implications with a complex model in Excel - Creation of presentations and supporting documents enabling decision-making by the client top-management, including the holding company board - Preparing, conducting, and analyzing interviews with various client stakeholders - Received a full-time return offer

- Power & Utilities underwriting; worldwide insurance of energy projects and power plants - Support of the complete underwriting process: technological and legal contract analysis, risk assessment, pricing, deal closing for 20+ projects; partaking in negotiations with international clients and brokers - Responsible for enterprise-wide development, testing and roll-out of a data analysis tool in VBA and Excel used to precisely quantify the assessment of machinery breakdown risk in power plants

- Participant in the 30-ECTS faculty excellence programme offered to top-performing and motivated students - Participation in additional, extracurricular courses of other faculties - Writing an interdisciplinary cross-faculty research paper on the topic: "How can we implement the use of digital GP consultations as a way to increase adequate healthcare coverage in the rural regions of emerging countries?"

GPA: 9.3, Top 1% - Specializing in Economics and Management of Information as well as Finance. Maastricht University is in the 1% of triple-crown accredited business schools worldwide, employing a problem-based-learning and -teaching approach.